“The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we’re afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we’ll lose it. We fear that if we don’t have love, we will be unhappy.” ― Richard Bach
The Worst Types Of Lies – 8 Harmful Lies You Tell Yourself
Want to know the worst types of lies? There are the 8 harmful lies you tell yourself.
Do you tell any of these to yourself? If so, beware these lies!
Frances Vidakovic With a degree in psychology, Frances Vidakovic is a certified life coach for goal getters, author of 20+ books, host of the Dream Big My Friend podcast and course creator. Her superpower: transforming moms from dreamers into doers. Frances has been featured on various platforms, including Scary Mommy, Thrive Global, Medium and SBS Radio.
Hey my friend, Lying to others is bad enough but lying to yourself is the worst of all lies. Do you know why? Because you can lie to anyone else in the world but you can’t ever lie to yourself. Not really.
Deep down you know the truth. The lies you tell yourself usually have an insidious purpose. You’re either trying to absolve yourself of responsibility or justifying inaction.
Be warned: the damage you do by lying to yourself is tremendous. A lie may care about the present but it seriously has no future. The truth may not cost anything right now but a lie over time could cost you everything. Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable. She was so used to lies, that the truth confused her. ― Jeff Hood Lies may leave you at peace with others but you will always be at war with yourself. ― Marinela Reka Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own life comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him or around him and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Here are 8 harmful lies you should avoid so you can finally take back control of your life:
TYPES OF LIES # 1 – There will be time in the future to do it. Do you want to do it or not? Often, we enjoy the idea of doing something, but lack the interest or determination to put it in time, work, or sacrifice to make it happen. Playing the guitar might sound like fun to you, but the idea of putting in hours of work to play at a mediocre level isn’t appealing. But here’s the truth: time waits for no one. If you really want to do it, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find 1,000 reasons to put it off and procrastinate. Realize that you choose how you spend your time. The trouble is, you think you have time. ― Jack Kornfield Lost time is never found again. ― Benjamin Franklin Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. ― Harvey Mackay It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. ― Mason Cooley A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ― Charles Darwin Either you run the day, or the day runs you. ― Jim Rohn
TYPES OF LIES # 2 – I can change another person. Think about how difficult it is to change yourself. Any change is extremely challenging, even when you’re highly motivated. Odds are that the person you want to change is less than enthusiastic. You have a losing battle on your hands. If it’s vital that the other person change, you’d be better off finding another person to fulfill the role. You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. ― Wayne Dyer When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels you from the past, into the present. People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems. Committing yourself to staying positive is a daily mantra that states, “I have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me! ― Shannon L. Alder I don’t have any control over what actually happens except for that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I’m here. That’s all that matters. ― Sza
TYPES OF LIES # 3 – I’m not like anyone else / there’s something wrong with me. Everyone believes they’re different from others. You are certainly unique, but you’re remarkably similar to the average person. You’re not deficient or flawed. You are perfectly perfect and there is absolutely nothing wrong with you! This type of thinking serves as an excuse to play the victim and remain small.
TYPES OF LIES # 4 – It will get better or go away if I just ignore it. Things tend to get worse if ignored.
Because guess what? Challenges will never, ever, ever, ever go away! Unless you have a magical fairy taking care of business for you, you’ll have to deal with the challenges of life directly. Otherwise, you’ll find your challenges grow and multiply. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. ― Adams The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. ― Randy Pausch Life’s Challenges Are Not Supposed To Paralyze You, They’re Supposed To Help You Discover Who You Are. ― Bernice Johnson Reagon I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot. ― Nadia Comaneci Success Is Due To Our Stretching To The Challenges Of Life. Failure Comes When We Shrink From Them. ― John C. Maxwell Being Challenged In Life Is Inevitable, Being Defeated Is Optional. ― Roger Crawford It’s Lack Of Faith That Makes People Afraid Of Meeting Challenges, And I Believed In Myself. ― Muhammad Ali When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. ― Paulo Coelho
TYPES OF LIES # 5 – I’m too young / I’m too old. Sure, it’s true that you won’t be a CEO at 3-years of age or start medical school at 106. However, age is much less limiting than you believe. History has proven it time and time again. The young and old have accomplished incredible things. You can too. You are not too old and it’s not too late. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ― C.S. Lewis It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time – and you are better than you know. ― Marianne Williamson
TYPES OF LIES # 6 – I don’t have any other choice. You have more choices than you could possibly realize. Here’s the thing: everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice. If your habitual actions and thoughts are limiting, you really need to open your mind to all the possibilities.
There are always other choices.
Brainstorm with a creative friend and investigate your other options. Remember however that you are free to make whatever choice you want but you are not free from the consequences of the choice. Life is about choices. Some we regret; some we’re proud of. Some will haunt us forever. The message: we are what we choose to be. ― Graham Brown May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. ― Nelson Mandela It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ― Roy Disney
TYPES OF LIES # 7 – I don’t want to make a fool out of myself. Like most of us, you’re probably far too inhibited.
You’re not a teenager anymore. It’s time to let go of the fear of others’ opinions. An exciting life is boldly lived. You need to live boldly.
When you’re bold, you’re going to receive some negative feedback. When you’re timid though, you’ll still receive negative comments. You’ll be criticized no matter what you do, so do what’s best for you.
Remember that 99% of the time, no one really cares. Everyone is too absorbed with their own issues. Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. ― Dorothea Brande The doors will be opened to those who are bold enough to knock. ― Tony Gaskins We need to be visionary; we have to be bold. ― Angela Hunt Good Fortune favors the bold. ― James Swartz Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
TYPES OF LIES # 8 – It’s too late. This is similar to “I’m too old.” Starting a business might have been more convenient before you got married and had children, but it’s still a possibility.
Honestly it is NEVER too late to chase a dream! The idea that it’s too late is just another excuse to justify staying where you are, comfortable in your own misery. All in all, by lying, you take the responsibility off of your shoulders and redistribute it. You lie to yourself in order to protect yourself from possible failure. And you really need to know the truth.
It’s never too late to start over. It’s never too late for a new beginning in your life.
If you weren’t happy with yesterday, try something different today. Don’t stay stuck. Do better. The time to make changes is now. It is never too late to be what you might have been. ― George Eliot The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again. ― Bikram Choudhury But lying to yourself ensures that you’ll stay stuck.
Start being honest with yourself and face life head-on. You’ll be glad you did! The most dangerous lies are the lies you tell yourself. So stop lying to yourself.
You can lie to anyone else in the world but you can’t lie to yourself. Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult chance we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
I Will Correct Myself — You Are Right, and I was Misled:
This is the Truth About TRUMP’s Grandfather Frederick Trump – Wikipedia You ask where I get my sources: I have celebrity status on social media from learning through others and for speaking the truth.
Going into the infrastructure plan itself Building a Better America | The White House most of the spending is for bullshit. Most of the spending for Covid 19 was also bullshit considering most of the grants handed out to businesses are based on being Unamerican and this spending will be paid off by future generations…which is bullshit.
In the last year home expenses have gone up drastically per household.
You don’t fix a problem by throwing more money at it. When it comes to health care you attack the root cause which is the cost to the providers.
Good Samaritan Hospital closed its doors in Dayton, Ohio.
Good Samaritan Hospital closed in 2018, impacting about 1,600 employees. The news came as a surprise to city officials, hospital employees and patients. Premier officials said it was unsustainable to operate two hospitals within five miles of each other.
All Obamacare did was increase insurance premiums. Doctors pay $350,000 for their education and that’s bullshit. What needs to be done is strike a balance in health care through enrollment fees. Where everybody pays and I mean everybody a percentage of their income. That money then should subsidize health care for their expenses and not go into a politician’s pocket. That’s true Universal Health Care Coverage!!!
Paulina Jaramillo is one of the many faculty experts at Carnegie Mellon University contributing to the work of the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. Jaramillo, an assistant research professor in Engineering and Public Policy and executive director of the Renew Elec project, discusses whether hurricanes will clobber offshore wind turbines.
Offshore Wind Farms: Allaying Concerns About Hurricanes and About Fishing. But most wind turbines are not built to withstand a direct hit from the strongest hurricanes, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters that models the worst-scenarios caused by category-5 storms. Researchers predict new offshore turbines would face hurricane wind gusts of more than 223 miles per hour — but the turbines can only manage gusts of 156 miles per hour based on current engineering standards.
Part of the problem: Offshore turbine designs often draw from onshore wind turbines in Europe, where hurricane conditions are essentially nonexistent. “We need to make sure offshore wind energy is successful the first time around,” said Rochelle Worsnop, doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder, who spearheaded the project.
“We believe that this research can help guide those standards to help turbines placed in hurricane prone regions survive these major hurricanes.” Offshore wind energy development is growing along U.S. coasts. The first U.S. commercial offshore wind farm went into operation in December, and many more are on the horizon. Offshore wind energy generation could expand the nation’s energy supply with potential to provide 160,000 jobs and low-cost energy for millions of Americans.
Worsnop and her colleagues started this project by looking into where hurricane winds cross paths with offshore wind farms. At first, getting this kind of data proved nearly impossible. Hurricanes that come within striking distance of offshore wind turbines are infrequent. Plus, at the moment, offshore wind developments are few and far between. Most wind measurements she could find in public databases were recorded too high above the water or too far from shore to reflect what a wind turbine might experience.
So, Worsnop’s team member — George Bryan of the National Center for Atmospheric Research — recommended she use a computer simulation driven by hurricane data from the last 15 years. Bryan used this high-resolution model to recreate the worst of the worst — a category-5 hurricane eyewall, where winds can exceed 220 miles per hour — to see how wind turbines would hold up. The team also investigated how wind characteristics, such as changes in direction and turbulence, might affect turbines.
Large and fast changes in wind direction could be problematic.
Wind Turbines based upon Worsnop’s model. Wind turbines work best when facing directly into the wind, so turbine rotors swivel about the tower to maintain a wind-in-the-face orientation. The researchers found most turbines would not twist fast enough to respond. “We are learning more about the anatomy of a hurricane, which is improving the design resilience of future wind turbines,” Walt Musial, an engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and a senior author on the study, told NewsHour via email.
Their model also predicted wind direction changes up to 55 degrees between the ground and the tip of a blade — a measurement called veer. As a result, these category-5 winds could bend a turbine blade in one direction — say, at the tip — as it simultaneously applies stress on another portion, causing the blade to malfunction or break.
“One of the benefits of this study is that you can get a much better global, spatial quantification of that veer — and that’s fabulous, that’s exactly what a wind turbine designer needs,” said Sandy Butterfield, chairman of the International Electrotechnical Commission Renewable Energy (IECRE), the organization that writes the standards for wind turbines and other renewable energy equipment.
The researchers behind the study are now guiding a revamp of turbine engineering standards. Musial said they may take three years to implement. “The simulation is the best estimate we have. It’s more accurate than any other estimate for the kinds of winds that could really damage a wind turbine,” Butterfield, who was not involved in the study, said. “It’s going to help us update the standards to reflect wind turbine design criteria for hurricanes.”
Biden is pretending to be God; he wants to fix our climate which is a hoax.
Many politicians’ own mansions on the coast.
Bing:Does Al Gore own ocean front property? Al Gore got all that Bullshit started with his documentary: An. Inconvenient.Truth.2006 and one nation under God can’t fix a climate if all other countries are unwilling. The United States is a small percentage of the big picture. As far as your statement about water safety in the United States Most life-threatening waterborne diseases caused by microbes (such as typhoid fever or cholera) are rare in the United States (chlorine in water is a more alarming safety factor to the pineal gland than poor water quality.)
On January 6th: 700 patriots were arrested out of the 10s of 1000s which were there. A big percentage for holding a camera and taking pictures. Your comment about the Proud Boys, the Oaths Keepers, the 3 percenters don’t concern me. As much as Antifa which is an Obama and his Brother Hooded funded organization.
One last Tidbit: Biden can’t be helping poverty rates with gas prices and inflation rates spinning out of control. Bing: Bidens tax Increase for the Middle to Working Class. (Biden is lying about that as well.)
