An analysis of the clinical evidence regarding Andrographis indicates that it increases's immune response to pathogens, including viruses, bacteria and parasites, reducing the duration and severity of infection for minor illness.
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Why can't I lose weight?
Millenials have grown up in a fat shaming world. The message was clear, fat is not beautiful, fat is not ok, fat is gross, fat is lazy, fat is not worthy of respect. It's really only been since the advent of social media and perhaps the popularity of the Kadashians that a larger bodies have been afforded a platform and the conversation around acceptable body size has transformed. Nowadays the messaging is different and it needs to be. Nearly all of us are 'fat', at least a little bit fat, . And we're all worthy of respect, love, cute outfits and a peaceful existence.
Our culture and diet, filled with ultra processed foods and glycemic load make it incredibly easy to store excess energy in our bodies to use later.
Back when we were foraging in the jungle,It was pretty hard work to get all the calories you needed for the day. And indeed, for most of the history of agricultural activity, communities were often dependent on single crops, such as wheat or potatoes, and a bad weather year, or a crop-killing fungus meant a lean pantry and starvation.
We're just biologically designed to cram calories when they're available. These days, for those of us lucky to be living in peaceful countries, Food is available all the time, in relatively cheap and easy to attain forms.
I'm sure our bodies will evolve to handle ultra processed foods better, though it may take a millenia or so. Maybe it will only take a couple of hundred years. One Russian experiment bred the aggression out of the silver fox in just 20 years. So about 15 generations to cute and cuddly pet foxes. Perhaps it will only take 15 generations of ultra processed food eating for us to become resilient to it.
In the meantime, we need to not be so hard on ourselves.
Your body creates a weight set point. Once you get up to certain weight, your body fights very hard using your hormone production and chemical messaging to keep you at that weight. If you lose some weight you're going to get hungry again. That's ok. It could take anywhere between 1 and 6 years for a weight set point to change. Pretty tough to maintain weight loss for 1 - 6 years when your body is battling you to eat more. It's a special kind of willpower that quietens down that nudge to eat, and is almost impossible to maintain for long.
Instead, let's focus on eating as naturally as possible (ie minimally processed), retrain ourselves to listen to our hunger cues, and rid ourselves of our sugar habits. Sugar addiction makes you feel hungry when you're not.
There's plenty of inspiration for connecting with your true hunger and transforming your relationship around food in my ebook Mindful + Nourished. Available here.
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Read MoreNaturopath and Shiatsu Massage therapist with a great wellness blog
An analysis of the clinical evidence regarding Andrographis indicates that it increases's immune response to pathogens, including viruses, bacteria and parasites, reducing the duration and severity of infection for minor illness.
The part of this story I am thinking about the most though, is the way my hand jumped when writing his name.
When a high-profile case like this becomes news, the language used by the media and the outspoken medical professionals is around holistic medicine being 'alternative' and not effective.
It’s extraordinary that I was present when my father passed suddenly. Mainly because we live on opposite sides of the country, and I’ve only seen my dad for a handful of days in the last 15 months. I have shared the story of our last day here.
Flowers are the fertile expression of plants, they are the nectar, they are creative manifestations of divine love and life force. Flower essences capture the subtle healing properties of flowers in a safe and affordable way. It’s incredibly easy to make your own flower essences, and you can do so safely with any flowers you have in your garden.
This is a great example of how chemicals in many household cleaning and personal care products are assumed safe until proven harmful, when perhaps they should be assumed harmful until proven safe.
Both ultra processed foods and tobacco 'are legal, easily accessible, inexpensive, lack an intoxication syndrome, and are major causes of preventable death."
Some 'to-do's' have significantly more positive impact on your life than others.
This is a really simple, nourishing and easy one pot dinner, with plenty of protein and fibre and some healthy fat.
It's the kind of soup where you know you're looking after yourself with every slurp. The spices and ginger have some wonderful anti-inflammatory properties. It's inexpensive, easy, and counts as self-care points for the day.
A shiatsu at Wild Grace is a spiritual experience. Healing occurs in both physical and spiritual planes. A shiatsu involves breathwork, massage to physically manipulate and stretch muscles, and the use of healing sound to move energy out and through. At times I may guide you through healing imagery, and you may receive guidance from your spiritual support crew.
Here are some of most medicinal foods for your immune system, chosen for the phytochemical properties:
New research with some surprising new information on preventing and treating long covid, with some tips to make it accessible at home.
I’m always on a mission to eat the healthiest foods possible. Here’s twelve of the most nutritionally dense foods in our supermarkets and tips on how to eat them.
Have you noticed that you're gaining weight but don't think you've made any change to diet and lifestyle? Or it used to be easy to drop a couple of kg by cutting out snacks and exercising a little more but now that doesn't seem to be working. In fact, your jeans just keep getting smaller.
If you have chronic disordered digestive function, irritable bowel, weight gain, inflammation, low energy, autoimmune or chronic mental illness a thorough investigation into your microbiome can provide a very solid basis upon which to build a treatment plan and resolve your symptoms.
and maybe it was a missed opportunity to role model healthy self esteem and masterful life skills.
a gentle reminder to bring mindfulness to your dinner table and as an in-depth guide to how you can nourish yourself and your family with ease and joy.
Some herbs, like licorice, can interfere with the attachment of viruses to host cells and prevent their entry into the cell, helping prevent an infection from taking place.
I woke up minus the sore throat albeit with a husky voice, and no snot has overcome me.
Shiatsu is it's a combination of lightwork and deep physical manipulation of musculature. Rhythmic breathing and meditative music means you float out of the massage room feeling like you're walking on a cloud.
For the sake of better health, I want you to think seriously and honestly about what habits are impacting negatively on your health and what can you can do to avoid those triggers.