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Osteoporosis makes bones fracture… and then break. The condition worsens over time… the osteoporosis end-game is being confined to a wheelchair – or worse.
Does it have to be this way?
My bones today are stronger than ever before. Let me tell you how this came about.
Want text version instead of video? Here is simplified transcript…
Now that I no longer suffer from osteoporosis I can look back at it as just a horrible – but distant – memory.
These days I run no risk of fractures or breaks in the way I did then. Thank goodness.
But at the time it was no joke.
I’d fractured my ankle stepping off a kerb. I hadn’t slipped or stumbled. I just put my foot down normally and the ankle gave way.
My health practitioner was worried that such a simple act should result in a fracture so she sent me for a bone density test.
My t-score came back as -2.9.
Which meant not only were my bones becoming more fragile… they were wholly in the osteoporosis range.
That was a heck of a shock. I mean, I ate very well – including lots of milk, cheeses and greens which are the very best sources of calcium. I didn’t smoke, I always felt okay – I considered myself to be a healthy person. So how on earth did I end up like this?
Naturally, I wanted to quickly be rid of this condition. But more surprises followed.
The first surprise was finding out that there’s no such thing as an osteoporosis ‘specialist’.
There’s no particular health professional you go to when you find you have the condition.
And so one reason that osteoporosis care isn’t exactly great is because nobody in the health profession actually ‘owns’ the condition.
Depending on your own GP’s judgement you could be treated by an endocrinologist, a gynecologist, a rheumatologist, an orthopaedist, a geriatrician or a physiatrist. Plus, possibly, others.
Second surprise was that there are drug treatments for osteoporosis – as we might expect – but they’re long-term, unreliable and riddled with side-effects.
I don’t mind admitting, I was very upset when I found out I had osteoporosis.
The possibility of further fractures or breaks scared me, to be honest. And I’m not ashamed to say that, even though I had supportive family and friends, I felt very alone with the disease.
I joined some support groups so I could be with people like me. But some of the news coming from them was very discouraging.
Which led to the third surprise.
A number of them said that dealing with ongoing pain was all part of the package for them. There comes a point, they said, when hurting was just normal.
I wasn’t prepared for that at all.
Naively, perhaps, I had expected a cure.
I certainly didn’t expect to be in pain for large parts of the rest of my life. Yet it turns out that, for some people, the side-effects of some drug treatments were worse than the pain.
It was as I began my first course of meds that I found out disturbing news about some of the better-known osteoporosis drugs.
Namely, if you ever come off these drugs then the rate of bone deterioration actively increased.
Consumer Watchdog groups discovered that once you were off the drugs bone deterioration picked up so severely that you could experience a broken bone without any physical trauma having caused it.
This married up with stories I heard of people fracturing vertebrae because they sneezed.
I hadn’t quite believed those stories… but they were being confirmed by consumer groups and other anecdotal evidence. I slowly realized this could be my future too.
Knowing that osteoporosis would take an ever-increasing toll on my body was a lot to bear. The thought of ending up in a wheelchair because my pelvis or ankles had fractured once too many times scared the daylights out of me.
In fact, it was a joke amongst some sufferers I knew that they were getting ready to pick out canes and walkers for their future selves. They cheerfully described how they’d decorate their wheelchairs…
I didn’t find this funny at all – yet they were only half-joking. So many people with osteoporosis went from able-bodied, mobile and healthy… to broken and wheelchair-bound very quickly.
I have to say, the thought of my future self shuffling along with walking aids frightened the life out of me.
The knowledge that as the months passed my ever-weakening bones were making it more likely that I would again fracture an ankle or a hip or a vertebrae made me miserable.
I searched the internet for some sort of method that would help relieve me of this dreadful illness. I looked at acupuncture and reiki and all sorts of stuff I would never in a million years have considered before.
I found nothing that offered even a glimmer of hope.
And then, one day, standing in line at Walgreens of all places, I got talking to a man who changed my life.
