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What you can do to fight cancer – Published Resources

Glutamine Targets Exercise-Mediated Lowering of Glutamine Availability Suppresses Tumor Growth and Attenuates Muscle Wasting Exercise may help preserve muscle by limiting glutamine, a fuel many cancers rely on. In this study, wheel running slowed tumor growth and prevented muscle loss in mice. Read More

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MMM Skin Care Simple Salve
Maggie's Musings

I’m a serial hobbyist.

Dear husband is a patient and supportive man. I was into growing my own microgreens. He helped set up the shelves and researched the lights and set it all up… and then I decided I don’t digest them very well. I was all in on juicing (a desperate attempt to combat cancer) and he researched

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Maggie Fights Breast Cancer
Maggie's Musings

Breast Cancer Timeline

January 2022 C-c-c-covid Between Christmas Day and New Year’s, our family was sick. And what I thought was a man-cold turned out to be Covid. (Sorry, Babe.) The husband was admitted to the hospital for two weeks. It was scary but he made it through. He will likely never have the same lung capacity but

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Cancer Card
Maggie's Musings

Downloadable Cancer Card

We each need to deal with this stupid cancer in our own way. If yours includes humor, then let’s be friends. And if laughing at cancer is offensive then I’m ok with the cancer being offended. 😉 This is a link to a free downloadable PDF. You can take it to any reputable printer (online

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We’re Moving!

Soooooo much anxiety. In a get out of debt attempt, we are selling our house. I am self-employed and not making quite what I used to. The monthly bills are stressing me out. If we got rid of my school loans, car payment, credit card bill, and medical bills we would be saving approximately $1,450

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Weightloss

Less success in 2017

When I said I wanted to get ripped this isn’t what I had in mind… I’m happy. I get to see my husband a lot more since he has gone down to part time and I am now working from home. So that’s great. It’s such an improvement in our family. We get to eat

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30 pounds down
Weightloss

Success in 2014

I came across this would-be blog post that I wrote a year ago. Tomorrow is the 2 year anniversary of no soda so I thought it fitting that I finally publish it. How I lost the initial 30 pounds. (Originally written September 8, 2014) At my healthiest in high school, I remember I weighed 147

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Family

Personal Home Birth Story

Be sure to catch all the pictures at the end. Taken by my lovely sister Katy Estrada. Thank you, Mom, Mary, and Katy for being present and for all the help. Thank you, Arthur, for your endless supply of patience. In my third trimester (around 30 weeks I think) I had preterm labor contractions and

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