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John Wright's avatar

Profits, profits, profits... I'm so sick of our world full of greedy people.

It would be nice if for once someone in the government would say "Hey, I don't need that bribe. I'd rather be known as someone that promoted health instead of poisoning."

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John Wright's avatar

Since our government is so slow at dragging their feet on this matter, one thing you can do for yourself is: supplement with iodine (and not those absurdly tiny amounts the government recommends).

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Bird's Brain's avatar

How would iodine help to remove the toxic aluminum that is in fluoride from your body?

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John Wright's avatar

iodine is an element, fluoride is a different element, aluminum is yet another element. To get rid of alumium you want silicic acid (which can be obtained from some waters like Gerolsteiner).

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Trish's avatar

Fiji brand water contains silicic acid too. You can also get an AquaTru RO filter (no, I don't work for AquaTru and I don't earn any $ from recommending their filters).

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John Wright's avatar

Yes, Fiji has a high silicic acid content. I favor Gerolsteiner because it's bottled in glass and has an excellent amount of other minerals.

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Bird's Brain's avatar

Aluminum is the primary danger when consuming fluoride. What I was trying to ask was how taking iodine would help reduce that danger.

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John Wright's avatar

Since fluoride increases aluminum absorption, using iodine to reduce fluoride levels may also reduce aluminum levels. Win, win, win?

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Bird's Brain's avatar

Thanks for your answer. As you suggest when you say "may remove," that needs more research and I'm not convinced it's that easy to remove aluminum from the body, especially the brain. I think I'd rather use a good water filter and prevent it entering in the first place.

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John Wright's avatar

Prevention or reducing your intake is in my opinion the most valuable first step!!!

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llaw555's avatar

Any specific brand?

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John Wright's avatar

Iodoral is trustworthy. What you want to look for is a complex of roughly 50/50 Iodine and Iodide (you want both for different reasons in your body).

Dosage is a pretty wild debate. On the low end about 3 mg per day, commonly 12.5 mg per day, some people recommending 25 or 50 mg per day.

If you do diagnostic testing you can see that 12.5 or 25 mg of iodine per day will "push out" a significant amount of fluoride and bromide.

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Roberta Stack's avatar

Our town had a referendum on adding fluoride to the town water supply, you know for the children (ugh).

We campaigned hard to stop it and we won the vote. But the town said it was a non binding referendum. So we have fluoride in our water. We had to buy bottled water as we didn’t want to drink the tap water, which was good water prior to fluoridation. We now have a reverse osmosis system, which makes the water drinkable. It’s just another thing that the “government is doing for us.” I thought we had won this one! I’m so frustrated with all of this bs.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

They want you to feel like you have a voice in their decisions. It only works if you agree with what they're doing. Happens at all levels of government, from school boards to congress. We have quite a number of "advisory" votes on taxes and such in Washington State and "They" do what they want regardless of the outcome. Seems an awful lot like taxation without representation...

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John Wright's avatar

I've used a water purifier for almost 20 years now. Not perfect, but if you get an excellent purifier (that handles fluoride) it's phenomenally better than just straight drinking your tap water.

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Roberta Stack's avatar

This was 30 years ago.

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llaw555's avatar

Thank you! I’ll do some research!!

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KatWarrior's avatar

Yes! I am going to check the stuff I use, made by Global Healing, Dr. Ed Group.

This crap makes me crazy angry! That Bondi chick is pissing my ass off big time!

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Karen Bandy's avatar

I heard an inkling of news the other day, the fluoride lovers (the government) are allowing even more toxic levels of Glyphosate to be used.

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John Wright's avatar

I think there is no doubt about it, if you wish to be healthy you can NOT drink unfiltered tap water.

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Eva Gyllo's avatar

That’s a hell of a lot of iodine! Iodine is normally measured in mcg! If you take that much, do keep an eye on your thyroid, TSH might start going up above “normal level” and cause problems.

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John Wright's avatar

Also TSH is darn near a useless test to measure (but it is the one MDs use all the time). If you want to check thyroid hormone levels the best is to look at "Free T3".

