Inflammation, Mental Health and Covid Outcomes

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Inflammation is one of the body’s reponses to a threat.

Inflammation is literally a flood of fluids containing immune system cells. They get released from the blood into body tissues to help clear infections. This is why infected areas of the body get swollen.(1)

Inflammation occurs when the body is invaded by a virus like SARS-CoV-2, the Covid virus.

Short term inflammation is necessary for survival. Chronic or extreme inflammation on the other hand is a threat to survival.

Chronic inflammation is a companion to mental health issues, with the severity of inflammation apparently proportional to the severity of the mental illness. Schizophrenics, for example, tend to have extensive inflammation. High levels of stress and poor sleeping habits also contribute to chronic inflammation.

An existing chronic inflammation can become an excessive response when a new threat such as Covid enters the body. The new threat can drive the immune system…

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Wondering Wednesdays, Baby Floors, Chapter 7, section II: C map for the early years, 3/4

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

This post is the start of the rough draft of  Chapter 7, section II, part C, for my non-fiction WiP, Baby Floors.  

Putting a floor on poverty so that each and every baby born can have a safe childhood.

Outlines for some of chapter 7 will be at the bottom of this post (JYP!).

Once again, by way of disclaimer, the overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases.  This chapter is part of showing what Phases I-IV could look like as potential roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us.  This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind  will eventually have each person’s basic needs  met, without taking anything from anyone, and without violence, intimidation, nor coercion of any kind. 

(Chapter 7, section II. B.  was last week) :

II. C.

 

II…

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Be kind to _______

On a mission

Be Kind To __ ( Fill up the blank )

If you said anything but, “ Yourself”! You must think again and here is 7 reasons

1. You can not be what you are not so be kind to yourself first.

2. The energy always flows from high to low. The person at the receiving end will benefit.

3. Some of us may not see anyone every day but we do see ourselves and the best way to compliment is by saying you are so kind. Be kind to yourself.

4. Even you are saying kind words but saying with negative energy the other person at receiving end only gets impacted by the negative energy and did not get anything from you. So say with positive energy.

5. Kind is agnostic of language. Everyone understands despite the fact there are 7000 + languages in the world.

6. Kindness is like…

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El teatro de la vida

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Veo a la gente, en masculino y en femenino, en mayúsculas y en minúsculas, en el teatro de la vida. Unos permanecen en el vestíbulo, en las salas de espera, y otros, en tanto, en los camerinos. La mayoría son espectadores que revisan sus boletos numerados o sin folio para las butacas, los palcos y las gradas, donde planean quedarse, si es posible, la mayor parte de sus existencias, siempre que se sientan estables y seguros. Quizá, los que permanezcan en las gradas, desearán ocupar butacas más cómodas. Los que se encuentran en las butacas, anhelarán, tal vez, escalar a los palcos. Y los dueños de los palcos ambicionarán, probablemente, apropiarse del teatro. Los actores, en menor cantidad, pisarán el escenario, unos con papeles excelentes, otros con participaciones mediocres o secundarias y algunos más con pésimos resultados. Habrá unos…

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Hold the tree planting: Protect ecosystems first for maximum carbon storage, study says

“I am really happy this paper was published,” said Forrest Fleischman, associate professor at the University of Minnesota, U.S., who was not involved in the study. “A huge amount of time, energy, and rhetoric is being put into restoration as a low-cost climate solution, whereas scientists have been saying that protecting existing ecosystems is the high-priority climate solution. It is generally much cheaper and more reliable than restoring damaged ones. What the hierarchical framework helps with is in making the cost-benefit calculation on these different investments clearer.”

Source: Hold the tree planting: Protect ecosystems first for maximum carbon storage, study says

When Is Someday?

just drive, will you?

Someday at Christmas, men won’t be boys
Playing with bombs like kids play with toys
One warm December our hearts will see
A world where men are free

Someday at Christmas, there’ll be no wars
When we have learned what Christmas is for
When we have found what life’s really worth
There’ll be peace on earth

Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmas time

Someday at Christmas, we’ll see a land
With no hungry children, no empty hand
One happy morning people will share
A world where people care

Someday at Christmas, there’ll be no tears
When all men are equal and none have fears
One shining moment, one prayer away
From our world today

Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where people…

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