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Functional gastrointestinal disorders such Gastritis, Reflux, GERD, bloating, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, chronic diarrhea and/or constipation are the most common GI problems in the general population. About 1 in 4 people in the U.S. have their activities limited by these disorders. These conditions also account for nearly half of the GI problems seen by doctors and are primarily caused by diet and our inability to properly handle the stress in our lives.

How Stress Affects Your Life: When you’re under stress your sympathetic nervous system's (SNS) primary goal is your survival, so it elicits a ‘fight for your life or run for your life’ stress response. This sympathetic stress response is triggered by any perceived physical or emotional threat. However, in modern life, we cannot run away from a traffic jam or punch out our boss. In today's modern society chronic stress attacks us in many ways.

Your body/mind can become chronically stressed due to work, relationships, finances, poor nutrition, inadequate sleep, inadequate exercise, chronic pain and disease, or any combination of the above. No matter what triggers the chronic stress, it leads to the same physiological response.

When this reaction is triggered short term it leads to survival, but when triggered chronically over time, it leads to damage, especially gastrointestinal damage.

How Stress Ruins Your Digestion: With chronic stress, your parasympathetic nervous system, your rest and repair system that oversees digestion, is turned down. Your sympathetic nervous system, your fight or flight system, is turned up. Under stress blood is diverted away from the GI tract to the muscles, you then have a very hard time digesting food and maintaining the gastrointestinal lining.

This makes perfect sense, why worry about digestion and repair when you're running from a bear; you don't paint your house when it's on fire. Therefore, this chronic stress response leads to poor absorption of nutrition, improper GI motility and a very unhappy stomach and intestines, in other words dyspepsia, GERD, chronic constipation, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

For Example-Stress, GERD, Gastritis and Ulcers: Dyspepsia, gastritis and ulcers of the upper G.I. have been linked to stress for a long time. When it was proposed that ulcers were caused by the bacteria H. Pylori, there was much skepticism until verified by subsequent studies. Gastritis and ulcers are now known to be caused by an interaction between stress and H. Pylori bacteria.

The actual mechanism is poorly understood, but it is known that stress reduces blood flow to the stomach causing a reduction of stomach secretions. Hydrochloric acid (HCL) necessary for digestion is reduced and the bicarbonate mucin that coats the stomach wall, protecting it from being digested, is also reduced. H. Pylori have also been shown to reduce stomach mucin production. When there is reduced stomach mucin coating the lining, the hydrochloric acid needed for proper digestion, can injure the stomach wall. This leads to gastritis, heartburn and even ulcers.

Healing Digestive Disorders Naturally: The life altering nightmare of functional gastrointestinal disorders such as gastritis, Reflux, GERD, Leaky Gut, SIBO, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) with chronic diarrhea and/or constipation and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) can be healed naturally once and for all and without dangerous drugs. First and foremost, dietary changes must be taken to remove any offending agents that may be damaging your G.I. tract, such as junk food and food allergies.

Then, proper supplemented nutrients must be utilized to help repair the gastrointestinal tract. Laboratory testing such as a Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis can be extremely helpful in identifying what nutritional support is necessary. After instituting proper nutritional support, it is vital that patients are properly trained in how to handle their stress.

These exceptional healing modalities will be discussed and demonstrated at my upcoming Stress and Gastrointestinal Problems at the Pain and Brain Healing Center. I will also discuss how you can conquer these baffling and disabling health problems. Want to know more, attend one of my upcoming FREE SEMINARS! These seminars will be held Wednesday March 13th 7:00 to 8:00 PM at the Pain and Brain Healing Center. For details and directions please call the clinic at 763-862-7100 to reserve your space, seating is limited. Or, make an appointment for your FREE Consultation with Dr. Fors.

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Dr. Greg Fors, D.C. is a Board-certified Neurologist (IBCN), certified in Applied Herbal Sciences (NWHSU) and acupuncture. As the clinic director of the Pain and Brain Healing Center in Blaine Minnesota he specializes in a functional medicine approach to fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, digestive disorders, thyroid and adrenal disorders, depression, autism and ADHD. If you have any questions or comments regarding this article you can contact Dr. Fors at 763-862-7100 He is a sought-after lecturer for various post graduate departments and state associations. Dr. Fors is the author of the highly acclaimed book, “Why We Hurt” available through booksellers everywhere.

Stress and Digestive Problems A healthy Gastrointestinal tract (GI) is the root of good health 40% of Americans suffer with Functional GI Disorders: GERD, IBS, Gastritis, Constipation, Dyspepsia End the nightmare now, naturally through proper nutritional support and stress reduction

"My life was made a nightmare by reflux and IBS, thank you Dr. Fors! My entire health is now better than ever." Marcia S.

