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It’s Finally Here! A Professional Organization for the Natural Business Owner

Have you ever felt stuck in your business growth and wanting to connect with a business owner just like you? One that respected your natural way of life and understood that your business was more than just the bottom line? Well, now there is one.

The Natural Life Business Partnership (NLBP) is a professional organization for the holistic, spiritual, and earth-centered business community. It includes food, medicine, the healing arts, agriculture, and many others. Their mission is to serve as a unified voice and foster professionalism and growth while providing valuable business support, local networking opportunities and a collaborative professional community. All programming, networking opportunities, master mind groups, discussion clubs, business tools, and resources are included in membership too.

“Once our membership numbers go over 1,000 I’d like to start getting involved in public policy,” remarks Camille Miller, Founder and Executive Director. “Then we will be a voice that can go to Washington and make a difference. Our community deserves to be recognized as a professional choice in healthcare and I want to fight for services to be covered by insurance so it’s available and affordable to all.”

NLBP was born from a unique vision of Founder, Camille Miller. Her professional experience includes over 30 years of experience in senior level leadership. In creating NLBP she has dovetailed her strength in business with her passion for living a natural lifestyle.

If you would like to get involved or learn more, please attend an event or visit TheNaturalLife.org. 

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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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