Nineteen-Eighty Four discusses censorship and talks about how the government and “big brother” have too much power because they can listen to you and watch your every move. “He put the diary away in the drawer (Nineteen-Eighty Four, 29),” is a good example of a way to protect against big brother. Big brother is an all powerful, all seeing power that can make things happen to people who speak against it.
The entire first part of this book talks about the narrator being scared. In section two, the narrator walks into a door and he is dripping in sweat. He is worried someone is going to be inside waiting for him. His diary is open with BIG BROTHER written on it. Big brother can look at you through everything you might not even think about.
A diary is a good way to protect yourself against this sort of thing. A diary is the one thing big brother cannot look at. A piece of paper is un-hackable and cannot — be looked at by other people. In movies we often see this as well. People use paper and pens to correspond because it is the only thing that cannot be hacked.
Big brother is the government monitoring everything they can, and paper and pens are some of the few things they cannot monitor. People live completely off the grid on the warnings of things like this book.
People live completely with no technology and take their time and care to not be seen by anything that ‘big brother’ might be able to look at. Big brother is an issue we see all the time and is an issue that is more apparent than some people might know through a corrupt media’s censorship. Biden taps U.S. oil reserves to ease gas prices.
President Biden announced an unprecedented set of actions to ease the financial squeeze for fuel, including accessing about a third of the nation’s strategic reserve until October. Errol Barnett has the latest on what this means for Americans.
LAKEWOOD RANCH, Fla. — Dick Vitale stares at the TV wide-eyed, resting his lower back on the couch to relieve soreness from a Neupogen shot that’s meant to offset knifing pain from his second-to-last round of chemotherapy. His living room has windows that overlook a golf course in the backyard and opens up to an office that could pass as a sports museum from a Hall of Fame broadcasting career. Hallways are decorated with pictures of his five grandchildren and family vacations. Vitale’s wife of 50 years, Lorraine, scurries around the home to help pass out desert after dinner.
“Coach K needs a timeout, he needs a T.O., baby,” a raspy Vitale says as Texas Tech scores against Duke in Thursday’s Sweet 16 game the Blue Devils go on to win. Seconds later, an errant pass leads to a Duke turnover. Texas Tech responds with a dunk that prompts Mike Krzyzewski – Vitale’s longtime friend – to call timeout. “Mike was one play too late. Duke’s momentum was screwed after that last play,” he says. NOBODY LIKE VITALE: Broadcaster’s fight against childhood cancer continues
At his southern Florida home, Vitale can’t shut off his play-calling despite sitting out March Madness. He’s in the recovery stages of a seven-month cancer fight, cleared to use his signature voice just a week earlier after a “fricken brutal” several months of resting his vocal cords and communicating only via text or with a dry-erase white board. Lorraine, became emotional recounting her husband’s journey, has watched his spirits skyrocket since regaining his voice. “Having him quiet and unable to express himself, that was hard to watch. It was almost harder than the lymphoma (diagnosis),” she says. “For three months, I felt trapped. I was sobbing when I got my voice back,” Vitale tells USA TODAY Sports, his speech less animated and throat still tender from vocal cord surgery. “I love talking with people more than anything in life. And if I can’t communicate, I become so depressed.”
‘Cancer. Cancer. Cancer.’ Lorraine or Vitale’s “secretary” as he calls her, reads her husband’s chicken-scratch handwriting at night after NCAA Tournament games, then writes it on a jumbo dry-erase board for him to read the next day in four video segments breaking down the games. She shoots the videos herself before sending them to ESPN. “It keeps me occupied, keeps me away from thinking about cancer,” Vitale says. “It hasn’t been easy.
‘Cancer. Cancer. Cancer. Can he beat cancer?’ “ Even with those video breakdowns, something’s still missing this March in the relationship between one man and millions of college basketball fans. He’s unable to call the Final Four for ESPN International while resting his voice. Vitale, 82, says listening to Steven Zeitels, the doctor who “saved my voice” (and singer Adele’s vocal surgeon), hasn’t been easy. “I miss being on air so badly,” Vitale says. “When that red light goes on and we’re live, I’m talking to my friends. America, baby.” Vitale has been talking to his friends in their living rooms for 43 years as the voice of college basketball, and if he’s healthy, plans to call games next season.
‘(Expletive), it’s over!’ “Stick a fork in ‘em, they’re done,” Vitale says, watching No. 4 Arkansas upset overall No. 1 seed Gonzaga. “That’s what Jimmy (Valvano) used to say when a game was over.” Vitale’s son-in-law, Thomas Krug, counters during a dinnertime debate, noting how much time is left in the game. “(Expletive), it’s over!” Vitale quips. “They’re about to have a party in Fayetteville tonight.”
Guess who was right? Vitale’s family members, rallying behind him during his battle with cancer, don’t know him any other way than to have his bulldozing passion dominate the room. “What you see with my dad on TV isn’t all that different from who he is at home. He’s actually more passionate at home. There’s nothing censored about him,” says his daughter Terri, who has traveled to Boston for all of his cancer treatments.
“What it is: My Dad loves people and engaging with them. “Growing up, my dad had always been this larger-than-life figure. I’ve definitely been seeing him in a very vulnerable state with cancer.” Vitale has been sharing that vulnerability with the world – most notably, his 941,000-plus Twitter followers. Cancer and its treatments have caused unbearable bone and muscle pain, insomnia and worst of all, fear of time running out.
His engagement with fans isn’t just college basketball analysis. It’s about his matchup with the disease. He’s shared updates before and after big procedures, had Lorraine shoot video of him interacting with doctors and nurses, and displayed his raw emotions fighting the illness. “This is for those that are in my club of CANCER PATIENTS fighting the journey to beat this disease,” Vitale tweets last week.
“Yes, the scans, bloodwork, blood counts. chemo treatments. NEUPOGEN shots that cause intense pain wear on us but Remember as my buddy Jimmy V said, “Don’t Give Up – DON’T EVER GIVE UP.” He tweets March 8, shortly before finding he’s in remission: “Just finished PET SCAN. Now the anxiety is waiting for Dr. (Rick) Brown to call with results. ALL cancer patients know that feeling. It is NERVOUS TIME (hoping) for some good news .Really appreciate all the (support) & (love) from so many of you .”
“When we first came to the hospital, they tried to give him an alias to respect his privacy,” Lorraine says. “We all laughed because sure enough, he was putting everything on social media.” Terri adds: “At first it was like, ‘whoa he’s really sharing this.’ He does that to inspire people who are going through what he’s going through. I would argue that cancer made my dad’s spirit even stronger.”
The real Cinderella story Every morning, Vitale prays to St. Jude (the patron saint of lost causes) near a photo of his late mother and father, Mae and John. He says his emotional availability came from their love and he still hears their voices guiding him, telling “Richie” to never give up chasing his dreams and lifting him up when he was bullied as a child because of a drifting left eye. Vitale injured his eye in an accident as a toddler before having corrective surgery as an adult. Perhaps it’s that confident persistence he got from his parents that helped Vitale win his own “Cinderella story,” wooing his wife, Lorraine. During a recent dinner at an Italian restaurant in Sarasota, Lorraine recalls how Dick pursued her “at least five times” before she finally danced with him. “We’ve been dancing ever since,” he says, grabbing her face for a kiss. “And you’re still just as beautiful.” “But we’re like the odd couple,” she says. “We both like different things.” They find common ground with a love of concerts – and have an album full of pictures with everyone from Kenny Chesney to Bruce Springsteen to Drake. “I’d be nothing without Lorraine in this cancer battle,” Vitale says. “Nothing.”
‘John Calipari is sitting on the couch’ Growing up, Terri says she hardly knew her father was a celebrity until he needed bodyguards at a Final Four in the 1990s – when Dickie V had a bevy of commercials on TV. His lifestyle is still hardly normal. People in the Sarasota area ask for photos when he’s out to eat – and he’ll “never turn anyone away.” He’ll get a daily prayer message from Tennessee coach Rick Barnes in the morning. He’ll receive a text from John and Patrick McEnroe in the middle of the day. He’ll have a missed call from legendary coach and friend Bob Knight in the evening.
And he’ll moonlight as a heroic grandfather, getting his granddaughters a chance to meet Taylor Swift at a concert. “Sometimes I’ll walk in and John Calipari is sitting on the couch,” Terri says. “Nothing surprises me anymore. “But it felt so normal growing up because he’d call me at college and care as much about a chemistry test or my opponent in a tennis match as he did any of the four games he was calling that week.”
Not much has changed. Speaking to daughter Sherri about his granddaughter Ava’s tennis match against a top-seeded opponent, Vitale shares a timely bit of advice. “If Saint Peter’s can win as a No. 15 seed, she damn sure can win against that girl. You tell her that,” Vitale says. Lorraine argues that her husband has hardly changed with his spirit since she met him. She says that fame hasn’t gotten to him and has only accentuated what’s always been on display for her. “He was making flyers to get people to come watch his kids play as a coach in the 1960s and 1970s,” she says.
“Now, he’s doing the same thing with his (annual pediatric cancer) gala sending things out in the mail.” “My Dad sees through a different (lens). He’s always grateful,” Terri says. “What I’ve learned from his cancer battle is that life is all about perspective. When we found out he had lymphoma instead of (more deadly) bile duct cancer back in the fall, we literally went out to celebrate.” Vitale’s positive reframing is relentless, saying he’s won his own national championship by becoming cancer-free this March.
Entering his 37th season in 2021-22, Geno Auriemma has redefined the meaning of success as head coach of the University of Connecticut women’s basketball program. During his illustrious tenure, Auriemma has transformed the Huskies into an unmatched program of excellence. The UConn Huskies women’s basketball team is always a threat to win the national title and is considered the gold standard in the sport. UConn has consistently found a way to be successful, which has been the most impressive part of this extended championship run. The Huskies have 11 national titles, all coming since 1995. That was when the program won its first championship. The last few seasons have been a disappointment for UConn though, as the team hasn’t won a championship since 2016. That speaks not only to parity in recruiting but the overall investment in women’s basketball across the country. The Huskies are still a Final Four regular, with appearances every season since 2008 except for 2020 when March Madness was canceled due to COVID-19. Geno Auriemma teared up after UConn survived a double-OT thriller to advance to its 14th-straight Final Four!
In this UConn vs NC State postgame news conference, UConn head coach Geno Auriemma called it, “One of the best games I’ve ever been a part of since I’ve been at UConn.” Auriemma saluted both teams, and that this was a great showcase for what women’s basketball can be. He didn’t know Paige Bueckers would return to form in time to make an impact but saw his star guard carry the team to another Final Four. He expressed sadness at the injury suffered by Dorka Juhasz, and acknowledged his team was shaken. He said Juhasz had a tremendous impact on the game prior to her injury.
Geno Auriemma was overcome with emotion after UConn’s double-OT Elite Eight victory. The Huskies head coach cried while speaking with ESPN’s Holly Rowe after the win over NC State. Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies are headed to their 14th straight Final Four. And after his team survived a double-overtime Elite Eight thriller against the top-seeded NC State Wolfpack, following a season filled with injuries and uncharacteristic losses, the Hall of Fame head coach couldn’t help but break down and cry.
In his on-court interview with ESPN’s Holly Rowe, Auriemma wiped away his tears, shook his head in disbelief and explained that “it’s just been that kind of a year.” Geno Auriemma teared up after UConn survived a double-OT thriller to advance to its 14th-straight Final Four
Auriemma (right) looks at UConn Huskies point guard Paige Bueckers. AP Photo/Jessica Hill
“When you’re younger you think, ‘I got a million of these left in me,'” he said. “You get to a certain age, then, when you go, ‘I don’t know how many of these I have left.’ You don’t know how many opportunities you’re gonna get to be in this game.” “It means more,” Auriemma added. “It means more because each time you do it, there’s a new set of kids that have never been there, and they came to Connecticut for a chance to play in a Final Four.
And it’s just this overwhelming responsibility that you have to get them a chance. And we did. We did.” And they did in spectacular fashion. Despite missing 19 games during the regular season due to an injury and having yet to return to full strength, UConn superstar Paige Bueckers exploded for 27 points on 10-of-15 shooting from the floor to carry her Huskies to victory.
