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I do hope your New Year began well and both the new year and new week is off to a good start for you.

Two questions to ponder again!

Steve's Motivator this week, "POWERFUL HOPE" is a story of unimaginable loneliness and courage...If you enjoy his weekly Motivator let him know and tell him you read it in "A Natural Environmental Health Facts Ask Lena Health Q & A ezine." Publisher@LifeSupportSystem.com

Your health questions are being answered to the best of my ability using what I gleaned from 20-years as a Medical Office Nurse and Administrator along with my education in nutritional and alternative modes. I am not a doctor and you should not think of me as one.

Q & A is for your information and education only and in some instances to give you a different perspective on a particular problem! 

My wish for you, in the use of the information gained here, is that you will apply it in a smart and safe manner in order to enhance your life and not harm it! Not to be used in place of your judgment but along with it...

I have always felt that I had to know all sides to a problem and then make a decision for myself and I hope that will be your attitude as well! 

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Be sure to give at least your first name, if it is a question you want answered in person feel free to give me a call at 928-636-9425 or email me and let me know it's not for publication.

Thank you for your confidence and inquisitiveness! 
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QUESTION #1:
 
I am 9 months pregnant, and with trouble sleeping i have found valarian root vitamins help to get to sleep.  Is this ok for my baby? I asked my doctor and his response was to take Tylenol p.m., and without any pain i would rather not. Thank you for your time, any info would be greatly appreciated.   Thanks again, Dawn P. 
 
 
ANSWER:
 
Hi Dawn,
 
Thanks for your question.

I agree Tylenol PM is not the answer as it depletes your body of nutrients. As for the valerian, not a good idea either as it can cross the placental barrier and make your baby groggy.
 
I'm sorry you are having sleeping problems but 78% of pregnant women suffer that malady. You don't say what type of sleeplessness you are having and I know there are many reasons for that. As your abdomen grows larger, the fetus presses on your bladder, causing frequent trips to the bathroom during the night. You also may have heartburn, back pain or aching in the hips. Or you may find that your baby moves more at night, which can keep you awake. Or you may have a hard time finding a comfortable position for sleep. All or some of these can cause your sleep problem. During the day, Most likely you are so tired that you long to go to sleep. Then, when evening finally arrives, you rest for a few hours and are awake and unable to fall back to sleep. Rest assured that you are not alone. If the sleeplessness comes before even falling asleep that's a different problem, but also very common in pregnancy with gals who aren't getting sufficient B vitamins and are suffering from imbalanced minerals content.
 
Here are some tips to help you sleep better;
 
* Make sure you are taking total 84 liquid minerals and trace minerals along with your prenatal vitamins. Most Prenatal vitamins are not absorbed as they need to be and do not give you the benefits you should have unless your mineral balance is present...(I know women who have taken these during their pregnancy swear by them and say their babies seem to have a much higher IQ and ability to reason and learn faster. The women all say it's due to the mineral balance allowing them and their baby's to absorb their nutrients... Amazing children...)
 
* Take a warm bath or shower at bedtime to begin relaxing. (Add 1/4 cup liquid minerals for a more soothing bath...)
 
* Before retiring for the night, try some relaxation exercises you may have learned in childbirth class.
 
* Ask your partner for a massage.
 
* If you take naps during the day limit them to only a few minutes. No long naps as that will make it harder to sleep at night.
 
* Get plenty of exercise. Walk every chance you get as it will produce endorphans which will help you with sleeping and any anxiety you are experiencing. A body that gets physically worked out during the day will be more tired at night making it easier to sleep. Just don't exercise within two hours of bedtime because you may be too geared up to sleep.
 
* Clear your mind. Talk with your partner about your worries early in the evening. Try not to focus on your anxieties at night.
 
* If you are waking up many times during the night to urinate, limit ALL fluid intake to no later than 4 p.m.
 
* Make sure your bedroom is a comfortable temperature. Depending on what area of the world you are in now... Warm weather - sleep with the window open or a fan blowing on you if you need to. (Your partner may need a big blanket to keep him warm.) Winter season - room is too cool, you may need to pile on more blankets.
 
* Find a few comfortable positions for sleep. Sleep on your side with your legs up toward your chest with a pillow between your legs. Put a small pillow under your abdomen and pillows behind your back.
 
If you wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep within 20 minutes, get up, go to another room and do something quiet. Watch television, read, or do needlework until you are feeling drowsy again. Do your best to try to get to sleep, but don't bring more anxiety upon yourself because you are having insomnia. Resting can be almost as good for you as sleeping. Although it can be frustrating and exhausting, loss of sleep does not do damage to you or to the baby.
 
If none of the above work then resort to taking Tryptophan capsules an hour before bedtime, that you can get at a health food store, not your grocer or pharmacy, as those are usually not absorbable or fresh.
 