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► On Feb. 24, 1836, Texan Col. William Travis sends a desperate plea for help when the Mexican army of 5,000 soldiers badly outnumber the several hundred defenders of the Alamo. His message ended with the famous last words, “Victory or Death.” “Remember the Alamo” quickly became the rallying cry for the Texas revolution. ► On Feb. 19, 1847, the first rescuers reach surviving members of the Donner Party, a group of California-bound emigrants stranded by snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Of the 89 original members of the Donner Party, only 45 reached California. ► On Feb. 22, 1918, swept along by hysterical fears of German spies, the

Montana legislature passes a Sedition Law that severely restricts freedom of speech and assembly. The law made it illegal to criticize the federal government or the armed forces during time of war.

secrets to the Soviet Union. At least 10 U.S. spies in Russia were killed after Ames revealed their identities, and more were sent to Russian gulags.

$910,264.49 in today’s dollars. The studio also altered her birth certificate, making it appear that she was a year younger.

► On Feb. 28, 1844, President John Tyler cruises the Potomac with 400 others aboard the U.S. Navy’s new steam frigate USS Princeton. The Princeton carried a new 12-inch, 27,000-pound cannon called the Peacemaker. During a test firing, the cannon exploded, killing several aboard, including two members ► On Feb. 20, 1986, France and of Tyler’s cabinet.

Britain announce the Chunnel, a tunnel to be built under the English Channel. ► On March 2, 1929, The Jones Act, Construction began in late 1987 and the last gasp of the Prohibition, is passed the chunnel was finally completed in by Congress. The act strengthened the 1994. Attempts to dig a channel tunnel federal penalties for bootlegging. date back to 1883, and Napoleon drew blueprints for a tunnel in 1802. ► On Feb. 27, 1936, Shirley Temple receives a new contract from 20th ► On Feb. 21, 1994, CIA operative Century Fox that will pay the 7-yearAldrich Ames is arrested for selling old star $50,000 per film, equal to

► On Feb. 26, 1949, from Carswell AFB in Texas, the Lucky Lady II, a B-50 Superfortress, takes off on the first nonstop round-the-world flight. The Lucky Lady II was refueled four times in the air and returned after 94 hours.

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• Research shows that conceiving twins is more common among older women (62% of twins are born to mothers over the age of 30), taller women, women who are overweight, and women who are breastfeeding at the time they get pregnant.

• Twins are most commonly born to mothers between the age of 30 and 39, likely due to the fact that older women tend to release more than one egg per cycle.

• According to a study published in “The Journal of Reproductive Medicine”, women who consume dairy products may increase their chances of conceiving twins. When researchers looked at the twin birth rates of vegans compared to non-vegans, they found that non-vegans were five times more likely to have twins.

It may be due to the fact that the level of a certain protein called IGF (for “insulinlike growth factor”) is 13 times higher in women who consume dairy than in vegans. This protein increases the ovaries’ sensitivity to the follicle stimulating

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hormone which triggers ovulation.

• Mothers of twins tend to live longer lives than moms of non-twins.

• The word “gemini” is the Latin word for twins. The constellation Gemini was named for mythological twins, Pollux and Castor, whose mother was Leda.

Leda was seduced by Zeus (who took the form of a swan) and later that evening also shared a bed with her husband, Tyndareus, king of Sparta. As a result, she gave birth to fraternal twins with different fathers. Although this is all according to mythology, it is actually possible for this to happen in real life, since sperm can survive for up to five days. As the son of a god, Pollux was immortal, but as the son of a human, Castor was mortal.

According to the myth, when Castor was mortally wounded in a fight, Pollux donated half of his immortality to his twin brother so they could both continue living.

• The small Brazilian village of São Pedro consists of about 350 citizens, most of whom are immigrants of German descent. Doctors were perplexed to find that the birth rate of twins in the village was far higher than normal, reaching 10% of births, whereas throughout the rest of Brazil, only 1% of births are twins. Studies revealed that the women in the village shared a single “hyperovulation” gene making it far more likely that they would conceive twins.

The issue was compounded by inbreeding among them.

• Elvis Presley had an identical

twin brother, Jessie Garon Presley, who was stillborn 35 minutes before Elvis was born on January 8, 1935. Elvis’s mother Gladys had such a difficult time with the home birth that she was taken to the hospital. She never had any more children.

• William Shakespeare had fraternal twin children, born in 1585. His son Hamnet died at the age of 11, but his daughter Judith lived to the age of 77.