Bueckers. AP Photo/Jessica Hill
The sophomore point guard netted 23 of those game-high 27 points after halftime, with a whopping 15 coming over the two five-minute overtime periods. “Thank God Paige [Bueckers] came back,” Auriemma said. “She just gives everybody so much confidence and then everybody just … took turns making plays.” Though UConn looked to be pulling away in the first half, NC State closed the gap with a massive third quarter run and forced overtime after a neck-and-neck final stretch of regulation.
Once again, when the Huskies looked to have victory in hand as the clock wound down in the first overtime period, Wolfpack star Jakia Brown-Turner drained a last-second three-pointer from the corner to buy an extra five minutes for Wes Moore’s squad. Geno Auriemma teared up after UConn survived a double-OT thriller to advance to its 14th-straight Final Four!
UConn closed it out from there, with senior guard Christyn Williams making two layups in the final 20 seconds to ice the game. She finished with 21 points on the night, and freshman Azzi Fudd added 19. “It was just an amazing basketball game,” Auriemma said. “It really was a great showcase for our sport.” “Like I told Wes [Moore] after the game — I wish we both could go,” he added. “They probably won the game in regulation.
We had it won twice, and they just — they made us work for it.” Geno Auriemma teared up after UConn survived a double-OT thriller to advance to its 14th-straight Final Four. Players from both teams battle for a rebound during double overtime. David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports. Auriemma and company will now head to the Final Four in Minneapolis, Minn., to face the reigning-champion Stanford Cardinal in the national semifinal. Should the Huskies win, they’ll advance to their first championship game since winning the title in 2016.
UConn advances to 14th straight Final Four in 2OT classic vs. NC State. By Cassandra Negley·
Connecticut is on to its 14th consecutive Final Four after a double-overtime thriller.
The No. 2-seeded Huskies downed No. 1 seed NC State, 91-87, in what was essentially a home game in the Bridgeport region on Monday.
It was the first double-overtime game in the Elite Eight or later in women’s tournament history. Paige Bueckers came up clutch in the first overtime period and hit the opening 3-pointer 20 seconds into the second OT to put the Huskies up 80-77. UConn led by as many as five, the largest lead of either overtime period, but it still came down to the final few possessions. Up two, UConn (29-5) inbounded the ball with 10 seconds left, though it was close to a five-second call. Senior Christyn Williams laid in an easy bucket to clinch the win. She scored UConn’s final five points to close out with 21 and five rebounds. “It just signifies what we’ve been through all year,” Bueckers said on the ESPN broadcast. “A whole bunch of adversity, highs and lows, ups and downs. We stayed composed and we stayed together. I just love my team.” Bueckers got hot in a clutch first overtime period to score a game-high 27 points on efficient 10-of-15 shooting.
She was 6-of-7 from the free-throw line — critical seeing as the team was 12-of-20 — with six rebounds. The reigning national player of the year for a few more days, Bueckers looked her best self after a knee surgery that kept her out of 19 games. “Thank God Paige came back,” UConn head coach Geno Auriemma said on the broadcast. “She just gives everybody so much confidence. And then everybody just kind of played — everybody took turns making plays. “It was just an amazing basketball game. It was a great showcase for our sport.” Bueckers noted on the broadcast it was “win or go home” two days ago, but even with a win she’s going home to Minnesota. Two more wins nets her first national championship. The Huskies will face No. 1 seed and Spokane winner Stanford when the Final Four tips off in Minneapolis on Friday.
BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT – MARCH 28:
The UConn Huskies pose for photos with the regional championship trophy after defeating the NC State Wolfpack 91-87 in 2 OT in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Elite 8 Round at Total Mortgage Arena on March 28, 2022, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
UConn leads early, NC State charges back: The Wolfpack trailed by as many as 10 points in the first half, a not-unusual situation for the slow-starting squad, while missing easy buckets. Senior center Elissa Cunane was 2-of-6 for five points but came alive on an and-1 at 8:29 of the third that brought them within one, 34-33. NC State had a chance to tie it at 40 with three minutes left in the quarter, but missed easy shots came to haunt them again following a block on the other end. The top seed finally took the lead 35 seconds into the fourth quarter on a Jada Boyd layup assisted by Raina Perez. Diamond Johnson hit a 3-pointer on another assist by Perez that finished off a 12-2 run to put NC State up four. It was a back-and-forth duel for the final eight minutes.
It came down to which team could make the pivotal stop. In a way, it was NC State but also UConn that stopped itself. After a missed basket by Diamond Johnson, UConn committed a shot clock violation out of the timeout. Cunane tied the game at 1:03 and NC State had the final say after two missed free throws. But Johnson was triple-teamed and could only get it to Kai Crutchfield, who was forced to take a late and deep 3-point attempt in a bad look. NC State forces 2OT with Bueckers scoring 10 of UConn’s 16 points in the first overtime. Aaliyah Edwards gave UConn the largest lead of the frame with a lay-in off a pass from Azzi Fudd that made it 73-70 with 49 seconds left. Kayla Jones answered for NC State with contact on the basket, but there was no foul call.
Fudd hit two free throws to push the lead back to three and Crutchfield was fouled on a 3-point attempt but made only two free throws to miss out on tying the game again. UConn kept it in the hands of Fudd and Bueckers to kill clock and put good free-throw shooters at the line for any foul. Bueckers made both of her free throws again, but with six seconds still on the clock NC State coach Wes Moore was able to set up the play he wanted. And he did. Jakia Brown-Turner drilled the corner 3-pointer off a cross-court pass from Perez with a second left to force the second overtime. Brown-Turner led NC State with 20 points, eight rebounds and five assists. Perez had 10 assists but was 1-of-8 overall with a 3-pointer as her only points. Cunane scored 18 points shooting 8-of-13 with nine rebounds. The starters combined for seven blocks, but the 14 turnovers to UConn’s eight were problematic in the first half.
Paige Bueckers of the Connecticut Huskies cheers on her team during the game against the Louisville Cardinals in the Basketball Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase at Mohegan Sun Arena on December 19, 2021, in Uncasville, Conn. Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images
Dorka Juhász Injury. Connecticut’s season of injuries continued into the tournament. The Huskies came into the Elite Eight having used 11 different starting lineups since eight different players missed at least two games. Bueckers returned a month ago from leg surgery she underwent in December. Dorka Juhász was fouled on an offensive rebound and fell under the basket screaming in pain midway through the fourth quarter. The first replay was unclear, but another angle gruesomely showed Juhász injure her left wrist when she fell on it. The graduate student, who transferred from Ohio State, immediately left for the locker room with an ice pack on her wrist and did not return to the game. She was seen on the bench with her wrist heavily wrapped in the third quarter. “If we see one of our sisters go down, we’re gonna do it for her,” Bueckers said on the broadcast. “We all love each other. We’re all so close.” The two-time first-team All-Big Ten player averaged 7.5 points and 5.8 rebounds in 20.4 minutes per game for UConn, mostly off the bench. She had come in when Nelson-Ododa drew her second foul to begin the second quarter. The Huskies’ depth became dicey in the second half when bigs Edwards and Nelson-Ododa drew their third fouls at the 8:29 and 5:34 marks, respectively. Then Overcame it all when Edwards fouled out in the second overtime.
Please enjoy this sneak preview with Dr. Dana Flavin from the Missing Link docuseries.
How This World-Leading Doctor Treats Cancer Dr. Dana Flavin currently holds an honorary professor title from The Leicester School of Pharmacy at De Montfort University in the UK where she teaches the pharmacology of anti-cancer nutrients and off-label drugs. She received her Degree in Psychology and Chemistry from Loyola University and completed graduate school in pharmacology at Chicago Medical School.
Four years later, she was appointed Science Assistant to the Associate Bureau Director for Toxicology at the Food and Drug Administration in Washington D.C. During this time, she researched the molecular biology of cancer and tumor promotion, investigating the application of translational medicine into potential therapies for cancer. She was then appointed Science Advisor to the President of the Nutrition Foundation and began graduate studies at Howard University in Nutrient Biochemistry under the Department of Nutrition.
Several years later, with a Summa Cum Laude in Nutrition she moved to Germany and began her studies in medicine and completion of her M.D. degree in Innsbruck, Austria. With a total of 40 years devoted to research, Dr. Flavin started the Foundation for Collaborative Medicine and Research in Connecticut, a non-profit organization where she shares her knowledge in the areas of medicine, pharmacology and nutrition with patients and colleagues from around the world. Her medical success stories include the development of a new therapy for mononucleosis hepatosplenomegaly that cures children in 24 hours (published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, 2006) and a therapy for breast cancer patients that reverses brain metastases within 3 months (published in the Journal of Neuro-oncology, 2007).
She continually searches for new therapies globally, both conventional and complementary. Her most recent work involves a highly developed nanotechnology (Quantum dot), a collaborative effort using a nanocrystal delivery system to carry compounds and amplify their activities. These nanocrystals only affect cancer mitochondria, thereby stopping the cancer and reversing the disease.
Her ongoing global education in science and medicine has also helped discover and improve therapies for many diseases including cancer, autoimmune diseases (such as Graves thyroiditis), rheumatoid arthritis and viral diseases. Collaboration between Heidelberg Cancer Research Center and the USA is presently in development. Dr. Flavin has devoted her life to help humankind in every way possible and relieve suffering, find cures and bring back hope to the hopeless and health to those who were dying.
“I’ve been researching cancer since 1979. I started applying what I learned in 1992, and to my surprise, the tumors in my patients began to disappear. As I learned more methods, mechanisms and secret therapies over the years, I realized cancer is indeed curable and no longer the enemy.” – Dr. Dana Flavin
Dr. Flavin is spot on! I have been collecting antique medical books over a span of 40+ years. Doctors back around 1900 were curing cancer routinely. Based upon her statements I know she is correct. Cancer is a metabolic disorder. It is a disease of modern civilization. To quote Dr. Robert Bell from London in his 1908 classic book he states: “Cancer is Nature’s protest against disobedience. It is the penalty She imposes upon those who, knowingly or unknowingly, ignore Her teachings.”
He was a council member of the Order of the Golden Age.[4] Bell advocated fasting and a diet of uncooked vegetables and fruit, along with eggs and dairy as an optimal diet for maintaining health.[2] Bell later led cancer research at Battersea Anti-Vivisection Hospital and worked to publicize his view that surgical treatment for cancer was unnecessary and that cancer was preventable by dietetic and hygienic measures.[3][5]
Bell recommended his cancer patients fresh air and a vegetarian diet of uncooked vegetables, nuts and dairy products.[6] An article by Ernest Francis Bashford published by the British Medical Journal, in 1911, accused Bell of quackery for his cancer treatments; he successfully sued the author and journal for libel and was awarded £2,000 damages plus costs.[3][7] Bell died at the age of 81 in 1926.[2]
^ Granshaw, Lindsay; Porter, Roy. (1989). The Hospital in History. Routledge. p. 228. ISBN9780415003759 ^ “Medico-Legal”. The British Medical Journal. 1 (2685): 1403–1407. 1912. JSTOR25297611.
^ Austoker, Joan. (1988). A History of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 1902-1986. Oxford University Press. p. 66. ISBN9780197230756
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Prof. Dr Dana Flavin Talks about LDN and Cancer treatments and shares over 30 years of experience. Prof. Dr. Dana Flavin’s training and background are extensive! She is a scientist, a doctor, and very knowledgeable about nutrition. She dedicates most of her time to her Cancer patients with great success. With over 30 years of experience and 10 years of utilizing LDN along with other conventional medications and therapies, she has great success.
She continues to research every avenue of treatment, and is open-minded and curious. You will learn about and understand Cancer and how LDN has amazed her in hundreds of cases. She hopes studies will prove how effective LDN is for Cancer and other autoimmune conditions. This interview is one of my favorites! Review by Ken Bruce
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and a series of COVID-related shutdowns in China do not, on the surface, appear to have much in common. Yet both are accelerating a shift that is taking the world in a dangerous direction, splitting it into two spheres, one centered in Washington, D.C., the other on Beijing.