I was buying painkillers. He was buying hand soap. We were just chatting and, it turns out, he too had once suffered all the usual symptoms of osteoporosis. He’d had a terrible time of it too.
But he didn’t suffer a single symptom anymore.
He told me that at one time his vertebrae were so badly affected that he’d lost half an inch in height.
Over several years he’d gone through a cocktail of different remedies and pain-killers… and he enjoyed partial success with just one of them.
Even so, his t-score – which measures bone density – was steadily worsening. More slowly, but still worsening.
He’d patiently tried all the standard treatments and meds because he wanted to treat his osteoporosis properly. They hadn’t worked out.
But, in the end, something else had worked out for him. Spectacularly well.
He’d been introduced to a natural health practitioner who already had fantastic success treating ‘untreatable’ conditions.
Her name is Shelly Manning. Her expertise is in uncovering the core, underlying causes of an illness – the actual reason why we have an illness in the first place.
In particular, she looks at the lifestyle factors that make that particular illness almost inevitable. It’s always something we do that is the initial, first cause of many health conditions.
Keep in mind that osteoporosis doesn’t just happen. Something causes it.
And it wasn’t pharmaceutical drugs that caused it. So it’s not pharmaceutical drugs that’s going to undo it.
It’s lifestyle habits that get us ill. Simple as that.
Shelly’s success is in finding out exactly which lifestyle habits have led to our illness – and then creating a neat, easy to follow program that treats those root causes.
She’s the opposite of many drugs-led treatments whose primary aim is to treat symptoms.
They attempt to somehow tackle the disease at the surface – so that it doesn’t feel so bad.
But drug remedies for osteoporosis are guaranteed to be toxic – and have a near 100% chance of producing unpleasant – or unbearable – side-effects.
They also have a terrible track-record for actually resolving osteoporosis symptoms.
Whereas Shelly Manning has created ‘The Bone Density Solution’ – a phenomenally successful program that directly tackles all causes of osteoporosis – without requiring medications, treatments or medical bills.
You didn’t get ill by taking drugs, and you won’t get better by taking them either. Shelly restores health by undoing the very behaviors that destroyed it in the first place.
Which makes sense, when you think about it.
Shelly has generated over a thousand delighted customers – people like me who genuinely thought we’d end our lives in wheelchairs.
It now doesn’t matter why your bones are steadily becoming weaker and more brittle – ‘The Bone Density Solution’ hits every possible cause.
And when the causes are gone… so are the effects.
The changes Shelly advises us to make are powerful – just the right changes in just the right ways – but they’re simple.
Follow the instructions, be a little patient… and, bit by bit, your bones can’t help but regain their full density and strength.
I ordered ‘The Bone Density Solution’ the moment I got home – and started acting on it that afternoon.
I no longer suffer osteoporosis symptoms any more. And I never expect to ever again.
To restate the obvious: osteoporosis doesn’t ‘just happen’.
There are specific reasons for it. We’ve known for many years what some of those reasons were.
Doctors addressed the causes that they understood – but the causes they didn’t understand carried on uninterrupted.
So they were always tackling part of the problem. Which is why they got partial success. Until they knew what they were missing, they were never going to be completely successful.
But we know now what that missing link is.
And Shelly’s program hits all causes of osteoporosis – including that missing link – hard.
Let me tell you how her approach did for me what years of doctor’s treatments failed to do.
First – a very quick look at how Shelly’s solution was so different to anything I’d tried so far
She takes two main routes:
I was familiar with both. My physician had suggested I join a gym and lift some weights.
Good advice? I don’t know – I certainly didn’t go anywhere near a gym. It’s just not me…
But Shelly shows simple ways of incorporating some effective osteoporosis movement into a busy schedule – movement that toughens up bone every time you do them. Movement that even I could do.
My physician also told me to eat less bad food and, in particular, consume more calcium.
I did both. And it made no difference at all.