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Eva Gyllo's avatar

Yet again, I believe you’re correct. Stopped going to allopathic docs now. Trusting holistic docs these days.

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John Wright's avatar

TSH will temporarily react, but then it will settle down to just fine.

I've taken these levels of dosage for nearly twenty years now and I've worked with several clients also. The fears about iodine in dosages of 6 mg or higher appear to be completely unfounded but it is a hotly debated topic.

Taking a couple hundred mcg is "nothing".

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Eva Gyllo's avatar

Totally agree. I used to take around 1,500mcg, =1,5mg. Don’t know if it did anything, but my thyroid was fine.

I was temporarily on a heart pill called Cordarone so was given 150mg of iodine daily for 2 months. Ended up in ER.

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John Wright's avatar

1.5 mg would be a very reasonable (conservative) dosage. 150 mg per day for two months would be a very high dosage by almost anyone's standards!

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David Nelson's avatar

John Wright, comfort me by telling me you are in your hundred-and-somethings?

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John Wright's avatar

Not yet

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Donna in MO's avatar

Sad fact: The 'big tent' Trump movement formed a coalition around a very shaky proposition - that you can trust the government to fix anything. The gov't did not become obese overnight. We just got mentally lazy and said, 'oh let them take on the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, Homeland Security, the Healthcare Crisis. Each of these issues & more spawned even MORE bureaucrats whose agencies promised to 'fix' all that ailed us. If they fix it, they are out of a job.

I know a couple of people who know Trump personally. They will swear on a stack of bibles that he is sincere about wanting to reform government, and from a practical standpoint, at his age - it makes sense that his primary aim is to cement a legacy of getting stuff done that pushes our country in a better direction. But he is one man, and a big picture guy at that - some of these in the weeds issues are not front and center and he only has so much bandwidth to care about everything. Yeah I know he has massively under-estimated the importance of putting predators in jail in some of his base. Kennedy same way. His aim to shift thinking about health, end regulatory capture and expose conflicts of interest may be pure, but he is battling an octopus and putting all of our trust eggs in one basket assumes there is someone who can do everything at once and sees the world/issues exactly as we do.

Just because Trump won in November does not mean that we won the war, That was just a battle. The war continues. Bottom line, we all need a part time job as advocates to be that squeaky wheel. To educate, insist on change (politely but firmly - I have friends in state and local govt and the unhinged ranting does not change hearts and minds) and not assuming that these folks have the same priorities as you. Yelling even louder is not going to change their minds and an occasional thank you when they do get something right goes a long way. Not all of them are corrupt (although too many are). Screaming at the sky and posting on social media is not advocating, BTW.

And I did send the message to Lee Zeldin, although these mass 'campaign' emails are less effective than personal outreach, but they didn't give out his email or phone number.

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SteveO's avatar

@donna in MO you are right over the target. It is way too easy to lose faith that things are happening that we want. But it has only been 6 months. I agree totally with your well thought out reasoning with what is happening. Great job.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Thanks. Like I try to tell easily black-pilled friends: we didn't get here overnight, and we won't fix it overnight either. Focus on local where it IS possible to move the needle and chalk up a win here and there. A relatively small group of us derailed the addition of a DEI department in our local city ~18 months ago, for instance.

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Tonee norman's avatar

Excellent work!

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Tonee norman's avatar

Donna,I went to the website to send a message I didn’t see what link that address ( and sample letter?) was in..I use these “mass campaign “ letters,often,and,have received personalized responses from my representatives. Would you please tell me where you found it? Thank you very much.

How do you suggest we become “part time advocates “?

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Donna in MO's avatar

I am all over the place but 90% of my efforts are state and local. But how I got started 20 years ago was coming to a city council meeting with my son to help him earn a merit badge, lol. Was appalled at the consultant reports they paid $$ for that were garbage and that they were considering tax breaks for a big development based on the numbers these reports spewed out. Started attending meetings and emailing my reps.

