Ten is a little young. Is your daughter eating lots of meat which have hormones added to them? I noticed when my own daughter was growing up, her friends who ate lots more meat than we did developed much earlier and began their menses early too.

Yeah, I like Oreos too although I do not eat refined sugar often at all so Oreos are not a big temptation. I love the idea of them since I have many fond memories of dipping them in milk. You are right about the histamine reactions of the itchy nose, even the ears, are symptoms of parasites. Certainly, I see people swiping their noses and that is the first thing I think off. Brittle fingernails is another good sign to look for. Yay that you are doing your cleanses though! Certainly you may find you lose more than a few pounds since once the parsites are gone, your cravings diminish and you will find you are more nutritionally sated by the food you are eating since the parasites are not getting the cream off the top. You may want to investigate your candida cleansing for down the road. We all have yeast but an overgrowth can cause problems and if you have never done a cleanse, its simple and the diet requirements can also contribute to weight loss.

The youthing ceremony happens always on the Harvest Moon in the fall. I wish I had more details about the history but its something which there is not much written about. We do not even write about it. I know there is something to it since my friend who does it every year just this summer stopped her menses and she is 66.

My first youthing ceremony was interesting since people flew in from all over the world just for that one day!

Last year, I was here alone with a friend who had evacuated from New Orleans who had also done the youthing ceremony many times. Most of our youthing crowd was doing the ceremony up in Arkansas but we did our own ceremony here and my friend made a big fire and firewalked which was really nice. It was especially nice to have the ceremony be simple and profound and of course I enjoyed watching him walk the fire over and over.

They do hold the ceremony in Germany if that is an easy place for you to get a military plane ride to. Google the youthing ceremony later in the summer and you should be able to find someone who is conducting the ceremony. The one I do will have something about it being an African ceremony or lineage. There seem to be other kinds, Native American, which is not the one I have done.

I hope you have a great trip back home to the warm Hawaiian waters and a nice dose of American culture...ggg. You might have to buy some Paul Newman version of Oreos...ggg...healthy....yum...heee heee....

Have a great day~~!

be happy, be well,
Zoe

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