I took this photo on my beach.
In some NJ schools, a study shows 40% of girls this age now “identify” as something other than she/her.
Additionally, in 15 years most of these girls will be overweight or obese. Come visit me on the beach and tell me I’m wrong.
So, there’s a strong possibility that half of these cute girls whose grandparents set up a volleyball net for them will be seriously harmed by one or both of those cultural trends.
Some of my neighbors in their 60’s live on the beach but I have never seen them outside of their house, in the last year since I’ve lived here.
They can’t. Their knees, or their health and energy to go for a walk on the shoreline, or both, are shot.
Recently, we watched a 30-yo public school teacher lying on a towel spend 10 mins trying to roll over and get up.
Her husband was trying to help her. She could not get to her feet by herself. We would have helped, but we didn't want to humiliate her.
It was right out of that Pixar film, Wall-E. I have no wish to be unkind, but this kind of health problem doesn’t happen in a month or a year…
…it happens so gradually that I’ve many times heard that people struggling with obesity say that after years of avoiding mirrors and scales, when their health tanks and they’re forced onto a scale–they do not recognize themselves.
It happens not just because of calories, but also because of synthetic chemicals in our processed foods that are “obesogens” and endocrine disruptors.
I have come to believe that “calories in, calories out” is complete mythology. Many of the very overweight people around us don’t actually eat that much more than you do. And many of the very thin people around you constantly force-feed themselves, and cannot gain weight. They’re on the “flip side” of the same coin–their gut/liver dysbiosis keeping them from absorbing nutrition.
The morbidly obese often say things like, “This isn’t really me. How did this happen?” How did it happen, exactly? Sure, some people have a disorder where they say they can’t be satiated, and they eat all day, every day. But this does NOT describe most very overweight people.
I’ve known too many people who eat a practically orthorexic diet, eat very little, and are still overweight.
This is why I’ve been teaching people for well over 25 years now, to eat the most whole, organic, unadulterated diet possible. With greens, vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts and seeds, and organic whole grains the crux of their diet.
(If one of those food classes is something you’re offended by or reactive to, you could leave them out.)
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The last 10 years, I have helped nearly 20,000 people detoxify. Most people won’t do it. Because most people want to find detoxification in a supplement. Plus, mostly people who are seriously suffering can’t imagine finding the energy for food preparation and a few protocols.
They don’t have the “vision” of how the time spent in detoxing may cause a “net gain” of hours in every day, of productivity, clear thinking, weight loss, and body systems operating better.
I wish I had seen it work, to simply take a supplement and find the body detoxified, and healthy. But we are here for those who want to do a rigorous protocol where thousands of detoxers tell us how it changed their life forever.
They virtually always finish the program, and retain many recipes and habits to STAY well, after getting well. The average weight loss is 12 pounds, and we’ve had detoxers report up to 27 pounds lost in 26 days.
When the body clears toxins, the fat stores don’t have their important function of hoarding toxicity, to protect critical organ systems. Yes, your fat stores have a critical role.
Those fat stores aren’t needed any more, when a great deal of toxicity floods out, primarily using a protocol we teach you in the detox, for rapid elimination as oxygenating, nutrient dense, alkalizing food creates optimal conditions for RELEASE of hundreds of chemical, metallic, volatile organic compounds, and plastics.
It’s hard, though you’re never hungry in this protocol that achieves very similar benefits to fasting–but we HAVE to bring the “toxic body burden” down, to eliminate the “obesogen” chemicals we ate in our food and were exposed to via a variety of products.
We’re also clearing endocrine disruptors that the body cannot keep up with eliminating, in its normal daily detoxification processes.
I bet if you pay attention to the obesity epidemic, and ask people questions, like I do, you’ll notice that who is obese and who is thin–isn’t exactly what most assume. There’s more going on, than meets the eye.
I have a friend who moved here from a country-club neighborhood in NJ and she sends me pics of people in Florida and says, "WTH is the deal in this state?"
Something very strange is going on, with people, and I suspect food additives create some conditions in the body that make it hard for some people to lose weight, and hard for others to gain it.
(There’s also the very high rate of alcohol consumption in Florida contributing. The problem appears to be multifactorial.)
On the other subject, the 10,000X increase in gender dysphoria, Highwire recently and Dr. Jordan Peterson, lately, have been deep diving into many “detransitioning” young adults who were wrecked by the “affirming” and medical interventions–
–even though they generally had a parent or both parents trying to push back on the agenda that caused their son or daughter to want to “transition.”
Some alt-media show hosts are interviewing the parents, and the professionals who leave the “gender transitioning / affirming” careers, and are speaking up.
Parents who disagree that their 13-yo should start taking synthetic hormones of the opposite gender, and getting surgeries, are traumatized and attacked sometimes even by the other parent and the siblings–as well as by the schools and the medical industrial complex.