Find a candidate you like and offer to run signs, make a few phone calls, or knock a few doors/talk to neighbors. If you learn of an issue that concerns you - talk to 5 friends and ask them to talk to 5 friends. Getting people to actually show up is hard, but everyone should be able to find the time to contact 5 people. It's how we beat back a Use Tax on an 'off-season' ballot in Nov '23 that the county thought no one but supporters would show up for.

Phone calls and emails to elected folks is good, showing up at meetings is better, and speaking during public comments is best. Our city council and SB meetings are recorded. If I can't attend, I will watch later while cooking dinner, eating lunch or whatever. If enough something gets me fired up I will start the 'contact 5 friends' chain and try to pack the next meeting. (mixed results - but success with DEI and with an initiative via an NGO to adopt a regional homeless policy that would give us no say in where they could put homeless shelters)

I have a lot of friends who are very active in specific areas that they are passionate about so you can also start there. Some got angry over local property taxes and formed a group to recall the county exec - took over a year but they just got enough signatures to put a recall on the ballot. Another group is organized for school choice as that is their passion - we are still 'getting there' in MO but some victories with limited School Choice options getting passed. Just attended a meeting of a business group that is organizing to fight a Soros-funded effort to put an onerous mandatory paid sick leave on the state ballot next year. Every one of these efforts needs people to step up and get more involved. People took recall petitions to backyard barbecues. Moms carpooled to the capitol to testify about the rot in their public schools. A friend who makes and sells sourdough bread as a side gig puts informational flyers or calls to action in the sack with the bread. Every little bit adds up!

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Tonee norman's avatar

Indeed!

Thank you for your service!

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EverybodyDuck's avatar

While I’m neither a Trump or Blondie apologist, it’s doubtful either of them had a clue about this - particularly on the heels of Epstein fiasco. Sounds like a few deep state DOJ turds cooked this up to fracture MAHA/MAGA further.

Having said that, the failure of Blondie to call a press conference announcing the suit is dropped and the firing of all DOJ involved, along with an investigation into how this suit was initiated, will be instructive.

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David Nelson's avatar

Thank you 'Duck; I couldn't think of anything that would restore my trust: that surely would.

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Tonee norman's avatar

Do you think that would possibly happen?

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EverybodyDuck's avatar

It’s possible. Hopefully RFK Jr. Will lean on her. Another couple weeks like this, and Blondie will be looking for a new job. She seems pathologically ambitious (her approach to the George Zimmerman case tells me all I need to know about her), so will hopefully see this as a life line. I think the dismissal of the Dr. Moore case was a way to take the heat off the Epstein debacle. Although it should have been dismissed on day 1.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Can we just shutter all the cabinet departments and go back to the original 4: State, Treasury, War, and Attorney General? If we keep AG, I’m thinking we should switch out Pam Bondi for someone else. Can Bobby Kennedy do two jobs?

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Vee's avatar
Jul 17Edited

Hahahaha, this is a great example of how the government cares about us! That's why they continue to spray the skies, allow the covid shots, approve new mRNA shots, allow RoundUp, and to tell us that Epstein was just downloading child porn. This is all for our benefit and safety!

Thanks for the laughs and keeping this top of mind for all us Jenna!

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llaw555's avatar

This is so in our face!

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MarciaT's avatar

I'm normally up on all the codewords - but have no clue what is supposed to rhyme with white ring. It could be because our AC unit (35 years old) broke last week and apparently fixing it is impossible and getting a replacement - well - you know. Time and availability and money. So my brain is soggy . . . but at least I know it's not from fluoride in the water since our town doesn't do that. Nor do I buy fluoridated toothpaste but who knows how long I was exposed to it elsewhere.

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

right wing hahahahaha (I didn't realize it was so cryptic!) ;)

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Alicia's avatar

Omg thank you! I would’ve been rhyming at 2:00 in the morning trying to figure that out. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

LingLO! ;)

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Alicia's avatar

Yaaas!! LingOL! I adore you, Jenna!

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

💕

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Tonee norman's avatar

I was going a little nuts rhyming,too!

Thank you.

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MarciaT's avatar

Thanks!! Don't know why that didn't occur to me . . .

