I Never Get Sick!

A truly healthy body is one where the immune system reacts quickly and effectively to limit an illness and prevent chronic or long-term injury to the body. So a cold now and then, a fever occasionally, a little nausea are not things that indicate a lack of health. These may actually be signs that your immune system is working appropriately.

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Karen Clickner
Those Stealthy Invaders

As far back as 1994 medical research realized that there were specific illnesses caused by organisms that had unique abilities. They were able to not just “infect” you, they could adapt to your immune system and evade your body’s attempts to resolve them. These became known as stealth pathogens. Examples of these are Lyme, syphilis, mycoplasma, parasites and bacteria.

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Karen Clickner
Is Our Medical System Causing More Trauma Than It's Resolving?

Our medical system is being run by computers and algorithms more than it is being run by human kindness and caring. Our medical system has evolved away from that, removing the human element because that cannot be incorporated into a “system” of care. Our medical system has been becoming more and more like a conveyor-belt system of care with a standardized step by step approach to every symptom, condition and disease.

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Karen Clickner
If You Can't Sleep, Cast a Critical Eye Over Your Sleeping Spot

You know that feeling when you walk into a room … you feel really comfortable, really claustrophobic or want to turn around and run out? There really is an energy to a place and this is the idea behind the “art of placement” or Feng Shui. For centuries the Chinese have been following the art of placement when choosing a place to live, designing living spaces and especially choosing where to put your sleeping spot!

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Karen Clickner
Viruses 101: Just the Basics Please

Some of our most amazing scientific discoveries have involved viruses. This is because for as small they are, they are are living things and as living things, their goal is to survive. This means that they work to find ways to evade detection, to escape from their enemies and to reproduce … and to do that they need a host. There are so many different types of viruses that we cannot escape them all. In fact, the idea of prevention isn’t just reserved for a vaccine, it is the concept of innoculating ourselves against all viruses, not just the latest one.

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Karen Clickner