It’s right out of Dr Seuss’s The Sneetches. Please get that book for your kids and discuss its relevance in the world they see around them.
(Tattoos, and gender transitioning, come to mind. Get the tattoo on. Then, when it’s unpopular again, go back through the Sneetches’ tube, and have them removed. Cut your genitals and body parts off, to attempt to mimic a boy’s genitals, or vice versa.
Then change your mind in adulthood, if you realize you actually want to be the gender you were born as, if adolescence with all its typical confusion passes and you know more about who you are. By then, you have a herculean task, to somehow reclaim your gender after years of drugs and surgeries.)
Kids are not future-thinking yet! They need us, the parents, for that!
She speaks of a Zoom call she did with parents of trans kids, who all turned off their cameras as she validated their trauma, from being attacked by everyone from teachers, to the rest of the family, to the medical profession.
She was told later that people turned their cameras off because they were crying.
Is anyone else out there, in the helping professions, validating the parents’ deep trauma from their daughter announcing she wants to be a boy, feeling oppressed by society “assigning” her gender.
And suddenly, the healthcare system wants to get started, putting that child on drugs and putting her under anesthesia and the knife, repeatedly?
One of my colleagues had an only child who decided at the age of 16 that she wanted to be a boy. I asked my colleague if she’d ever seen any signs of her daughter not feeling like she was “in the right body” before, and she said, “No!”
It’s been several years since Alexis became Alex (pseudonyms). This child went from Zero to Hero, socially, embraced by the LGBTQIA++ crowd. (There’s a second + on the end of it now. Who knows what those two placeholders are for.)
Feminists 50 years ago would have been outraged and blamed it on the fact that men earn more and enjoy more respect in the professional world–
–so who can blame young girls exposed to a lot of social media, for preferring to be boys?
We have gone from strong advocacy for women–to helping young girls “become” boys.
At only 11, not “fitting in” at school, she was shown idealized visual images of women, when she knew she did not fit that mold, and never would.
Her parents couldn’t have known all the social conditioning she was receiving on her devices. 11-year olds aren’t really great at communicating. If you’re a parent, you’ve noticed.
Feminists of the last two generations would have fought for women and girls with body dysmorphia. But they don’t, now. They’re cowed into silence and adherence to the LGBTQIA++ agenda.
On the other hand, my former 20-year best friend said “I would rather have a son than a dead daughter.”
Her daughter was refusing to wear girl clothes, and stating that she was a boy, in early childhood. In this child’s case, she hadn’t been “conditioned” by anyone.
At the time I couldn’t respond to that. I didn’t know what a hard-coded talking point that was, in this movement. (“I’d rather have a son, than a dead daughter.”)
(Who wants to argue that a suicidal child shouldn’t be helped? I didn’t. And I didn’t yet know any transitioned people, let alone people after that transition, who are still deeply unhappy and even suicidal. Now we have data that people have increased suicidal ideation, post-transition. Not less.)
All of this child’s five older siblings were struggling. With mental health disorders, autism for two of them, and a wide range of physical and emotional issues.
And if a “transitioned” adolescent or young adult changes their minds about the gender they’ve attempted to become, by drugs and surgery, the trans movement turns on them. So much for “inclusion.”
I even paid the child’s psych ward bill, the child of my 20-year best friend, when she had suicidal ideation, as she began to develop breasts she didn’t want, and she had been posing as a boy, in school and in her social life, since early in elementary school.
So what do we do, then, with the suicidal post-transitioned, testosterone- and Lupron-damaged kids who change their mind as young adults? Other drugs besides Lupron are used, but Lupron is common for treating adolescents. It’s the same drug used to chemically castrate repeat sex offenders, in prison.
“Transitioned” kids who change their minds are abandoned by the medical profession and betrayed by the trans community, who embraced and even lionized them when they wanted to disavow their biological gender.
A 24-yo detransitioning young lady in the UK named Keira Bell won her legal case against the National Health Institute who approved gender transitioning for minors. Three high-court judges said teenagers under 18 may need to consult the courts for authorization of puberty blocking and cross-sex hormones.
I realize I’m covering TWO topics here in one post. These young, healthy, slender girls in this photo–over half of which will likely be overweight 15 years from now, and also the issue that some will have attempted to “change” their gender.
How these two subjects come together:
If WE don’t teach our children healthy habits and values in the first 18 years, especially the first 13 years–who will?
Recently, John and I went to breakfast with some friends of ours, a lesbian couple, and one of them is recovering from a devastating surgery after her ovary grew a 15-pound cyst.
The cyst a surgeon removed was the size of full-term twins.
Our friend has been struggling to recover, from the surgery apparently nicking a nerve, affecting her ability to walk. She can barely walk, with a walker, after the surgery.
At breakfast, I told the story of my ovary rupturing when I was 27, and I nearly bled out, before I was operated on, in the middle of the night, by an on-call physician while I was out of state visiting family. Had I waited till morning to get help, they told me, I would have died.