Although once I’d put Shelly’s program into action I finally understood why ‘eat more calcium’ was, on its own, silly advice.
Some of the exercise advice given by medical professions is difficult to implement. I know that – I never managed to follow any of it.
Quite a bit of the nutritional advice they give is wide of the mark and, again, it’s vague, too general and hard to put into practice.
In the rush to give us drugs doctors lose sight of – or don’t even know about – the much more basic cause of what is weakening our bones.
Because there’s a specific reason why we fail to shake off osteoporosis.
It’s because we aren’t tackling what fuels the disease in the first place.
And what fuels the disease are these:
The human body is complex and the route to keeping it healthy – and avoiding disease – is complex. Yet in practical terms it all comes down to eating more of the right foods and less of the wrong ones.
Shelly gives us a comprehensive list of each. And some very straightforward meal plans to ensure we get as many of the good ones into our diet as possible. It’s really not difficult at all.
And while this guidance alone is better than anything I ever got from any other health professional… it’s the gut health advice that I believe made all the difference.
The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) states that chronic inflammatory diseases are the most significant cause of disease and death in the world.
In recent decades the number of inflammation-related diseases has rocketed worldwide to the hundreds of millions.
In the US over 800,000 people a year die from inflammatory disease. There are many, many inflammatory diseases:
Heart conditions, autoimmune diseases, joint conditions, allergies, liver conditions, kidney disease, hyperthyroidism, arthritis… the list goes on and on.
And that list includes osteoporosis.
A review of studies published in the ‘Journal of Endocrinology’ found that high levels of inflammatory markers in the blood stopped the body from remodeling – which means ‘creating’ – new bone.
In healthy bodies bones break down and then renew all the time. It’s an ongoing, natural process.
But if you suffer osteoporosis then your break-down and renewal process has become faulty. You’re breaking down a little more bone than you’re renewing.
That deficit continues over time, steadily thinning out your bone density, leading to fractures and breaks. Mine used to be exactly like that.
Inflammation is a direct and indirect cause of that faulty bone renewal process. It is absolutely vital that it is properly and thoroughly addressed if we’re to restore our bones back to their healthy condition.
And what do our general practitioners do specifically about the inflammation cause of osteoporosis?
Not a thing. Not a single thing. Instead of repairing the broken breakdown/renew process of our bones they continue to push remedies that attack symptoms – but which leave the causes firmly in place. It’s a losing battle.
Chronic, ongoing inflammation is not directly felt.
Instead, it’s experienced through any one – or more – of the many diseases it gives rise to.
I mentioned a few earlier: heart disease, high blood pressure, organ diseases and so on. And osteoporosis.
(So, as an added bonus: if you address inflammation in order to end its effects on your bone health… you’re possibly also helping yourself out with other conditions too.)
So how do we address inflammation in order to prevent it ruining our bone health?
The key to preventing inflammation in the first place is to keep the gut healthy. A healthy gut is, literally, a healthy body and mind.
Tackle gut health and everything changes – and it changes quickly.
And this is what the world’s leading researchers have now confirmed: poor gut health is a primary cause of widespread body inflammation.
And gut health is directly affected by the bacteria in your gut.
The word ‘bacteria’ always sounds a little dangerous when we first hear it. Yet bacteria are simply unicellular microorganisms – neither good or bad in themselves.
And what we know is that a great many bacteria are actually very good for us.
In fact, the bacteria in our guts perform life-giving tasks that our body is unable to do for itself. A shortage of good gut bacteria is directly implicated in a dozen common western illnesses.
We would actually die without our gut bacteria! Shelly goes into a little more detail about this in her program.
But we know that an unhealthy gut environment means that the number of good, life-enhancing bacteria is simply too low. And when this has been going on for long enough it causes ongoing, low-level inflammation.
In fact, poor gut health is what underlies tens of millions of cases of inflammation-based disease. This is scientifically confirmed the world over.
The inflammation is low-level but it persists year after year after year… and does its damage slowly but surely.
