Jumped on my computer to do a quick business check in case the snow takes out power. Hooray.. I was able put in my dear friend's rank advancement for February!!! That's going to be an additional 6% commission on top of the flat rate that she makes every time she helps another family bridge the gap in their nutrition, or helps someone looking to raise their cellular vibes. She knows who she is... so congrats girl!! I love seeing her funnel in this secondary part of her fast growing business, and that's what is so amazing.

Guess what... if also feels great to see that she's not having to push "challenge groups" or get annoyed with people that aren't growing fast enough, or having a CEO that tells her how to grow her business, and if she "can't" build diamonds that she is wrong. Such BS. That's what I left behind in that space of this style of business... the trees, the lines, the wrongness... oh.. and waiting for the "next best thing".

You know that 2019 seems to be the global year for KonMarie. However this year really is about this movement to accumulate less...eat food with less ingredients...take in less toxins.... balance your happiness with less stress....and of course less sugar, less gluten and less dairy are truly growing so rapidly for big reasons and I have to tell you that if you're looking to make some changes it's easier than you think.

Less ingredients is as simple as adding more whole foods into your diet. Almost 200,000 people signed up this year for Veganary, although far more did a January without animal products. What is great is that 40% of those that signed up identified as omnivore before taking part in Veganuary, and 16% were pescetarian; 33% vegetarian; and 11% already vegan. People want change, but we realize that it all has to come from within.

You don't have to be vegan to realize the push to getting more dense nutrition into your body can't happen from just eating food. We're toxic, and our soil is depleted. Weak plants and poor soil will lower those compounds that you need for healthy cells and healthy bacteria. Dave Asprey talks a lot about the amount of polyphenols and the variety of polyphenols you need. Most of us, even if you're a healthy juicer or green smoothie drinker, are only getting the same six to eight fruits and vegetables day in and day out. We need more dense minerals, and vitamins, from food... because our mitochondria needs more for our brain, our eyes, for every bit of our energy production. So that is why I think the wellness industry is exploding, and why I am grateful beyond belief for where I am now.

I have come to focus over the last decade on less toxins because the world is becoming more toxic in many ways. No, not just about the chemicals, but the emotional abuse and daily brutality we see online. So this movement, or revolution if you think about it, is about supporting our body's natural abilities on a cellular, higher power connection. Lifting ourselves up and believing in something that is so much more than getting "thin". And I think as parents we see what social media does to our kids, and we want them to know the "more" so they aren't filled up with the "lack".

My 2019 vision board starts with "Vibrant Living" across the top. It has wellness and mindfulness, family, joy, being present and being happy all over it. I think that all of those things and making a difference in the world is a huge part of what I do, and want to keep doing at a higher level. People need something less toxic, less stressful to be connected to. Funny thing is that this "less" actually creates more. He's got a funny sense of humor, that man upstairs.

For so many people maybe less stress would mean bringing in a little more money, or adding another income for debt reduction, travel or a little breathing room....So many people are in a place where they can't breathe. You need to know that sometimes that mood is actually brain inflammation or poor gut bacteria, and it impacts your congruency with happiness. You are capable of happiness. You are capable of change. You are not a tree, you can create any path you desire.

I can't explain how taking capsules full of whole, non-gmo, encapsulated foods makes a difference, because it doesn't seem possible until you have tried it. I can't explain how it changed my being is so many ways, because I almost don't have enough words (okay you know me... when do I RUN out of words... LOL) It just happened overnight by taking a crazy leap to see if it could help my daughter breathe better. I can't tell you how empowering it is to be a part of an organization, and not a network marketing downline. Expanding a business, not just passing volume upwards, this has made the biggest difference to me. I already knew that nutrients were energy, that vibrations of sustainably produced foods is far higher, and I am aligned to knowing every time I share this, I see real change in the world. So warning, following this program will free up the capacity for more in your life.❤ Does that spark something in you?

My big goal for 2019 is to build up five teammates to the level I am at currently, while helping others get healthier. I also have a goal to see a ten fold increase in the number of those I am helping this year to feel better. So maybe you just want to feel that happiness, that space of expansion. Either way, I want to be your energetic dealer. 🤣 I am currently working towards what we call a SSC (Senior Sales Coordinator), which means I have two open slots to grow some energetic beings in my team focus, and I have a dream to really change the world in many ways. My true business target is at least an additional three on top of that to build them up to Sales Coordinator this year (this is outside of the three I have currently working towards this goal already) and I don't have any doubts that it is going to happen.

