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You can lean on music in times of difficulties. Dance with joy and child-like spirit.

Sing, play the drums out loud in prayer. For in these efforts you can bring yourself to courage to face any obstacles.

Who is your village? Reach out to the people close to your heart. Women and men who live life with power and purpose. Their words will re-energize and enriched your spirit.

Be inspired. Focus on what inspires. At times of challenge, you need to lean on your village.

While you are still young and full of enthusiasm, extend your reach to impact the lives of others. Explore the world around you and nurture yourself.

Be in love and love always.

Connie

via How to sooth seasonal allergies

I attended the Allergies seminar at Palo Alto Medical Foundation yesterday with Dr Steven Rubinstein.

He suggested to buy a pillow encasing and to avoid allergens. Clean your beddings using high heat regularly.

A saline nasal spray and other histamine-base meds (works on histamine only out of 70 other allergens controlled by IgE) and other med protocols are also used for short to long term.

Skin test is most appropriate compared to blood test for allergy.

Humidity is important but there is no need to buy humidifiers. Local action CPAP is appropriate.

Some meds costs $300 or more per day or month that some insurance companies are not reimbursing on these meds.

Seek all kinds of health care pros. First you see your primary docs and some millenials seek a specialist right away that is not warranted. I love naturopathic doctors.

See allergies, whole foods, sleep, immune system, dust mites, toxins, other tags and categories in this site for more info.

Email Connie at motherhealth@gmail.com for other health research you are interested in.

• Health Education Division
• Palo Alto Medical Foundation
• Mountain View: 650-934-7380
• Sunnyvale: 408-730-2810
• www.pamf.org/healtheducation

Histamine is an organic nitrogenous compound involved in local immune responses, as well as regulating physiological function in the gut and acting as a neurotransmitter for the brain, spinal cord, and uterus. Histamine is involved in the inflammatory response and has a central role as a mediator of itching.

There is much speculation into what physiological benefits IgE contributes, and, so far, circumstantial evidence in animal models and statistical population trends have hinted that IgE may be beneficial in fighting gut parasites such as Schistosoma mansoni, but this has not been conclusively proven in humans. Epidemiological research shows that IgE level is increased when infected by Schistosoma mansoni,^[15] Necator americanus,^[16] and nematodes^[17] in humans. It is most likely beneficial in removal of hookworms from the lung.

Although it is not yet well understood, IgE may play an important role in the immune system’s recognition of cancer,^[18] in which the stimulation of a strong cytotoxic response against cells displaying only small amounts of early cancer markers would be beneficial. If this were the case, anti-IgE treatments such as omalizumab (for allergies) might have some undesirable side effects. However, a recent study, which was performed based on pooled analysis using comprehensive data from 67 phase I to IV clinical trials of omalizumab in various indications, concluded that a causal relationship between omalizumab therapy and malignancy is unlikely.^[19]

Role in disease

Atopic individuals can have up to ten times the normal level of IgE in their blood (as do sufferers of hyper-IgE syndrome). However, this may not be a requirement for symptoms to occur as has been seen in asthmatics with normal IgE levels in their blood—recent research has shown that IgE production can occur locally in the nasal mucosa.^[20]

IgE that can specifically recognise an allergen (typically this is a protein, such as dust mite Der p 1, cat Fel d 1, grass or ragweedpollen, etc.) has a unique long-lived interaction with its high-affinity receptor FcεRI so that basophils and mast cells, capable of mediating inflammatory reactions, become “primed”, ready to release chemicals like histamine, leukotrienes, and certain interleukins. These chemicals cause many of the symptoms we associate with allergy, such as airway constriction in asthma, local inflammation in eczema, increased mucus secretion in allergic rhinitis, and increased vascular permeability, it is presumed, to allow other immune cells to gain access to tissues, but which can lead to a potentially fatal drop in blood pressure as in anaphylaxis.

IgE is known to be elevated in various autoimmune disorders such as Lupus(SLE), Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA) & psoriasis, and is theorized to be of pathogenetic importance in RA and SLE by eliciting a hypersensitivity reaction.^[21][22]

Regulation of IgE levels through control of B cell differentiation to antibody-secreting plasma cells is thought to involve the “low-affinity” receptor FcεRII, or CD23.^[23] CD23 may also allow facilitated antigen presentation, an IgE-dependent mechanism whereby B cells expressing CD23 are able to present allergen to (and stimulate) specific T helper cells, causing the perpetuation of a Th2 response, one of the hallmarks of which is the production of more antibodies.^[24]

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via Affordable mobile home parks in California needing investors

I received the following info from a realtor this morning.

“This is a unique opportunity for us to “do well by doing good.” This deal will provide much-needed affordable housing in California, and will create a new clean, renewable solar power source for residents. Investors will earn a 7% annual preferred return which will be tax-free for the first 15 years of the investment thanks to the unique tax treatment of both mobile home parks and solar installations.  Minimum investment is $25,000, and maximum investment is $400,000. ”

What if we all can band together to form a solar based community or mobile home parks. At azchampion.com , we can buy modular homes starting at $20k, $10k to install and $5k to deliver. A foundation has extra costs if built in a regular home structure. We all can join forces in buying mobile home parks in California and expanding. Some sellers are retiring.

Many homeowners in the bay area wanted to down size and be free from capital gains from the sale of their $2M homes which they bought for only $40k 50 years ago.

Property tax is so high. Our millenials do not want to own their first house in California.

Email motherhealth@gmail.com if you want to join the the call for affordable homes in California, going green.