A healthy gut – which basically means bacteria that are fed plenty of good, varied food – is a gut that doesn’t provoke inflammation at all.
In other words, it’s a gut that does no harm anywhere in the body.
As my gut gradually regained its proper functioning body inflammation faded away.
And so the causes of my bone problems faded away with it. My condition couldn’t exist anymore because it had run out of causes!
A gut-friendly diet is super easy.
The foods that do most good are available in local supermarkets – and there’s lots of them.
The two keys to regaining a healthy gut in order to tackle inflammation are: first, know which foods are essential to gut health. Second, to eat the right quantities of them in the right combinations.
We also reduce a few items that aren’t helpful – but we don’t ban them. The list of foods that don’t help us is short but it does include a couple that are generally thought of as ‘healthy’.
It’s important that we know – and once we do know then it’s plain-sailing from there.
(Which, incidentally, worked out well for me. I ate almost everything I liked, I ate lots of it and, over time, I still lost 8 pounds of fat. That’s the power of great gut health!)
I know I would never have turned my health around if I’d stuck with the standard medicine route.
Modern medicine simply doesn’t address this inflammatory route at all. Yet that’s now known to be where all the damage starts.
‘The Bone Density Solution’ gets to the heart of the matter. It undoes the very things that cause the illness in the first place.
And that’s why my bones are now solid, strong – and I expect they’re going to stay that way for the rest of my life.
Despite how incredibly well this program works ‘The Bone Density Solution’ isn’t actually a health ‘miracle’.
Shelly is simply using what the best US and European research institutions have been uncovering over the last 10 years or so.
Her program just tweaks our day to day lifestyle back to health. She’s not throwing out our lives and starting again from scratch!
But these tweaks are just the right ones…
They ensure we have maximised what helps us – and minimised what hurts us.
Which means that growing bones become increasingly strong and abundant, not increasingly weak and brittle.
And the reason this program is so easy to actually do is because Shelly sets the whole thing out in 14 small steps.
Take on a new step every day – or one step every couple of days.
There’s no rush. Whichever habits you introduce first, your bones will thank you – almost straight away.
I succeeded, one easy day at a time.
All I had to do was begin.
And once I’d begun, things took care of themselves.
I had two bone density tests in the first couple of months after starting Shelly’s program. I could see with my own eyes just how effective these bone-strengthening measures were.
My goal is always to get a T-score of -1.0 (minus 1.0) or better.
-1.0 a sign of completely healthy bone density.
0 is a sign of strong bones.
+1 is becoming superhuman…
The first weeks of Shelly’s program got me from – 2.9 (definite osteoporosis) to dead on – 1.0.
I would have settled for that.
These days I have my bone density measured once a year – just to ensure I haven’t slipped.
My T score has improved a little further – I’m at +0.5 now. Which may mean my bones are stronger now than they have ever been in my life.
Now, does this mean my osteoporosis is gone? Well, I don’t know.
What I do know is that I control my symptoms now – rather than my symptoms controlling me.
Shelly’s program is my normal daily habit now. I don’t even think about it.
And it delivers such excellent results that I expect to have strong, reliable bones forever.
Which is exactly what I had hoped for when I first found out I had osteoporosis all those years ago.
Once we realize our bones are thinning then it’s clear we’re either on a route to osteoporosis – or we’ve already arrived.
But the condition doesn’t stand still. Which means if it’s not good now it’ll become bad in time… and then very bad thereafter.
It’s a future I wanted to avoid more than I’ve ever wanted to avoid anything in my life. Crutches, wheelchairs and the possibility of becoming bed-ridden due to immobility… it makes me shudder even now.
Don’t let this be your future.
You deserve better. The people who care about you agree.
You can start repairing your body’s natural bone creation process this minute.
Shelly’s solution is available right now. There are well over a thousand happy clients now – so the program itself is fully guaranteed. Click here, get your copy and start turning this thing around. You will be so glad you did!