Our friend with the 15-lb cyst, her wife told a terrible story about how endometriosis has her organs sticking together, causing her back pain, gut pain every month, and lots of complications. And she, too, has had a ruptured ovarian cyst.
After the three of us women had shared our stories, I looked at John, the only man at the table, and said, “I bet you’re feeling pretty glad, right about now, that you’re a dude?” He exhaled and said, “Sure am!”
Not everything about being a woman is fun. I have nothing but compassion for these young girls who may find themselves in a trans community online, or a feminist community, and end up being steeped in “how terrible it is to be a woman” content.
It’s not, though, not really. Men have their struggles too. I like being a woman, even if I don’t like everything about it–and I’m grateful I had the chance to be a mother, experiences I wouldn’t trade for anything in the world. Women are the mothers of the world. We are not “birthing people.”
I think we have a lot of conversations we need to have with our kids. Like talking to our children and grandchildren about (for instance) why you drink a quart of green smoothie a day, and how it would help them, too.
I always tried to talk about it in ways kids and teenagers care about. Not far-off consequences. (My mother left me news articles about how all the suntanning I did would give me skin cancer in my 40’s. I thought it was dumb, and mostly ignored it–because my 40’s were a lifetime away. I literally had the thought, “In my 40’s, I won’t care what I look like.”)
Try to talk to your kids and grands in ways that immediately impact how they look, how they do at school, how they feel, and how they perform in sports.
Nothing we can possibly teach rivals modeling healthy habits in our own lives–not the habits of going on diets, with our own weight yo-yo’ing–but the daily habits in our lives that our children see are consistent.
Those are the things we teach them that will impact children the most. The things YOU DO, to tend to your health, and the conversations about why you do them.
All my children make and drink green smoothies. All my children were resistant to it, in childhood. I hope that gives you younger parents some hope.
And we have to stand up for our kids, in the most confusing stage of life, even with popular culture against us.
After that first 18 years, parents don’t have nearly as much influence as young parents think they will. I think the older parents will back me up on this.
As a young parent, you think you’re the only one whose kids will hang on your every word, for life, rather than just till they’re 11. Or 13, if you’re lucky.
Somewhere around age 11 to 13, that “latency” phase occurs, where kids begin to look more to their peer group, than their parents, for cues on how to live.
That is the age at which parents begin to see the whites of their kids’ eyes a lot–somewhere between age 11 and 13. Lots of eye rolling. If your child is mature, she might start the eye-rolling at age 11.
I’m not kidding–it’s the more mature ones who start thinking for themselves and questioning you, at age 11. (It’s a good thing, while difficult. Hang in there, Mom and Dad.)
I’ve said this many times, but I am entirely strategic on how and where and when I talk to my kids about values that are important to me, and I think should be important to them.
“Car time” was my favorite. The kid can’t walk away. Or sitting in a sauna or hot tub. Or sitting with them, on their bed, before they go to sleep.
And I think very carefully about how I’m going to say it. In advance.
I’ve found starting with “You probably already know this, but…” helps a lot. The child is totally disarmed, because you started by giving her credit.
Consider having three very short conversations, on different days, rather than delivering a long lecture. (They tune out after maybe 60 seconds. You’ve probably noticed.)
There’s an exception to every rule. Perhaps there are 16-year olds who don’t roll their eyes at most of what their parents say that runs counter to the popular culture narrative.
But, it’s very, very common, “developmentally normal,” in fact. And if it’s happening to you–you’re not alone.
In young adulthood, it’s even worse, the tendency of young-adult children to even cancel their parents for, for instance, speaking up about the poorly tested injections that now rather clearly impart no benefit, and are causing great harm.
Great patience is called for, on the part of the parent. The child is being bombarded by that messaging everywhere he goes. And he doesn’t have the negative experiences with the medical industrial complex that you have. Nor the media.
The trick is to help him see it, before he has to learn “the hard way.”
The biggest objective is to leave the door open, in the relationship and the conversation. So that there’s always the possibility of the next conversation. Listening helps. Validating helps. Asking questions helps. Not getting upset or emotional helps.
And dripping stories into your conversations, of the people around you (and them), with the severe health consequences from having fallen for the narrative, helps.
When the natural “rebellion” of pre-adolescence, and adolescence, and adulthood, actually translates into reactivity against the parent’s rebellion against Pharma–you have a recipe for disaster. Where your child’s “rebellion” may actually take the form of complete compliance to an agenda that doesn’t have your child’s best interests at heart, like you do.
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🙏🏼 THANK YOU.... Such valuable and important information! I will definitely share it❗️
I so appreciate your thoughtful, reasonable arguments. Thank you so much for being a voice for truth. My heart breaks for these children who are have so much emotional confusion and pain that they are mutilating themselves. And then they STILL don't find peace. Because peace doesn't come from external appearance, but from within. Thank you for all you do.