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May 7, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, May 7, 2025 – Trump announces TRUCE with Yemen, India launches kinetic war against Pakistan...

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	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Well, we sure have an interesting day.
	A lot to cover.
	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Wednesday, May 7th, 2025.
	I'm Mike Adams, of course, the founder of brighteon.com and naturalnews.com.
	And war has broken out in the Middle East.
	We now have India and Pakistan in a rapidly escalating war where India...
	Launched airstrikes and missiles and bombs against at least nine sites in Pakistan.
	Sites that India claims are terrorist training camps.
	Pakistan vehemently denies those accusations and says that it is actually fighting against terrorism, that it is the front line holding the line against terrorism, protecting much of the rest of the world against...
	Well, India doesn't buy that, and so they bombed these sites or struck them with missiles and bombs.
	And Pakistan says that, well, now we're going to retaliate.
	And remember that Pakistan has nuclear weapons.
	So does India.
	So it's almost our worst fears have begun to unfold, as I warned, and I do have a special report on this about the risk analysis of the Pakistan-India war that has just erupted and questioning whether it will go nuclear.
	So we'll get to that report here in a second.
	But there was another development, possibly even a more significant wartime development, where Trump announced that the United States and the so-called Houthis, which I believe are really called the Ansar Allah group in Yemen – I'm still working on it.
	But this Yemeni group that has been launching missiles targeting U.S. ships and U.S. warships and even caused the loss of a couple of F-18 fighter jets, one of which the U.S. says rolled off the edge of the aircraft carrier.
	And the so-called Houthis have also shot down dozens of U.S. Reaper drones.
	And, by the way, Israel just bombed the bejesus out of the international airport in Yemen, and that's a day after Israel bombed Yemen's southern port and caused significant damage there as well.
	Well, the deal announced by Trump does not involve Israel at all.
	It's just a deal between the U.S. and the Houthis.
	And again, I'm sorry I'm not getting their name.
	Correct.
	I'm trying to.
	It's just not working for me yet.
	I'll work on that.
	But the deal that Trump announced is that the US and the Houthis have a truce.
	The Houthis say they will not strike US ships or target US ships, especially those in the Red Sea, you know, aircraft carriers, etc.
	And the US says that they will not bomb Yemen.
	And Netanyahu was not part of this deal.
	Israel's not part of it.
	In essence, this is really interesting because the US has split off from Israel on the Yemen question.
	So Yemen is still going to launch missiles against Israel, which is really a humanitarian interdiction against Israel's genocide, the mass starvation and slaughter and bombing of children.
	And Yemen has repeatedly said they will stop launching missiles.
	They will stop targeting ships and targeting Israel if Israel would allow food aid to enter Gaza so that the Palestinians there don't starve to death.
	And Israel, of course, doubles down and says, no, we're going to starve everybody, and then we're going to take over Gaza.
	And of course, all the Christian Zionists in America say, yeah, starve them, children.
	So that's what Yemen is trying to stop, is a crime against humanity.
	It's a humanitarian interdiction.
	And Yemen is not backing down from that, which means that the war between Yemen and Israel is still on.
	So we're going to see more bombing of Yemen, and we're going to see maybe more missiles that penetrate Israel's so-called air defenses, which don't seem to function at all.
	The so-called Iron Dome is a joke.
	It's a plastic dome, I guess.
	But Yemen's missiles go right through and just hit wherever they want.
	A rapid escalation of more exchange of missiles and bombs between Yemen and Israel.
	That's very much in the works, even though the U.S. says it will not bomb Yemen.
	So it's going to be interesting to see what Trump does when Netanyahu picks up the phone and says, hey, Trump, you left us out of the deal.
	You can't do that.
	You got to keep bombing Yemen as long as they're attacking us.
	And I bet that conversation is happening right about now.
	And we'll see what Trump does.
	So that's another major development.
	So we've got two active war zones now in the Middle East region.
	And, of course, there's a third one that Netanyahu is threatening, which is to bomb Iran.
	And that would be the big one.
	But any one of these could also escalate quite rapidly.
	You'll notice that gold prices also continue to mostly jump.
	Although there was some correction yesterday as well, but it's still now, it's well above 3,300 an ounce.
	It was above 3,400 an ounce.
	It may still be there now.
	By the time you hear this, it might spike again just because of the uncertainty surrounding these wars.
	But it's very clear that gold is headed for 3,500 and beyond.
	And I'll be interviewing Andy Shackman next week, by the way, to get an update on gold and silver from the man who knows all about bricks and much more.
	So that's going to be very informative.
	Now, by the way, the interview I have for you today is a really fascinating interview.
	It's with a woman named Leslie Powers, who is a clinical social worker in California.
	And she's also an integrative health consultant, a psychotherapist.
	This woman's knowledge and her overall posture and worldview.
	And she joined me in studio today.
	She and, well, actually a group of four people that I interviewed separately.
	It's part of the Corey Enderlot Health Revealed online event of different videos and content.
	You'll hear all about that in the interview, but Leslie Powers was one of the people that I interviewed today.
	I also interviewed Stephanie Modavis and Scott Gordon, and I'll be playing those later on.
	But I wanted to start out with Leslie Powers because of this war situation and the fact that our own governments tend to trap us in these cycles of extreme trauma and dependence on a broken system.
	And that's true whether we're talking about mental health or war or poverty or cultural shifts or nutritional health, diseases, all that.
	I found so much value in this conversation with Leslie Powers, and I've never interviewed a social worker before.
	Not to my knowledge.
	I can't think of any social worker I've ever interviewed, but she's been through quite a number of years of...
	Fascinating experience of dealing with a lot of people who have many troubles and learning a lot about humanity and how we can help take our power back from this broken system.
	So the common theme in all of this, the Health Revealed, I don't know if you call it a conference or a group of content.
	You can find that at healthrevealed.org, by the way.
	That's Corey's website.
	But the common theme is to take our power back from this broken, corrupt system of centralized control.
	And I also recorded along those lines, although I'm not going to play it today, I'll play it another day, but I recorded a 45-minute podcast that compares the similarities of simulation theory with creation theory.
	And actually the similarities between so-called simulation theory and Christianity, you know, the...
	Which is really creation theory, that God created this universe, and then our souls are sent here in order to experience this world, and then when we die and we leave, then we leave the artificial realm and we go back to the real realm, which is heaven.
	But that's also entirely consistent with simulation theory, which says that this is an artificial construct created by our creator, and then we enter the simulation, our souls do, In order to carry out the purpose of experiencing the simulation, which may be self-discovery or a testing ground or learning, working through obstacles or whatever your life's purpose may be.
	But these two schools of thought are almost the same at their root level.
	And so I recorded that.
	I'll play that for you later on this week.
	But I wanted to point out that...
	It's very clear to me that organized religion is very often simply a control mechanism.
	It's a system of centralized power, like the Vatican, to convince people that you need the Pope to bless you in order to make it to heaven.
	And a lot of organized religions function as gatekeepers to try to say that you can only get to heaven through us.
	Which is, you know...
	Nonsense.
	I mean, yeah, Christ said, I am the way.
	You know, I am the light.
	And he said that as a representative of God, by the way.
	It's basically, it's God saying, I am the way.
	I am your creator.
	I created everything.
	And you need to understand that I'm the one who gave you the gift of life.
	But a lot of organized religious churches in every religion, especially the mega churches where the pastor is all bragging about their expensive luxury watches and cars.
	Flaunting all their silly wealth around, which is just, truly, it's the stupidest possible look for a church pastor to flaunt a bunch of wealth as, I'm so wealthy, and give me your donations so I can have more wealth.
	It's so insane.
	But a lot of churches like that, they want to be your spiritual gatekeeper, and it's nothing but a mind-control mechanism.
	Or an obedience mechanism.
	It's really no different than big government.
	It's no different than climate cultism.
	It really is the way it's practiced by many large organizations.
	It's a kind of cult.
	It's a control cult.
	And I always want to encourage my audience to think for yourself, to understand that you don't have to give money to some wealthy, corrupt pastor in order to get to heaven.
	You've actually already earned the right to go to heaven, which I explain in this report.
	But we'll play that another day.
	And it's a fascinating area to ponder.
	And it also involves just really simplifying this understanding of what is salvation?
	Who is our creator?
	Are we children of God?
	Who qualifies as children of God?
	And the answers are way simpler than you might have imagined.
	It's really so simple.
	I mean, actually, one of those answers is all human beings are children of God.
	Period.
	It's so simple.
	There are no exceptions.
	But I cover that in the report.
	So that's some of what I have for you here today.
	Plus some book review videos, and I'm going to replay my new song called Bombs Away for you coming up as well.
	And, you know, special reports, book reviews, and then the interview that I just mentioned.
	And it's going to be a packed broadcast.
	So, let's go to my first special report here, the risk analysis of the Pakistan-India war that just erupted.
	Will it go nuclear?
	We'll go to that report now, and then we'll continue.
	So, the war between Pakistan and India has begun.
	So, it's underway right now.
	And there's, I don't know all the details, of course, it's going to be difficult.
	You'll need to check the news for...
	How many fighter jets?
	How many missiles?
	How many artillery?
	How many bombs?
	Which side attacked which other side first?
	We'll leave you all those details for checking the news because that's kind of minute by minute.
	But make no mistake, war has now erupted between Pakistan and India.
	And in this podcast here...
	I'm going to try to give you my best analysis of the dynamics, the risk of escalation, who's going to try to intervene to de-escalate this, and also to reiterate the East versus West, how the teams are forming up here, and what this means for the rest of us.
	Because this situation could escalate very rapidly into world war that goes nuclear.
	And that could end us all.
	So this is not something to be taken lightly.