Why? ❤ The leadership role of a National Marketing Director. Once I create that expansion in my life I will gain medical, dental, life and disability through my business (not just through my husband's JOB). That means when he retires, we have something more than just "medicare". I will enjoy a holiday bonus (love that) and a family tuition program to help put my very creative daughter through college. How open is your belief system to something like this? I think that some of you may be feeling called to either try the products, or try the business. Let's connect, set up your Free Consult, and then we can talk about wellness, or business, or both.

Baby Medication Causes Greater Risk Of Asthma Research in the UK says

The children that has even one dose anytime before their first birthday were 60% more at risk of asthma, the European Journal of Public Health found. How many of you have given your baby Tylenol before receiving any of the four times they are given a vaccine during their first year?


Why does this baby medication cause this asthmatic risk?

I believe, like many experts this is due to the depletion of your glutathione by acetaminophen. If you keep your glutathione levels up, the damage from the Tylenol may be largely preventable.

"Glutathione detoxifies acetaminophen, but once glutathione is depleted there can be significant cell death in the liver [THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE; Flanagan,RJ; 91(Suppl C):131S-139S (1991)].

I took my daughter off of dairy (except undenatured whey) several years ago, and her asthmatic issues really improved. In fact, our commercially short pasteurized high temp processed milk has 30% less whey protein than raw milk, and the regular pasteurized and homogenized has 87% less...  which reduces the glutathione boosting benefits. Eating dietary glutathione which plants are FULL off helps protect our lungs from oxidative assault. If you aren't eating properly and getting whole foods supplementation during breastfeeding, or even just giving your child formula without supplementation, you are missing out on this.

My daughter struggled to nurse (did you see my article on healthy nursing supplementation), and at that time I was drinking a lot of regular milk. It caused her a lot of tummy issues, and at the time there were so few non-dairy options that were not allergens for me... so we wanted to do goat's milk formula from the recipe we found online. Dr. Sears is amazing, However the doctor's eventually talked us into expensive formula... so that is what my baby got. They make you feel like you are a bad parent for choosing whole foods. That plus the lack of proper supplementation during pregnancy is what I believe played into her having severe asthma as an infant, that eventually required her to be on 6 puffs of inhaled steroids a day... until we got rid of the large amount of commercial dairy products she was drinking.

I went to a Robyn Openshaw event locally after we moved and she talked about her son's asthma and taking him off dairy. I went home and tossed it all. Hey, I had been dairy-free for years with no issues so why not her. She cried the first day because she couldn't have a yogurt squeezer, but that was it. Within five weeks we tossed our daily inhaler and she has never looked back.

Occasionally my daughter eats some raw goat's milk yogurt, she really loves Oatly and veggie milk, and on the go we use our vegan protein shake. Guess what, she has been fine with that. But I would have loved to have had all of that information all of those years ago when I was first pregnant. We recently discovered The Coconut Collaborative in our store, and the plain with the lemon ganache (coconut based) is like whipped cream with lemon curd on top. Just heavenly!! With items like that, Violife Feta and Parm, Daiya... there is no reason for not being dairy-free today.

Now back to glutathione, did you know that sulfur is required for the synthesis of glutathione? However I cannot eat the three pounds daily of sulfur-rich vegetables that Dr. Terry Wahls recommends because I have methylation issues and it will cause a major ammonia dump, which is very painful. I can do onions and I can do garlic. I can do cold-pressed juice and stir fry leafy greens. Did you know that collard greens are rich in isothiocyanates, which are powerful sulfur compound? Also did you know that in the Budwig cancer protocol it is the chemical reaction that take place between the sulfur protein in the cottage cheese and the oil from mixing of the oil and cottage cheese that is the foundation of the program?

I don't eat cottage cheese, and there is no one making raw goat cottage cheese in my area. Rice protein is high in the sulfur-containing amino acids, and I have started drinking amazake because of this mixed with flaxseed oil every night. A small study was done on patients with Liver Cirrhosis drinking amazake every night and it improved the Quality of Life (QOL) in all terms of sense of abdomen distension, edema, fatigue, muscle cramps, loss of appetite, taste disorder, constipation, diarrhea, vomiting, and sleep disorder. They also found any sense of abdominal distension, constipation and vomiting had disappeared after 8 weeks of amazake intake and taste disorder and sleep disorder had disappeared after 12 weeks of amazake intake. No major clinical events or virological rebounds occurred in the subjects. I'm not worried about the koji in it, because although α-amylase from the mold (Aspergillus oryzae is described as an allergen), it is not suited to the diagnosis of fungal sensitization. This is expressed in Aspergillus oryzae and used in a purified form as a baking enzyme (raising agent). It can cause IgE-mediated sensitization in exposed bakers. Thus, detecting IgE to α-amylase can be used to diagnose sensitization, but not mold sensitization to baking enzyme. I don't eat gluten, or processed products using a baking enzyme anymore. There was a time when I lived on veggie sandwiches from Subway, long long ago. But that's a time far away from my current body, but something to keep in mind if you aren't there yet.