The world was not supposed to turn out that way. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union three decades ago, globalization seemed to be knitting all types of countries and societies into one prosperous order, bound together by trade, the internet, and, to a greater and greater degree, shared political and economic ideals. China’s capitalist revolution raised hopes that even that Communist giant would become too immersed in the democracy-led global system to turn against it.
As the 21st century has worn on, however, only those with rose-tinted glasses can still foresee this future, as political confrontation, economic nationalism, and cultural nativism resurface. Deteriorating relations between the U.S. and China, combined with Beijing’s heightened strategic and economic ambitions, have already ushered in renewed great-power competition and an ideological struggle between liberal and illiberal global norms. And now diplomatic fallout from the Ukraine crisis is ricocheting around the world in unanticipated ways, while the strain of the lengthening coronavirus ordeal has the potential to alter the international economic map.
As the Russian invasion continues, and China sticks to its zero-COVID strategy, the likelihood of these tensions solidifying competing blocs is only increasing. China’s leaders have already been unwinding their ties to the world. In recent years, Chinese President Xi Jinping has set in motion policies aimed at creating a new Pax Sinica—an altered world order built by Beijing. With a newly aggressive foreign policy, Xi has apparently come to see the U.S. as China’s chief strategic and economic adversary, and the U.S.-led global system as a constraint on Chinese power.
He has taken steps to decrease his country’s reliance on (and thus vulnerabilities to) the U.S. and its allies, stressing a “self-sufficiency” campaign to ensure that China controls the production of items key to the economy by securing supply chains and replacing imports with homegrown alternatives, including microchips and jumbo jets. His Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), ostensibly a development program to build infrastructure in needy nations, is in reality designed to promote Chinese political and business influence in emerging countries and bind them to China through trade, finance, and technology.
This reorientation emerges in the pattern of Chinese overseas investment: The U.S. is the top investment destination for Chinese companies on a cumulative basis, according to the latest analysis of Chinese outbound investment from the American Enterprise Institute. But from its peak of $53 billion in 2016, the flow plunged to $3 billion in 2019 and to a (pandemic-hit) $1 billion last year. Growing suspicion of Chinese companies in the U.S. has scared off investment, too. Meanwhile, BRI participants have risen in importance. In Beijing’s eyes, the Ukraine crisis is likely proof positive that Xi’s course is the best for China’s future. We can’t know with certainty what he and his top policy makers are thinking, but it is safe to assume that they are looking on the stiff sanctions imposed on Russia by a strengthened Western-alliance system with trepidation. Protecting China from just this type of punitive action is a major motivation behind the “decoupling” policies. President Joe Biden probably reinforced Xi’s conviction in a conversation last week by warning the Chinese leader that his country would face consequences if it aided Vladimir Putin’s war effort.
Meanwhile, the persistent coronavirus pandemic is straining the ties of trade. More than two years after the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China continues to pursue its zero-COVID standard and is still closing down entire cities, sometimes over a relatively small number of cases. The most recent shutdowns hit the country’s two most vital economic centers: Shanghai, the financial capital, and Shenzhen, a major technology and export hub.
In many respects, China’s approach has helped the global economy. Without a significant health crisis, China’s economy and its factories have remained open and on the job, easing already challenged supply chains. Yet the suddenness of these shutdowns has at the same time created uncertainty. Chinese authorities have hinted at a slight relaxation of anti-COVID protocols to exorcise more extreme measures and ease the disruption to a sagging economy—and indeed the shutdowns in Shenzhen and Shanghai have been less severe than elsewhere in China.
But these unknowns are adding to the pressure on international companies to diversify their sources of supply away from China, on top of rising costs, political risk, regulatory hurdles, trade disputes, and human-rights concerns. “There is this long-term sourcing diversification out of China,” Stephen Lamar, the chief executive officer of the American Apparel & Footwear Association, a business lobby group, told me. China’s zero-COVID policy “is another reminder of how problematic it can be to have your supply chains rooted in or passing through China right now.”
This great disentangling may never become a complete divorce. Relocating the Chinese manufacturing operations of a company like Taiwan’s Foxconn, supplier extraordinaire to Apple, is extremely difficult, as the firm’s bungled factory project in Wisconsin showed. There’s no reason to believe Starbucks coffee shops in China will close anytime soon, if ever. The world has been “flattened” so successfully over the past 40 years that unraveling what’s been done may be close to impossible. Unlike the Cold War, when the U.S. and Soviet blocs were clearly delineated, the two segments of the coming world will likely remain somewhat connected.
Yet the outlines of these two spheres are becoming more distinct, nonetheless. The fact that the war in Ukraine has alerted the U.S. and Europe to the new threats they face from aggressive authoritarian powers is also contributing to the emerging split by reinvigorating the transatlantic democratic alliance. As NATO solidifies in Europe, in Asia the Quad, a partnership that includes Australia, India, Japan, and the U.S., is coalescing into a China-containment club. Simultaneously, Beijing’s continued support for Moscow is forming the axis of an anti-West coalition, which already includes other destabilizers such as Belarus and North Korea.
Economically, too, Beijing and Moscow are looking to each other to decrease their reliance on the West and its allies: China has long sought to wean itself off the dollar, an exercise Russia is undertaking in real time. Technologically, the lines are being drawn more starkly. China has already separated itself from the global internet with the Great Firewall and is investing heavily in its own chip, AI, and electric-vehicle industries to overtake the technological leadership of the U.S. and its friends in Europe and Asia. Meanwhile, many countries have grown wary of (or been persuaded by Washington against) using Chinese technology, as shown by some governments banning telecom equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies.
As in the Cold War, some nations will be reluctant to take sides. India—a pioneer of the Non-Aligned Movement decades ago—finds itself in the odd position of growing closer to Washington on China policy, but, like Beijing, taking a soft stance on Russia. (Sniffing an opportunity to woo India, China’s foreign minister visited New Delhi last week to improve strained ties, but, in a sign of the complexity of today’s global diplomacy, appears to have made minimal progress.)
As the global divergence continues, however, countries will gravitate toward one side or the other, and (as during the Cold War) not necessarily on clear ideological grounds. Communist Vietnam, fearful of rising Chinese power, is open to American overtures, while democratic Pakistan, a Cold War ally of Washington’s that is now heavily linked to China through Belt and Road investments, has effectively become a client state of Beijing.
Changes in governments and leaders could prevent what seems an inexorable slide into a new world. Barring that, though, what could emerge are two semi-distinct spheres, with tighter economic ties within than between them. Each will use different technology and operate on different political, social, and economic norms. Each will likely point their nuclear missiles at the other and compete in a zero-sum game for power and influence. This is not the world anyone wanted. But it may be the world we’ll get anyway.
Fredrik Logevall, Belfer professor of international affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, and Arne Westad, Elihu professor of history at Yale University. Screenshot by Harvard Magazine.
IN A DISCUSSION OF THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Arne Westad, Elihu professor of history at Yale University, began with an overarching statement: “There is absolutely no doubt that this is, first and foremost, a war of conquest that we haven’t seen in Europe since 1944,” he said—different from the Soviet interventions in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the Balkans. “This is an attempt not just to take over a foreign state, but to wipe out the Ukrainian sense of nationhood.”
Westad’s statement set the tone of his conversation with Fredrik Logevall, Belfer professor of international affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. In the Tuesday talk, co-hosted by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the two scholars provided historical and contemporary context for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, analyzed its impact on foreign policy, and speculated on how the fighting could end.
Putin’s resentment of the West stretches well beyond a Cold War context, Westad explained, back to Bolshevism and Marxism in Russia. Putin spent “about half of [a recent] speech blaming Lenin for what had gone wrong in terms of Russian history,” he said. “So for those in this country, perhaps, that think that this has something to do with Communism…that’s not a good starting point.” Westad believes Putin’s motivations show how tough the war will be to end. “He started the war because he believes it’s widely important for the future he sees for Russia, to destroy Ukraine,” he said, “to make Ukraine, in terms of territory and people, part of Russia.” Whatever they achieve on the battlefield, Westad explained, they’re not going to achieve that goal.
So how can the conflict stop? While Logevall and Westad praised the leadership of Zelensky and the efforts of the Ukrainian military, they believe it’s highly likely that the much larger Russian force will defeat the Ukrainian army. But even if Russia reaches most of its strategic objectives and Putin declares victory, both believe a long-term rule over Ukraine will be unsustainable due to the massive loss of life and economic catastrophe a continuing conflict would cause. “It’s very hard for an occupied nation to see the occupying army as its friend,” Logevall pointed out. And while Putin has been able to offer some stability to Russians who experienced the chaos and decline of the 1990s, Westad said, this conflict and the continuing collapse of the ruble could undermine a continued occupation.
China, whom Russia relies on heavily for trade, could also play a role in ending the war, if it chooses. “This is the first global crisis that I can think of where China might possibly have a greater impact than the United States,” Westad said. And with increasing sanctions from the West, the reliance has only increased. “Let me very blunt about this: the moment the Chinese decide that they’ve had enough of this murderous conflict, the conflict will in some way stop.” China could have little interest in intervening, though; if the war leaves Russia even more “in the pocket” of China, “China will be able to further exploit Russia,” Westad said.
Logevall and Westad, natives of Sweden and Norway respectively, also remarked on the solidarity that Putin’s actions have triggered—likely to his surprise. “I would never have expected, maybe in my lifetime, to see a majority of Swedes, or a solid plurality of Swedes wanting to join NATO,” Logevall said. “We’re now seeing that and in Finland, the percentages are higher. The conflict also pushed Germany to push its biggest increase in military spending in its post-war era—something years of U.S. encouragement could not do alone. “On some level, at least, it underscores the degree to which Putin has miscalculated here,” Logevall said, “the degree to which this alliance…has been strengthened in the short term, maybe medium term, maybe long term by this.”
Is it useful for the current situation to be labeled as a second Cold War? No, Westad said: the structure of the international system is different enough that a direct comparison is not so useful. But this stance doesn’t suggest optimism. “In some ways it is more frightening because the Cold War did offer some stability,” he spoke. “This is perhaps less stable.” Though he believes the United States and China are the most powerful international players, the countries aren’t predominant in their influences the way the United States and the Soviet Union once were. He believes the environment more closely resembles the approach to World War I than the Cold War.
“Saying that ‘Our country, our people, are in need of territory, in need of buffer zones.…’ All of those kinds of statements would be easily recognizable to people who lived in that late 19th-century world,” Westad said. No Cold War, but perhaps something more chilling.
Dr Dale Bredesen emphasizes exercise in his protocol to reduce, even reverse, hippocampal atrophy in the brain; to increase BDNF (Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor); and to work hand in hand with diet and fasting to create ketones to fuel the brain.
Now I’m just an ApoE4/4 layperson (no medical or scientific background) trying to make sense of EVERYTHING to live a healthful life in both mind and body. I’ve often wondered what the best exercise is “formula.” I’ve specifically pondered the role, if any, of strength training. I’ve heard that bodybuilders have a high IGF-1 which is contrary to longevity. What I was unsure about was if the high IGF-1 was the result of gym time, or if bodybuilders induce a high IGF-1 through diet to develop muscle growth.
Adding to my confusion was Dr Steven Gundry’s comment during his Ancestral Health Symposium presentation (August 2016) in addressing the lab results of a particular patient by saying, “that the last thing ApoE4s should be doing is CrossFit.”
Dr Gundry prides himself in aiding the longevity of his patients, particularly his ApoE4s. When we consulted with him, he made a point of telling us of two 4/4s, one 85, the other 86, and three 3/4s at 90, 91 and 93, all of whom are thriving, active, and “bright eyed and bushy tailed.” Toward the goal of longevity, one of the things Dr Gundry emphasizes is a low IGF-1 (insulin like growth factor). He’s told us IGF-1 is a marker for how well a person is aging, saying that super old people who are aging well in their late 90s/early 100s usually run an Insulin Like Growth Factor around 70. He also stresses keeping mTOR turned off. There is no way to measure mTOR directly, but IGF-1 seems to be a good proxy.
I now feel the culprit is the diet that the body builders follow to induce muscle growth that results in high IGF-1. Dr Gundry had previously told us IGF-1 is raised through sugars and animal protein. It can be also lowered to a certain extent with calorie restriction and intermittent fasting, but Dr Gundry mostly emphasizes lowering animal protein to bring IGF-1 down.