	And I haven't checked gold prices, but I would imagine gold is going to really spike over the next couple of days because of this event.
	And I would imagine that oil is going to go up too for reasons that perhaps should be obvious.
	But let's start with the geography.
	So Pakistan, on the west side of India.
	And then Pakistan is situated between India and Iran.
	Now, Pakistan also shares borders with other countries as well, but the important ones are with Iran on its west and India on its east, and then its southern coastline extends right off the coast into the Arabian Sea.
	So, Pakistan has, of course, Port facilities there that are really critical to international trade for Pakistan.
	And Pakistan engages in trade, a lot of trade with Iran.
	Also, there's a lot of trade with India.
	And there's trade with China and there's trade with Russia and other countries as well.
	But Pakistan currently controls an area that has, or at least until India, shut off the water supply.
	But Pakistan's food-growing area is extremely valuable, and it has been contested over the centuries, obviously.
	I mean, it's changed hands, you know, many times.
	It depends on how far back in history you want to go.
	But this region, and I don't know the name for the region, it's kind of like the, you know how we have the Central Valley of California, which is where so much of the food is grown?
	You could call this the Central Valley of Pakistan and India.
	It's where a...
	A very large percentage of the local food is able to be produced because of soils, climate conditions, and availability of water.
	A lot of rice, obviously, is produced in that area.
	It's not the breadbasket of the Middle East, it's the rice basket of the Middle East.
	And rice is critical for affordable food for many, many people in that region and beyond.
	Now, remember that Pakistan is about 96% Islam, whereas India is mostly Hindu, and India is allied with the West, while Pakistan tends to be allied with the East, which I will say includes Russia, China, Iran, and other such countries.
	India, for its part, tries to be a universal trading partner.
	India still does a lot of business with Russia.
	India does business with, I mean, some business with Iran, not a lot.
	Some business with Pakistan.
	Quite a lot of business with the United States.
	And so India tries to appease the U.S. wherever possible.
	And India does pay attention to any kind of sanctions or secondary sanctions.
	So India used to buy something like 300,000, maybe up to 500,000 barrels of oil per day.
	Well, no, I don't think it was ever that.
	It's like maybe 200,000 to 300,000.
	From Iran, but that's long gone.
	They don't buy that anymore because of the Western sanctions targeting Iran and its oil exports.
	So India has an appetite for a lot of oil from Iran, but it currently doesn't buy that much, and nor does Turkey.
	It's Turkey that used to have 300,000 to 500,000 barrels of oil per day from Iran, and Turkey has drastically reduced that as well.
	So India, remember this, India is trying to appease the West, and India considers its most important trading partner to be the United States.
	It also trades some with the UK and Western European nations, and some with Russia, like I said.
	So India tries to be the one-stop shop for everybody in the world, and India doesn't want to actually anger any particular country, but they're the ones who started...
	This war.
	I mean, well, let me back up.
	I can't say, I mean, it's complex, but India, at least my current understanding, is they were the first to launch military strikes just today.
	Now, if I'm wrong about that, I apologize.
	The situation is, you know, it's sketchy.
	Details are difficult to come by.
	Maybe new information will come out that contradicts that, or maybe I got the wrong info, whatever.
	But India definitely has a very aggressive military posture towards Pakistan.
	But India says that Pakistan is harboring terrorists.
	So India believes it has the self-defense justification to militarily assault Pakistan in the same way that Israel believes it has the self-defense justification to bomb Gaza because of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel.
	So there's a lot of...
	Similar parallels there.
	And Gaza is largely Muslim, although there are plenty of Christians in Gaza as well, just as Pakistan is largely Muslim.
	So India striking out against Pakistan is going to be seen by the Islamic world as an assault on our brothers, so to speak.
	And I understand there are divisions in Islam, and they're not all the same, Shia and Sunni and all that.
	They're all Islam versus India, which is mostly not Islam.
	So there are overtones of a religious war here, not just an economic war, not just a geopolitical war or an energy war.
	So it's really critical that we understand the landscape and that we understand the geography.
	For example, the southern peninsula or the southern tip of India extends farther south into the...
	Or closer to the Arabian Sea than does Pakistan.
	And that gives India some more territorial control over the sea lanes that might come close to the southern tip of India, for example.
	So India has more of an ability to project power into the Arabian Sea and then on its east coast into the Indian Ocean.
	Now, let's look at the Allies here.
	So Pakistan is going to tend to be allied with Iran, like I mentioned.
	And Iran has just signed a mutual...
	I can't quite call it a defense treaty.
	It's not that.
	It's something else.
	It's a cooperation agreement of some kind with Russia.
	I regret...
	I don't know the full details of it.
	It does not...
	require Russia to come to the aid of Iran, but I believe it provides Iran with a lot of Russian military assistance in the form of, for example, anti-air defense systems or targeting systems or possibly satellite systems, things that Iran can use in time of war.
	So if Iran is now essentially Pakistan's You know, ally, and maybe that's too strong of a word because they haven't always got along either, but compared to Iran's relationship with, you know, with Israel or with America, you know, Pakistan would be considered a pretty close ally to Iran.
	But the question is, will Iran get involved in this because of Iran's proximity to Pakistan, you know, sharing a common border, and its closeness to India and the fact that they...
	Share southern coastal access to the Arabian Sea.
	And the answer to that is unknown.
	But if Iran decides to get involved, or if this war begins to escalate, if the U.S. gets involved, for example, and starts striking Pakistan, then, you know, on behalf of India, then Russia might decide or Iran might decide, well, okay, we'll get involved then and we'll strike India or we'll strike the United States.
	It's not difficult to see how this could escalate out of control pretty quickly.
	But there's another scenario that's potentially far more worrisome, and it's based on the fact that both India and Pakistan have over 100 nuclear weapons each.
	Now, I'm not familiar with exactly what form those weapons are in.
	I don't know if they can be mounted on missiles.
	I'm sure some of them can.
	Maybe all of them.
	But I don't know the range of those missiles, and I don't know the yields of those nuclear weapons.
	But my educated guess is that a lot of those nuclear weapons are relatively low-yield weapons that may be below one kiloton.
	And some of them may be in the form, actually, of long-range artillery.
	So to get an idea of the yield of these weapons, remember that Hiroshima, the atomic bomb that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima, It was estimated to be at about 15 or 16 kilotons yield, effective yield.
	That has nothing to do with how much the weapon weighed.
	That's how much energy was released.
	So when we say 15 kilotons yield, what that means is 15 kilotons of TNT equivalent, okay?
	Just to remind you of how those ratings came to be.
	I mean, it's a bizarre rating system.
	They should just describe it like, you know, gigajoules or something, but no, it's how many tons of TNT.
	Okay.
	Well, the Hiroshima explosion did a tremendous amount of damage at 15 kilotons.
	A low-yield weapon might be 0.8 kilotons, or you could say 800 tons of TNT equivalent, or even 500 tons of TNT equivalent.
	That's still a big boom, okay?
	That's a massive boom.
	It's not small, but it's not a megaton.
	It's not a civilization-ending nuke.
	And the thing about these small-yield nukes is that because they don't end civilization, there's a tendency in military circles to believe that they can use low-yield nukes and everything's going to be fine because it doesn't destroy the world.
	There's truth to that in the sense that if India and Pakistan were to start launching low-yield nuclear weapons at each other, let's pray to God that that doesn't happen.
	But if they did, it wouldn't kill us in America.
	It wouldn't kill people in Russia.
	It wouldn't kill people in China.
	It wouldn't even kill people in Iran.
	It would cause a radiation fallout cloud to blow and...
	Whichever way the winds go, I don't even know the predominant wind directions there.
	So I don't know where that ends up.
	Maybe it depends on the day or the season.
	Not hard to imagine that wind blows northeast is based on the geography there.
	And that ends up pushing it, you know, closer to China, right?
	So China has...
	An interest in this thing not going nuclear.
	Because they don't want their rural southwestern China areas to be inundated with Mad Max fallout, obviously, because that's bad.
	So my guess is that China is right now asserting pressure.
	And probably I believe that Iran's foreign minister is already involved in talking with Pakistan.
	And possibly the U.S. might be talking with India.
	But there will be international efforts to calm this thing down.
	The question is, will the local parties listen to that?
	And do they have their own incentives to escalate the war?
	There may very well be very strong domestic reasons within India, in particular, to have a giant war with Pakistan.
	For one thing, it allows the Indian government to exert a lot more control, coercion over its own population.
	Anytime there's a war, the governments tend to say, well, we're going to suspend elections, or we're going to suspend freedom of the press, Levy new taxes, or we're going to ban activities, or whatever.
	Even sometimes it can be exports, or we're going to ban the removal of gold from the country.
	Things like that.
	These are the kinds of things that happen throughout history in times of war.
	And there may be domestic political reasons inside India for that.
	Now, India is a very large country.
	I mean, in terms of total...
	Square kilometers.
	It's large.
	It's also large in population.
	It's, I believe, over 1.3 billion people.
	And India is, frankly, it's barely a cohesive country.
	It's mostly like a couple dozen countries sort of held together by bailing wire, if I could say that.
	I don't mean any disrespect to India.
	I'm just saying that the nation of India has a very large number of Regional, culturally segmented regions that have a lot of autonomy and that the central government of India typically has difficulty exerting sufficient pressure over those local regions.
	Part of it's just because of the rural nature of India, you know, difficulty of transportation, difficulty of access to resources like water in certain areas, et cetera.
	But a war would allow the centralized government I don't follow domestic India politics, so I don't know.
	But I do know that India is a country that is largely Not that educated.
	Even there's still widespread illiteracy in India.
	India suffers from food scarcity and from impoverishment, frankly.
	There's just tremendous poverty across India.
	So India is not a wealthy country for the most part, although there are certain individuals, obviously.
