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Cats and Essential Oils.

There is a lot of controversy about Cats and Essential Oils. So here is a perspective on that subject. This is strictly my opinion and I am not voicing the opinions of other people. I make these claims because I have used essential oils on cats for years and I might add had very successful results.
The one question that comes up is this; Can essential oils be used on cats? Almost without fail we hear a freak out and in the "gnashing" of teeth and everyone calling each other idiots, even when everyone is saying the same thing. So let us first ask the right questions.
First thing to remember is that we do not treat all people the same. You won't use the same oils on say a strong healthy person that is dealing with a very minor issue, lets say a stretched muscle weighing and they might weigh say, 250 pounds. Yet on a frail geriatric person with a serious health issue, such as an end of life sickness, that weighs 80 pounds. We likely would use different oils. 2nd. we would not use...
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Jan-Feb-Mar. 2021 Gardening Tips.

Well as we move into the new year, it is time to start making plans as to just how the garden is going to start and evolve. I have noticed that seeds are starting to appear in the places that provides gardening supplies. However, most of the seeds are the early planting types of seeds for the most part. Other seeds will soon begin to appear. It would be a good idea to get with the program and get what you need purchased sooner than later. Last year we saw a run on just about every seed possible. I am sure with politics as they are, people will be panic buying big time. So I would suggest that you insert some urgency into your purchasing schedule. Basically for the vast majority, they won't cost you less later on, just that scarcity will be involved.

Leiann mentioned that a number of people asked what my favorite seed company was. Here goes; I really don't have one per se. But here is what I look at. I try to stay away from the big massive seed companies. Although not all the time,...

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Our Brain; Support and Maintenance. Chapter One. The Requirement of High Quality Clear Drinking Water.

Today we are looking at the main individual components that make up the Spinal Fluid. With this, we will be looking at those ingredients in descending order from the largest ingredient to the smaller amounts of individual components. The Spinal Fluid amounts to about 500 ml. in the average person. This fluid gets changed on a regular basis at about an 8-hour interval, every single day. Of this fluid, about 99% of it consists of one component. The other 1% consists of about 44 minerals, around 300 oils, as in fixed type oils, and numerous other elements. Of course we won't be covering those, as in a post for each single one. Perhaps the most important thing that we must recognize about every aspect of our body is that the brain is the most important organ and the body will go to great lengths to do anything and everything it can do to protect the brain. The body will even deprive other organs of needed elements to support and protect the brain. If a person has an issue with the brain...

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Our Brain; Support and Maintenance. Introduction. Overall view of Nutritional Effects on the Brain and the Use of Specific Essential Oil for that End Purpose. s

This new series of discussions about the brain will focus on mostly what an individual can do to support their brain and help to keep it sharp and functioning within normal parameters. I hope to keep each section or in this case, we will call them chapters short and to the point. In an effort to do so, we will cover some of the common points within this introduction so that we don't have to go over them again and again and discuss them in each chapter. However, we will refine the focus of this series to the spinal fluid as much as possible and will discuss each element in descending order by the quantity of each element among the major components of elements. It would be impossible to go through each one as many of these are identified as being there, but not much to nothing is known about them other than it is known that they are there. New discoveries are made almost on a daily basis. So for that reason alone we will have a cut-off point and have chosen to just deal with the major...

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New Theme Direction of Future Blog Posts.

Hi Everyone,
I am excited to discuss with you a little change of direction with some of my discussions. As you know there are several themes that are threaded through them, like minerals, food, essential oils, and sometimes even political commentary. I want to move all of those to the back burner, well, it might seem like it but the reality they won't be, but rather we are going to focus more on one particular area. That area is the brain. Here is why we don't see a whole lot of discussion as it applies to the brain in particular. Oh yes, we see a few people that think they know all about the brain, but then again they think it is just a mass of goo that magically works and that our body is the one that runs the show. I wish it was that simple.

Back when I was in psychology school, we started off with lecture after lecture about all this stuff that was supposed to be going on in the brain and how the brain is made up of all these little different compartments and things like...

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What is the Deal with Aluminum? How does Juniperus virginiana L.variety EO, Grapefruit EO, Coriander EO tie in with Aluminum?