In my first consultation with Dr Gundry, May ’15, my IGF-1 was 129, and I was following a vegan diet (no animal protein) at the time! After incorporating intermittent fasting and following his diet which reduced my carbs/sugars, added good fats, and is nearly vegan with some, albeit low and only certain kinds of animal protein, my IGF-1 went down to 75.
But then I started a strength training program, and my IGF-1 went “up” to 79 on Jan ’17. What didn’t I know was this the result of adding strength training? the “holiday cheats?” or merely a reflection of everyday “noise?”
Dr Gundry had also previously told us that all the literature is very, very clear, that the amino acids in animal protein absolutely turn on mTOR and you want to keep it turned off. There’s a direct association of mTOR to cancer. According to Wikipedia, “Over-activation of mTOR signaling significantly contributes to the initiation and development of tumors and mTOR activity was found to be deregulated in many types of cancer including breast, prostate, lung, melanoma, bladder, brain, and renal carcinomas.”
Of additional interest to us ApoE4s, Wikipedia also says,“mTOR signaling intersects with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology in several aspects, suggesting its potential role as a contributor to disease progression.”
So, during our recent consult, concerned about my recently adopted strength training program, I asked Dr Gundry about his comment that the last thing ApoE4s should be doing is cross-fit. He confirmed the indictment is on cross-fit, not on strength exercise in general. He told us that as ApoE4s, we have to be mindful that we have the potential to develop small vessel disease because our cholesterol is more “active” and small blood vessels occur in the brain, and in the heart, and elsewhere. He doesn’t view cross-fit as a strength training program; he views it as trying to damage your heart as much as you can.
He told us almost every patient of his who is a big time cross-fitter has positive Cardiac Troponin-I elevation which is a test that is hundred times more sensitive than the test used in an emergency room looking for heart attacks. When his cross-fit patients back off, their Cardiac Triponons go back to normal. Not just cross-fit, he says he also sees this in marathoners and in a patient of his who is an avid hiker.
I’d been going to a coach-supervised class (meaning I couldn’t wimp out) following progressively harder strength work-out routines for 4 months prior to my last lab test, yet my Cardiac Troponin-I was the lowest it’s ever been at a very good level of <.4. The range is listed from 0.0 to 2.7. So exercise is good, just not too much/too hard, especially for ApoE4s. I now attribute my bump in IGF-1 to my holiday “cheats.”
(Rats! Those blood tests won’t let you get away with anything!)
Although it is aimed at cancer, this article, “Muscles Fight Cancer – The Science behind Outmuscling Cancer” http://colinchamp.com/muscles-fight-cancer/ has helped me put some of the pieces together. I now understand some of the science behind why strength training is good for us ApoE4s. It specifically discusses how muscles fight cancer and addresses the relationship between exercise and IGF-1/mTOR. As suggested above by Wikipedia, mTOR also contributes to AD progression, so I felt it relevant to present here.
To highlight from the article: Resistance training increases IGFBP-3, which binds to insulin-like growth factor (IGF), decreasing its ability to promote cancer (growth factors are normal within the human body, but too many can lead to excessive cellular growth, including cancer growth)
The body holds a balance between TNF (tumor necrosis factor) and IL-6. Fat tissue secretes the pro-inflammatory cytokine TNF-alpha. Muscles secrete IL-6 which fights inflammation. The article says “inflammation is the fertilizer of cancer cells.” Having heard Dr Bredesen speak many times, my non-scientific mind says inflammation is also an AD “fertilizer.” AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase) is an enzyme extensively expressed in our muscles, liver and brain. (my emphasis) It serves as an energy sensor and regulator. AMPK signals to our body and cells that it is not a time for building, but rather for breaking down. AMPK is the antithesis of cancer.
Muscle-derived IL-6 helps regulate AMPK (while muscle contraction directly activates AMPK), which stimulates the breakdown of fat and cholesterol, stimulates our mitochondria, and potentially fights cancer. I’ve also heard Dr Bredesen emphasize optimizing mitochondrial function. Mitochondria are the small subunits within cells that manage the energy supply for that cell— if they stop working well, this leads to early death of brain cells, causing shrinking of the brain, so stimulating mitochondria sounds like a good thing to me. AMPK blocks mTOR. mTOR is the same pathway that is blocked with targeted cancer drugs.
The article also introduces the Warburg hypothesis. Warburg showed that regardless of the presence of oxygen, cancer cells prefer to use glucose for energy. In normal cells, preference is given to the mitochondria for energy production. Newer data shows that AMPK blocks the Warburg Effect by blocking the ability of cancer cells to use sugar for energy.
AMPK is upregulated via several mechanisms (in no apparent order): • Muscle contraction during exercise with the more intense exercise resulting in increased expression of AMPK • Carbohydrate restriction (with or without fasting and even in the face of an increase in calories) • Intermittent fasting
“Exercise, contrary to dieting or overeating, appears to have the unique quality of driving both at the same time – fat loss and protein synthesis, AMPK and mTOR. This works, and this is going to be the main message of this concise piece of the Intermittent Thoughts series, because the exercise-induced muscular(!) AMPK-response differs from the one your brain and many other organs will exhibit, when you starve yourself during a diet.
Actually we have been knowing for quite some time that the predominant isoform of AMPK that is expressed during exercise is AMPK-alpha2. Back in 2000, Wojtaszewski et al. found that “high” (in this case >70% of the individual VO2max) intensity exercise for 60min selectively increased AMPK-alpha2 activity almost threefold (Wojtaszewski 2011). Similar to the results of previously discussed studies, the increased AMPK levels returned to baseline within 3h after exercise-cessation.
Only the increased expression of the alpha1 isoform of AMPK, but not AMPK-alpha2 does impair mTOR signaling. Against that background, the systemic antagonism of AMPK-alpha1 (expressed in liver, brain, and other organs) and mTORc1 mediated protein synthesis stands in stark contrast to the metabolically highly beneficial synergism of concomitant exercise-induced AMPK-alpha2 and mTORc1 expression.
To make a long story short: Exercise is unique in its ability to help you shed fat and build muscle “at the same time”, because it activates a specific isoform of the “starvation sensor” AMPK, which does not block the concomitant increase in protein synthesis subsequent to the (likewise) exercise-induced increase in mTOR phosphorylation.”
“What’s good for the obese is rarely good for athletes.” “A chronic overexpression of AMPK and consequent catabolism of metabolically active tissue (muscle and organ tissue) is unquestionable as undesirable as the fattening, cancer-promoting and life-shortening effects of chronic activation of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR).”
I can never quite make up my mind whether to optimize my diet more for strength, body composition, and athletic performance (none of which I really “need” in my day to day life) via more BCAAs & Protein, Carbs, and Calories, or to optimize more for theoretical gains in ideal gene expression via less BCAAs & Protein, less Carbs, and fewer Calories, or to cycle between the two (on a weekly or seasonal basis), or stay at a moderate level in the middle. There’s also the slight optimization between cardiovascular / cognitive health via more dietary cholesterol and saturated fat & MCTs or less. Right now, I’m back on the Low-BCAA, lower-animal protein, low-SFA, low-carb, Gundry-protocol. Tricky!
Just a quick note on IL-6 being anti-inflammatory. Looking at the article and some quick references, it’s produced by working muscles and involved in local signaling to rebuild muscle.
So, IL-6 is pleiotropic, but it is principally defined as pro-inflammatory. You definitely don’t want high systemic IL-6 levels. Bredesen tests for IL-6 along with TNF-alpha for systemic inflammation. Just don’t want folks to think if their IL-6 tests are high, it’s a good thing.
High systemic IL-6 amounts are not good: Early after stimulation by antigen and APC, the Th cells begin to produce IL-2 and are designated Th0. As the Th cells continue to respond to the activating signal, they progress towards polar extremes of differentiation designated Th1, Th2, and Th17 depending on the nature of the cytokines present at the site of activation.54 IL-12 produced by macrophages or NK cells induces differentiation towards Th1, IL-4 produced by NK1.1+ T cells, basophils, or mast cells induces differentiation towards Th2 and TGFβ and IL-6 produced by yet to be defined cells induce differentiation towards Th17… Th17 cells are induced early in the adaptive response to extracellular bacteria and help to recruit the neutrophil response that eliminates these pathogens. They also direct the destructive inflammatory responses that are part of many autoimmune diseases.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2923430/ After adjustment for potential confounders, having a high interleukin-6 level (> 2.0 ng/L) twice over the 5-year exposure period nearly halved the odds of successful aging at the 10-year follow-up (odds ratio [OR] 0.53, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.38–0.74) and increased the risk of future cardiovascular events (OR 1.64, 95% CI 1.15–2.33) and noncardiovascular death (OR 2.43, 95% CI 1.58–3.80).
Is what Dr. Gundry saying about lectins true? This book has been roundly criticized by many sources: From online reviewers who say the book is poorly ghostwritten and he only wants to make money selling supplements… To credible critiques of his diet like an article by T Colin Campbell, author of the book The China Study. Campbell criticized some of the sloppy references in the book. Dr. Gundry makes an argument with a reference number, but if you actually follow the reference, the study does not always prove what Dr. Gundry said.
This makes it difficult to trust his more novel health claims. On the other hand, there is proof that eating certain foods containing lectins increases intestinal permeability and inflammation. For example, there’s good evidence that eating gluten increases intestinal permeability, but only in patients with Celiac disease who are specifically sensitive to it. “Leaky gut” also seems to be a real health issue with negative consequences, but few scientists or doctors would say it’s a primary cause of most major diseases. In short, there really is a lack of evidence.
If you follow The Plant Paradox Diet, you will undoubtedly be eating extremely healthy, but is it really necessary to cut out all grains and legumes to be healthy? Probably not. Although if you have some type of autoimmune disease, then this diet could be a lifesaver, as many of the examples used in the book were his patients with some kind of autoimmune disease.
Her past work can be found at The Federalist and National Review. She also has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and Genetic Literacy Project. She is the co-host of the Happy Hour with Julie and Liz on Apple Podcasts; she is a graduate of Eastern Illinois University and lives in suburban Chicago with her husband and two daughters.
Matthew Perna did nothing wrong on January 6, 2021.
Jake Angeli, who dressed in horns and furs during the U.S. Capitol riot, and Kamala Harris was bailing Antifa Members out of jail during the riots of 2020 in Blue Cities this was a perfect set up by the Pelosi Crime family.
Did ‘Antifa’ Jake Angeli Collude with Nancy Pelosi’s Son–in-Law? This Pennsylvania man walked through an open door on the Senate side of the building shortly before 3 p.m. that afternoon. Capitol police, shown in surveillance video, stood by as hundreds of Americans entered the Capitol. Wearing a “Make America Great Again” sweatshirt, Perna, 37, left after about 20 minutes.
Less than two weeks later, Perna was ensnared in what the former top U.S. prosecutor called a “shock and awe” campaign to round up Trump supporters and deter them from demonstrating at Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, 2021. After he discovered his image on the FBI’s most wanted list for January 6, Perna immediately contacted his local FBI office and voluntarily submitted to questioning; on January 18, six FBI agents arrested Perna at his home.
His life from that point turned into a nightmare. Perna was indicted by a grand jury in February 2021 on four counts including obstruction of an official proceeding and trespassing misdemeanors. Despite his nonviolent participation in the events of that day—he did not assault anyone, carry a weapon, or vandalize property—Biden’s Justice Department and local news media nonetheless made his life pure hell. Whenever his hometown paper, the Sharon Herald, published an article on its social media account about Perna, the majority of replies were “horrible and brutal,” his aunt, Geri Perna, told me on the phone Sunday. After more than a year of legal and public torture, Perna saw no way out.
“They broke him, they mentally broke him,” Geri said through racking sobs as she explained why her loved one ended his life. “He had run out of hope. I know he couldn’t take it anymore.”