I hope this helps,
Lena

 
QUESTION #2:
We have a 6 month old baby boy who is taking chemo-therapy and he is very immune suppressed.  What type of environmental equipment should he have to keep virus and bacteria out of his room?
Tommie


ANSWER:

Thank you for your question... My condolence goes out to you as I know the heart ache and pain you must be going through. I'm sure that you feel it would be easier if it were you...

Does he have carpeting in his room? If so a vacuum cleaner and air filtration is the most important items. Vacuum daily and have a top quality air purifier in the house, or a whole house air recycling infra-ray germ killing system. Trane heating and air conditioning has the best unit, which is what we have in our home. It recycles outside air inside and takes the stale air outside with an infra-ray unit to kill any bacterium/virus incoming... Carpet is good for holding bacteria as well as emitting poisonous gases and not an ideal thing to have in the house with an immune compromised adult or child. It is very expensive to change out your current heating and air conditioning unit for the Trane unit but if you can afford it that is the most efficient and exacting way of keeping the air clean.

If hardwood floors exist, damp mop with lemon or vinegar daily along with dusting all surfaces at least every other day... Make sure his clothing and bedding is all pure cotton and not cleaned with commercial cleaners, bleach or other cleaners containing byproducts that can be dangerous to weakened immune systems and continue to weaken it even further...

You probably already have been given this advice but I will reiterate for those that don't understand. Exposure to ordinary people can be dangerous to a decimated immune system... Keep him away from children and some adults who love babies and feel they have to touch and do not have the ability to understand that germs are carried by their touch and they can make an immune decimated person ill... Every person that touches anything that he comes in contact with should wash their hands frequently and not with anti-bacterial products but simply use ordinary soap without antibacterial agents. Antibacterial agents make it very easy for mutated germs to become hard to kill, which is dangerous for him...

I hope this helps in some way.
Lena

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POWERFUL HOPE

Jean Kerr said, "Hope is the feeling you have, that the feeling you have, isn't permanent." It is what we have when we know that we WILL eventually survive the night and bask in sunshine once again. It does not deny the present darkness, but it reminds us that dawn is coming.

Brigadier General Robinson Risner ("Robbie") spent seven years as a POW at the "Hanoi Hilton," as prisoners of war called their North Viet Nam compound. There he discovered the power of hope. He spent four and a half years of that time in isolation. He endured ten months of total darkness. Those ten months were the longest of his life. When they boarded up his little seven-by-seven foot cell, shutting out the light, he wondered if he was going to make it. He had already been under intense physical and mental duress after years of confinement. And now, not a glimmer of light shone into his cell -- or into his soul.

Robbie spent hours a day exercising and praying. But at times he felt he could nothing but scream. Not wanting to give his captors the satisfaction of knowing they'd broken him, he stuffed clothing into his mouth to muffle the noise as he screamed at the top of his lungs.

One day Robbie got down on the floor and crawled under his bunk. He located a vent that let in outside air. As he pressed against the vent, he saw a faint glimmer of light reflected on the inside wall of the opening. Robbie put his eye next to the cement wall and discovered a minute crack in the construction. It allowed him to glimpse outside, but was so small that all he could see was one blade of grass. A single blade of grass and a faint ray of light. But when he stared at the sight, he felt a surge of joy, excitement and gratitude like he hadn't known in years. "It represented life, growth, and freedom," he later said, "and I knew God had not forgotten me." It was a tiny glimmer hope that sustained Robbie through an unbearable ordeal.

The human spirit is strong. It seems to run forever on nothing but a morsel of hope. Without it, you have nothing. With it, nothing else matters.
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FOOD OF THE WEEK
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That weepy, smelly but most popular veggie! Or is it a veggie?
 
Bad breathe or just the food you ate?
 
The food this week is the ever popular and most consumed vegetable, the onion. Comes in many sizes, shapes and colors along with a second hand odoriferous offensive smell! "It's not good for your friends, but it is good for your health," said the lead researcher, Dr. Rui Hai Liu, a chemist for The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry department of food science.
 
The bulbous onion and its numerous relatives belong to a flower family namely the Lily family. How can something so smelly come from a flower family? I don't have the answer but that is a good question! Nature is a mystery in a lot of areas and this is one of those!
 
Some of these alliums are distinctly ornamental; a few others, notably garlic, leek, Welsh onion, and chive, are common vegetables. All of the edible forms have related flavors and odors that are due principally to a volatile, irritating substance.
 
The word "onion" comes from the Middle English unyun, from the French oignon, which came in turn from the Latin unio, meaning "onion." Ancient names for this plant in Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin are apparently unrelated, indicating widespread culture of onions from prehistoric times.
 
Onions can be divided into two categories: spring/summer fresh onions and fall/winter storage onions.
 