• Scarlett Johansson’s twin brother Hunter Johansson is nearly a foot taller than she is.

• Kiefer Sutherland has a twin sister, Rachel, who lives in Toronto.

• Ashton Kutcher’s fraternal twin brother, Michael, has cerebral palsy and is a spokesperson for the Reaching for the Stars Foundation.

• Canadian songstress Alanis Morissette has a twin brother, Wade, who is 12 minutes older.

• Jon Heder, who played the lead role in the film “Napoleon Dynamite” has an identical twin brother, Dan. • Jenna Bush and her fraternal twin sister Barbara Bush were 18 years old when their father, George W. Bush, was elected president of the United States.

• Billy Leon McCrary and his identical twin brother Benny Loyd McCrary (born December 7, 1946) made their living as professional wrestlers.

They worked under the stage name of The McGuire Twins which they adopted after finding that announcers had difficulty pronouncing the name “McCrary.”

They are listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the World’s Heaviest Twins. They had a normal weight until a childhood bout with measles affected their pituitary glands. As adults, Billy weighed 723 lbs (328 kg) and Benny weighed 745 lbs (338 kg). Billy died in 1979 following a motorcycle accident and Benny died in 2001 of heart failure.

• The oldest male twins ever authenticated were Glen and Dale Moyer

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NANCY WAKE by: Kathy Wolfe

The name of Nancy Wake may have faded into history, but her remarkable accomplishments live on. Follow along as Tidbits brings you facts on this freelance journalist turned secret agent. • Nancy always seemed to be a brave girl, running away from her Sydney, Australia, home in 1928 at the age of 16, working as a nurse. With a few hundred dollars she had inherited from an aunt, she made her way to New York City, then on to London. • After training herself as a journalist, during the 1930s, Nancy worked for Hearst newspapers as a European correspondent. As Adolf Hitler continued to rise in power, she witnessed firsthand the cruelty of the Nazi gangs persecuting Jewish men and women in the streets. While working in Vienna and seeing the brutality, the seed was planted in her mind to make a difference. In her words, â€œâ€ŚI would do anything to make things more difficult for their rotten party‌My hatred of the Nazis was very, very deep.â€? • She married a wealthy French industrialist in 1939, and as the war raged in France with the German invasion, she became an ambulance driver. • In 1940, Nancy became part of the French Resistance as a courier.

Her wealth and social standing were the perfect cover as she helped create an escape network for prisoners of war, officers, airmen, and refugees across the mountains into Spain, using money contributed by her husband Henri Fiocca. The Fiocca family chalet in the Alps served as a safe house during the journeys. • By the end of 1942, Nancy was the Gestapo’s most wanted person with a 5-million-franc reward offered for her capture. Having eluded the Gestapo scores of times, the German military

called her “the white mouse.â€? Her phone had been tapped and all of her mail was intercepted. • It became apparent in 1943 that Nancy would have to flee France. Leaving her husband behind, she boarded a train, but was arrested in Toulouse. Within four days she had been released and was on her way to crossing into Spain. Once in England, she became a member of the British Special Operations Executive, working with the French Resistance. The group was instrumental in organizing attacks on bridges, railroads, and German convoy, as well as destroying one of the Gestapo headquarters. • Shortly before D-Day, at age 31, Nancy parachuted into France to coordinate drops of weapons and ammunition in preparation. At one point, she had to ride a bicycle 250 miles (402 km) in 72 hours to deliver a secret wireless code. • After the war ended, Nancy learned that, in 1943, shortly after her escape to England, her husband had been arrested, tortured, and executed by the Germans for refusing to betray her whereabouts, something for which she blamed herself for the remainder of her life. • She had saved the lives of hundreds of Allied soldiers and airmen and became the most decorated woman of World War II. She returned to London to work for the British Intelligence Department. In 1960, she married a former POW, and the couple moved to Australia, where she remained until 2001, where she resided until her death in 2011 at the age of 98.

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CHANG & ENG

• Chang and Eng were conjoined twins born in Siam (now called Thailand) in 1811. They were joined at the chest by a strip of skin and cartilage that measured about 5 inches long by 3 inches tall and 2 inches deep. Both Chang and Eng had otherwise normal bodies, but that strip kept them in a perpetual embrace for their entire lives. Early in their lives, they faced each other as if hugging, but as they grew, the bridge became more elastic, allowing each of them to face forward. • Their father died in an epidemic, and their mother kept them busy running a business raising and selling ducks. But all that changed when they were spotted by a Scottish boat captain, who paid their mother $500 for the privilege of bringing the boys to the U.S. in 1829. They were just 17 years old and spoke no English when they were put on display for the first time, touring the U.S., England and Europe. They astonished audiences with their physical feats of athleticism. • After three years on the road, by which time they had learned English, they got tired of being exploited by managers.

