Got the Sniffles yet?

Got the Sniffles yet?

 

STEEPING THE SNIFFLES: 5 TEAS TO FIGHT A COLD

August 05, 2021 by Natasha Nesic

Revel in the luxury of our Lavender Lemon. This bright caffeine-free herbal blend is a delight to the senses with an intoxicating aroma, smooth citrusy flavor, and soft whispers of lavender. Calming and soothing so you can unwind from a busy day.

If you're looking for an easy going blend that will gently lull you to sleep, you're looking in the wrong place! Our Double Ginger packs a supercharged punch that is sure to satisfy any ginger lover with its in-your-face flavor. Don't let its caffeine-free facade fool you, this tisane is not for the faint of heart.

Has anyone else noticed the obscene amount of rain that has been occurring this summer?

Maybe it’s a Northeast Coast thing. I’m in New York City, where the theme of this season seems to be, “Humidity: The Musical.” It’s as if as soon as the clouds start gathering up their share of sweltering heat, then we’re immediately due for a storm. (Not very awesome during a torrential downpour, when your local Dungeons and Dragons group meets over forty blocks away from your humble living space and you, dear genius, forgot your umbrella because the gigantic handbook takes up most of the space in your backpack.)

But regardless of where you’re residing, if you’re running into rainfall, then you know what’s coming next:

Sniffles.

Sniffles are the sad baby cousin of a full-blown cold, and usually come after being caught in the embrace of an unexpected shower.

In previous years, I would save my arsenal of sniffles teas for the autumn, when folks are getting back to school or other close-quarters living situations, and immune systems are recalibrating themselves for new invaders.

This year, however, the post-rain sniffles are hitting extra early, so why not be proactive about defensive measures?

Here are a few anti-sniffle blends that should be sure to knock them out in a few sips:

Arabica Chai

Composed of arabica tea leaves, cinnamon, lemongrass, ginger, cardamom, cloves, red peppercorn- what’s not to love in this blend?

If you’re the kind of person who normally shies away from any menu items that have a cautionary chili pepper next to them, this is where I’m going to encourage you to abandon any fear of peppercorn as you pour yourself a cup of this spicy, spicy concoction. Peppercorn contains piperine, a highly-studied compound that has immense health benefits and can even help with chronic illness. Get some of that in you, pronto!

Lavender Lemon

Made of apple pieces, lemongrass, orange peel, blue cornflowers, lavender, and natural flavors, this sweet thing has the power to tame the sniffliest dragon.

Lavender has been used historically to soothe the senses, and is proven by modern medicine to effectively calm the nervous system. You’ll get some great naps out of this, and sleep is the most underrated tool to fight illness.

Double Ginger

It’s the Return of the Peppercorn! Blended with ginger, green rooibos tea, natural flavors, red and black peppercorn, orange, marigold flowers, and strawberries, you can be sure that it takes no prisoners if there’s anything awry in your immunity.

The heat of the ginger really punches up the power of the pepper, which is great because ginger is also an incredible anti-inflammatory. Red noses from excessive sniffling, begone!

Citrus Mate

Goodness, did I forget to include a caffeinated option? Well, this should certainly do the trick for you in the morning. With Yerba mate tea, orange, marigold, and natural flavors, this blend is a sensational punch of vitamin C from its citrus component. Vitamin C is crucial for a healthy immune system (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5707683/), and you definitely want that on your side when doing battle against airborne bugs.

Peach Serenity

I got super excited for a moment there, but then quickly realized that this is a different kind of Serenity than the one that belongs to Joss Whedon… Anyway! This blend is truly serene, made of apple pieces, rose hips, natural flavor, pineapple, peach, chamomile flowers, and lemon verbena. The final ingredient possesses similar qualities to lavender in its calming nature as it soothes cranky nerves and protects against inflammation.

Given all the different options you now have to fight the oncoming sniffs, you also want to make sure that you have the best equipment to use each of them to their best advantage. For such purposes, I always recommend the VarieTEA kettle for accurate temperatures when brewing, especially if you’re ever unsure how how hot the water should be before you steep a cup.

And if you’re feeling a little blue from being stuck inside in all this rain, then try treating yourself to some uplifting teaware like this Midori Matcha Bowl— it’s the perfect shade of happy blue to undo any sad blue that might come your way!

Cheers!

Natasha Nesic

NASM Certified Personal Trainer and Nutrition Coach, Founder of Work Life Fitness

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Growing Metals?

OVERNIGHT POLICY: Equilibrium/Sustainability In Southeast Asia, farmers plant shrubs, harvest metals Today is Wednesday. Welcome to Equilibrium, a newsletter that tracks the growing global battle over the future of sustainability. Subscribe here: thehill.com/newsletter-signup. Farming has never been much of a gold mine. But that could change for farmers on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, according to Grist. There, a local plant serves as a “hyperaccumulator” for metals in the soil. As it grows, the plant pulls “nickel, zinc, cobalt, and even gold” up into its stalk and leaves. Every six months or so, villagers shave off the top foot of growth, burn it and pull valuable metals from the ash. This process is called phytomining or agromining. And at current commodity rates, Grist noted, it could let farmers “net a cool $3,800 per acre of nickel” — which is both a very respectable return for a cash crop and spares the landscape and water from the impacts of open pit mining. Today we’ll look at how costs are rising for another sector: insurance companies, which critics say are now at risk from climate change that they have helped incentivize. Then we’ll check on how penguins are doing in Antarctica and whether U.S. endangered species protections can reach all the way at the poles. For Equilibrium, we are Saul Elbein and Sharon Udasin. Please send tips or comments to Saul at selbein@thehill.com or Sharon at sudasin@thehill.com. Follow us on Twitter: @saul_elbein and @sharonudasin. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGkZkPJccgKjLnrVDPMhbRtdChM 8/4/2021, online, personal-email.