Spring/summer fresh onions are available in yellow, red and white throughout their season, March through August. Fresh onions can be identified by their thin, light-colored skins. Because they have a higher water content, they are typically sweeter and milder than storage onions. This higher water content also makes them more susceptible to bruising.
 
With their delicate taste, fresh onions are an ideal choice for salads and other fresh and lightly-cooked dishes.
 
Fall/winter storage onions are available August through April. Also available in yellow, red, purple and white, storage onions have multiple layers of thick, dark, papery skins. Storage onions have an intense flavor and a higher percentage of solids.
 
Storage onions are the best choice for savory dishes that require longer cooking times or more flavor.
 
Onions are low in calories yet add abundant flavor to a wide variety of foods. Averaging about 30 calories per serving, onions are sodium, fat, and cholesterol free, and provide dietary fiber, vitamin C, vitamin B6, potassium, and other key nutrients.
 
Mild sweet onions varieties are:
 
Spanish onions: known for their mild and delicately sweet flavor.
Bermuda onions: another category of mild onions that come in red, white, or yellow.
Walla-Walla Sweet onions: originally came from Corsica at the beginning of the 20th century and arrived in Walla-Walla, Washington where they are grown today.
Texas Sweets: available mid spring through early summer.
 
Research shows that onions may help guard against many chronic diseases. That's probably because onions contain generous amounts of a flavonoid called quercetin. Other sources are tea and apples, but research shows that absorption of quercetin from onions is twice that from tea and more than three times that from apples. Studies have shown that quercetin protects against cataracts, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.
 
In addition, onions contain a variety of other naturally occurring chemicals known as organosulfur compounds that have been linked to lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
 
In Chinese medicine, globe onions (allium cepa) are said to calm the liver, moisten the intestines, and benefit the lungs. Raw onions are prescribed for constipation, for lowering high blood pressure, and for healing wounds or ulcers of the skin. Spring onions, or scallions (allium fistulosum), are used to induce sweating. One application for the common cold is to take 20 spring onions and simmer them with rice to make porridge. Add a little vinegar and eat while it is warm. Then wrap yourself up in blankets to induce sweating. Works like a charm, but is it the onion rice soup or the sweating?
 
Some health studies have shown raw onions to be effective in lowering overall cholesterol while raising HDLs, the good cholesterol. Additionally, onions kill infectious bacteria, a help in controlling blood sugar, aid in dissolving blood clots, and help to prevent cancer.
 
Onions were used extensively by the ancient Egyptians, as shown by drawings and inscriptions on their monuments. The Bible states that during the wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness, they longed for the onions, leeks, and garlic they had had in Egypt.
 
In the first century many varieties of onion were known: long, round, red, yellow, white, strong, and mild kinds. For a time in the Middle Ages it appears that the onion was less popular than leek and garlic, while now the reverse is true.
 
The onion was introduced by the Spanish into the West Indies soon after their discovery. From there it soon spread to all parts of the Americas. Onions were grown by the earliest colonists and soon afterward by the Indians.
 
The Welsh onion - A. fistulosum - never forms a rounded bulb-only one to several long white scallions. This form is most popular in the Orient, but is grown almost everywhere. In Japan it is often incorrectly called "Japanese leek."
 
One form of onion, the so-called Egyptian tree onion, or top onion, produces "sets" - tiny bulbs - at the top of the stalk instead of flowers and seeds.
 
The leek - A. porrum- like the Welsh onion, forms only a cylindrical instead of a rounded bulb. The leaf of the leek, however, is flattened and solid, while the leaf of the onion is cylindrical and hollow.
 
In the first century the Romans considered that the best leeks came from Egypt, where they had been known in earliest Biblical times. The Emperor Nero is reported to have been nicknamed Porrophagus because of his inordinate appetite for leeks. He imagined that frequent eating of leeks improved his voice! He could have right!
 
In the 6th century the Welsh won a victory over the Saxons and attributed their success to the leeks they wore to distinguish themselves in battle. What a smelly fight that must have been!
 
"Know your onions" was a term coined in the 1920s to indicate that the many varieties of onions that were cultivated over the years never acquired standardized names from one locale to another.
 
Leeks have been common all over Europe for as long as we have records of food plants. In America, by 1775, they were cultivated by the Indians as well as the colonists.
 
Chive  - A. schoenoprasum - is an Old World plant now found wild in modern Italy and Greece. It is believed to be native to the eastern Mediterranean. The word "chive" is an Old French form of the French cive, derived from the Latin cepa, meaning "onion." Grown for hundreds of years in European gardens and in the British Isles.
 
The chive has beautiful blue flowers, but they produce no seed. It is propagated by planting the bulbs, which increase in number each year, forming dense clumps.
 
You can see that onions are not common and many types exist for our eating pleasure!
 
Onions add flavor to all types of foods while adding healthy nutrients. Eat and enjoy!
Lena

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