In December, at the behest of his defense attorney, Perna agreed to plead guilty to all four counts. With no criminal record and no violent conduct on January 6, Perna and his family expected a prison sentence of less than a year; Perna’s sentencing hearing was scheduled for March 3, the seven-year anniversary of his mother’s death. But Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia handling every January 6 prosecution, intervened and asked the court to delay Perna’s sentencing so his office could make sure Capitol defendants are punished equally. “While every case and every defendant are different, the Government is attempting to ensure that similarly situated January 6 defendants are treated in the same manner,” Graves wrote in a motion on February 11. “The Government is attempting to do that in this case and that requires additional time for the Government’s internal review process to be completed.”
This was very bad news for Perna. Graves’ office has sought lengthy prison terms for defendants who plead guilty to the obstruction felony. In the case of Jacob Chansley, who, like Perna, committed no violent act on January 6 and was allowed into the building by police, Biden’s Justice Department sought 51 months in jail and three years’ probation? (Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced him to 41 months.) In sentencing recommendations on obstruction pleas, prosecutors have compared defendants to domestic terrorists and asked judges to act accordingly. “The need to deter others is especially strong in cases involving domestic terrorism, which the breach of the Capitol certainly was,” one of Graves’ prosecutors wrote in Chansley’s sentencing memo. “The sentence of this Court must drive home this fact for this defendant, and any others who may wish to emulate him: crimes committed against this country and democracy will be prosecuted and punished in accordance with the law.”
That appears to be what Graves would have demanded in Perna’s case as well.
Perna is at least the second known suicide of a January 6 defendant and in September, another defendant, John Anderson, died unexpectedly. His attorney, Marina Medvin, condemned the Justice Department’s false case against her client and in a statement said he “died a wrongly accused man who maintained his innocence to his last day.”When Perna learned his sentencing hearing was again delayed, he called his aunt. “‘I am guilty, I am guilty!” he told her. “He said that he deserved whatever punishment they were going to give him. That was the last straw. The constant harassment was too much.” Perna’s aunt told me that Matthew graduated at the top of his class at Penn State University and traveled the world teaching children in southeast Asia how to speak English. After his mother’s death—she died suddenly from a hospital mishap after fully recovering from a bout of leukemia—Perna became disillusioned with the healthcare industry and interested in more holistic remedies. At the time of his arrest, Perna was doing well as a CBD distributor with clients in many countries.
All of that changed after January 6. “We lost many friendships after the news was plastered all over the local newspapers,” his father, Larry, wrote to Judge John Bates seeking leniency for his son. “We were no longer comfortable going out in public, something I never in my life thought I would experience in the town where our family was respected and well known. This past year cost Matthew his income, the love of his life, his friendships, and his standing in the community. He will never be the same, and I ask that you take all of this into consideration before sentencing him.” But that sort of isolation clearly isn’t enough to satisfy Biden’s Justice Department as it continues to seek revenge against Americans who protested Joe Biden’s election on January 6. Federal prosecutors want jail time even for those charged with low-level misdemeanors such as “parading” at the Capitol. (Perna’s original indictment still includes the lie that Kamala Harris was in the building during the protest that day, the basis for thousands of criminal charges. It is unclear whether his lawyer notified the court about the falsehood before accepting the plea offer.)
Desperate for help, Perna and his family reached out to numerous political leaders including Donald Trump. On Christmas Day, Geri told me, Matthew went to Mar A Lago and attempted to get a letter to the former president to explain his plight.
He did not succeed in getting the letter to Trump. “I want Trump and everyone to know Matt’s name,” Geri told me. Her nephew was a longtime backer of Bernie Sanders before he became a Trump supporter.
“We are so angry and upset. Someone has to pay for this.”
But will anyone? In a fair world, local reporters, Matthew Graves and his prosecutors, Judge John Bates and anyone involved in this abusive prosecution would re-evaluate the human cost of what they’re doing and hang their heads in shame. Thousands of lives destroyed—for what? To sooth the fragile ego of Joe Biden and quench the insatiable lust for revenge by the Democratic Party? To notch legal victories to advance Beltway careers.
To create clickbait headlines. But these people have no shame—so no moment of reflection can be expected. After we spoke Sunday, Geri and Larry headed to the funeral home to make arrangements for Matt. “I miss my son,” Larry told me, his voice breaking. “This leaves a giant hole in my heart. I don’t know how I will get through this. He was a good person, so kind and considerate. He couldn’t harm a flea.”
Matthew Perna was failed by the country he loved, demonized by the news media, tormented by the world’s most powerful law enforcement, ignored by political leaders of both parties and betrayed by a federal judge sworn to defend justice does not appease the whims of a vengeful regime. Federal Jury Awards $14 Million to George Floyd Protesters Injured in Denver.
Bill Gates Dépopulation Stérilisation Ted Talk – video. It has been estimated that 3 people around the world will die every second, per the Population Institute of the United Nations. This means that by the time you finish reading this post, over nine hundred people will have died. For the next 5 minutes, I want you to imagine what it would be like if these were YOUR last moments alive. After all, someone in your city will likely die in the next few minutes. It could be you. Why not?
When you die, someone will place a sheet or a blanket over your head. An ambulance may take you to the hospital for an autopsy. The undertaker will be called, and arrangements will be made to place you in a grave. People will come to the funeral and shed tears over your lifeless body. They will look at your cold, blank face and mourn, but you will be gone. They will slowly drive to a cemetery with your body in a casket. At the cemetery, they will carry your casket to a hole in the ground and lower it down. People will cry. The men will cover your casket with dirt and a tombstone. Your name, the date of your birth, and today’s date will be on the stone. the people will leave, recover, and perhaps someday, forget that your body is there.
Your 5 minutes are almost gone, so I must get to the point. When your time is up and you have died, where are YOU going? We have already decided where your body is going, but what about your soul ? Will you be in Heaven or a Devil’s Hell ? Oh, yes, you will be in one place or the other. So in these remaining minutes, I will tell you what to do to get to the place of your choice. IF your choice is a Devil’s Hell, do nothing ! You have already done enough ! ” For the wages of sin is death; . . .” (Romans 6:23a) ” The wicked shall be turned into Hell . . .” (Psalm 9:17) IF however, you choose to go to Heaven, you must do several things. First, you must believe you are a sinner. “For ALL have sinned, and come short of the glory of GOD;” (Romans 3:23)
Secondly, you must believe you deserve to go to a Devil’s Hell. “Wherefore, as by on man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon ALL men, for that ALL have sinned:” (Romans 5:12) The third thing that you must do is to repent (turn to GOD from your sins) of your sins. “. . . As I live, saith the LORD GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live . . .” (Ezekiel 33:11) You must also believe JESUS died to pay for your sins. “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that CHRIST died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that HE rose again the third day according to the Scriptures:” (1st.Corinthians 15:3-4) “But GOD commendeth HIS love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, CHRIST died for us. ” (Romans 5:8) Finally, you need to trust JESUS to be your personal LORD and SAVIOR. “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13) Your time is so short in this world ! The decision is your own personal responsibility. “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:” (Hebrews 9:27) I will tell you what you must do to go to Heaven. You must acknowledge your sins, repent, and admit that you are a sinner in need of forgiveness.
Confess directly to GOD in prayer that you know JESUS died for you on the cross, was buried and resurrected, and now sits at the right hand of GOD the FATHER. Ask HIM to help you turn from your unbelief and to come into your heart and save you for JESUS’ sake. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the LORD JESUS, and shalt believe in thine heart that GOD hath raised HIM from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” (Romans 10:9)
https://wordoftruthlighthouse.blogspot.com/2015/08/what-is-gospel.html Did you receive JESUS as your personal LORD and SAVIOR ? If you did, and your life ended right now, you would be in Heaven for all eternity. ” These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the SON of GOD; that ye may KNOW that ye HAVE eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the SON of GOD.” (1st.John 5:13) If you have made a decision to accept CHRIST as your personal LORD and SAVIOR after reading this post, please let me know so that I along with the angels in Heaven can REJOICE over one sinner that repents.
LOVE The Story Behind Kris Kristofferson’s ‘Why Me Lord’ BY COURTNEY FOX | AUGUST 13, 2020
By the early 1970s, Kris Kristofferson was one of the biggest names in Nashville and country music in general. Like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and other country singers, the “Me and Bobby McGee” singer-songwriter was known for his rough ways and party lifestyle. But it was this classic country gospel song that would become the biggest hit of his career. “Why Me Lord” or “Why Me,” as it’s sometimes called, was written by Kristofferson during a low period in his life, after he attended a religious service conducted by the Rev. Jimmie Rogers Snow.
With backing vocals from Kristofferson’s soon-to-be wife, Rita Coolidge as well as Larry Gatlin, “Why Me Lord” was actually inspired by Larry Gatlin’s song, “Help Me Lord.” The song was considered perfect to be sung by Kristofferson, as it was about a man who’d gone out and lived life but was now ready to humble himself before Jesus. It was Gatlin’s song and the church service Kristofferson attended that inspired him to write the song. As Kristofferson explained, the pastor asked, “Is anybody feeling lost?” “Up goes my hand,” Kristofferson said. The pastor followed up by asking if Kristofferson was ready to accept Christ into his life. “I’m kneeling there,” Kristofferson continued, “and I carry a big load of guilt around… and I was just out of control, crying. It was a release. It really shook me up.” Kristofferson called the whole thing a profound religious experience.
The song reached Number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country songs list (the only solo number one of his career). It hit number 16 on the Billboard charts overall. “Why Me” was also a certified gold record.
Nick Kurczewski is a car journalist who loves uncovering fascinating stories and helping people make savvy car buying decisions. Researching every aspect of the automotive world, Nick constantly reviews the newest makes and models during every work week. He’s driven a BMW at nearly 200 miles per hour on the German Autobahn, and became a licensed Zamboni driver at an ice rink in downtown… Read More about Nick Kurczewski
What will I spend to charge the vehicle? If you’re looking at an electric car vs. a gas car, doing a bit of upfront research on charging costs vs. gas costs will help you make an informed decision. To answer the question of cost, we enlisted the help of John Voelcker, a longtime automotive journalist and industry analyst who specializes in electric vehicles. He’s heard every argument made for (and against) electric vehicle ownership, including the cost of recharging compared to traditional refueling.
You Need to Do Some Math. Cost to Charge Electric Car vs Filling the Gas Tank. Don’t sweat it. The math involved is pretty simple. For the most accurate estimate, it helps if you have a recent electric bill for reference. That’s because we’re kicking things off by calculating the amount consumers pay for electricity in a given month. Then we’ll provide examples so you can determine how much you spend on each kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity used. “For home charging, find your electric bill, then divide the [number] of kilowatt-hours you used into the bottom-line dollar total. That’ll give you the price you paid per kWh,” Voelcker explains. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average U.S. household pays nearly 14 cents per kWh as of May 2021.
To use a simplified example, if you used 1,400 kilowatt-hours of electricity and your monthly bill is an even $100, you’re paying exactly 14 cents for each kWh. Most bills aren’t this nicely formulated and clear-cut, of course. But for the sake of this example, let’s stick with this easy-to-use rate and apply it to a typical electric car.
What is the Cost to Charge an EV in kWh? “A conservative rule of thumb is that an electric car gets 3 to 4 miles per kWh,” Voelcker says. “So, divide the total miles you drive each month by 3, to get the kWh you would use monthly. Multiply that number by your cost per kWh. The dollar amount you get will most likely be lower than what you pay each month to buy gasoline.” To put this into perspective, let’s give an example. Let’s say you drive about 540 miles per month. For an EV, you will use 180 kWh in that timeframe. Using the U.S. household average from May 2021 of 14 cents per kWh, it would cost $25.20/month to charge an EV.
Do the Numbers Add Up? Again, to keep things digestible, let’s use a simple formula. Suppose you put 1,000 miles on your vehicle each month, for example, and pay 10 cents in your area for each kilowatt-hour of electricity. In that case, this pegs your at-home EV recharging bill at $25 to $33 per month (based on the calculation of 3 to 4 driving miles equaling one kilowatt-hour). Even if you double your electric rate to 20 cents per/kWh, your EV recharging cost will be $50 to $66.