Tackling osteoporosis while we can
Remember, osteoporosis is a condition of deterioration. It gets worse, in other words.
The sooner we intervene, the easier it is to restore bone health and then live life as the healthy person we want to be.
The later we intervene, the longer it takes. And the more likely we’re going to end up with a fracture or break that completely upends our lives.
So the time really is now. With Shelly’s ‘The Bone Density Solution’ the time can, in fact, be roughly 4 minutes from now. You can quite literally start saving your bone health in the next few minutes.
It makes no sense to leave it. The problem is right here, right now.
So is Shelly’s solution.
Get it now, start making the difference you need straight away. And reclaim your healthful life once more.
There is a point at which the fractures and breaks in a person’s body become irreversible. Yes, the bone heals… but it isn’t restored to its former self.
There’s about 300,000 hip fractures per year in the US.
About half the people who experience one will never walk unaided again. About 15% need long-term nursing care.
Tragically, a quarter of them will be dead within a year.
The man who introduced me to Shelly’s program – the man I spoke with at Walgreens all those years ago – had spent years trying to rid himself of osteoporosis. He’d suffered considerably before he finally tackled it properly.
He couldn’t undo all the damage to his spine because it had gone too far. So while he was grateful to have finally halted the damage he was still paying the price for having addressed it so late.
Don’t do this to yourself.
Shelly guarantees her results. And you need those results. You can get them – starting right now.
Order ‘The Bone Density Solution’ right now and finally address your bone health while you still have time to get it right.
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TORONTO – Health Canada has authorized Moderna’s updated COVID-19 vaccine that protects against currently circulating variants of the virus.
The mRNA vaccine, called Spikevax, has been reformulated to target the KP.2 subvariant of Omicron.
It will replace the previous version of the vaccine that was released a year ago, which targeted the XBB.1.5 subvariant of Omicron.
Health Canada recently asked provinces and territories to get rid of their older COVID-19 vaccines to ensure the most current vaccine will be used during this fall’s respiratory virus season.
Health Canada is also reviewing two other updated COVID-19 vaccines but has not yet authorized them.
They are Pfizer’s Comirnaty, which is also an mRNA vaccine, as well as Novavax’s protein-based vaccine.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 17, 2024.
Canadian Press health coverage receives support through a partnership with the Canadian Medical Association. CP is solely responsible for this content.
TORONTO – Sanniah Jabeen holds a sonogram of the unborn baby she lost after contracting listeria last December. Beneath, it says “love at first sight.”
Jabeen says she believes she and her baby were poisoned by a listeria outbreak linked to some plant-based milks and wants answers. An investigation continues into the recall declared July 8 of several Silk and Great Value plant-based beverages.
“I don’t even have the words. I’m still processing that,” Jabeen says of her loss. She was 18 weeks pregnant when she went into preterm labour.
The first infection linked to the recall was traced back to August 2023. One year later on Aug. 12, 2024, the Public Health Agency of Canada said three people had died and 20 were infected.
The number of cases is likely much higher, says Lawrence Goodridge, Canada Research Chair in foodborne pathogen dynamics at the University of Guelph: “For every person known, generally speaking, there’s typically 20 to 25 or maybe 30 people that are unknown.”
The case count has remained unchanged over the last month, but the Public Health Agency of Canada says it won’t declare the outbreak over until early October because of listeria’s 70-day incubation period and the reporting delays that accompany it.
Danone Canada’s head of communications said in an email Wednesday that the company is still investigating the “root cause” of the outbreak, which has been linked to a production line at a Pickering, Ont., packaging facility.
Pregnant people, adults over 60, and those with weakened immune systems are most at risk of becoming sick with severe listeriosis. If the infection spreads to an unborn baby, Health Canada says it can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, premature birth or life-threatening illness in a newborn.
The Canadian Press spoke to 10 people, from the parents of a toddler to an 89-year-old senior, who say they became sick with listeria after drinking from cartons of plant-based milk stamped with the recalled product code. Here’s a look at some of their experiences.
