We were recently approached at the Rutland Flea Market, with whether or not we had any teas that would be recommended for someone suffering COPD. The day was slow, so Ashley began looking up a few studies online, sent me a couple links, and when we got home, I began my own research. Various compounds found in food, herbs and spices have been observed for their ability to address some aspect of COPD. A few of the herbs are in one or more of the teas we sell on Ashley's Ashtree Wildcrafting table, and we have zeroed in on the specific tea to offer the inquirer when we see them again. COPD is a multi-faceted condition that can begin a number of ways, including smoking or being around smokers, poor long-term dietary choices, age, and bacterial lung infections. The COPD sufferer needs to assess their lifestyle, their environment, and their daily food habits if they want to begin the road to healing. If you are suffering asthma, COPD, emphysema, or similar ailments and you got to the end of this article wondering how you'd make use of this information for yourself, feel free to reach out to me using this form, and let's chat. Click for the full article including the list of foods: https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2026/01/21/researchers-looking-into-herbal-answers-for-copd/

It's time for the Top 25 for 2025! This is the moment when we look at what the most popular articles were from last year, and get a glimpse into who is viewing them. Apparently bread-making was at the very top of the list! People wanting to learn about my services got a good number of hits as well, which I find very encouraging. Both my cookie articles made it into the top 25! Who says going wild means giving up fun things like sweets? (we won't mention the brain needs sugar, just not at junkfood levels). I was happy to see how many devotional commentaries made it into the top 25 articles. As your Biblical Natural Health Coach, my premise does come solidly from Scripture as the final authority on what I share and do. I stopped keeping up with the latest in SEO rules and regulations, and even without those efforts anymore, the following list of referrers showed up for 2025: As problematic as gab has been over this past year for me as a user, it has sent a fair number of visitors to my content. Both Librti and USA.life, two other alternative platforms that I am on, have sent traffic as well. Lists like this show that no matter where you live, shifting to a more natural way of handling your health using food as medicine is a common train of thought these days. The baffling thing for me, is seeing decidedly muslim nations in the list. Places such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Indonesia. it is my prayer that the true seekers among them will find Christ as their Lord and Saviour. If you've never made this decision and want to learn more, reach out to me and let's chat. This concludes our look back over 2025 and what it meant for content people are viewing on Naturalhealthgodsway.ca. Here's looking out across 2026, and asking God to go with us into a year that promises to be adventurous in more ways than one. For the full article and to see the lists, click here: https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2026/01/09/the-top-25-articles-of-2025-and-other-interesting-tidbits/

Many reach their older years and begin slowing down, often by choice because, that's what you do when you get older, right??? Not if farmers I know, horse owners I know, and others who remain very active into their older years have anything to say on the matter. The notion that after a certain milestone, it's time to slow down, is a bunch of crock that is damaging and shortening many lives. My focus is wholefood as medicine that might grow outside your front door, but guess what? Going out to get that wild-grown food takes time, effort, and action to do. But again, you're getting fresher air than staying indoors, getting exercise, benefiting from getting your hands dirty (literally, just ask any dedicated gardener about their overall health) and you're getting free food and medicine that lowers your older years' expenses that mainstream medicine might try to thrust on you! Maybe you're a brown thumb like me and can't garden because you kill everything. But you can harvest what God grows out there and eat better than visiting the produce section at the store AND stay out of the pharmacy at the same time. Your physical and financial health both benefit here. To read the full article, click here: https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2026/01/06/ageing-gracefully-naturally/