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Alicia's avatar

I thought I was the only one. Thank God. 😂

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Teresa Parmenter's avatar

I had no idea either what white ring. Thanks Jenna for clarification. It definitely was a “duh” moment when explained! 🤭

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Flippin’ Jersey's avatar

I must admit that the Trump admin is deeply compromised. Epstein, Ukraine weapons, fluoride, CBDC push, etc. His cabinet choices seemed disruptive at the time, but most have become a disappointment. Sad.

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Alicia's avatar

Did anyone else experience this in government school c. 1975 and on to maybe 1980? In homeroom once a month the teacher would walk in with a caf tray full of tiny white cups with a green-blue liquid. She walked down each aisle and every kid would take one. We’d stand up. Told to put it in our mouths and “swish” and then 🤢spit it back into a cup She’d then have someone take it away and apparently not one of our parents even found this weird. Anyone?

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

Yes, we did this!!! And we got an extra "fluoride treatment" at the dentist every six months!!!

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Tonee norman's avatar

Every time i refused the “extra treatment “ I was given “snake eyes “ and my poor little son began to think I was a crazy lady for telling the dentist “no”…and,later,as a teenager he would go alone to the dentist and tell them to go ahead… He really believed I was depriving him of something good! 😓

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Tonee norman's avatar

Interesting?

When we were in grade school,we were lined up and told to eat the sugar cube which had live poliovirus! I do not believe our parents were informed about this..

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Will Falconer, DVM's avatar

Double whammy! Sugar drops your immune system and vaccines confuse the hell out of it (injected far worse than ingested, but still). Considering “ polio” paralleled a particularly nasty pesticide use, why blame it on a virus? Here you go, kids! We CARE!

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Alicia's avatar

No!!!! Omg. WTH?! I still remember the taste of that polio vaccine (Dr given — not in 4th grade) but it was like deep yellow and I can still taste it. Ick.

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Tonee norman's avatar

Wow! What a taste memory!

I remember it being pink,but,it was a long time ago.. I DO remember being pleased that it was sugar! 😩

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Maureen's avatar

So funny to see this article today as just yesterday I burrowed into a rabbit hole and researched

getting a reverse osmosis water filtration system. This seems like an omen!

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Bird's Brain's avatar

Look into a Berkey ... and the extra filter that's specifically for fluoride

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Tonee norman's avatar

We bought the Berkey,years ago,with the extra filter. We like it,however,there is some bad press about it,now,saying it DOES NOT do what it claims to do…and,in fact its claims are pretty remarkable. I kinda shut my brain off about it as the cognitive dissonance hurt.

I’m beginning to believe the RO is the only reliable way to remove Flouride and the other nasty stuff..

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Bird's Brain's avatar

I figure that, given the length of time it takes to filter two litres of water, it has to be doing something right.

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Jpeach's avatar

My fluoride enhanced public water is now filtered with a reverse osmosis water filter (Aquatru) and or boiled.

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Vee's avatar

RO is a must! Boiling unfortunately doesn't get rid of fluoride.

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Laura Kasner's avatar

Done and shared to my peeps - it took me a minute to get to the correct link:

https://standforhealthfreedom.com/actions/peoplevpower

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

Thanks Laura! (Also that's the same link I included?)

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Tonee norman's avatar

I didn’t find it with your link to their wonderful website.

This link was directly to the sample letter and it was sent!

Thank you for everything.

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Laura Kasner's avatar

Yes. Same link. Your hot link title in pink was THE PEOPLE V. CENTRAL POWER

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Tonee norman's avatar

Thank you for the direct link! Somehow I was not finding it on the website..

Very simple,for sure!

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arrotsevni's avatar

Good points throughout. It seems like the lefthand does not know what the righthand is doing. Bondi appears insensitive to the basic issues she is involved with and keeps coming out against developed opinion. I still see her as more interested in gaining media face-time than a legal scholar. Narcissist? Govt is always slow to react to new information. I will give her a little more time, but fluoride is well past its exit date.