	So we may be in for nuclear war.
	That we have not seen since World War II.
	And if that happens, then you're going to see oil spike.
	You're going to see gold spike.
	And if Iran gets involved, then you have to start thinking about the Strait of Hormuz, oil exports and liquid natural gas exports to Western Europe.
	On top of that, the EU just announced they're going to block off all Russian gas exports within the next couple of years to have zero gas from Russia.
	So the EU is committing energy suicide.
	And if things heat up with Iran, that's just going to exacerbate that.
	And remember that Netanyahu promised a couple days ago that Israel is going to bomb Iran.
	So we may end up with multiple nuke scenarios, actually, at the same time.
	India and Pakistan might end up nuking each other, and then Israel might nuke Iran's oil fields, or perhaps try to get at its underground missile bases.
	And then Iran, which I believe has nuclear weapons, at least that's my belief.
	I don't think that's acknowledged publicly.
	But they may end up just nuking Israel.
	And then, you know, the question is, well, who's America going to nuke?
	And who's Russia going to nuke?
	And, you know, then we have a scenario where things get Mad Max very quickly.
	So what's your best defense strategy or readiness strategy against all of this?
	Well, the good news is it's the same that we've been talking about for quite some time.
	So financially, it's gold and silver, which are already spiking.
	And in terms of energy, it's have a solar generator, but also stockpile extra diesel fuel if you can, if you're able to store it safely.
	And if you have diesel engines or diesel vehicles, etc.
	The other thing is be ready for more supply chain disruptions.
	Not that India...
	It makes up a huge part of exports to the United States, but if nukes start flying in the Middle East, that's going to affect ports and ships and sea lanes.
	It's going to introduce delays and probably destruction of some of these things, and that will affect the supply chain.
	And then finally, also be ready for some level of radiation fallout.
	Depending on the yield of the nukes used, that may not be severe.
	It may not even be enough to worry about in America.
	Or if it goes really wild weasel, you might want to have iodine.
	You might want to be able to protect your home against a fallout event.
	And I just did an interview with Chris and Megan about that very point, how to shelter in place.
	And if you learn how to shelter in place, then you're going to be safer against all these scenarios.
	Check out my interview with Kristen Megan on that.
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	welcome back.
	Now I've got another special report for you here about how China...
	May have solved the empty shelves crisis by evading Trump's tariffs through a technique known as country of origin washing.
	This is actually good news.
	It means that my recent warning about how empty the shelves are going to be may not be as bad as we thought because China has figured out how to obfuscate the country of origin and basically ship its products through Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, other countries, and not to have them considered to be, you know, Chinese-made products.
	So no tariffs, or at least not the 145% tariffs.
	So we'll go to that special report.
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	And with that said, we'll jump right into the empty shelves crisis being possibly partially solved by China.
	Check it out.
	Well, we actually have some good news on the empty shelves front.
	It looks like because of actions that China is taking to conceal the country of origin of many of its export products, it looks like a lot of products are going to get in that Trump doesn't want to get in into the United States.
	And what that means is the shelves, it looks like, won't be as empty.
	As would have been the normal effects of Trump's trade wars.
	So the Financial Times publication covered this, and I've seen reports in other places as well.
	There are basically two things happening right now that China is doing to evade U.S. tariffs, which are currently 145% or higher, some goods as high as 245%.
	At that level, of course, Trump's intention is to just block all those goods from China entirely.
	It's basically a blockade.
	And then don't forget that Trump also announced that he would block all products from any country that buys oil from Iran.
	And, of course, China is the number one buyer of oil from Iran.
	So we haven't yet seen Trump drop the hammer on that promise.
	But if he does drop the hammer on it, it would mean a complete block of everything from China.
	So China is doing two things.
	And both of these are actually good for American consumers, but of course they violate the spirit of Trump's trade embargo.
	And if you think about it, Trump has actually enacted a trade embargo against America.
	He's blocking products from coming to America.
	He's not really hurting China that much because China exports all over the world.
	And as I understand it, only 15% of China's exports actually go to the United States.
	So China can survive this.
	I'm not sure that America can.
	But again, fortunately for all of us, China is being creative.
	And so they're doing two things.
	One is China is sending products to Canada and Mexico, just like I thought they would.
	And then in Mexico or Canada, the products are being essentially re-boxed, you know, put into new boxes, new labels.
	And, you know, this is costly and this takes time.
	So this will introduce some disruptions, some delays, and some price increases.
	And basically, this is considered country of origin washing, okay?
	So Trump's tariffs are supposed to apply to the country of origin, where the product is.
	Primarily made.
	And even that gets sketchy because, you know, what does making something mean?
	Does it mean assembling it?
	You know, what percentage of the assembly determines the country of origin, etc.?
	It can get quite complicated.
	But in Canada and Mexico right now, there are importers that are reboxing and then re-exporting via trucks to the United States.
	And these goods will appear in the U.S. marketplace.
	Maybe not on the shelves of Walmart.
	I don't know if Walmart's going to work with these sort of, dare we call them, smugglers?
	You know?
	Like a bunch of Han Solos running around.
	They're basically smuggling country of origin, counterfeited or washed.
	I mean, look, I think we should have free trade anyway, so I love the fact that China's doing this because I don't want to see empty shelves.
	Now, I do support U.S. manufacturing, just to be clear, I absolutely support that.
	I think we should have more entrepreneurs that have incentives to build more stuff.
	I mean, I'm one of them, and I'd be happy to build more stuff.
	And what Trump needs to do is end the damn income tax.
	If you end the income tax, then that alone would cause a massive uptick in U.S. manufacturing and investment in factories, etc.
	I mean, who knows?
	I might even get into the business of making more stuff just beyond food and supplements and superfoods and things like that.
	But because we are just punished by the IRS and punished by the FDA and punished by the EPA, the regulatory burden on American companies is so great that there's almost no point in investing in a factory.
	And even if you can, where are you going to get the workers?
	Because the workers in America largely don't want to work in factories.
	And the only people that did want to work, the illegals, let's say, are being deported.
	And I support that, by the way.
	I want to be clear.
	I do support the deportation of illegals.
	I support legal immigration.
	I welcome all immigrants who want to be Americans and who don't have a felony record and, you know, who...
	Carry the American spirit.
	I welcome them to America, no problem.
	But the illegals have got to go, and they can try again, legally, if they want, but coming in illegally is completely wrong.
	Anyway, my point is, you're going to start to see products flooding in from the north and the south, you know, from Canada and Mexico, that are fabricated on their country of origin.
	So it's going to be, you know, really made in China, but it's going to be labeled...
	Made in Canada or made in Mexico.
	So that's one thing.
	The second thing that China is doing is China is moving a lot of products to other Southeast Asian nations.
	Let's say South Korea, even Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, you name it.
	China is doing deals or Chinese companies are doing deals with these business leaders in those countries.
	To basically launder the country of origin and to say, well, these products were made in Malaysia, you know, not China.
	And then they export from Malaysia.
	So in that case, the trucks, typically a land route, but I guess in some cases it could be a regional sea route, is moving products to, again, let's say Malaysia.
	And then the new paperwork is created saying the country of origin is Malaysia.
	And then from Malaysia, it's put on a ship and sailed to, let's say, the LA port and dropped off in LA without the China tariffs.
	So that's the other way this is happening.
	Now, in both of these cases, there is, of course, friction in this, so you get time delays and you get cost increases.
	So this is going to cause an uptick in prices, but it's not going to be doubling and tripling of the prices.
	And it will allow...
	Many products to be on the shelves, products which would otherwise not be appearing at all if China didn't engage in this.
	So I know there are going to be some Trump supporters and Americans screaming and crying, little crybaby tears.
	Well, China's not following the rules.
	What rules?
	The U.S. doesn't follow any rules.
	The whole idea of sanctions and secondary sanctions, that is lawless.
	It's a complete violation of the World Trade Organization, what the U.S. is doing to China.
	Don't anybody out there talk to me about, oh, China's not following the rules.
	The U.S. doesn't follow any rules.
	Not rules on war, not rules, not treaties.
	The U.S. doesn't keep its word on anything.
	Not rules on protecting the currency, not rules on gold backing the currency, you know, 1971, Richard Nixon, the whole deal.
	So if anybody is engaged in breaking the rules or unfair trade, it's...
	The United States.
	And I love the fact that there are creative people all over the world who figure out a way to engage in the free market practice of getting products to people who need them.
	Basically, it's turning into a kind of a global black market, you could say, or an underground economy to bypass Trump's economic insanity.
	And that's a good thing.
	So to summarize this so far, the good news is we may not have shelves that are as empty as I first feared because of the creativity of the Chinese manufacturers who are laundering the country of origin through other countries.
	And ultimately, that is a good thing for U.S. consumers.
	It's going to keep prices down more.
	It's going to, in essence, put a pause on some of the vectors of inflation.
	And it's going to prevent shelves from going as empty as Trump intended.
	I mean, for whatever reason, Trump's policy was indeed intended to cause empty shelves all across America.
	That was the desired effect by blocking China.
	Knowing that China supplies, let's say, 70% of the items to Amazon.
	Sure, through U.S. resellers, but the country of origin of those products, about 70%, it's being reported, is actually China.
	So this creativity on the part of Chinese factories is thwarting Trump's empty shelves plan.
	Why is our president placing America under a trade embargo?
	And then I hear people say, well, China engages in currency manipulation.
	Yeah, it's just repeating Fox News.
	You probably didn't hear that the U.S. is demanding that Taiwan engage in currency manipulation in order to favor the U.S. dollar and to basically increase the value of the Taiwan dollar, the NT dollar, by about 400% against the dollar, obviously weakening the dollar versus the Taiwan NT dollar.