In Everything: Be

 

In Everything:  Be

New King James Version
Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and of good courage, for you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to inherit it.

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Who we are

 

TRADITION AT ITS CORE

Annedda, or “tree of life,” is the name that the First Nations people of Stadacona, Quebec, gave the tree whose bark they boiled to treat scurvy when it crippled Jacques Cartier’s crew in the icy waters of the St. Lawrence in the winter of 1535. Historians and naturalists still argue about how to identify the mythical tree that miraculously saved lives otherwise endangered by the “great disease,” as documented by Captain Cartier in his writings. We can leave the historians to their quarrel, but the “miracle” can only have come from one of our great local pine trees.

SCIENCE TO THE RESCUE

Four centuries later, a French researcher passing through Quebec became intrigued by the story of Annedda, the “tree of life.” Jacques Maquelier would go on to discover the properties of the proanthocyanidins in the bark of white pine trees (Pinus strobus). These antioxidant substances would become a subject of intense research during the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

The research was of particular interest to Quebec native Mario Borduas, the founder of Atsenti, a company that made high quality medicinal extracts for the herbal and natural health product (NHP) industries. As a curious and creative visionary, this entrepreneur decided build a team of experienced researchers to finally unravel the secrets of Annedda, the “Tree of Life”—identify its active substances, properly extract them and purify them, and create a highly effective and safe medicinal ingredient of pharmaceutical quality, approved by Health Canada.

“In order to maximize the medicinal properties of the bark of the white pine tree, we needed to penetrate the substance and fully understand its molecular structure,” says Borduas. “And that’s exactly what we have been doing since the beginning of the 1990s: we have developed an all natural extraction process that respects the integrity of the pine’s bark while providing the best possible ingredient to make safe, effective natural health products.” It is noteworthy that results of recent studies (August 2013) conducted by other researchers around the world have confirmed those obtained nearly 20 years ago by Mario’s team.

From an early age Mario knew he wanted to study medicine. The subject fascinated him and two of his uncles were doctors. “But I quickly understood becoming a doctor would not be the best way for me to give back to society: I thought that the medicine being taught then was too focused on synthetic products promoted by the pharmeceutical industry.” So instead he bought a farm and began cultivating medicinal plants. Then he built a distillery to extract the essential oils, or what he considered to be the plant’s soul. He also kept researching medicinal plants to isolate, extract and purify their active molecules. He first spent five years researching the extraction of proanthocyanids from the bark of the North American eastern white pine, and he has not stopped since. “I now know what makes a natural product mediocre, acceptable or superior.”

And when it comes to health products, Mario expects superior quality and nothing less. Having suffered from chronic osteoarthritis for over thirty years, and undergone spinal cord surgery as a result of the disease which had progressed to a point of debilitation, he had to find a solution. He was therefore very motivated to pursue research on natural anti-antinflammatory medication. “Because of the disease, I had to take synthetic anti-inflammatory drugs such as Vioxx. But I knew I could do better. So I stopped taking the drugs even before Vioxx was pulled off the shelves due to its side effects.”

A MARRIAGE OF THE TRADITIONAL AND THE MODERN

Atsenti would then become active in the development of modern technologies based on the latest scientific research, to find the best way to extract active substances from pine bark and produce the highest quality medicinal extracts. The company’s head office in Saint-Hyacinthe is a modern facility where NHPs and neutraceuticals can be manufactured in compliance with Health Canada’s GMPs (under license issued by Health Canada.)1

Atsenti’s flagship product, the white pine bark extract standardized to 95% proanthocyanidins has been certified under an exclusive worldwide license issued in 1997 by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,2 for its method of extraction, purification and isolation of active substances from the bark of the white pine. The white pine grows abundantly in eastern Canada and its bark makes for an exceptionally high quality raw material because the trees grow here free of pesticides, chemical fertilizers and other industrial pollution.

Thus was born Annedda®, a line of products all containing the exclusive extract of white pine bark, among other ingredients.

But the company’s scope of activity has a much wider reach. Atsenti also makes extracts of red cabbage, wild blueberry, cranberry, devil’s claw root, etc., which go into the making of a variety of Annedda® products targeting a plethora of health issues.

As part of its production of high quality medicinal plant extracts, Atsenti also holds a worldwide license for the manufacture and marketing of a specially designed inert particles spouted bed dryer issued by Natural Resources Canada.3 This process obtains extracts that are of the highest quality because they are dried quickly at a low temperature.

1- Manufacturing License #300173 issued by Health Canada

2- License #LIC-01185-326934 issued by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for the exclusive process of extraction, purification and isolation of active substances from the bark of the white pine tree.

3- Worldwide license #CA0505-A-41 for the manufacture and marketing of a specially designed inert particles spouted bed dryer issued by Natural Resources Canada (CanmetENERGY), 2009.

https://www.annedda.com/en/who-we-are.html

17 year old-Wise Guy

 

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during my last flight:  this guy was sitting beside me; I enjoyed my flight with Ryan