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“Beyond Cancer” Program Aimed at Cancer Survivors

You have just completed your last cancer treatment, been dismissed by your medical team and everyone expects you to get back to normal life again. The problem is nothing is normal anymore. Facing life after cancer is quite a lonely place to be. Kirstin Nussgruber, founder of Eat Holistic LLC, steps in and guides you through this daunting transitional period with her new Beyond Cancer program. Over an 8-week period, she will show you how you can live again with passion, joy and renewed purpose.

Kirstin explains, puts it “Beyond Cancer is your ultimate cancer-fighting toolkit—incorporating body, mind and soul.” The online program, done via a series of 8 tele-classes and live Q & A sessions, covers topics such as a cancer-fighting nutritional choices to help strengthen your immune system, targeted supplemental support to help you recover faster from treatment-induced side effects, as well as motivational tools and mind-over-matter techniques to address the role that underlying emotions play in the underlying cause of cancer.  As a participant, you will also enjoy access to a private, online support community of fellow survivors just like you.

Kirstin knows these strategies work, as she utilized them in her own life. It took her a long time to find the resources she needed to piece together a holistic plan to thrive after her own treatments. Her goal is to make the transition much easier for survivors like her. She says, “It’s all about having choices and finding the ones that are right for you!”

For more information, email [email protected] or visit EatHolistic.com.

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Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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