	And causing Taiwan exported goods to cost a lot more in the U.S., while U.S. goods exported to Taiwan would be a lot less expensive to the Taiwan people.
	So that's currency manipulation.
	And that's just one of many Trump demands involved surrounding currency manipulation.
	So also, by the way, endless money printing is a form of currency manipulation.
	And the U.S. does that every day.
	And it's the U.S. that cut off Russia from the SWIFT system.
	That's an illegal manipulation, an attempted economic embargo or a banking embargo of Russia, which didn't work.
	You know, it's U.S. and the Western countries that stole $300 billion of Russian money that was held in Western currencies in Western banks, mostly in Europe.
	It's just straight up piracy, man.
	That's just...
	The U.S. and European countries just straight up stealing $300 billion from Russia just because they can.
	And now they're even taking the interest on that money and giving the interest to Ukraine to fight Russia.
	How about that?
	We'll steal money from Russia and use the interest on that money to kill Russians in war.
	Like, that's what the West does.
	So the West has nothing.
	That you would call fair trade, or free trade, or free markets, or world trade, nothing of the kind.
	The U.S. and Western countries manipulate absolutely everything to the extreme.
	To bully the world, threaten the world, coerce the world, bomb the world, you know, color revolutions, CIA assassinations.
	Economic warfare, famine, agricultural bioweapons, you name it, okay?
	That's what the U.S. does.
	Now, finally, this idea...
	Well, let me put it this way.
	I've had people ask me, well, what would you do, Mike?
	What would you do to increase U.S. manufacturing?
	Well, I would go back in time to the 1990s, and I would not...
	Elect Bill Clinton, for one thing, and I would not offshore all the manufacturing.
	But guess who did that?
	U.S. business leaders did that.
	That was already done, and that was actually endorsed by many political leaders and, of course, all the top CEOs of companies engaged in a lot of manufacturing because they knew that they could make more money if they could make the products offshore.
	If they could have the manufacturing done in China.
	And so they did that.
	And the American people went along with that.
	The American people went shopping, and instead of buying the $40 toaster made in America, they bought the $20 toaster made in China.
	And so they voted with their money to end U.S. manufacturing.
	This whole issue of why don't we have very many factories in America?
	This is the combined fault of the political leaders, the business leaders, and the consumers who kept voting for low prices instead of domestically made.
	And this has gone on for, you know, 35 plus years.
	So you've got to understand the origins of how we got here.
	Now, in that 35 plus years, we lost the skill sets.
	To engage in domestic manufacturing for the most part.
	I know there are exceptions to this, but by and large, you don't have people who know how to run the equipment of factories.
	It's not really just part of the wheelhouse of what Americans do anymore.
	Yeah, there are plenty of Americans who can work as a barista at Starbucks and they can make a double frappe, latte, crapola, whatever, but they don't know how to run a lathe.
	They don't know how to run like a router.
	They don't know how to run equipment, hydraulics, nothing.
	So as a result, we are at least one generation removed from even having domestic manufacturing at any large scale.
	You could build the factories, which would still take many years, but you can't fill those factories with competent, qualified people who have the skills and experience.
	To run the factories.
	They just don't exist.
	Not in the numbers that would be necessary to replace any significant portion of all the things that are made in China.
	So, I'm not sure that Trump is aware of this.
	I do think that Trump, like a lot of people his age, not all of them, but many of them tend to live in the past.
	Still live in the 1980s.
	Like, oh, America can make everything better than everybody else.
	You know, America's got the strongest military.
	America can run around the world and threaten everybody, and they'll do what we say.
	That seems to be what Trump believes.
	And all of that is obsolete, actually.
	That's not the way the world works now.
	It's very different.
	And so you can't just pop up instant factories and have them staffed by people.
	And you might say, well, the robots are going to come in and make stuff.
	Yeah, but that's years away.
	They will eventually.
	I've talked about that.
	But that is many years away.
	And the scaling up of the robots depends on a key mineral called neodymium.
	And neodymium is made by China.
	So, I mean, mined and exported by China.
	So if you don't have that mineral, you're pretty much screwed.
	So the bottom line here, folks, is, well...
	Get ready.
	It's going to get interesting.
	And, you know, have backup supplies, have alternative sources, be ready for whatever empty shelves might occur, because they are going to occur at some level, but maybe not as bad as we thought.
	So just be ready for all the scenarios.
	And thank you for listening.
	I'm Mike Adams here, The Health Ranger, naturalnews.com, and brighteon.com.
	And thank you for listening.
	Take care.
	Okay, welcome back.
	The first book review video I have for you today is called The Wellness Self-Care Handbook, The Everyday Guide to Prevention and Home Remedies.
	And the original book is by John Edward Swartzberg and Sheldon Margin.
	And so this is a great overview of how to use home remedies to prevent chronic degenerative disease and also not have to turn to...
	at pharmaceuticals all the time as far too many people do so enjoy this book review video it's part of the bright learn.ai series of books we've published hundreds of videos that review and help illustrate some of the key concepts of all these books so enjoy Hello, everyone, and welcome back.
	Today, we're exploring a topic that's close to all our hearts, our health.
	Whether you're a parent worried about your child's development, a teenager navigating the complexities of adolescence, or an adult striving to maintain a healthy lifestyle, this episode is for you.
	We'll be unpacking the key insights from the book, The Wellness Self-Care Handbook, The Everyday Guide to Prevention and Home Remedies, by John Edward Swartzberg and Sheldon Margin.
	Let's start with the basics.
	This book provides a comprehensive overview of human growth and development, highlighting the physical and emotional changes we experience at different stages of life.
	For parents, watching your child grow is a rewarding experience, but it can also be a source of worry.
	The book emphasizes that normal development varies widely among children.
	For instance, While one child might start walking at 12 months, another might take a bit longer.
	The key is to understand that each child is unique.
	The book provides a detailed chart of developmental milestones, from a baby's first smile at two months to a toddler's first steps at around 12 months.
	It also offers practical advice for parents, such as the importance of regular medical checkups and recognizing common childhood ailments.
	During the first year, infants undergo remarkable changes.
	The book advises parents to ensure their baby receives regular medical checkups and emphasizes the importance of good nutrition and emotional nurturing.
	It also highlights the significance of active engagement between the infant and caregivers, which helps establish a secure base for the child's future exploration.
	Let's delve deeper into the growth and development section.
	The book emphasizes that while there are general guidelines, every child develops at their own pace.
	For example, some children might start speaking in full sentences at two years old, while others might take a bit longer.
	The book encourages parents to trust their instincts and consult their pediatrician if they have concerns.
	The book outlines various milestones, such as a one-year-old saying their first words, a two-year-old walking upstairs, and a three-year-old riding a tricycle.
	These milestones are not just about physical development, but also about cognitive and emotional growth.
	For instance, a two-year-old's ability to express preferences and a three-year-old's understanding of simple commands are crucial steps in their development.
	The book also addresses common concerns such as failure to thrive, which is when a child under two weighs less than 80% of the average for their age.
	It stresses the importance of consulting a doctor if you notice any signs of delayed development or if your child is not gaining weight as expected.
	Nutrition plays a vital role in our health, especially during the early years.
	The book provides detailed nutritional guidelines for children under two, emphasizing the importance of a high metabolism and rapid growth rate.
	It recommends breast milk as the best food for infants.
	The book also advises introducing solid foods between four and six months, introducing one food at a time to test for allergies.
	The book also addresses the challenges of feeding toddlers, who can be notoriously picky eaters.
	It encourages parents to offer a variety of foods and not to force or withhold food, as this can lead to eating disorders later on.
	The book also covers common ailments like rashes, fever, and diarrhea, offering practical advice on when to seek medical attention.
	For example, it advises parents to call the doctor if a rash doesn't clear up with home treatment or if a fever is accompanied by other symptoms like sore throat or listlessness.
	The book also addresses the importance of dental care, recommending that tooth cleaning begin as soon as the first teeth come in.
	It advises parents to encourage their children to brush along with them and to use fluoride treatments to prevent tooth disease.
	As we move into adolescence, the book highlights the dramatic changes that occur during this stage.
	It discusses the physical and emotional changes of puberty, including the onset of menstruation in girls and the development of secondary sexual characteristics in both boys and girls.
	The book also addresses the challenges of adolescence.
	The book also addresses the transition to adulthood, emphasizing the importance of making informed choices about contraception and sexual health.
	As we enter midlife, the book discusses the changes that occur in our bodies and the health concerns that arise.
	It emphasizes the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including regular exercise, a balanced diet, and avoiding harmful habits like smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.
	The book also addresses the challenges of aging, such as menopause, osteoporosis, and memory loss.
	It offers practical advice on managing these changes and maintaining a healthy, active lifestyle.
	Finally, the book provides a wealth of information on home remedies and self-care.
	It covers a wide range of topics, from treating common colds and flu to managing chronic conditions like arthritis and back pain.
	The book emphasizes the importance of self-care and empowers readers to take an active role in their health.
	The book also guides when to seek medical attention, emphasizing the importance of listening to your body and not ignoring warning signs.
	And there you have it, folks.
	A whirlwind tour of the key insights from Remember, your health is your greatest asset, and taking care of it is the best investment you can make.
	If you found this episode helpful, don't forget to subscribe and share it with your friends and family.
	Until next time, stay curious, stay healthy, and keep learning.
	Visit brightlearn.ai for more fascinating videos like this one.
	And NaturalNews.com for full editorial coverage and breaking news on critical stories that keep you informed and aware of what's really going on.
	All right, now, the next video I have for you here today is about chlorine dioxide.
	This is actually a summary, a six-minute summary video about my interview with Steve Dan, who is the founder of Safrax, the company that we strongly recommend in order to get your supplies of chlorine dioxide because...