Special Piece Today -- on the Web only (You can subscribe free of charge here: https://johnhrusky.substack.com ) Property Taxes: Socialist Theft in Disguise The Inherent Unfairness and Socialist Underpinnings of Property Taxes: A Deep Dive into Coercive Wealth Redistribution Property taxes stand as one of the most insidious forms of government overreach, embodying the socialist ethos that private ownership is merely a temporary illusion until the state decides otherwise. At their core, these taxes treat your home, land, or business not as your rightful property but as a communal asset ripe for plundering based on arbitrary assessments of its “value.” Unlike voluntary market transactions where prices reflect supply, demand, and mutual agreement, property taxes escalate simply because some bureaucrat deems your asset worth more — often due to factors beyond your control, like neighborhood improvements funded by others or inflation-driven appraisals. Imagine buying a modest house for $200,000, only to see your tax bill double a decade later because gentrification or zoning changes inflated its assessed value to $400,000, even though your income hasn’t budged. This isn’t fairness; it’s a punitive system that punishes success and stability. Food prices don’t skyrocket because your home appreciated; neither does gasoline or a haircut. Yet the state, in its infinite wisdom, demands more for the “privilege” of owning what you’ve already paid for, all while providing the same mediocre services — roads that crumble, schools that under-perform, and police response times that lag regardless of your tax bracket. This Marxist-inspired mechanism collapses the moment we refuse to view private property as public domain, subject to endless reclamation by the collective. Delving deeper, the percentage-based structure of property taxes is nothing more than a sleight-of-hand designed to mask raw dollar extraction. Governments don’t budget in percentages; they spend in cold, hard cash for fixed costs like infrastructure, public safety, and bloated administrative empires. A wealthy homeowner with a multimillion-dollar estate already shoulders a wildly disproportionate share of these expenses through higher assessments, yet they consume far less per capita than lower-value property owners. They don’t send fleets of kids to public schools (opting for private education instead), they rarely burden public hospitals with frequent visits (thanks to premium healthcare), and they certainly don’t rely on welfare programs funded by these very taxes. Why, then, should their tax liability balloon simply because their property’s paper value rose? This isn’t about equitable contribution; it’s envy-fueled socialism, where the state plays Robin Hood with your assets, redistributing wealth from producers to parasites under the guise of “community benefit.” Consider the elderly widow on a fixed income whose family home, bought decades ago, now faces skyrocketing taxes due to market surges — she’s forced to sell her lifelong sanctuary to satisfy the taxman’s greed. Billionaires like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos pay millions in property taxes on their holdings, funding services they barely touch, while subsidized housing residents pay pennies or nothing. This imbalance exposes the hypocrisy: property taxes aren’t about paying for what you use; they’re about leveling the playing field by dragging down those who’ve built or inherited value, echoing Karl Marx’s call to abolish private property in favor of collective control. Exposing the Fallacies: From Unrealized Gains to Envy Masquerading as Justice <Continued on the Web>

We all have a sense of smell. Every food has a scent created by a terpene, alcohol, ester or a phenol. When it comes to wholefood as medicine, one's ability to smell the food aids the mouth in generating intricacies of the salivary amilase. Your saliva is the first step of digestion, telling the stomach what enzymes to call for to digest what is coming down the pipe (literally). I've created a tool to help identify where your body needs help and why. Not all cravings are due to allergies, bad habits, or marketing influences. When the brain cries out for a given food or drink, stop and assess. What's in that food/drink that the brain is calling for? When we identify that, then ingest a healthier option containing that compound, the brain is often happier and the body responds favourably. The tool I've created contains 24 tiny herb vials, each containing a wild herb from the Central Okanagan, chosen for it's affinity for a body system or commonly-seen condition. When you tell me what your knee-jerk reaction is to a scent, I'll note it so we can examine what it might mean for your health picture. There are reasons foods smell, good, bad, nice, awesome, revolting, meh, etc. There are reasons your brain will lung at some scents and recoil at others. While much gentler in scent than EO's, use of the whole plant allows us to get a much more comprehensive smell from which to gather information about what your body needs. If you'd like to book your Scented Plant-based Health Assessment, be sure to fill out my client intake form either in pdf or digitally signed and once I have that in hand and we've had our first session together (first session is always free), we will book your Scented Plant-based Health Assessment. For the full write-up, and to see photos, click here: https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2025/12/28/introducing-a-new-non-invasive-health-assessment-tool/