However the benefits seem to outweigh the risk to me. Another small study showed that the women that were consuming amazake, eliminated more of the toxins than those who did not. This was looking at mostly concentrations of PCDDs, PCDFs and PCBs. Amazake gives me more fiber, another source of whole food B vitamins, and minerals. I also take my vitamin C after to help all of my cellular functions as it does it natural work. Best of all, it seems to keep my blood sugar stable overnight as well which means I can sleep all night. We all need more undisturbed sleep. If you are on my Ketolicious program, you should be drinking this because rice koji reduced body weight gain, fat accumulation, and blood glucose level in high-fat diet-induced obese mice. Score!!

In Japan this amazake non-alcoholic version is often fed to weaning babies as a baby food due to the nutritional benefits. It contains pantothenic acid, B1, B2, B6, amino acids, biotin and inositol. Infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first 6 mo of life, but maternal deficiency of some micronutrients, conveniently classified as Group I micronutrients during lactation, can result in low concentrations in breast milk and subsequent infant deficiency preventable by improving maternal status. I believe that when mom has a dense micronutrient support system it can make a huge difference during breastfeeding, and is not synthetic since they are still no where near testing babies for genetic mutations at birth. And then once baby is starting to wean and eat, using both supplementation mixed into their diet, and something like a whole food option of amazake can be something to consider. The B Vitamins have so much to do with our health, and it is no wonder as we become less nutritionally balanced, our kids are having far more wellness problems than we did. I think the fermented non-gmo soy drink that I have, and this koji fermented rice is what has started changing my wellness in so many ways.

One of my most popular posts on this blog has been my post about essential oils. It seems that we all know that nature has something more to offer us. I spent the last year putting this book together with the information that I craved when I was a new aromatherapist. I would love to know if you order the book, so please leave a review so that those people that don't know me, or my passion for essential oils, have a little idea of how amazing the book is.

When the book launches on the first, you will see why I am an essential oil and aromatherapy junkie, and why I always order a gob of oils this time of year (however I got a gob of oils at no cost, so there's that) and why aromatherapy should be a part of the education our kids are getting. The more we teach about nature, body energy, and other alternatives, I really think the better this world will get. Make bath bombs, not war. From January 1st through the 15th the paperback will be on sale for just $14.95.

This book provides the chemistry, subtle body and therapeutic uses of essential oils including:

Chapter One: Exploring Aromatherapy : What are essential oils? {Enjoy a Sneak Peek of this first chapter today https://sowl.co/Lidyo FREE}

Chapter Two: Exploring History : The history of how plant medicine evolved into an essential oil revolution.

Chapter Three: Olfactory System : How does our formed sense of smell and this sensory system work to our advantage when using aromatherapy?

Chapter Four: Aroma Chemistry : Chemical makeup of essential oil molecular compounds.

Chapter Five: Biophilia Hypothesis : Why do we seek connections with nature.

Chapter Six: Methods of Use : How to use essential oils, and the safety required with oil use.

Chapter Seven: Plant Spirits : Through much of history there is a practice of spiritual elemental teachings for traditional healers.

Chapter Eight: Chakra Balance : Basic understanding of the chakra systems in relationship to aromatherapy work.

Chapter Nine: Chakra Balance II : Advanced training of the chakra systems in relationship to aromatherapy work.

Chapter Ten: Emotional Support : How does aromatherapy have influence over your thoughts, emotions, moods, memories, and behaviors.

Chapter Eleven: Oil Identification : In depth look at fifty of the most used essential oils in aromatherapy practice.

Chapter Twelve: EntreAromatherapy : Ways that businesses are using essential oils to increase revenue.

Chapter Thirteen: Case Studies : How to create an aromatherapy case studies, and what to consider before any essential oil use or client recommendations.

You all are going to LOVE this book. I put my heart and soul in it to give you the information you have wanted, in the only geeky manner I know how. Click on the link below to order today.

You can't out exercise a bad diet. And you can't outrun your hormones or check ✔ out when life sends you stress. All of these cause a chronic inflammatory cycle.