	It's the best deal imaginable because they sell them, they sell like 500 tablets in a sealed pouch, like a totally waterproof vacuum sealed pouch, and each one of those tablets is, I believe, one gram, and it can make an entire bucket of chlorine dioxide water.
	So you can make essentially 500 buckets of chlorine dioxide for the cost of one pouch, which is something like...
	$39 or less?
	I mean, it's almost a lifetime supply of chlorine dioxide unless you're using it in massive quantities.
	Maybe you're spraying surfaces with it in the middle of a pandemic or in the middle of a biowarfare attack or something.
	But check out this interview with Steve Dan because this guy nails it.
	He understands the role of chlorine dioxide and why it's such a game changer for sanitizing surfaces and protecting you against bio warfare agents and much more.
	Also against fungi and molds and bacteria and things like that.
	But this is about a six minute interview summary with illustrations that I think you'll really enjoy.
	So check it out.
	I'm your host, BrightLearn.
	And today, we're diving into a topic that's not just timely, but could be a game-changer for your preparedness toolkit.
	We're talking about chlorine dioxide.
	A molecule that's been making waves in the world of sanitization, water purification, and even emergency medicine.
	And who better to guide us through this fascinating subject than Steve Dan, the founder of SafeRacks, a company that's leading the charge in making chlorine dioxide accessible to everyone.
	Now, if you've been following along, you might remember that we've had Steve on the show before.
	But today, he's back with some exciting updates and insights that I couldn't wait to share with you.
	So, let's jump right in.
	Steve Dan, the man behind Safrax, is passionate about chlorine dioxide, and for good reason.
	He explains that while chlorine dioxide has been used in large-scale industries like water purification and food processing for years, it wasn't until Safrax developed their instant chlorine dioxide tablets That it became truly accessible to the average person.
	These tablets are a game changer because they allow you to create chlorine dioxide anywhere, anytime, just by adding water.
	No complicated generators or equipment needed.
	But what exactly makes chlorine dioxide so special?
	Well, according to Steve, it's a powerhouse when it comes to killing pathogens.
	Unlike antibiotics, which bacteria can develop resistance to, Chlorine dioxide destroys bacteria and viruses through oxidation.
	It's like a molecular wrecking ball breaking down the very structure of these harmful organisms.
	And the best part?
	There's no known pathogen that can withstand it.
	I was particularly intrigued by Steve's explanation of how chlorine dioxide works.
	He described it as having five electrons, which is more than most pathogens have.
	This means that when chlorine dioxide comes into contact with a virus or bacteria, it essentially overwhelms and destroys them.
	This is why it's so effective against a wide range of threats, from the common cold to more serious pathogens like Ebola.
	Now, you might be wondering how you can use chlorine dioxide in your everyday life.
	The applications are endless.
	Steve shared that it's not just for water purification.
	It's also a powerful disinfectant for surfaces, air and even food.
	For example, you can use it to sanitize your kitchen counters, deodorize your car or even clean your pet's water bowl.
	And during the COVID-19 outbreak, many countries used chlorine dioxide as a sanitizing spray to help curb the spread of the virus.
	One of the most exciting developments from Safrax is their new slow-release chlorine dioxide bags.
	These bags are filled with zeolite stones that have been dipped in chlorine dioxide, allowing for a slow, steady release of the gas.
	This makes them perfect for purifying the air in your home, office, or even your car.
	Steve mentioned that they've had clients with breathing problems, and asthma reports significant improvements after using these bags.
	Imagine having a portable air purifier.
	That you can place on your nightstand or in your car to help keep the air clean and fresh.
	And if you're a prepper or someone who likes to be prepared for emergencies, you'll be thrilled to hear about Safrax's new survival packaging.
	These compact, waterproof bags contain individually wrapped tablets, making them easy to store and transport.
	Whether you're heading out on a camping trip or preparing for a potential disaster, these tablets can be a lifesaver.
	Just add one to a bucket of water, and you'll have a powerful disinfectant at your fingertips.
	But what about the cost?
	Steve assured us that SafeRacks is committed to keeping their prices affordable.
	In fact, they've managed to keep the cost of their 500 tablet bags at just $30, despite inflation and rising supply chain costs.
	This makes chlorine dioxide one of the most cost-effective solutions for sanitization and purification on the market.
	As we wrap up, I want to emphasize that while chlorine dioxide is an incredibly powerful tool, it's important to use it responsibly.
	Always follow the instructions on the Safrax website and use common sense.
	For example, don't inhale the gas directly and keep the tablets out of reach of children.
	Think of it like any other powerful cleaning product.
	It's safe when used correctly, but you need to be mindful.
	I'm so grateful to Steve Dan for taking the time to share his knowledge and insights with us.
	If you're interested in learning more or placing an order, head over to safrax.com.
	That's S-A-F-R-A-X dot com.
	And remember, this isn't a paid advertisement.
	I'm a customer myself, and I genuinely believe in the power of chlorine dioxide.
	Thank you all for tuning in to this episode of the Bright Learn podcast.
	If you found this information helpful, please share it with your friends and family.
	And as always, stay curious, stay informed, and stay prepared.
	Until next time, take care and God bless.
	This is Bright Learn signing off.
	This has been a brightlearn.ai summary of an interview between Steve Dan and Mike Adams on February 20, 2024.
	The full interview is available at brighteon.com, where you can also find podcasts and special reports by Mike Adams and other creators.
	Visit naturalnews.com for full editorial coverage of this interview and breaking news on critical stories that will keep you informed and aware of what's really going on.
	All right, welcome back.
	Finally, today we're going to share the interview with Leslie Powers, the social worker who works in Northern California, and she's got a lot of valuable things to share here.
	You'll see this is really something, a very special conversation that we had today.
	So enjoy that interview, and I will be back with you tomorrow with more bombshell information.
	Pray for peace, everybody.
	Pray for peace.
	Far too many bombs are going off and fighter jets.
	And, you know, missiles and artillery.
	The whole region of the Middle East is...
	We don't want to see destabilization.
	We don't want to see genocide.
	We don't want to see destruction of infrastructure.
	All of those things that are happening there are going to cost us.
	It's going to cost the whole world.
	We're all going to suffer as a result of what Israel is doing and the conflict between Pakistan and India, etc.
	Everybody's going to suffer.
	If we don't find a way, To coexist peacefully on this planet as conscious human beings, then we have no future.
	So we better figure this out and also stop the Satanists who right now, the satanic death cult that's really operating in the Middle East is, you know, Zionist Israel.
	That's the source of so much death and destruction and suffering across that entire region.
	And they've got to be stopped.
	I don't know what it's going to take, but there's practically a civil war inside Israel right now, so the people might end up stringing up Netanyahu and trying him for his crimes against humanity.
	Who knows?
	I don't know where this is going, but I know it's very bad, the way it looks right now, and the amount of suffering and death is unacceptable.
	In any case, for dealing with trauma and healing through that, we're going to turn to Leslie Powers.
	With this fascinating interview.
	enjoy Hi, Mom.
	And to all the moms out there, we appreciate you.
	Happy Mother's Day.
	From myself, Mike Adams, The Health Ranger, and HealthRangerStore.com, we greatly appreciate all the moms out there and the dedication that you have for creating a healthier, happier future for your children and grandchildren.
	And thank you for everything that you've done to help humanity be, well, better as we move forward.
	And to help celebrate that and to help make a healthy living more affordable in this time when so many products are becoming more expensive, we have put together a special for you as part of our Mother's Day sale event.
	And this is called Mom's Ultimate Pamper Kit.
	And if you look at it there, let me walk through it.
	It's got the coconut oil, which has, you know, a multitude of uses.
	The shea butter.
	The body oil there, and then a colloidal silver spray, the colloidal silver deodorant, then we have the tea tree and lavender shampoo, and then our colloidal silver mouthwash with citrus fresh.
	That's actually my favorite one right there.
	And all of these are put together at a substantial discount.
	That's about 40% off the price if you were to purchase them separately.
	And these days, I mean, you're not going to get...
	You know, 40% off almost anything.
	So this is a special kit with a gift, which is the pine needle spray that has silver and iodine in it.
	That's the spray.
	Show that again.
	That's the spray that you see in the center there, just to left of center.
	That's not, you can't even buy that at the store.
	That's only as a gift.
	Pine needle spray with silver and iodine.
	And then also, by the way, the silver fresh liquid deodorant has, it's made with magnesium and baking soda.
	So, no aluminum.
	We don't use aluminum ingredients at all.
	You know, we don't use synthetic fragrances.
	We don't do any of that toxic stuff.
	These are ultra-clean, all laboratory tested, and all available as a discount to you to say thank you during this Mother's Day special.
	And these prices are good while supplies last, or it ends on May 11th.
	But, oh, and you can find it at healthrangerstore.com slash Mother's Day.
	All one word, no space, just healthrangerstore.com /mothersday.
	You'll also get double points during this special event, which is really extraordinary.
	It's almost 10% back that you get in points that you can spend on future purchases.
	That, combined with the discount that we have in this kit, makes this an unbeatable value.
	You're just not gonna see this again, especially given...
	You know what's happening to the supply chain right now.
	So check it out.
	Mom's Ultimate Pamper Kit.
	And remember, those of you who are dads watching this, you can get this.
	You know, get this for your wife.
	Get this for the mom in your life.
	She'll love it.
	She'll absolutely love it.
	So think about moms and grandmothers, wives, anybody who just deserves to be recognized for the contributions they've made to this world.
	This is the perfect gift for them.
	They'll absolutely love it.
	Again, it's called Mom's Ultimate Pamper Kit.
	It's available, healthrangersstore.com slash Mother's Day, and you get double points.