Just as they always do leading up to holidays, they are hitting us harder than ever. The past few hours they hit us with a (dominant) combination of the "Aromatic" type and "Mag-Blocker" type (and others) both of which induce serious heart issues (arrhythmia, fluttering, v-tach) in some but leaves others unaffected. It may interfere with Vagus nerve function as well, but we don't yet know. Nevertheless, this has been the hardest hit of this type we have had in several weeks. God only knows how many of our friends and family are no longer with use because of this horrific crime against humanity. Isn't it just a wild coincidence that the majority of people cannot smell or taste any of these types. *Clearly* they (the aerosols) were engineered that way, which clearly indicates intentional concealment, which indicates malice. The world needs to wake up real fast. It may save a life. This stuff they are spraying us with clearly rapidly depletes magnesium. I know a few toxins that do this, but the only one that I found does it this rapidly is venom peptides. This is why magnesium may save lives when facing these types of symptoms. Think about this folks. The symptom set is *identical* to the cv "sharp-thing" and genetic testing has shown that the highest-mortality lots contained these peptides. This means they have been possibly aerosolizing this (not the /\/\-Rna, but the peptides manufactured by the /\/\-Rna) for perhaps 5+ years before the cv event, then they manufactured a crisis and convinced many to take it internally. This is a very possible scenario based purely on the data (Keep emotions out of investigations. Always let the data lead). https://gsw.bz/stopha Remember how they said the prepared all the vials in months? This is physically impossible. It takes years to do this. It is a huge undertaking: Vats, assembly lines, transport, storage, etc. The process takes years. What if they refined the process years before so they were ready to pull off the scheme quickly, before too much opposition could organize. In this scenario, they would have had to make the peptides and refined the storage procedure far in advance. It's much more complex than most understand. This would explain why all the same symptoms of v-peptides began appearing as early as 2014 in aerosolized form with the "Mag-Blocking" chem-type. This is the most viable scenario based on the timelines and complexity of the process (manufacturing v-peptides). This is the realized chem-type: https://gsw.bz/type-bb

History of shri Khodiyar Mandir Trust Aai Shri Khodiyar Mata is venerated as the Sahayak Devi, the guiding goddess of the Gohil Rajputs with countless folktales and oral traditions passed down through generations. https://khodiyarmandirtrust.com/history The roots of this sacred connection trace back to the 13th century, when Maharaja Ranji Gohil assumed rule over the village of Vana. At that time, Shri Khodiyar Mata was already revered as a Lokdevi—a goddess of the people. The deep devotion of the Gohil rulers toward Mataji laid the foundation for what would become a lasting spiritual and cultural heritage. One such devoted ruler was Maharaja Wakhatsinhji, who established a humble shrine for Shri Khodiyar Mata in Rajpara. Though modest in form, the shrine attracted faithful pilgrims and remained a place of reverence for many years. It was Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji, deeply committed to Mataji, who envisioned a grander sanctuary. He transformed the simple shrine into the magnificent temple we see today. His efforts extended beyond the temple walls—he commissioned the construction of a proper road and drinking water facilities to ensure pilgrims had safe and dignified access. He also facilitated the building of a dedicated Khodiyar Mandir railway station. Demonstrating both foresight and compassion, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji established a hospital along the path from the station to the temple and constructed alake to provide water for the wildlife of the Bhal region. Advanced water-pumping systems were installed, many of which continue to function even today. To ensure the temple’s continued growth and spiritual service, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji founded the Shri Khodiyar Mandir Trust in 1953. The temple’s administration operates through its main office at Nilambag Palace and an onsite branch at the temple, supported by numerous volunteers. With Maharaja’s values of devotion, service, and community upliftment, the Trust has remained steadfast in its mission, preserving tradition while continually enhancing the temple’s facilities for the benefit of future generations

🇨🇦 We Are Being Replaced... 📝 It’s not a race problem. Race is the distinguishing characteristic so the conversation is always tethered to it, causing the discourse to derail into wild accusations of hate. That’s by design. We’ve been trained to focus on ethnicity because it distracts from the more complicated issues underpinning a conflict we’re all experiencing. https://diamondz.substack.com/p/the-great-replacements-death-by-weaponized

Nova Scotia’s climate madness: Walking in the woods garners larger fine than starting a wildfire! A man who sparked a wildfire that destroyed 60 homes was fined $25,000, but a military veteran who simply walked in the forest during a so-called “climate emergency” was hit with $29,000 in penalties. 🇨🇦#MarkCarneyCantBeTrusted🇨🇦 🇨🇦#SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud🇨🇦 🇨🇦#JustSayNoMore🇨🇦 🇨🇦#CarneyLies🇨🇦 https://wimkin.com/johnburke/?link-id=6168547

Holy spirit unicorn! We spotted the infamous Toronto police 'transgender cop car'! Having never seen the Toronto Police Service's 'Pride Progress' police car out in the wild, David Menzies caught a glimpse of the rare vehicle as it participated in the city's Latin Parade & Fall Fiesta. 🇨🇦#MarkCarneyCantBeTrusted🇨🇦 🇨🇦#SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud🇨🇦 🇨🇦#JustSayNoMore🇨🇦 🇨🇦#CarneyLies🇨🇦 https://wimkin.com/johnburke/?link-id=6134137