How Does the Recharge Cost Compare to a Fuel Fill-Up? According to AAA, the average price of gas hovers at $3.18 per gallon as of this writing. So, filling up a 12-gallon gas tank currently costs about $38.16. Things get a little tricky at this point because, as we all know, cars and trucks use vastly different amounts of fuel. Let’s say you’re driving an economy car that brings a combined average of 30 miles per gallon during a mix of city and highway driving. Using that same 12-gallon tank as a reference point, you’ll have 360 miles of driving range for each fill-up. If you’re driving the same 1,000 miles per month, you’ll need to refuel at least three times each month and spend about $114.48 ($38.16 x 3). Again, this is only an estimate, since fuel prices and mileage are so variable. But considering few cars and SUVs come anywhere close to delivering a 30-mpg combined average, our fairly conservative number-crunching in this scenario makes it clear that recharging will cost less than keeping a car refueled. The financial gap narrows with a more fuel-efficient car, but it still remains.
Costs of Charging an EV at Home. Electricity rates are subject to many factors, including the region where you live, the time of year, and even the time of day when peak charges apply. For the most part, electricity usage and costs are at their lowest late at night. That’s good news for anyone considering an EV, according to Voelcker. “While shoppers worry about access to public charging stations, they need to know that as much as 90% of electric car charging is done overnight at home,” Voelcker said. “The cheapest way to charge your electric car is almost always at home, overnight. Utilities have special low rates for the overnight period when their demand is lightest.” Where you live directly impacts your electric bill. People living in New England (including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island) paid nearly double for each kWh of energy used than those living in states like Texas, Nevada, Colorado, and Tennessee.
The Cost of Level 2 and Faster Charging. When talking about public Level 2 charging and Level 3 fast-charging systems, the prices are harder to narrow when compared to standard at-home costs. That’s because charging networks vary in price, not to mention availability around the country. You can always opt to have a Level 2 charger installed in your garage. The cost isn’t cheap. About $2,000 for parts and installation is a reasonable ballpark figure. Moving up to Level 2 means you’ll more than halve your charge time. And it can potentially add value to your home. “Every electric car (Tesla included) can use public Level 2 stations,” says Voelcker, “But Nissan Leafs use one fast-charging standard (called CHAdeMO) while every other EV uses a different fast-charging standard called CCS.”
Finding the Right Plug to Charge an E.V. Voelcker explains the difference sounds more complex than it is. “The vast majority of fast-charging locations have both kinds, with a different cable on each side of the station. It’s like the same gas pump could dispense both regular gasoline and diesel fuel from different hoses.” As for the price, a 240-volt (Level 2) recharge could cost you anywhere from zero dollars to a fixed hourly rate. Charging networks often provide membership programs to minimize your recharge cost. That’s something especially useful if you can’t regularly charge your vehicle at home. The EVgo network charges rates by state and it varies for Level 2 charging. Checking the company’s website, the pay-as-you-go approach costs 30 cents per minute in Georgia for its rates effective September 2021. However, if you’re an EVgo Plus member, the rate per minute drops to 24 cents.
The Faster the Charging, the Higher the Rate. Unlike a typical 240-volt Level 2 home recharging system, Level 3 chargers are prohibitively expensive for a private individual to have installed. Tesla has its own dedicated Supercharger network but, once again, the rates can vary widely depending on region, timing, the model of Tesla being charged, and even if you choose Tier 1 or Tier 2 recharge speeds (the latter being quick but more expensive). One important caveat: Tesla Superchargers only work for Tesla vehicles. That is, until later this year. In July 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the electric car manufacturer will open its Supercharger network to work with other EVs “later this year.”
Voelcker again stresses that home charging is the best option for anyone considering an electric car. Yet, equally important is knowing where to find EV perks that are close to home. “Some workplaces offer charging for employees’ cars … But electric-car owners quickly learn which public stations near them are free, which charge for charging, and how much they cost,” he said. For example, a bustling parking lot in a crowded city center might lure EV owners with the promise of free recharging. But the resultant fee for parking there could easily zoom past what you’d have paid to fill up even the thirstiest fuel-hog car or truck.
To help you budget, try our 5-Year Cost to Own tool to determine everything from annual costs to ways you can compare the pricing with other vehicles. Voelcker’s final words of advice to EV owners: “Always ask before plugging in!”
Nick Kurczewski is a car journalist who loves uncovering fascinating stories and helping people make savvy car buying decisions. Researching every aspect of the automotive world, Nick constantly reviews the newest makes and models during every work week. He’s driven a BMW at nearly 200 miles per hour on the German Autobahn, and became a licensed Zamboni driver at an ice rink in downtown… Read More about Nick Kurczewski
How Much Electricity Does It Take to Replace Gasoline?
This was one of the major questions burning in my mind as I was doing research for The Manhattan Project of 2009. If we took every gasoline-powered car, truck, and SUV and replaced their powertrain with an electric powertrain, how much electricity would it take to totally replace gasoline?
This is easy to figure out. In the U.S., we use 142 billion gallons of gasoline per year. Each gallon of gasoline contains about 36.6 kilowatt-hours of energy. So, the total energy consumed by gasoline-powered vehicles is:
142,000,000,000 x 36.6 kilowatt-hours = 5,197,200,000,000 kilowatt-hours That is, the energy in all the gasoline consumed is about 5,200 billion kilowatt-hours.
So, is that how much electricity we need? No! It turns out that electric vehicles are far more energy efficient! A gasoline-powered vehicle does good to average 15% energy efficiency. I know this from taking actual measurements while doing research for my first book. A plug-in electric car, however, can easily maintain 60% energy efficiency. Since the electric car is 4 times as efficient, it only needs 1/4 as much energy to go a mile. That means we can divide the total energy used by a gasoline-powered car to see how much electricity it would need to go the same distance.
Here it is. This is how much electricity we will need in order to replace gasoline. Let’s say we want to get this electricity from a renewable source.
How does this much electricity compare to, say, wind energy? For this, we take a look at the estimated wind energy potential for the top 5 states:
1. North Dakota 1,210 billion kilowatt-hours 2. Texas 1,190 3. Kansas 1,070 4. South Dakota 1,030 5. Montana 1.020
As you can see, gasoline could be almost totally replaced by the wind energy of North Dakota by itself. The coming switch from gasoline to electricity is not lost on the big utility companies. They see electric vehicles as a major new market for electricity, and especially a market that will consume electricity mostly overnight, when the utilities have a lot of excess capacity.
In the late 90’s, Southern California Edison ran a fleet of 320 electric Toyota RAV4’s from 1997 to 2002, racking up 7 million miles in evaluating the potential of electric vehicles. The result: they were quite surprised at how well they worked, and how reliable they were. One of their major concerns was battery life; the tests showed conclusively that the vehicles’ NiMH batteries could provide 130,000 to 150,000 of reliable service.
More recently, SoCal Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric are partnering with Mitsubishi to test Mitsubishi’s i MiEV electric cars in their fleets. In addition to generally promoting electric cars, the companies are hoping to learn how to develop their infrastructure to better accommodate electric cars.
In the next 10 years will see as many as 1.6 million electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles zipping around the state, in what is shaping up to be the nation’s e-car proving ground. But in the 1990s a similar optimism hit here too, only to fizzle as gas prices plummeted and gas-guzzling SUVs took over the auto market with a vengeance.
(See the history of the electric car.) That was then; this is now. Strong government incentives and regulations, car and battery-maker innovations and the public’s genuine concern for global warming are all contributing to the EV enthusiasm. But utilities are working feverishly to put infrastructure standards in place; the prospect of managing rapid EV growth has utility executives both amped up over the opportunity and queasy about unplanned snafus.
“We’ve had a run at this before, but now there have been important advances on the technology side,” says Ted F. Craver Jr., chief executive officer of Southern California Edison. SoCal Edison provides electricity to 13 million people and is the biggest power player behind the new EV push.
Craver foresees at least 30,000 EVs in his region by the end of 2012. The state’s Air Resources Board is less optimistic, quoting estimates between 7,500 and 25,000 EVs on the state’s roads by 2014. Most are brand names you’ve never heard of, at least not yet, Zenn, Zap, Helion and Wheego.
(See the best EV’s from the 2020 Detroit Auto Show.) On its own, SoCal Edison maintains the largest EV fleet in the country, with some 300 electric vehicles, mostly Toyota RAV4s and trucks. It operates in Pomona the Electric Vehicle Technical Center, a facility advanced enough to have automakers knocking. Ford’s plug-in hybrid Escape SUVs have been tested there, and others, such as Mitsubishi’s iMiEV subcompact and Daimler’s plug-in hybrid van, are under review. General Motors’ much anticipated plug-in hybrid, the Chevy Volt, has been put through its paces in Pomona. “We know EVs, and we know the consumer will be annoyed if the experience isn’t a good one,” says Craver. “A bad buying and user experience could hurt EV market growth; we have to make the experience positive.”
(See the 50 worst cars of all time.) – Bing images One part of SoCal Edison’s ramp-up involves the installation of 5.3 million SmartConnect meters in every home throughout its 50,000 sq. mi. service region, from the Pacific Ocean to the San Bernardino Mountains to the east and into parts of Orange County.
Most e-car owners will eventually want to plug in their faster, highway-approved EVs into new rapid-charging, 220-volt garage chargers. But that requires another step: finding a certified electrician and several thousand more dollars to install the add-on feature to the home or garage.
If FY23 average oil price rises to USD 100 a barrel, it will pull down growth to around 7.6 per cent from 8 per cent estimated earlier, inflation will rise to 5 per cent from 4.5 per cent, and the current account gap will jump to USD 86.6 billion or 2.5 percent of GDP and can soar to 3.5 per cent if oil prices average at USD 130 billion. The current U.S. stock market turbulence and the accompanying GDP show in what altered states the U.S. economy is currently operating. One would usually expect that these two economic forces move in tandem, not in opposite directions. The almost grotesque divergence between the U.S. stock market and the country’s real economy underscore dramatically just how unequal the country has become. The United States is now a country where, according to the Fed, more than 50% of all U.S. households together own less than 1% of the nation’s wealth with poverty rates moving upward. Historical footnotes: The day that didn’t make the history books:
We remember the crashes:
• “Black Thursday” on October 24, 1929 – the first of several days that produced the Wall Street Crash. • The “Black Monday” of October 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunged 22.6% • September 15, 2008, when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and so triggered what came to be known as the “Great Recession.” • March 23, 2020, under Trump saved America and could have been such a day, but it wasn’t. Before long, we may all come to understand that this was the day when the Fed saved the global financial system.
Where is the darkest spot-on Earth? Your question may need to get more specific on what you mean by “on Earth” and “dark”. That said, I can provide a few answers to the best of my knowledge as a science enthusiast. The obvious is that any space on Earth blocked off from direct and ambient light is the darkest spot, ie. caves. You could build a box in your home or seal off a room and shut out all the light, and it would be just as dark as any other darkest place on Earth for practical purposes. If you mean among the darkest places on the terrestrial surface that is still exposed to ambient light, then you’re probably looking at a natural depression somewhere in the north or south pole in winter, where sunlight is absent due to the Earth’s tilt. This makes such depressions able to remain quite cold, and appear to be able to preserve ice in polar craters on planets like Mercury, right next to the sun! (Virtually no atmosphere there prevents atmospheric conductive melting of said ice).
Viewed from space, the darkest regions on Earth are likely the oceans. They absorb much of the sunlight and are reflected back as very dark blue. Deep below the surface, no sunlight penetrates and a place like the Challenger Deep at 10,902 to 10,929 m (35,768 to 35,856 ft) below the surface is likely among the top darkest spots on Earth.
Finally, if “dark” pertains to more than just the visible light spectrum, you’re probably looking at an Antarctic polar ice cave in winter. Remember that light is much broader than what we see with our eyes and is just a function of specific wavelengths of electromagnetic energy.
Why not a deep cave in Earth’s crust? Well, the deeper you go, the hotter it gets as you approach the mantle and the Earth’s core. That’s more light energy in the form of heat, albeit invisible to us until it’s hot enough to glow.