	Order before May 1st if you can in order to guarantee delivery before Mother's Day, although it still may work in the days after that, but we just can't absolutely guarantee it.
	So order sooner rather than later to take advantage of this.
	And thank you for your support.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of HealthRangerStore.com.
	Welcome to today's interview here on Brighton.com.
	And today we're joined by a guest who is a participant in the Health Revealed.
	I don't even know what you call it.
	It's a collection of videos and educational content put together by Corey Endrelat.
	And that's at HealthRevealed.org.
	And our guest here today is Leslie Powers, who is a...
	And I'm reading from your bio, also a psychotherapist and educator with a passion for really helping people heal in profound ways by taking back their own power as well.
	So welcome to our studio.
	Welcome to the interview today.
	Thank you very much.
	I'm really happy to be here.
	It's great to have you here.
	Thank you for taking the time.
	Let me adjust the mic to get a little bit closer to you.
	You're kind of soft-spoken, which is probably very...
	I imagine the people you work with like that.
	You don't come across as intimidating to them.
	Correct.
	That's an advantage.
	You want to be threatening, you know?
	Yes.
	So tell us about yourself and what you do.
	So I graduated with my master's in social work in...
	So I've been in the field for 35 years.
	Settings, with ages from preschoolers up to Alzheimer's.
	I've worked in home-based settings, school-based settings.
	I've worked in foster care adoptions, outpatient mental health at community mental health levels, group homes, residential treatment centers.
	So I have a very broad range of experience and exposure.
	You can write books about humanity, I think.
	Right, right.
	From that experience, I've been able to observe the similarities across all of this in four different states, from New York to Connecticut, New Mexico, and California.
	And what I noticed is that the people generally, as a social worker, and people who go into mental health are generally very big-hearted people.
	They want to help.
	They're very caring people, and yet the people that go into these systems and fields are often not really given a lot of support.
	We're often thrown into the fire and very inundated with overwork, essentially, with very high caseloads, especially when you're working in...
	State, county, government-funded organizations, which what I've come to realize, really, the social work profession is really geared towards working for the system.
	Right.
	Do you currently work in that kind of system, or do you do your own thing privately?
	I'm an independent contractor, essentially doing private practice, but I still have some connections to the system in that I...
	I work with insurance, so I work with clients who have insurances, and so I'm still getting to get the first-hand stories of what that is like with working with our insurance companies, etc., and the barriers and challenges that a lot of people have with getting health care.
	For nine years, I worked in a health care center.
	They were really doing a big effort to be integrative, so they had...
	Medical, dental, behavioral health, there was a mission centered around care.
	And I also had another really cool opportunity working in an inpatient and residential treatment center with a psychologist whose program involved kids that would wake up and go running.
	They did karate.
	They would work towards an event where they were actually running up a mountain.
	This was incorporated into the treatment, very innovative, as well as this integrative health model where they knew that the medical providers needed support of people who knew mental health and could work together to help support individuals and meet a lot of their...
	Basic needs and social needs and, you know, housing needs and things like that.
	So recognizing a whole person.
	But what I've noticed is that those innovative programs, eventually, they get...
	Essentially, they get shut down in a sense they can no longer be innovative.
	That the pressures of the system, the regulations, and the protocols that are required, and the funding sources and all of this, end up putting them in boxes where they can no longer do innovative things.
	Because they're pretty much stuck.
	They're trapped in the very rigid regulations that govern their You know, that license them, you know, and pay the bills.
	Well, let me ask you one, I'm going to call this one of the elephants in the room questions, and I think in the area in which you work, there are so many elephants in the room.
	It's like a circus of elephants that are not being addressed, kind of like what you just mentioned.
	But one of those, I would say, but feel free to disagree with me if you think I'm wrong on this.
	It's your experience.
	I see that There's a lot of just throwing medications at people.
	And I see this in veterans.
	I see this in youth.
	One of my family members is a counselor who worked the suicide watch shifts in a rural community.
	There's a lot of suicide attempts, and there's a lot of meth drug abuse also.
	But do you also see that there's a tendency to throw psychiatric medications at people?
	Most definitely.
	And often one psychiatric medication leads to the second.
	Or the third.
	And it can very easily snowball.
	And people become very stuck.
	And it becomes a real challenge to pull that back.
	Now the other flip side of this, especially in California and the area I've lived, is there were some doctors who were very much medicating heavily for pain.
	And then the...
	State came down and started to take their licenses away and threaten licenses because of that.
	So then all of a sudden fear came in and they were just cutting people off of medications.
	Well, there was a lot of opioid abuse, so that was the reaction to that.
	Yes, opiates, right, and benzodiazepines, that all of a sudden they would just cut people off.
	I had an elderly gentleman who had very delicate health who they just...
	Cut him off, everything, all at once.
	And without real sensitivity to the years that he had been on those medications.
	And people spiral.
	So I recognize that there's a big compartmentalization within the field where the doctors who prescribe medications have a paradigm.
	They have a model that's based on medication.
	And then the mainstream physicians have a model based on, you know, the protocols and the education they were given in the Western medical model.
	And they're really prohibited from sharing alternative or more holistic approaches.
	There's a sense of fear, really, around losing your license all the time.
	And that happened during COVID years.
	In California, many doctors were prosecuted or lost their license.
	For example, as a social worker, if I have a job and I'm working with anyone on Medi-Cal or Medicare, we're mandated to watch these videos about Health privacy or other protocols that are being asked.
	But what I've noticed, really, is they're all about making threats.
	Half of the video is threatening us that if we leave a paper on the table that might have a person's name on it, that we could not only lose, you know, we could be fined, we could go to jail.
	And there's a lot of that fear-based rhetoric in the training.
	Wow, so they're traumatizing.
	Yes.
	The people that are trying to work out the trauma for the public.
	Right.
	And that's a big part of my message is that everyone at every level of the system has a degree of trauma.
	And the system itself is a cause of that.
	And so my observation is these good parted people that are going into their work are getting good work done despite the system.
	But what is the system?
	It's a hierarchy of trauma.
	Well, a hierarchy that creates disconnection.
	And disconnection, in essence, does lead to trauma.
	And the disconnection is getting wider as the stressors of life are increasing.
	I want to ask you about that very point.
	So thank you for bringing that up.
	I think that's one of the other elephants in the room, is that people's trauma is not magical, spontaneous, without cause.
	Correct.
	There are inputs.
	There are stresses.
	And one of those, for example, I'm going to talk about monetary policy for a moment.
	So when our government prints currency, and they're printing trillions of dollars a year right now, that devalues the currency that people have.
	It creates stress in their life where their rents go up, their grocery prices go up, they feel less capable as a person of either providing for their family or being able to survive and stay afloat above water themselves.
	So this becomes a psychological stress, but the root input is monetary policy that does not value the worker.
	The man or woman who worked to get a paycheck thinking that It's going to be worth the same in a week as what it was when I earned it.
	But it's not.
	These factors are becoming more strenuous than they have been in our lifetimes, I would say.
	Sure.
	And people are working for a living.
	They're working to pay their bills and to raise their families and to survive.
	And that is very much...
	An issue around maintaining the dysfunction in the system.
	Because people become attached to the one, you become attached to what you've been told and how you've invested your time into the system.
	And then we start to identify ourselves a bit with our job, with our role, with the system itself.
	And that becomes our story, really, our identity in many ways.
	And a lot of what we're in this project doing is sort of challenging some of the fundamental ideas that they were taught.
	From talking about trauma, it's starting really young with parenting practices and, for example, the need for two parents to work, basically to survive, pulling kids away from their mothers.
	Which is also related to monetary policy, by the way.
	Exactly.
	And so children are going into daycares.
	Now as a clinical social worker, a psychotherapist, I'm very trauma-informed.
	Attachment, the relationship with your caregivers right from the start is the important foundation for everything that happens.
	And that the experience of children is the foundation for how an adult interacts with the world.
	And that also is true about our health.
	So there are things that are set in motion that start very young around the nervous system and the relational attachment.
	Which is about security and safety.
	So when we have a secure relationship with our mother, our father, and the adults in our life and we're well taken care of and we have safety and love and repair of missteps in that process, then that child has a foundation, one, of trusting not only that they're safe and they can trust.
	The people in their lives that they can trust themselves.
	So self-trust is a really important piece of this.
	And it relates to the way we interact with our medical providers.
	So when we are trusting ourselves and recognizing that we have a body that responds in predictable ways, that we have choices, then we can...
	We develop what's called an internal locus of control.
	A sense of, I have power, and I have power to make myself healthy.
	I can take actions that can create a good life for myself.
	So, when we're in this model of healthcare right now, it's very much about not...
	A lot of people that I am seeing, they are losing trust in themselves.
	They're not educated in how your body works or how your psychology works.
	You're told you have to go to the doctor.
	You have to go on a certain schedule.
	Don't do anything on your own.
	You do what the doctor says.
	There's a worshipping of the letters after your name and the expertise.
	And it creates a disconnection from...
	A person's really ability to trust themselves, if you're in this mindset, this training, essentially, that we have from childhood to worship and trust the external authority, which is the doctor.
	And I don't apply this to all doctors, but many doctors can be rather arrogant and condescending, right, in the way that they talk to patients.
	Like, you don't know anything.
	Oh, did you read that on the internet, etc.?
	Sure, sure, and may discourage that because, you know, don't look up Dr. Google, you know, but at the same time, I've worked with a lot of very well-meaning, very big-hearted physicians and nurse practitioners, and yet they are inundated with...
	Basically, you have 15 minutes.
	Every minute of your day.
	That's like a luxury.
	Yeah, that might be excessive, right?
	And you might only be allowed to talk about one problem at a time.
	There's a lot of separation from even your own body, right?
	Because we are all, our mind-body-spirit system is integrated, is united.