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David Nelson's avatar

Sigh, "if only" there were only two hands. Our-Friend-The-Government is like one of those eastern deities with more arms than toes with a couple shoving themselves into your pockets while two others pull the wool over your eyes--which another is trying to poke Moe-Howard-style--and four or five others are trying to immobilize you for your shots.

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Jean Louise's avatar

Just sent the email to Lee Zeldin! Couldn’t have been easier. Thanks for including the link!!

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BluesLover's avatar

Hey sunshine...let's talk Pam Bondi, from Florida, as is Suzie Wiles. Susie is an old pharma lobbyist so she is "pro BAD health" or should I say "health that needs TREATMENT". Susie has been undermining MAHA (and Epstein files) from the beginning. Our "separate" government branches can "out maneuver" each other to get NOWHERE. So the EPA also just announced that they were going to do research on chemtrails, weather inducement & more and haha say they are going to be "transparent" (I think the definition has been changed officially haha) and tell us everything. See Lee Zeldin's video from a few days ago. Basically, Susie has decided, from up high on her throne having been crowned "the most powerful woman in the world" by Time magazine... so she's decided that since MAGA will follow Trump off the cliff (I voted for trump) that Suzie will order the pied pipers to "transparently" refute ALL conspiracy theories..including fluoride, chem trails, epstein, and MORE" lol... btw I adore your column but I have long covid and spent so much on trying to survive the last 5 years that I pinch pennies everywhere I can, including a subscription, and I am sorry.

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

You're so sweet and do NOT be sorry! Comments (and shares ;) are currency, too. I'm sorry you're suffering... wish I could help... :(

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BluesLover's avatar

Thank you, and fortunately, after miracle doctors like pierre kory, patterson, john campbell and more, I am 95% better on most days. But I that depends on a low histamine diet, hbot (btw tommy at oxyrevo is ready for your call to send you a chamber) and red light. My daily health regiment is my full time job lol. If you ever come to myrtle beach, south carolina, I would love to take you to lunch. I moved here from Woodland hills, CA to live less expensive and stress free life lol. Have an awesome day and thank you for both thought-provoking and HILARIOUS articles.

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Tonee norman's avatar

Is your life in SC a stress free life ,now?. I’m certain it is less expensive than Woodland Hills,Ca, but,Myrtle Beach is not really inexpensive,is it?

I hear it’s very pretty!

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BluesLover's avatar

Myrtle beach WAS less expensive, 7 years ago but since covid the population increased 628% and home prices doubled. Its no longer stress free... but it was when I moved here. Unfortunately half of new York and new jersey moved here. People used to be so nice and offer sweet tea on their porch and now the new jersey ppl flip ppl off and yell at ppl. Its sad.

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Tonee norman's avatar

I’m sorry..

As a California native,I have been crushed by the terrible changes to my beloved California. I have been fortunate to have grown up in the “hippie days “, and,as crazy as that seems…those WERE the good old days.

I have considered moving,over the years,but,if I did,then the “bad guys”win:(

I find that if I approach people in my day to day life with a smile,and,”as far as possible,without surrender be on good terms with all”, then life reflects that back at me.

Wishing you good fortune!

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Andy's avatar

Last time I had a fluoride treatment at the dentist, said dentist told me, “Try not to swallow.”

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Mehitabel's avatar

I’ve always loved the feeling of freshly cleaned teeth after a dental appointment. About 15 years ago, I went in for my usual check up. The hygienist finished cleaning my teeth and, without missing a step, or asking permission, she applied a shellac-like fluoride treatment to my freshly cleaned teeth. She then advised me not to disturb it for at least 2 hours. It was so disgusting I drove straight home and scrubbed and scrubbed until I got it all off. When she offered to do it again after the next cleaning, I think she was offended when I told her, “No way in Hell!!!”

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Juju's avatar
Jul 18Edited

I made my hygienist place a note on my account and my husband’s and children’s to never even offer it again. I sat there to make sure she made the notation.

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Teresa Parmenter's avatar

This is sooo funny! I did the same scrubbing after my last visit too.

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

When was that Andy?

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Andy's avatar

Maybe ten years ago.

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

Good for you! 👍

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