At the time it typically cost 25 cents for a ticket to see them, or about $6 in today’s money. They raised about $1,000 per month ($26,000) in gate receipts, yet were paid only $10 per month ($260) in salary.

The final straw was a month-long ocean voyage where their managers booked first class berths for themselves, but put Chang and Eng into steerage. • As young men, they struck out on their own. They amassed a sizable fortune and became extremely famous before retiring from the road. The term “Siamese twinâ€? was coined to describe them, and remains in the common vernacular today, denoting conjoined twins who are connected together. • Chang and Eng bought property

in North Carolina and built homes one mile apart, agreeing to a schedule where they spent three days at one house, and three days at the other. Whichever one owned the house where they were staying got to choose what to do. They adopted the American last name of Bunker after one of their friends. They raised crops, bought slaves, and became the first Asians to be declared naturalized American citizens. • In 1843 Chang and Eng married fraternal twin sisters in a double wedding.

Their firstborn children were born just six days apart, and they went on to father 21 children. They began touring again to earn money to raise their families, and were even employed by P.T. Barnum for a while. The end of the Civil War brought them financial troubles, not only because their fortune was largely tied up in nowworthless Confederate currency, but also because their slaves were set free. So they took to the road once again. • Chang was a heavy drinker whereas Eng was not. In 1870, Chang suffered a stroke which left him paralyzed on the side he shared with his brother.

Eng nursed his brother back to health, though he was never again robust. In 1874 Chang contracted bronchitis, and died in his sleep. When Eng saw that his brother was dead, he cried out, “Then I am going too!â€? and died two hours later, likely due to blood loss because his heart was pumping blood into both bodies, and receiving none in return. • An autopsy showed that the brothers shared a single fused liver.

Today, it would have been simple to separate them. Chang and Eng Bunker lived the longest lifespan (62 years) of any conjoined twins in history. Their wives outlived them. Even today, many of Chang and Eng Bunker’s descendants continue to live in the area.

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• Ralph and Sandra Fisher of LaGrange, Texas, run a business that revolves around tame animals, ranging from armadillos and buzzards to longhorn cattle, burros, ponies, and more. The animals appear at parties and barbeques, fundraising events, county fairs, parades, movies, and ads. But the star of their show was a Brahman bull named Chance.

• Ralph purchased Chance at a livestock auction in 1984 when the bull was 7 years old. He was impressed because the bull was tame and affectionate. Chance soon became the star attraction of their show. He was so easy-going that he allowed even the smallest children to clamber atop his back for photos. Chance put in appearances at weddings, birthday parties, and corporate events. He was so trustworthy that he even appeared on TV talk shows including “Late Night with David Letterman.” He was photographed with innumerable celebrities, appeared in a Super Bowl half-time show, and even starred in a movie with Vince Vaughn.

• When not on the road, Chance hung out in the Fisher’s front yard, looking for any opportunity to get a little affection. “He was like a big dog,” said Sandra of the oversize bull. Chance raised a lot of money for the Fishers, and they claimed he was “the most photographed bull in the world.”

• In 1998, Ralph took Chance to the veterinary school at Texas A & M to have a mole removed. The school had been experimenting with cloning animals.

Realizing that Chance was reaching the end of his lifespan, Ralph pestered the vets to try cloning the big friendly bull. They agreed. Many cloning experiments had been done by drawing DNA from young healthy animals, but they wanted to see if there were limits on cloning old animals. Chance was 19 years old, quite old for a bull.

• A team of veterinarians took some of Chance’s

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• Vets injected Chance’s skin cells into donor eggs that had been stripped of DNA. It took 189 tries before a viable embryo began to grow. It was implanted into a surrogate mother, and in 1999, Chance’s clone was born, and named Second Chance. The entire operation was funded by the Texas Coordinating Board of Higher Education's Advanced Research Program.

• The Fishers were delighted to bring the young Brahman bull home with them when he was weaned.

Things went well at first. But then came a fateful day.

When Second Chance turned 4, Ralph was leading him back to the barn, when the bull suddenly became

belligerent and difficult, knocking Ralph to the ground and stomping him. Ralph was rushed to the hospital.

It took six weeks for his broken arm and dislocated shoulder to heal.

• Still, he held out hope. “Chance was seven years old when I adopted him, and Second Chance was only four, so I wanted to give Second Chance a second chance.” But just 18 months later, Second Chance gored Ralph so badly in the leg that he required 80 stitches.