	Heart and our lungs and our skin and all of this are interconnected, right?
	And in this medical system right now, it's very segmented and compartmentalized.
	And so there's this disconnection at all levels.
	And so even with the good-hearted doctors, they often are overwhelmed.
	They're overwhelmed, and there's a loss of trust that goes both ways.
	The patients are getting frustrated and losing faith in the doctors, and the doctors are frustrated with the patients, because even when they are saying, you know, change lifestyle, a lot of patients are resistant to that.
	And so there's this...
	There's a lot of discontent going on that I'm really witnessing, and a lot of fear coming up.
	Now, understanding psychology, the fear and the emotional reactions are very much related to our health outcomes.
	Chronic stress, trauma, is at the root of most health problems.
	Let me add, to confirm that I'm a nutrition-educated food scientist, but fear and stress can cause nutrient depletion.
	And the nutrient depletion then causes this cascade of other problems.
	You can have, for example, even mood disorders related to depletion of nutrients.
	Sure.
	So this cycle can be started by fear, and the patient may not even be aware that this is happening.
	They're on the roller coaster ride.
	The rollercoaster gets more and more scary.
	They don't know why, and they're caught in this cycle.
	And they may be lacking nutrition, or they may be lacking compassion.
	They may be lacking acceptance from a family member or something, right?
	But there could be one element missing from their equation that could fill in the gaps for them.
	Sure.
	Sure.
	I'm familiar with a colleague who had a very young client, four or five-year-old little boy, Having incredible aggression and acting out.
	And it was very, you know, off the hook.
	And this little boy was hospitalized and put in inpatient hospitals.
	I think he had several times and they couldn't figure it out.
	And it was actually a doctor who decided to look into amino acid.
	And he found that there was a depletion of an amino acid in this little boy.
	And that was the underlying cause of this behavioral condition.
	Did he have a genetic?
	I don't know.
	It wasn't my client.
	Oh, I see.
	So it was, you know, in the mental health clinic I worked at, it was a colleague's client.
	But it's a good example.
	But I think even more so, the relational aspects of, and the, okay, let me see if I can get to this.
	There's, when you are not trusting yourself or your body, as you were talking about a little bit ago, that the body is self-healing.
	It can heal itself under proper conditions.
	And the conditions we live in in the modern world are creating an incredible amount of stress.
	And that stress is perpetuating the dysfunction of our bodies and our mind-body system.
	So if we are stressed out and we are anxious and we are scared, that is going to create a cascade of effects in our body that then...
	When not addressed or not alleviated because you're having to be in survival mode all the time, no matter how many medications you get or how much change in your self-talk or affirmations you do, that is not going to be addressing the root of the problem.
	So there are conditions in which the human being thrives, and there are conditions in which we do not thrive.
	And so when we look at this project called...
	You know, around statism, and when I think of, like, how the system is really getting in the way, the effects of the system in all of the control mechanisms and the rules and regulations that practitioners or providers like myself are being basically coerced to follow,
	we're under duress, under threat, actually, of losing our license or losing our livelihood, then we are in a We're in dissonance.
	We are in conflict, internal conflict, which ripples out into external conflict between the provider and the patient.
	It leads to a disconnection from ourselves.
	And that disconnection from our bodies and from ourselves is also a cause of illness.
	So if you are a provider and you have to run like crazy, like a psychotherapist typically is almost like an assembly line of clients.
	After hour after hour while you're sitting in a chair.
	Wow.
	Many of us are now on the computer.
	We're often not taught how to manage our own energy.
	Typically in a standard school, the self-care elements and the impact on the provider itself is not even talked about.
	And so as a social worker in most settings, you're being thrown into an environment where your caseload is extremely high.
	You're not given ample support, and you're winging it, and you're doing your very best, and then you have hours of documentation, which is actually pretty irrelevant in many ways to the actual work that is benefiting the client, but is mandated by an insurance company or by the government, state, or county.
	It creates a condition of a highly stressed, High-pressured environment.
	For the practitioners.
	For the practitioners and the clients and patients.
	Can I interject that a very interesting parallel to what you're describing, in fact, your entire description could also apply to police officers.
	The cops that actually go to the abuse calls.
	Especially.
	Yes.
	The cops that make the calls and go to the apartment building and knock on the door, they're thrown into the same thing.
	It's crisis after crisis after crisis, a steady stream to the point where a lot of cops, and I know a lot of cops, they become highly desensitized.
	Oh, yeah.
	And I'm not blaming them.
	You can't sit there and sob on the job every time you see somebody.
	Correct.
	Or every time you see a battered wife that refuses to press charges, let's say.
	Which cops see that all the time.
	Or you walk in and it's a drug infested apartment with two kids that are clearly not doing well.
	But deeper than this, there seems to be this lack of humanity, this lack of recognition of human dignity pervades A hundred percent.
	said, that desensitization is very real, and it happens to the best meaning, the best intended person who goes into these fields, whether it's being a teacher, a psychotherapist, a
	And when you are under-resourced yourself and not even really given much support for your own mental health and your own physical well-being even, because many times people are like, boom, boom, boom, out there.
	I worked in mobile crisis.
	I partnered with police in some of those dicey situations.
	And there are, you know, different levels of competence and care, you know, and that applies to all these fields.
	But people get burnt out.
	Absolutely.
	And experience secondary trauma without ample means to metabolize.
	All of this intensity.
	It's like intensity, intensity, and you're moving from thing to thing, and we're not taught in school how to really properly manage all of that emotion.
	We're not taught in schools.
	There should be basic curriculum for all children and all people going into these fields to know how to manage your own responses to the stress and pressure.
	That's a really good point.
	Yeah.
	I have something interesting because I'm known as a food scientist.
	I have people with some frequency ask me how they should change their diets in order to achieve a certain goal.
	And of course, the first thing I say is, I'm not a doctor, so I just want you to know that.
	And the second thing I say, and I think you'll laugh at this, I say, I want you to record a food log for seven days, everything you eat and drink.
	And do you know what?
	To this day, Two things.
	Not once has anybody ever given me a food log.
	Secondly, but they do sometimes call me back and say, oh, just by trying to make the log, I found out I was eating like crap, and I fixed the problem, so thank you.
	It's like, let's put the mirror back on you.
	I want to ask you about the personal responsibility of the patient or the person in this.
	Because there is a tendency in Western society for a person to push the responsibility for healing onto another outside party.
	I'm sorry to take so long, I'll turn it back over to you, but I've seen people say things like, well, I don't know why the doctor put me on diabetes drugs, but then in their shopping cart it's Pop-Tarts and donuts and ice cream.
	And it's like, hey, there's a disconnect here.
	You don't want to be on these drugs, but you want to eat these things, and guess what?
	Cause and effect.
	How do you talk to people about that in a society where there's a tendency to say I'm not responsible for my outcomes?
	And sometimes, you know, abuse does come from outside.
	Sure.
	Like sexual abuse situations, right?
	Or sometimes trauma does come from outside, but sometimes it's self-inflicted trauma.
	Sure.
	It's usually a combination.
	Yeah.
	And there's a lot of this stress and trauma that is really normalized in our society, in parenting practices, in the school systems, that is very much teaching us.
	wisdom and the messages of our body.
	Most people are actually very disconnected from their own body and their own emotions.
	And there's a culture of escapism and a sort of addictive impulsivity and avoidance.
	And so when someone has a diagnosis and they know they should eat better and they don't, that's one of the doctor's biggest frustrations.
	So as a Therapist, I recognize that this is a real internal issue.
	And I go inward with people to look at how this behavior is a part of them that was developed to cope with something that is overwhelming from their past, usually something from childhood, that creates a mechanism of how we survive.
	How do we get through life?
	And when there's a lot of pressures on us, but we don't have the personal capacity to handle it and we're in overwhelm, our amazing, miraculous system creates strategies internally to help us to get by and do what is being rewarded in society or what will allow us to survive, allow us to pay our bills, allow us to get up and go to work every day.
	And those are parts of us that become rewarded in society, in a sense.
	The more disconnected we are from our own internal compass, often are resulting in the most approval externally.
	And yet, that often leads to unhappiness, depression, addiction.
	I mean, many people in the healthcare field end up with their own addictions.
	And, you know, speaking of the police and the emergency personnel, often the way they cope with this overwhelming...
	The experience of trauma that they're witnessing is through escapism or addiction and then developing mental health conditions, things like post-traumatic stress, or even if it's not fully PTSD, there's still evidence in the chaos of their life or in the health deterioration.
	Any symptom that we have in our body is telling us something about our internal world.
	We need to slow down in order to look within and map this out.
	And it is something that you can identify.
	It is something that you can see when you go inward and review your own life, in a sense, and identify where you've developed patterns of disconnecting from your own self.
	And that disconnection leads to external symptoms and patterns.
	So our world, especially in this rapid-fire healthcare system, does not promote the slowing down that's really, I think, essential to real health.
	That's a really good point.
	I make it a point to walk in nature with my goats and my dogs every day.
	I actually walk my goats.
	It's that contact with nature that I consider one of the greatest blessings of my life because it gets me off the screens, off the news, out of all that stuff, which is so overwhelming and so stressful.
	Even though I have a lot of balance and I have all the nutritional advantages that many people don't know about, but even then, dealing with, oh, today this country announced it's going to bomb this other country.
	We all might die tomorrow.
	Processing that...
	Is a challenge for even the healthiest of people.
	Yes.
	But that's the world in which we, like, I'm not going to make this political, but in our world, we can wake up tomorrow and our president may have announced, oh, there's no more products coming from China.
	Like, well, wait a minute, my whole business depends on, I'm not saying my business, but I'm acting like another person.
	Maybe they're an importer from China.
	Boom!
