All posts tagged: Mineral

Vitamin & Mineral Deficiencies

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I’m back (finally) with an overdue post on vitamin and mineral deficiencies that are possible with IBD; I meant to get this written up sooner, but the Big, Bad Wolf visited us here in Texas last week and tried to blow our house down. Well, more like he tried to pummel it into the ground. April can be a bizarre month here, and this year was no exception. Last weekend, my husband and I were sitting out on the back patio one night, reading and enjoying a fire. All of the sudden, the TV in the living room sounded it’s Emergency Warning siren (which I have long ago learned is NEVER a test here) and the bulletin said that there was a Severe Thunderstorm Warning, with a storm moving through a town about 10 miles southwest of us. I looked toward the sky, noticing a very faint flicker of lightening in the distance, and told my husband that we should probably head inside. I headed in, taking both of our dogs with me, and was …

A Bit About Little Moon Essentials

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So you’ve probably seen several of my posts mentioning the company Little Moon Essentials, and a few of their products on my Resources page.  I should probably go into a bit more detail here, because if you just pull up their website, I will admit that some of the products sound a little like something created while coming down off of a pretty wild acid trip.  I mean, bath salts for different phases of the moon?  I was skeptical, but I should explain how I came across the site and started using their products. This past spring, my husband and I took a road trip from our home in Austin to Santa Fe for my birthday.  Neither of us had been before, and it seemed a good way to christen his new car that he had only had for a couple of months.  During our week in Santa Fe, I had read about a mineral spring relatively nearby called Ojo Caliente.  The material on it said that it had various mineral spring baths containing things …