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Prepper medicine: How to use sage, a versatile healing herb
Prepper medicine: How to use sage, a versatile healing herb (Natural News) Sage is a flavorful herb that’s often used during Thanksgiving to season turkey and homemade stuffing. The herb may be popular as a culinary seasoning for holiday recipes, but you also need to learn the medicinal uses of sage before SHTF. (h/t to TheSurvivalMom.com) Sage: […]
The Overlooked Necessity of Self Care
The Overlooked Necessity of Self Care Self-care is not selfish, or indulgent. It’s necessary especially as the stress compounds. Follow these tips to giving yourself a little bit of TLC. During times of crisis, stress, and uncertainty, we tend to forget that we should be taking care of ourselves too. Putting your kids, spouse, and […]
Fourteen Low-Tech Ways to Stay Healthy (Besides Handwashing)
Fourteen Low-Tech Ways to Stay Healthy (Besides Handwashing) Health is not just an absence of illness. At the very least health includes a well-functioning immune system, our bodies’ first defense against pathogens that cause disease. This includes COVID-19, the coronavirus.We are all constantly exposed to bacteria, viruses, and parasites even if we wash our hands twenty […]
The Countries Best And Worst Prepared For An Epidemic
The Countries Best And Worst Prepared For An Epidemic The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention has stated that another case of the coronavirus has been detected in the United States, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to five. The latest one was confirmed in Arizona and all five cases involve people who recently […]
The Grim Reality of Survival Medicine in Austere Conditions
The Grim Reality of Survival Medicine in Austere Conditions Several years ago, I wrote the following for a survival medicine book we had put together. I still think it provides a realistic view of the potential medical environment in a grid down or austere survival situation. From a healthcare standpoint, a post-SHTF world looks quite […]
6 Reasons to Bundle Up and Get Outside During Winter
6 Reasons to Bundle Up and Get Outside During Winter Brrrr! Winter is here, and if it is chilly in your neck of the woods, you might be tempted to hunker down and stay indoors until Spring arrives. Winter can really take a toll on our moods, making even the warmest personalities turn as chilly […]
Two Different Kinds of Healthcare–Part 1
TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF HEALTHCARE – PART 1 The doctor visit and the pharmaceutical prescription usually get us back on the job quickly and with a minimum of inconvenience. Modern pharmaceutical medicine is like the medical equivalent of fast food – it’s fast, it’s convenient, and too much of it erodes our health over […]
Workout Like the Pros: How Pre-Loading Meals Get You the Best Workouts
Workout Like the Pros: How Pre-Loading Meals Get You the Best Workouts Ready Nutrition guys and gals, let it never be said that I under-emphasize weight training and physical conditioning. I believe it to be the centerpiece of keeping yourself in good health both physically and mentally. That being said, you need to give yourself […]
JP Morgan Expert: True Debt, Pension, Healthcare Payments Would Consume Half of Illinois Revenue, Bankruptcy Option Needed
JP Morgan Expert: True Debt, Pension, Healthcare Payments Would Consume Half of Illinois Revenue, Bankruptcy Option Needed Michael Cembalest is Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. His report released yesterday, The ARC and the Covenants, updates his earlier research comparing the percentage of state revenues needed to pay interest on […]
Are You Infuriated Yet?
Are You Infuriated Yet? You should be. I certainly am… More and more, I’m encountering people who are simply infuriated with how our “leaders” are running (or to put it more accurately, ruining) things right now. And I share that fury. It’s perfectly normal human response to be infuriated when an outside agent hurts you, […]
Puerto Rico Is Greece, & These 5 States Are Next To Go
Puerto Rico Is Greece, & These 5 States Are Next To Go As Wilbur Ross so eloquently noted, for Puerto Rico “it’s the end of the beginning… and the beginning of the end,” as he explained “Puerto Rico is the US version of Greece.” However, as JPMorgan explains, for some states the pain is really just beginning as Municipal bond […]
Trumping the Federal Debt Without Playing the Default Card
Trumping the Federal Debt Without Playing the Default Card “The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.” — Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan on Meet the Press, August 2011 In a post on “Sovereign Man” dated August 14th, Simon Black […]
Agriculture Issues Just the Tip of the TPP Iceberg
Agriculture Issues Just the Tip of the TPP Iceberg Trade deal could slam Canadians with rising consumer, health care and education costs The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed trade agreement that encompasses nearly 40 per cent of world GDP, heads to Hawaii later this month for ministerial-level negotiations. According to media reports, this may […]
Building Hope in Times of Crisis
Building Hope in Times of Crisis ‘There is a big need for the solidarity movement in Greece. It started in late 2011 and has nearly doubled now to around 400 groups – even more if you add the more loosely networked ones,’ Christos Giovanopoulos says. We sit in the central Athens office of Solidarity for […]
How to Care For Wounds When the Medical System Has Collapsed
How to Care For Wounds When the Medical System Has Collapsed. In my opinion, our medical system will be one of the first to collapse during a major catastrophe. We have a shortage of primary care doctors in the U.S., a shortage of emergency rooms, a shortage of nurses, and most hospitals have gone to […]