	Their business is gone in one day.
	This lack of predictability or continuity of reality is very traumatizing to a lot of people.
	It's like the soup we're all in.
	We could do everything right in terms of health behaviors.
	I'll just say this.
	I wanted to bring up the point about the field generally has prescripted protocol.
	For a diagnosis.
	If you're diagnosed with this, then this is the intervention protocol.
	In my field, we have research-based interventions that we're allowed to use.
	You have to write your note in a certain way and show that you're doing these approved things.
	It takes away the individual's creative attunement to the individual.
	Because the same protocol or intervention is not the same for everyone.
	That's right.
	Right?
	And so really coming to the individual and understanding their whole biopsychosocial spiritual self and the history of what created them, which is fascinating and unique with commonalities in how our systems work.
	Yes.
	But really getting to know ourselves deeply will help us to figure out the...
	The protocol to follow.
	Now, being in nature is important, and we are more and more being disconnected from nature, and disconnected from our nature, because we are part of nature.
	And so we can also learn from nature how to, and from learning from our own body, of recognizing it as part of nature, to develop what creates health.
	And yet that is not what is taught.
	And that is not what is promoted.
	So we are...
	Community, purpose, connection, all these issues that have been part of even, let's say, the Native American traditions before the rest of the people came to this continent.
	But these things are not part of the equation of our modern system.
	And look at the brutality.
	against indigenous people.
	Absolutely.
	And people who did live close to the land and were acquainted with a healthy rhythm of life connected to the natural rhythms, being aware of our inner connection with the natural rhythms and so forth.
	They have been traumatized.
	Now the trauma is, can be passed on really epigenetically through generations.
	That's true.
	So not only are we Receiving sort of predisposition in our DNA, but we're also experiencing the emotional woundings and the relational woundings and the abandonments and the traumas of our parents and their parents and so forth back on,
	and operating really unconsciously in automatic behavior that then gets programmed by the systems that we're interacting with.
	See, you've hit upon a really important point.
	And by the way, I feel like I could talk with you for hours about all these things.
	But, you know, I've interviewed Dr. Bruce Lipton and others in this field.
	But you're right.
	Part of the fear and the trauma is actually programming the field, which influences our consciousness reality.
	Yes.
	So there's actually way more damage being done to humanity than is apparent on the surface.
	It's actually, like you said, it's a transgenerational trauma.
	And it becomes unconscious because it's seen as normal.
	And so the lifestyles that we have, that we see as this is just the way it is, this is normal, really isn't natural.
	And it puts a strain on our species.
	That's a really good way to put it.
	And over time, we are wearing down.
	And we're seeing the evidence of that in our society, and we're seeing the evidence of that in our healthcare system.
	And we're really in a state of crisis.
	As a species?
	Yes.
	And I think the lack of real understanding of trauma and the effects of chronic stress and the needs...
	I'm really big on the importance of healthy relationships from the beginning and the healing power of relationships.
	Because people are very alone.
	They're very isolated.
	The world is really promoted through...
	Events since, you know, 2020 especially, have even more disconnection.
	And people are lonely and they're scared.
	So what happens when people are scared?
	They look to that external kind of pseudo-parental figure.
	To give them answers, right?
	And the adults and all of us have the risk of becoming almost like children in adult bodies, looking to the expert.
	Oh, we see that all the time.
	And so trusting and then losing, again, connection to the answers that are really found within.
	So that's a great segue to my last question for you today, which is, given the context of everything that you've shared with us, which is really extraordinary.
	And very insightful.
	And I think, I'm so glad we're having this conversation because this is so critical for healing our world.
	It also explains the rise and fall of civilizations, I think, in some cases, too, because some of this is not sustainable.
	But given the context of this, healthrevealed.org, and how do you wrap a layer of understanding around everything that you've just presented that is a practical way for people to take back Their power from a system that you have just described as being so disconnected from the real needs of human healing.
	Right.
	So it really does mean coming back to self and valuing oneself, first and foremost, recognizing that one does have an intrinsic Oh gosh, healing mechanism, ability to thrive.
	So a lot of it is education, but it's also awareness.
	It is consciousness of seeing the patterns and then detaching, really, from a lot of the systems.
	Because the hierarchy and the authority-based system, which we're kind of calling statism, the umbrella of statism, is what is, it's kind of like the straight jacket.
	It's the...
	It's holding people back, and when people can start to see that, start to rebuild trust in themselves, learn about the inner work, learn about psychology, learn about power and control dynamics, start to have a care for the truth, and be willing to look at all the contradictions using their own critical thinking, rather than following...
	The orders, right?
	Or following the directions of an expert blindly and always looking externally for someone to tell you what to do.
	It really is about coming back to self.
	That's a really important point.
	And I observe this across every political spectrum, every spectrum of faith or origins, cultures, you name it.
	There is this tendency.
	To look for an authority to tell you how to think.
	And that includes government itself.
	And that includes this dependency, this psychological dependency on a system we would call government to keep us safe.
	So it comes back to the core of an infant who needs safety.
	It's a fundamental drive for safety and security.
	And that comes through relationship.
	And that comes through learning to have this Self-knowledge and to build that esteem and that sense of I can find the answers to my problems and it can be not just in isolation but in relationship, loving relationship, caring relationship, sensitivity to and educated understanding of how things really work.
	When we look at nature, what nature is really the ultimate teacher.
	And we instead are looking to the answers in a fabricated, artificial, human-made structure, which is really built on power and control and agendas that really have nothing to do with our mental or physical health.
	That's absolutely right.
	And I hope you don't mind, I have a follow-up on that because AI.
	So the number one use of AI now, as of this year, is people are using it for mental health, And relationships.
	They're befriending their AI girlfriends, boyfriends, whatever, agents.
	Yes.
	And you can see where this is going.
	Oh, yeah.
	Right?
	Before long, you'll have an AI robot walking around.
	Want to be friends?
	And half the population is going, yes, I need a friend.
	It's a lot easier than another human.
	Because it's complicated.
	Humans won't always agree with you.
	Right.
	It really shows, it tells us that is an effect of a condition, right?
	That is creating this deep desperation in people to have connection, to have love, unconditional love.
	Even with the machine.
	Validation, and because...
	They're so desperate that they'll settle for falling in love with a machine.
	And it shows a lot of the immaturity of our culture and the lack of education around interpersonal dynamics, communication, conflict resolution, problem solving, understanding the mind-body-spirit, how that works, having emotional intelligence.
	These things are not common.
	In our world today.
	And without that, the emotions that are, again, based in subconscious-driven, subconsciously-driven traumas and stressors, the subconscious is driving the show rather than the conscious because we're in overwhelm and we are...
	Our tempers are short, right?
	And we get triggered so easily, and it leads to these disconnections, and people just don't know how to get along, really.
	We're lacking those skills.
	Well, this is fascinating, and you'll laugh, and I say this kind of half-jokingly, but I almost decided that the correct posture for meeting just...
	Random new people, like at a trade show event, is to first assume they're all mentally insane, and then observe for them to prove that they're not.
	Like, society has become so crazy right now.
	And what I look for is I look to the soul, and I look to that connection.
	In internal family systems, which is a great model that's becoming more popular, they talk about self-energy, and it is this connection that we have, really, to the divine.
	It is this, that, It allows us to be a witness to our own mind.
	It is that that is connected to the heart, and it's based in compassion, curiosity, a sense of connection, a connection to our environment, our connection to nature, a connection to each other.
	It's a place where we can be...
	Calm in an open state, and that is where we need to meet each other, is knowing that we each have that place, and that is the true nature, and that these behaviors, this insanity, is the result of the disconnection from ourself and the conditions in our world that is creating trauma and stress and overwhelm.
	Putting us all, really, in different levels of traumatized states.
	Wow.
	That's really powerful.
	I really appreciate your analysis and your experience on this.
	Thank you.
	Want to give us your website again?
	I forgot the name of it.
	Alivethrive.life, which is really more of a freedom, truth-based website.
	I'm involved in a podcast called Dissolving the Divide and some other things where we're really looking at solutions to these divides among people.
	And then I also have a new women's support group called Reviving Sophia.
	Women's Circle, which is about supporting women through the difficulties of relationship and how many of us have a history of dysfunctional relationship dynamics and disconnects and traumatization in relationships.
	And so it's a place for women to come together and start to develop trust with each other, which has also been really challenged in our world of women being able to trust each other and then learning how to navigate all the complexities of all our relationships in our lives.
	Well, the majority of our audience are women, by the way.
	For whatever reason, more women tend to be interested in health and nutrition and the things I tend to talk about.
	Some men, but predominantly more women.
	I think women are really biologically attuned to relationship, right?
	You know, I mean, the mother's body physically creates, you know, a baby and nurses them through her body.
	And there's a sense of, you know, there's just something there, I think, that women more intuitively and naturally understand the value.
	Oh, clearly.
	There's also that consciousness connection between mother and child that modern science can't explain.
	All kinds of amazing miracles in all of it.
	Thank you so much.
	I greatly appreciate You're taking the time with us here today.
	I want to remind people of the main website, healthrevealed.org.
	And here's your profile there, Leslie Powers.
	And thank you for being here today, and thank you for all that you do.
	Oh, thank you so much.
	This is a wonderful opportunity.
	Appreciate it.
	All right, and thank all of you for watching.
	What a fascinating conversation.
	We need more like this.
	I'm Mike Adams, of course, here at brightshown.com.
	And we have other guests also as part of this same collaboration.
	Of experts speaking about decentralization, taking power back, and owning, not just owning, but determining the outcome for your life that fits with your goals, your morals, and your values.
	And hopefully those values include personal freedom as well.
	But thank you for watching.
	I'm Mike Adams here of Brighteon.com.

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