Sanniah Jabeen, 32, Toronto
Jabeen says she regularly drank Silk oat and almond milk in smoothies while pregnant, and began vomiting seven times a day and shivering at night in December 2023. She had “the worst headache of (her) life” when she went to the emergency room on Dec. 15.
“I just wasn’t functioning like a normal human being,” Jabeen says.
Told she was dehydrated, Jabeen was given fluids and a blood test and sent home. Four days later, she returned to hospital.
“They told me that since you’re 18 weeks, there’s nothing you can do to save your baby,” says Jabeen, who moved to Toronto from Pakistan five years ago.
Jabeen later learned she had listeriosis and an autopsy revealed her baby was infected, too.
“It broke my heart to read that report because I was just imagining my baby drinking poisoned amniotic fluid inside of me. The womb is a place where your baby is supposed to be the safest,” Jabeen said.
Jabeen’s case is likely not included in PHAC’s count. Jabeen says she was called by Health Canada and asked what dairy and fresh produce she ate – foods more commonly associated with listeria – but not asked about plant-based beverages.
She’s pregnant again, and is due in several months. At first, she was scared to eat, not knowing what caused the infection during her last pregnancy.
“Ever since I learned about the almond, oat milk situation, I’ve been feeling a bit better knowing that it wasn’t something that I did. It was something else that caused it. It wasn’t my fault,” Jabeen said.
She’s since joined a proposed class action lawsuit launched by LPC Avocates against the manufacturers and sellers of Silk and Great Value plant-based beverages. The lawsuit has not yet been certified by a judge.
Natalie Grant and her seven year-old daughter, Bowmanville, Ont.
Natalie Grant says she was in a hospital waiting room when she saw a television news report about the recall. She wondered if the dark chocolate almond milk her daughter drank daily was contaminated.
She had brought the girl to hospital because she was vomiting every half hour, constantly on the toilet with diarrhea, and had severe pain in her abdomen.
“I’m definitely thinking that this is a pretty solid chance that she’s got listeria at this point because I knew she had all the symptoms,” Grant says of seeing the news report.
Once her daughter could hold fluids, they went home and Grant cross-checked the recalled product code – 7825 – with the one on her carton. They matched.
“I called the emerg and I said I’m pretty confident she’s been exposed,” Grant said. She was told to return to the hospital if her daughter’s symptoms worsened. An hour and a half later, her fever spiked, the vomiting returned, her face flushed and her energy plummeted.
Grant says they were sent to a hospital in Ajax, Ont. and stayed two weeks while her daughter received antibiotics four times a day until she was discharged July 23.
“Knowing that my little one was just so affected and how it affected us as a family alone, there’s a bitterness left behind,” Grant said. She’s also joined the proposed class action.
Thelma Feldman, 89, Toronto
Thelma Feldman says she regularly taught yoga to friends in her condo building before getting sickened by listeria on July 2. Now, she has a walker and her body aches. She has headaches and digestive problems.
“I’m kind of depressed,” she says.
“It’s caused me a lot of physical and emotional pain.”
Much of the early days of her illness are a blur. She knows she boarded an ambulance with profuse diarrhea on July 2 and spent five days at North York General Hospital. Afterwards, she remembers Health Canada officials entering her apartment and removing Silk almond milk from her fridge, and volunteers from a community organization giving her sponge baths.
“At my age, 89, I’m not a kid anymore and healing takes longer,” Feldman says.
“I don’t even feel like being with people. I just sit at home.”
Jasmine Jiles and three-year-old Max, Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, Que.
Jasmine Jiles says her three-year-old son Max came down with flu-like symptoms and cradled his ears in what she interpreted as a sign of pain, like the one pounding in her own head, around early July.
When Jiles heard about the recall soon after, she called Danone Canada, the plant-based milk manufacturer, to find out if their Silk coconut milk was in the contaminated batch. It was, she says.
