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It’s five am, and I am up sleepless. Woke up restless with heavy stomachache, gasping for air, unwell, body aching. No, it’s not Covid. After spending two beautiful months ´exiled ´into wilderness, I came back to the city, to Rio de Janeiro.
Within a few hours, my husband started having his regular allergic reactions (something he had completely forgotten about in the last two months), my daughter fell prey to itchy skin and UTI symptoms. My digestion immediately deteriorated, making me feel pain, foggy-headed, lethargic. Immediately, our sleep became restless, our energy levels dropped, we became anxious & unwell. Doing my breathing exercises in the morning, the lack of adequate oxygen for the first time became apparent to me.
The pandemic we are facing today is not caused by JUST a virus. Pathogens have co-existed with us since the dawn of times. They are part of our existence, and always have been. Virus and bacteria became a problem when we were squeezed into right nature-less conglomerations of people (under a fancy name of metropolis), lost contact with nature, eating denatured foods, radiated with damaging wave frequencies, and breathing air lacking adequate oxygen. As we moved from the countryside, we feel prey to illness, surviving rather than thriving. Over 15 million people worldwide die from stroke and heart disease each year; another 7…