Today's mineral is Aluminum. This is one of those minerals that have a really bad name in the biological functioning world. Rightly so as pretty much everything on this mineral is negative as it applies to the animal/human body. The same applies to the plant world as well. However, all is not lost, there is some positive, a slight ray of light. But first, the technical points. Aluminum pairs with the amino acid, Isoleucine It is recognized by the symbol of Al.

In all of the text references out there, it lists all of the bad things about Aluminum. It doesn't talk about the positive effects of Aluminum. We know that there is a biological function for Aluminum and we are just now discovering some purposes of this mineral. I think it is best to lift a quote from Pub-Med concerning this mineral, as they do a better job of describing the potential of this mineral, plus it isn't just coming from me.
Here goes: A biological function for aluminum is proposed in which this abundant, high...

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What is the Deal with Cobalt? How does Vitamin B-12, Juniper Berry, Thyme, Peppermint, and Ginger EO associate with Colbalt?

When I do these discussions on these topics and tie them into nutritional related discussions, I try to avoid the technical writing and wording that would appear to a specific group or discipline. So I try to speak to the general crowd that isn't current to the specifics of a given discipline. So in doing so I keep trying to figure out some example of sorts that everyone could understand from a common perspective. When we talk about this mineral or that nutrient as being all-important or the most important, well, it just does not really paint a picture that does justice to the idea or properly couches it as it really is. So I came up with a line of description that I would like to run with and see how it works out, So let's have some fun here, OK?

Our focus is Cobalt. Cobalt is one of those trace minerals, used everywhere in the body, but only in a small amount. The small amount makes a huge difference in the overall outcome. There are other minerals that are just as important, such...

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What does Heaven Scent EO Blend and Rosemary Essential Oil have to do with Addictions, Suicide and Minerals.

I was involved in a conversation about addictions and part of that was dealing with what to use in dealing with addictions, as in working with a person that has a serious drug addiction. This person is dealing with some of the hard crap. Then aside from that most recent deal, I remembered that I gave a person my perspective on it and so I figured that it was a good idea to share it with all of you as I am sure that some of you have to deal with it as well with someone you know. Also, keep in mind that this same protocol applies to all addictions, no matter how small it might be. So here goes. 

Here is the bottom line, in my opinion at least.  First off you CANNOT overcome an addiction if you have a Magnesium deficiency.  Plus, some other additional tie-ins. stuff.  When it is coupled with a Lithium deficiency, A Lithium def. will not exactly cause it, but I think it is a double whammy.  A Lithium def. will give you Klein-Levin Syndrome, KLS. At least that is...
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Calcium and Magnesium Balancing.

 
When it comes to Calcium and Magnesium we find that they are likely two of the ones that perhaps carry the heavy load or the ones assigned to carry the heaviest of burdens when considering their use. We talk about these together as they almost always are talked about as two working together. Their balance is of the utmost importance in all applications, in either animals, plants, and even in the soil. In this chapter, we will focus on the human side of this topic. I would love to talk about the soil and plant side, but that is another story for another day. Too much material to cover in one setting to address both sides.
 
Almost everyone is deficient in Magnesium. In fact, it is among the minerals that are the most widely found to be deficient in animals, plants, and the soil. Magnesium extends to many functions of the body and is used throughout the body for major to minor functions as well as cellular activity. Magnesium is what allows the Calcium to move in and out...
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What is the deal with Earth Scent and Heaven Scent EO Blends?

Friends
Sometimes I sort of end up in a discussion about essential oils and here is a post discussing a couple of blends and their purpose. I am posting this because all the time I get people asking about what oil they can take for brain fog/brain chatter, etc. This discussion might give some of you some perspective. Part of the social media discussion is woven into this discussion.  The social media part is from several years ago. Anyway, in light of the world today, I think we should be selling Earth Scent by the gallon and rubbing people down every day with it.  Enjoy...
 
Early today there was some discussion about Earth Scent. Mostly related to the smell of it. So I thought about it and I want to give a rational perspective on that oil and its role. So here goes;
In order to understand the purpose of this oil blend one needs to understand the basis of why it is the way it is and the purpose. So I will explain in somewhat simple terms and sort of in story form....
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