As of October 2024, my (Brenda) health took a major turn. Nothing we could have predicted. My healing from Lyme+ took an abrupt halt when I realized my thyroid meds were making me unable to eat because of severe nausea. I had struggled with this for years but had never made the connection until I started looking at the timing of when I would get sick. My thyroid medicine was pork based. After replacing my thyroid meds with synthetic I instantly noticed the nausea was gone. I had been bitten by yet another tick and had contracted Alpha Gal sometime in the last 6 years. All mammal products needed to be cut out.

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Our lil farm got a lot smaller really quickly as we sold all of our does and their babies. Our bucks have slowly been sold too. We worked so hard to become self-sufficient. I was living the dream! We raised our own pork, chicken, hunted for our venison, caught our own fish and bought pasture raised beef from a local farmer. We drank the milk our goats gave us, and I was making yogurt every week while experimenting with making cheese, cajeta, ice cream and other goat milk-based products. Then our story changed!