Why not the Challenger Deep? It’s actually above freezing down there; around 35 degrees F. Said ice cave, or just a spot in the ice sheet for that matter, where no sunlight penetrates, but also is cold enough (down to -60C) to maintain very little ambient infrared or heat energy, and is shielded enough by frozen water and rock to prevent most radiation except for cosmic rays and neutrinos — That place is possibly the “darkest spot” on Earth.
According to popular belief, darkness is especially deep before dawn. What’s the origin of the phrase ‘The darkest hour is just before dawn’? This is one of those improving proverbs that are the stock in trade of the contemporary glut of self-help manuals and talking therapies. The darkest hour has long been used figuratively to mean ‘the lowest ebb’ and there are many such examples of it in print dating from the late 1700s.
The English theologian and historian Thomas Fuller. Appears to be the first person to commit the notion that ‘the darkest hour is just before the dawn’ to print. His religious travelogue A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and The Confines Thereof, 1650, contains this view:
It is always darkest just before the Day Dawneth.
The meaning and origin of the expression: The darkest hour is just before the dawn The source of the proverb isn’t known. It may be Fuller himself, or he may have been recording a piece of folk wisdom.
In 1858, much later than Fuller of course, Samuel Lover attributed the notion to the Irish, in Songs and Ballads:
There is a beautiful saying amongst the Irish peasantry to inspire hope under adverse circumstances:- “Remember,” they say, “that the darkest hour of all. is the hour before day.” Another such similar proverb is – Every cloud has a silver lining!
Things always seem at their worst just before they begin to improve. This proverb is often used to give hope to someone who is experiencing a time of trouble or difficulty:
What’s the meaning of the phrase ‘The darkest hour is just before the dawn’? There is hope, even in the worst of circumstances.
Proverb Similar to The darkest hour is just before the dawn in meaning is- After a storm comes a calm.
In reality, it depends mainly on the Moon and the lights of the city. According to a popular Israeli song, written and composed by Shalom Chanoch, “It’s always darkest just before dawn.” But is this accurate? The answer is unequivocally no. The brightness of the night sky varies depending on the Moon’s appearance, as well as on artificial lighting on the ground. Without moonlight or light from artificial sources, the light produced from stars does not change at all during the night.
The zodiacal light is a weak light resulting from particles of interplanetary dust that is visible on very dark nights. It can be seen mainly in the western sky after sunset and in the eastern sky before sunrise, making the sky look a little brighter than the midnight sky. The difference is barely noticeable when viewed from an urban setting, where light pollution from streetlights, house lights, billboards, etc., affects the sky’s brightness.
Rather, it is the Moon that particularly affects the brightness of the night sky. During the two weeks following a new moon, it can be seen after sunset – but not before sunrise. At such time, it is darker before dawn simply because the moon cannot be seen. After the middle of the lunar month, the moon will also be seen in the sky before sunrise, so that the hours just after sunset will be the darkest. Therefore, believing it is darkest before dawn isn’t really based on anything. What can be said with certainty is that it is coldest before sunrise. This is because the Earth’s surface – heats up during the day and then gradually cools during the night. Just before sunrise the ground has cooled for the longest period possible, so the temperature will then feel coldest compared to the beginning or middle of the night.
Those who keep a particularly vigilant eye on the weather might have noticed that on certain mornings, in all seasons, the lowest temperature is often recorded just after sunrise. One of us had a morning paper route as a boy and was puzzled for years about this seemingly counterintuitive phenomena.
How could the temperature continue to fall for the few minutes after sunrise on a cold winter morning?
The answer lies in the fact that the Earth and the sun radiate different kinds of energy and one needs to consider the budget of this energy to make sense of this recurring observation. On a clear, calm winter night the Earth’s surface radiates infra-red energy upward towards space. With the sun already down, there is no shortwave solar radiation (and only a very little infra-red energy from the overlying atmosphere) directed downward toward the surface. Consequently, with each passing second, the surface emits more energy than it receives, and the surface temperature drops.
This continues all through the night with the accumulated loss of infra-red energy from the surface accounting for the continued decrease in the surface temperature. When the sun finally rises above the horizon and spreads the first faint rays of solar energy across the surface, there is finally some incoming radiation. However, for several minutes the meager amount of incoming radiation is not sufficiently large to counter the amount of infra-red energy still being emitted from the surface. As a result, the surface temperature continues to drop even in the face of the newly risen sun. There is a saying “the dawn dip” and it’s based on reasonable principles in physics. Because the argument goes, as you speculate — where does the energy on the Earth come from and the temperature it comes from the Sun’s radiation warming the Earth. When has the earth not had any heat coming in for the longest? By definition that must be just before dawn because that’s when it’s been dark for the longest, therefore, it’s going to be coolest then. But there is the observation that, certainly under certain circumstances, it can get colder just ahead of the Sun coming up and as the Sun rises.
It’s darkest as long as the sun is more than 18º below the horizon. What time that happens depends on your latitude and the date. The period of darkness is distributed equally either side of midnight, so it’s not darkest before dawn really. It’s much lighter when the moon’s above the horizon; the time that happens varies during the month. And what time’s midnight? Time zones are complicated, so forget them; ignore the local time. To find the very middle of the night, set your clock to GMT, note your longitude, then turn the clock back 4 minutes for every degree West of the prime meridian, or forward 4 minutes for every degree East. Your clock will be likely to be way out of sync with your local time, but it’ll be midnight when it reads 12:00.
The darkest hour of night is the middle of the night. Anyone who has ever stayed up all night can confirm that, Dawn becomes imminent long before it actually happens!
On certain mornings, in all seasons, the lowest temperature is often recorded just after sunrise. (Photo credit: State Journal Archives)
Now why should this be? Well the argument put forward is that although you are still in darkness, there’s a patch of the Earth’s surface quite close to you that’s now being illuminated and irradiated. So, temperatures there are going to start changing reasonably fast and because the Sun’s heat is warming the Earth’s surface this is, in turn, warming the air above the Earth’s surface this is, in turn, creating a pressure difference around the Earth’s surface, that pressure difference is going to drive winds. And this is going to draw colder air in to replace the warm rising air which is going to include pulling air in from where you are, so somewhere colder could pull it air in over you and make you even colder than you were to start with. So the argument goes that it does get a little bit colder, paradoxically, just as the Sun rises because you get these air movements which include movements of cooler air, which will chill you out a little bit. Reason: This happens when energy from Earth’s surface and the air above it radiates into the upper atmosphere, causing cooling at and in the air near the surface. The longer the night is, the more intense this effect is, so that’s one reason the temperature will drop right before sunrise (as the night goes on).
The true meaning of “It’s always Darkest before the Dawn”
This famous quote is truly rooted in energy healing. (Quantum physics) It is a Universal concept of cleansing of the “Self” and ascending to a higher level of consciousness.
There is definitely something extraordinary in the ebb and flow of the tide, the rising and setting of the moon, and the way in which summer, autumn, winter, and spring give way to each other. Something uncommon also occurs when an ordinary person attains Buddhahood. At such a time, the three obstacles and four devils will invariably appear, and the wise will rejoice while the foolish will retreat.
From the book “Living with Joy” by: Sanaya Roman: pg. 183 Manifesting is a matter of trusting and believing in yourself and holding that vision in front of you. There are many reasons to stop believing and trusting in the universe and yourself, but there are also many reasons to continue. You are often tested by the universe to see how much you believe in your vision.”
From page 191 of this same book by: Sanaya Roman “Life change and transition are often preceded by confusion, by a sense of loss or pain, or by a sense that things are falling apart. And from page 192 (which in my opinion refers to what the Gosho states about the wise rejoicing). It gives you opportunities to be even more committed to your vision, even clearer on your intent.
“Honor every setback, every single challenge or difficulty, for it strengthens your purpose. If life were too simple, most of you would be complaining of boredom.
Honor your challenges, for those spaces that you label as dark are actually there to bring you more light, to strengthen you, to firm your resolve, and to bring out the best in you.” Also, from the book “The Game of Life” by: Florence Scovel Shinn. Pg.18-19 “Getting into the spiritual swing of things is no easy matter for the average person. The adverse thoughts of doubt and fear surge from the subconscious. They are the “army of aliens” which must be put to flight. This explains why it is so often “darkest before the dawn.” A big demonstration is usually preceded by tormenting thoughts. Having made a statement of high spiritual truth one challenges the old beliefs in the subconscious, and “error is exposed” to be put out. This is the time one must make his affirmations of truth repeatedly and rejoice and give thanks that he has already received. Also, on page 19 of the same book by: Florence Scovel Shinn, “Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding a vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”
And from page 50 “One of my students asked me to explain the “Darkness before the Dawn.” I referred in a preceding chapter to the fact that often, before a big demonstration “everything seems to go wrong”, and deep depression clouds the consciousness. It means that out of the subconscious are rising the doubts and fears of the ages. These old derelicts of the subconscious rise to the surface, to be put out. She further states something once again very akin to the above Gosho (The wise rejoice etc.) It is then, that man should clap his cymbals, like Jehoshaphat, and give thanks that he is saved, even though he seems surrounded by the enemy (the situation of lack or disease). My own (the author B.B. Berg) experience is this. When we are releasing negative energies, negative thought patterns from the subconscious; it comes up through our ROOT CHAKRAS, upwards through our bodies and out through the CROWN CHAKRA! That’s why when it is on its way out “All my stuff is now in my face!” so to speak.
This is the precise moment to let it go. We can relax and let it flow out of us like the flu, but the unfortunate norm is: Wanting to avoid this discomfort, we do the nonproductive thing which is to pull it back into our lives. Perhaps this is the reason why many times we have this wonderful opportunity to lighten our lives and we DON’T. We are just on the verge of changing our entire vibration and we don’t because of the discomfort. We pull back into our lives this negativity because it’s familiar, it’s our “normal” comfort zone regardless of how unhealthy it truly is to our lives. Therefore, NO CHANGE occurs, NO TRANSFORMATION. Any addict can tell you about going through withdrawal. It’s extremely uncomfortable, it’s a deep, deep Detox. Why should it be any different releasing toxic thoughts, toxic beliefs? This is why it is so helpful to study. This is why I read and write, to use this wisdom to hang on during this process.
Here are some powerful Affirmations that have helped me. (the Author B.B. Berg) Thank you for these obstacles for they are truly the answer to my prayer! I am now vibrating as high as my dreams! I am stronger than this!
I’VE ALREADY WON! The quickest way to transform these feelings or attitudes is to keep chanting/praying/affirming until you realize the cause of these uncomfortable feelings, root them out and release them. Of course, this will be exactly when you will find it the most difficult time to affirm. You are on the edge of transforming an issue or belief system in your life that has kept you from your Joy and Bliss. It may well feel like pulling teeth. At such times as the Gosho states: obstacles and devils arise. Your mind will trick you into believing it’s better to just lie down and watch T.V. RATHER THAN FACE THIS DISCOMFORT AND TRANSFORM IT. This is not the truth, this is your wondrous opportunity to BREAK THROUGH THE MIRE AND REVEAL YOUR DIVINE SELF.
Author’s Bio: I am a professional singer, songwriter, poet and light worker/teacher and dancer. I’ve been an S.G.I. Buddhist for more than 32 years. This philosophy is based on sound and light healing. My life’s trials/lessons have enabled me to seek out energy healing and spirituality to change my destiny and therefore help many others with my experience, strength and hope. B.B. Berg – Bing images
Among these Victories are: Overcoming alcohol addiction Overcoming Codependency Completely curing myself of Paranoid Schizophrenia Eradicating Low Self-Esteem and building an indestructible sense of self and self confidence Losing Weight (over 60 lbs) and overall optimum fitness Healing a broken back Banishing forever “Battered Woman Syndrome” from my life Trauma Releasing And many more, which I now use to help and encourage people to do the same.
My mantra is “Nam myo ho renge kyo.” I have traveled to Japan to study this Buddhism and practiced with members from all over the world. I know through my studies the effect sound, music and mindset have on our systems and how wonderfully healing it is and that we are all healers. I am also a visual artist and make healing videos set to my music. Affirmations, dream boards, healing, poetry and changing behavioral pattern videos are available on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/user/bbberg1
My newest healing modality is: Wing Therapy™ To read more about this please go to: http://butterflydreamz.com/