“My son is very small, he’s very young, so I asked what we do in terms of overall monitoring and she said someone from the company would get in touch within 24 to 48 hours,” Jiles says from a First Nations reserve near Montreal.
“I never got a call back. I never got an email”
At home, her son’s fever broke after three days, but gas pains stuck with him, she says. It took a couple weeks for him to get back to normal.
“In hindsight, I should have taken him (to the hospital) but we just tried to see if we could nurse him at home because wait times are pretty extreme,” Jiles says, “and I don’t have child care at the moment.”
Joseph Desmond, 50, Sydney, N.S.
Joseph Desmond says he suffered a seizure and fell off his sofa on July 9. He went to the emergency room, where they ran an electroencephalogram (EEG) test, and then returned home. Within hours, he had a second seizure and went back to hospital.
His third seizure happened the next morning while walking to the nurse’s station.
In severe cases of listeriosis, bacteria can spread to the central nervous system and cause seizures, according to Health Canada.
“The last two months have really been a nightmare,” says Desmond, who has joined the proposed lawsuit.
When he returned home from the hospital, his daughter took a carton of Silk dark chocolate almond milk out of the fridge and asked if he had heard about the recall. By that point, Desmond says he was on his second two-litre carton after finishing the first in June.
“It was pretty scary. Terrifying. I honestly thought I was going to die.”
Cheryl McCombe, 63, Haliburton, Ont.
The morning after suffering a second episode of vomiting, feverish sweats and diarrhea in the middle of the night in early July, Cheryl McCombe scrolled through the news on her phone and came across the recall.
A few years earlier, McCombe says she started drinking plant-based milks because it seemed like a healthier choice to splash in her morning coffee. On June 30, she bought two cartons of Silk cashew almond milk.
“It was on the (recall) list. I thought, ‘Oh my God, I got listeria,’” McCombe says. She called her doctor’s office and visited an urgent care clinic hoping to get tested and confirm her suspicion, but she says, “I was basically shut down at the door.”
Public Health Ontario does not recommend listeria testing for infected individuals with mild symptoms unless they are at risk of developing severe illness, such as people who are immunocompromised, elderly, pregnant or newborn.
“No wonder they couldn’t connect the dots,” she adds, referencing that it took close to a year for public health officials to find the source of the outbreak.
“I am a woman in my 60s and sometimes these signs are of, you know, when you’re vomiting and things like that, it can be a sign in women of a bigger issue,” McCombe says. She was seeking confirmation that wasn’t the case.
Disappointed, with her stomach still feeling off, she says she decided to boost her gut health with probiotics. After a couple weeks she started to feel like herself.
But since then, McCombe says, “I’m back on Kawartha Dairy cream in my coffee.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 16, 2024.
Canadian Press health coverage receives support through a partnership with the Canadian Medical Association. CP is solely responsible for this content.
VANCOUVER – Mayors and other leaders from several British Columbia communities say the provincial and federal governments need to take “immediate action” to tackle mental health and public safety issues that have reached crisis levels.
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says it’s become “abundantly clear” that mental health and addiction issues and public safety have caused crises that are “gripping” Vancouver, and he and other politicians, First Nations leaders and law enforcement officials are pleading for federal and provincial help.
In a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier David Eby, mayors say there are “three critical fronts” that require action including “mandatory care” for people with severe mental health and addiction issues.
The letter says senior governments also need to bring in “meaningful bail reform” for repeat offenders, and the federal government must improve policing at Metro Vancouver ports to stop illicit drugs from coming in and stolen vehicles from being exported.
Sim says the “current system” has failed British Columbians, and the number of people dealing with severe mental health and addiction issues due to lack of proper care has “reached a critical point.”
Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer says repeat violent offenders are too often released on bail due to a “revolving door of justice,” and a new approach is needed to deal with mentally ill people who “pose a serious and immediate danger to themselves and others.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 16, 2024
