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Local Event: Herbal and Nutritional Support for Lyme Disease

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Join us for this helpful and informative event!

Presenter Carol Jacobs is a life-long student of the plants, with formal education at Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies (RMCBC-'96). She's currently an "Herbalus Educatorus" in SE Minnesota, after 20 years of working in the Woodlands & Prairies of the Midwest Corridor, from the Great Lakes of MN & WI down to the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas & the Piney Woods of NE Texas. She's a member of North Country Herbalist Guild (NCHG) and current Co-Director of Coulee Region Herbal Institute.

Her special interests include:

  • Going Local! (Foods & Herbs)
  • Local Probiotics; Native Plants
  • Woodland Walks & Prairie Wisdoms (history & lore)
  • Lyme Dis-ease & other conditions with similar underlying causes & treatment approaches through diet & herbs (Thyroid, Adrenal Exhaustion, Fibromyalgia, ADHD, etc.).

When: Saturday August 7th, 1pm -3pm lecture, Q & A to follow

Where: Community Room at Vernon Memorial Hospital, 507 S. Main St, Viroqua, WI

Directions: Turn East on Hickory Street, hospital parking immediately on left. Come through main hospital entrance, we will direct you to community rooms. (Note: Community rooms at the hospital not the Gunderson Clinic)

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Researchers Need Help from Lyme Disease diagnosed people! There are a number of research organizations attempting to better understand Lyme disease as well as to develop better diagnostic test kits. On the diagnostics side, biotechnology companies like SeraCare Life Sciences and BioSpecialties Corporation run a number of diagnostics research studies for people diagnosed with Lyme Disease, paying participants $400+ to donate blood samples which are used to develop Lyme Disease diagnostics test kits (see: http://www.idonateplasma.com.) On the research side, Columbia University, and the Lyme Disease Research Foundation of Maryland are researching the proteomics, diagnostics, and epidemiology of Lyme Disease. On the clinical trial side, the National Institute of Health' sponsor a number of clinical trials.  
 
 
 
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For daily up-to-date information of Lyme Disease research, check out this Twitter List: https://twitter.com/IDonatePlasma/biotechnology-insights  
 
Posted @ Monday, August 02, 2010 2:51 PM by jeff daniels
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