Second Chance was turned out to pasture, and died a year later, at the age of 8, of an ailment unrelated to cloning.

• Ralph continues to make appearances with his large menagerie of animals, but has never again found an animal with the personality or temperament of Chance, the Ferdinand of bulls. “You can clone an animal, but you can’t clone a personality.”

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●The knock-knock joke is a question-andanswer joke, typically ending with a pun.

Although primarily seen as children's jokes, though there are a growing number of adult and even x rated exceptions. ●A possible source of the joke is William Shakespeare's Macbeth; first performed in 1606. In Act 2, Scene 3 the porter is very hungover from the previous night.

During his monologue he uses "Knock, knock! Who's there" as a refrain while he is speaking: ●Writing in the Oakland Tribune, Merely McEvoy recalled a style of joke from around 1900 where a person would ask a question such as "Do you know Arthur?", the unsuspecting listener responding with "Arthur who?" and the joke teller answering "Arthurmometer!" The formula of the joke must be followed strictly: ●A 1936 Associated Press newspaper article said that "What's This?" had given way to "Knock Knock!" as a favorite parlor game. The article also said that "knock knock" seemed to be an outgrowth of making up sentences with difficult words, an old parlor favorite. A popular joke of 1936 was "Knock knock. Who's there? Edward Rex. Edward Rex who? Edward Rex the Coronation." Fred Allen's December 30, 1936 radio broadcast included a humorous wrapup of the year's least important events, including a supposed interview with the man who "invented a negative craze" on April 1: "Ramrod Dank... the first man to coin a Knock Knock." ●"Knock knock" was the catchphrase of music hall performer Wee Georgie Wood, who was recorded in 1936 saying it in a radio play, but he simply used the words as a reference to his surname and did not use it as part of the well-known joke formula. The format was well known in the UK and US in the 1950s and 1960s before falling out of favor. It then enjoyed a renaissance after the jokes became a regular part of the badinage on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. ●According to the World Encyclopedia of Cartoons, published by Chelsea House, New York and London 1980, cartoonist Bob Dunn “invented the Knock Knock joke in a million selling book” distributed by Whitman Publishing in 1936. One of the answers on the game show Jeopardy broadcast on 12-27-1989 “Dunn, Dunn Who..Creator of this Joke in 1936” The question "What is the Knock Knock joke."

OK, enough knocking around this subject, here we go...

Knock, knock.

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Madam Madam who?

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Doris Doris Who? Doris locked, that's why I knocked Knock, knock.

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► In 1875, a locust plague of epic proportions descended upon the Great Plains. Observers say it was 110 miles wide, and at 1,800 miles long, stretched from Canada all the way down to Texas. (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.

► Chocolate lovers like myself may not believe it, but the most popular flavor of ice cream in the United States is actually vanilla. Chocolate comes in second place.

► Those who study such things claim that to get a truly random mix in a deck of playing cards, the deck must be shuffled seven times.

► You might be surprised to learn that Italians spend more time on social media that people of any other nationality.

► In Washington state it once was illegal to carry a concealed weapon that was more than 6 feet in length.

► It was British Prime Minister Winston Churchill who made the following sage observation: “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

► If you ever travel to China, keep in mind that the menu item known colorfully as phoenix talons are actually just chicken feet.

► If you’re of a certain age and facing up to wrinkles, you might be interested to learn that, according to the American Academy of Dermatology, one of the top causes of skin wrinkles is your habitual sleeping position. Rounding out the top five contributing factors are sun exposure, gravity, smoking and facial expressions.

► In 1811 and again in 1812, earthquakes caused the Mississippi River to temporarily reverse course.

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► You might be surprised to learn that Philadelphiabrand cream cheese was originally made in New York.

► Though an electric eel is born with the ability to see, by the time it becomes an adult it is blind. This lack of sight is not a hindrance, though; the fish uses electricity to create an image by: Samantha Weaver of its surroundings in much the same way that we use radar. The electricity also is how the electric eel kills its prey, producing a 600-volt shock -- five times more powerful than the shock you might receive from a household outlet.

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WOMB MATES • Identical twins result when a single fertilized egg splits in half, resulting in two babies that are the same in appearance.

Fraternal twins result when two different eggs are fertilized, and the babies are different in appearance.

• In 1980, one in every 53 babies born in the United States was a twin. By 2009, that number had risen to one out of every 30 births, which means that over three decades, the number of twins per 1,000 births rose by 76%. Researchers think this is due to the use of fertility drugs, in vitro fertilization, and other reproductive assistance. About one-third of women who undergo fertility treatments become pregnant with twins.

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