FYI: For about three weeks, several people on gettr.com recommended a book called HOME DOCTOR (with the subtitle Practical Medicine for Every Household). It was a waste of money. Let the buyer beware.
You can still afford grass fed beef? I grab it when on sale and freeze it, but we have migrated to organ meats (liver, kidneys, thymus glands) diet, with lots of free range roast chicken in-between. You can grow root crops (potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips) and they store well over winter, and squash is good to have in the garden (winter and summer versions). Green and runner beans, and peas. Corn if you must. Herbs (thyme, rosemary, lavender, parsley, basil, sage, chamomile - medicinal also). Onions, garlic, and lots of cheap reading glasses (of various magnifications). Colloidal silver for internal/external antibiotic/wound-healing. Hoarding the vet medications (clavamox, ampicillin), bandages and dressing. Looking into a wood burning stove that allows for cooking also. And a solar powered generator. And a bicycle. Indoors you can grow pineapple, tomatoes, peppers. The plants of the nightshade family may not work for all. Berries/currants can be dried. One thing to keep in mind - salt. Essential for life and figure 1lb/year/person (gray Celtic with seaweed preferable). Iodine, hand-crank radio (ham radio +++ when sh*t hits fan nobody cares about a license). Chickens are easy to keep lay 1 egg a day each, no cockerel needed. Goats are easy, sweet, and provide milk, butter, cheese, and ultimately meat. And they eat the stuff nobody else wants. Just keep them fenced in. Cats for keeping vermin out, dogs for security (and warmth on cold winter nights). Hooks and lines for fishing, drops to add to water for purification. Diatomaceous earth for keeping chickens clean, bugs out of house. Cedar oil for fleas, mange, ants. That's off the top of my head. Ideally have/produce more than you need - for bartering. A water barrel to collect rainwater also.
It may become time for MANY people to open their minds and recall that America had a thriving Homoeopathic following with hospitals and medical schools before the pharmaceutical companies shut it down. There are a few histories that describe the details pretty well on-line.
Naturopathic remedies are often just as good, they are in many cases the blueprints for the patent medicines that are acetylated or hydrolized versions of the active ingredient in the expensive tablets.
Then those who want to go a bit more fringe can look into acupuncture, osteopathy, and a long list of other things perhaps ending with Reiki for those so inclined.
Chronic medication will be a real problem for Thyroid diseases and Diabetes.
Once you accept doctors do not know everything your thoughts start to make new connections and the idea that supplementation of Vitamin-D3 top reach natural serum levels will reduce over 80 diseases (adequate Magnesium is a cofactor for full benefits). A UV lamp properly used can provide the same in winter as sunshine in summer. Elimination of Fructose (Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup) can reverse a bunch of other diseases. Cutting back on Omega-6 fats to a few grammes per day from the usual USA diet of 20 grammes can reverse a bunch more, sometimes Type-2 Diabetes and halt coronary disease progress and if not too advanced I was just recently told that it can reverse maccular degeneration.
I think it would be cool if you could team up with a nutrition specialist and ask them for selections on what to hoard. Butter fat, grain fed drippings, Olive Oil, Coconut Oil and Linseed Oils are at the top of the healthy list. One prepper suggested Sun flower seeds but to be eaten sprouted as raw food, may be healthier as the dry seed has lots of bad omega-6 oils.
I have been digging into Vitamin-D3 for a while even before the plague and can answer questions if you want. I have collected some medical research for those that are interested.
FYI: For about three weeks, several people on gettr.com recommended a book called HOME DOCTOR (with the subtitle Practical Medicine for Every Household). It was a waste of money. Let the buyer beware.
You can still afford grass fed beef? I grab it when on sale and freeze it, but we have migrated to organ meats (liver, kidneys, thymus glands) diet, with lots of free range roast chicken in-between. You can grow root crops (potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips) and they store well over winter, and squash is good to have in the garden (winter and summer versions). Green and runner beans, and peas. Corn if you must. Herbs (thyme, rosemary, lavender, parsley, basil, sage, chamomile - medicinal also). Onions, garlic, and lots of cheap reading glasses (of various magnifications). Colloidal silver for internal/external antibiotic/wound-healing. Hoarding the vet medications (clavamox, ampicillin), bandages and dressing. Looking into a wood burning stove that allows for cooking also. And a solar powered generator. And a bicycle. Indoors you can grow pineapple, tomatoes, peppers. The plants of the nightshade family may not work for all. Berries/currants can be dried. One thing to keep in mind - salt. Essential for life and figure 1lb/year/person (gray Celtic with seaweed preferable). Iodine, hand-crank radio (ham radio +++ when sh*t hits fan nobody cares about a license). Chickens are easy to keep lay 1 egg a day each, no cockerel needed. Goats are easy, sweet, and provide milk, butter, cheese, and ultimately meat. And they eat the stuff nobody else wants. Just keep them fenced in. Cats for keeping vermin out, dogs for security (and warmth on cold winter nights). Hooks and lines for fishing, drops to add to water for purification. Diatomaceous earth for keeping chickens clean, bugs out of house. Cedar oil for fleas, mange, ants. That's off the top of my head. Ideally have/produce more than you need - for bartering. A water barrel to collect rainwater also.
It may become time for MANY people to open their minds and recall that America had a thriving Homoeopathic following with hospitals and medical schools before the pharmaceutical companies shut it down. There are a few histories that describe the details pretty well on-line.
Naturopathic remedies are often just as good, they are in many cases the blueprints for the patent medicines that are acetylated or hydrolized versions of the active ingredient in the expensive tablets.
Then those who want to go a bit more fringe can look into acupuncture, osteopathy, and a long list of other things perhaps ending with Reiki for those so inclined.
Chronic medication will be a real problem for Thyroid diseases and Diabetes.
Once you accept doctors do not know everything your thoughts start to make new connections and the idea that supplementation of Vitamin-D3 top reach natural serum levels will reduce over 80 diseases (adequate Magnesium is a cofactor for full benefits). A UV lamp properly used can provide the same in winter as sunshine in summer. Elimination of Fructose (Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup) can reverse a bunch of other diseases. Cutting back on Omega-6 fats to a few grammes per day from the usual USA diet of 20 grammes can reverse a bunch more, sometimes Type-2 Diabetes and halt coronary disease progress and if not too advanced I was just recently told that it can reverse maccular degeneration.
I think it would be cool if you could team up with a nutrition specialist and ask them for selections on what to hoard. Butter fat, grain fed drippings, Olive Oil, Coconut Oil and Linseed Oils are at the top of the healthy list. One prepper suggested Sun flower seeds but to be eaten sprouted as raw food, may be healthier as the dry seed has lots of bad omega-6 oils.
I have been digging into Vitamin-D3 for a while even before the plague and can answer questions if you want. I have collected some medical research for those that are interested.
https://cholecalciferol.miraheze.org/wiki/DOI