The movement to accumulate less...eat food with less ingredients...take in less toxins.... balance your happiness with less stress....and of course less sugar, less gluten and less dairy are truly growing so rapidly for big reasons and I have to tell you that if you're looking to make some changes it's easier than you think.

Less ingredients is as simple as adding more whole foods into your diet.

Now is the time for you to join us to change your food choices, your movement and your mindfulness. It can be so complicated because wouldn't you agree that our world is more toxic than it was ten years ago (both in environment, nutrition and emotionally/socially)? And wouldn't you agree that our foods are more toxic than they were... heavy on the herbicides? the sugar content? And the foods we just can't digest well.

Depression...
Irritability...
Fatigue...
Insomnia...

Maybe you have Adrenal Fatigue &
perhaps Copper Toxicity??

Having been a copper craver my whole life, I started looking into what copper toxicity really was. When you have a copper toxicity in your tissues from lack of copper binding proteins, it turns out you'll have a struggle with your histamine levels as well. High histamine symptoms are often equated with estrogen dominance symptom because of under-methylation. Your adrenals become the innocent victims of this toxic realm. I remember several years ago at my doctor's appointment when she was like, "Wow, your adrenals are shot!" Thank you so much.

Part of the story is when B12 slows down histamine release, which is why vegans often struggle the right balance of histamine levels, the result is small amounts of PCOS symptoms that seem to come and go. But if you are an under-metalator... B12 is not your friend, and you cannot be vegan... that is what they say. We need B12 dearly, and they say you should get it naturally not in supplementation. Luckily there are so many good ways, like shots and highly absorbable B12 options now, but it was interesting to go through this process. The worst was having my mast cells going crazy, especially with the agitation of how my body already deals with allergens and mold. 




The best sources of B12 in foods are: Sardines, Salmon, Tuna, Cod, Lamb, Scallops. One serving of any of these will give 100% of your B12 needed. And when I take a regular b-complex... look out... my anxiety goes through the roof... its folate I need not folic acid. And it seems to be that I cannot just use a regular methylated B12 either. What works best for me is a combo B12 with adenosylcobalamin and methylcobalamin. 

How do Histamine Levels Figure Into All Of These Issues?

I'm So FROZEN... Oh wait, that's just excess histamine release ...

The extreme chill you feel could be excess histamine release. As well symptoms that appear to be allergy related may be more obscure than you think. For example, sneezing may be an allergy symptom, but muscle pain, insomnia and acid reflux may also be signs of allergy. These are all signs of excessive histamines. Since histamine has a large amount of functions within the human body, the effects of high histamine blood levels can vary widely.

Current studies have shown that there are direct links between histamines, the irritants produced in an allergic reaction, and the nervous system. People with too much histamine in their brains experience anxiety and depression. And detox raises histamine levels. I first started to figure out histamines when I would come home from the gym and an hour later is when I'd start to freeze and want to curl up in a ball under a mountain of blankets.

The symptoms of toxicity may also be more obscure than you think. You may have headaches, joint pains, colitis and even poor coordination may be signs of toxicity. Another sign is skin eruptions and rashes. I woke up with a nice little rash this morning, too.

Your body has a unique detoxification system. It comes with many fail-safe mechanisms. A toxin may simply be detoxified and rendered harmless – usually by the liver. This is often accomplished through enzymes with the help of antioxidants. These poisons may be turned into useful tools, such as when blood toxins are turned into bile to help us digest fat from our diet.

Some toxins are difficult to detoxify; they may be stored permanently in fat. Other toxins and allergens are stored temporarily in water in the lymphatic system. Detoxification, stress, and even like I said, exercise can cause these symptoms. This is why people get "puffy" with allergies or toxicity. I know you've had that issue before. These high-histamine levels often are due to a metabolic imbalance that results from under-methylation. Sound familiar??

I think I'm going to kick up my Acerola Berry and Citrus oils today, because both of these help release those toxins that my body just wants to dig deep and hold on to.

The key is you need to clear out more than just your colon. You need to clear out your system all the way through to the tissues. That can't be done in a quick cleanse. It takes a natural, healthy routine in your life. I plan to do a quick two week cleanse in the new year... so make sure you follow along.

I think my body is ready for some renewal before for this new year. Want to join me? I offer a clean two weeks every month, so just jump in when you are ready. Connect with me after the holiday and get your wellness consult or quantum biofeedback session and see how I can help. Believe me that you can feel better if you work through your wellness process with a support team.