It's Time to Lose the Fear About Fat!
I cannot preach this any louder! 🗣 Please rethink your fat consumption and read these awesome fat facts. The conventional "normal" levels on a lipid test are...well...BS!
P.S. From a Functional Medicine lens, a healthy cholesterol level is anywhere between 180-220 🥰
FAT FEAR (no more)...very important repost from @realfoodology about FAT and losing your fear of consuming high quality fats in personal moderation...
Check it out:👇
- The low fat movement was one of the worst fads humanity has ever participated in.
- Your brain is made up of fat & runs on fat. It needs fat to function at optimal levels!
- Alzheimer’s is on the rise and many experts believe this is a result of fat deprivation and higher consumption of sugar from the 80’s/ 90’s food trend.
- When you take fat from food it makes food bland, so fat free foods was are pumped full of sugar to make up for the taste loss.
- More fat, less sugar for a healthy brain!!
Problems Associated with Reduced Cholesterol:
- 200% increase in cerebrovascular accidents
- 300% increase in liver cancer
- 200% increase in lung disease
- 200% increase in depression and suicides
- 200% increase in addictive behavior
- Reduced cholesterol levels are associated with poor steroid hormone production (e.g. cortisol, estrogen, testosterone, progesterone)
- Studies consistently show higher levels of cholesterol (between 180-220) are very protective for hormone support.
Ok...getting off my soap box now 🤗
Photo cred @kitchenwitchbroth
Try Children's Pediatric Massage to promote healthy digestion!
Try Children’s Pediatric Massage to Promote Healthy digestion 👶🖐
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Typically points are stimulated 100 times quickly and lightly with a little oil.
1. 🐠“Big Fish”: stimulate this point with a circular movement, typically done with thumb. This point helps with general digestion.
2. 🍲Spleen/Stomach: apply pressure back and forth here for stomach aches and poor appetite.
3. 😒Large Intestines: Pressing towards child’s body for chronic diarrhea or constipation, away for an acute condition.
4. 😨Liver: pressing away from child’s body for digestion problems due to an emotional upset
5. 😴Heart: massage this point for digestive issues that are worse at night or cause insomnia.
6. 💨Lung: massage for combined asthma and constipation issues
7. 🦠Kidney: massage for congenital or autoimmune digestion issues
Why Magnesium Is So Important!
Are you getting enough
MAGNESIUM?
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Nutrition wisdom my our fav expert @lyssandra_nativepalms ✨
Magnesium is rich in green vegetables and fruits… helps to ease digestion and anxiety (even harsh PMS symptoms)…I believe a common link between the two is magnesium deficiency.
WHY?
Estimated 80% of adults are lacking in this mineral, also known as the 'calming' mineral… If you aren’t calm, you may feel on the crazies. Feeling stressed (chronic low or high levels all the time) impedes on a properly functioning digestive system. Neurotransmitters like serotonin are synthesized in the gut…however if there’s gut dysfunction like constipation, there’s no synthesis happening, in other words…those neurotransmitters that help make you feel calm, happy, and ambitious aren’t being made, instead you may feel blocked and anxious. Magnesium deficiency also slows peristalsis, causing constipation and when you’re constipated physically and emotionally, life is crappy. Make sense?
So, eat your greens and take a supplement when necessary. Need specialized guidance? Our popular 6 WEEKS to GLOW in partnership with @lyssandra_nativepalms is back... early bird special pricing until APRIL 7th. Email us to learn more and sign up.
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What happens when we can't let go of old patterns?
Some wisdom on getting better 😴with our fav nutritionist + partner on our ✨6 Weeks to Glow health & wellness program Lyssandra Guerra of Native Palms Nutrition.
”Many of my clients have been coming in with digestive upset, lack of sleep, that good ole monkey mind and lack of vitality in general ... life seems to be moving quicker than ever before... new projects, new ideas, more work... plus the constant messages in the media toil with our mind... leaving them/us with overwhelm and escapism...
we are resilient beings but the inability to LET THINGS GO is much more challenging than we think and moving with the flow of life, just seems like a hard concept to grasp... WHAT HAPPENS when we cannot let go of stuck behaviors, patterns, and thoughts? ... your entire system, especially, your digestive system becomes compromised ... many answers lie underneath it when tapped into...
by working with the whole system -- your nutrition, your body, and your mind, your whole energy field will lighten and a clearer path will exist
Let me help you... let's get you HERE & NOW.”
Cholesterol is SO good for you!
Cholesterol is so good for you! ❤️🥚
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Essential for serotonin production, sex hormones, Vitamin D, digestive fluids, (the list goes on) and there is an important reason why we are changing the way we think about fat and cholesterol. ✨
Functional medicine looks at a healthy cholesterol range of about 180-220. These numbers are really important as the standard range is 100-199. ✨
Low cholesterol (under 180) is associated with an increase in cardiovascular incidents, increase in liver cancer, increase in lung disease, increase in depression and suicides, and an increase in addictive behavior. 😕
Not sure if any of you remember the 90’s commercials, but “eggs...give em’ a break!” lol — we are changing and learning! .
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#functionalmedicine #rootandstem#themoreyouknow #hormonebalance#goodcholesterol #vitamind #healthyfood#seratonin
Bitter herbs for Winter Health!
I’ve been really into bitters lately. 🌱🌿🍃
I love adding a dash of liquid bitters to my bubbly water, especially with a meal. 🥣
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Bitter receptors have been found on dozens of tissues in the body, well beyond the digestive tract. Thousands of new studies have been instigated with this realization and we are further looking into the importance of bitter compounds. .
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The current findings show that bitters are necessary in the diet in order to maintain health and homeostasis. Anthropologically speaking, bitter compounds (alkaloids) are often poisonous in nature. If an early human ate something poisonous then digestive enzymes, HCI, and immune activation were initiated to make sure we didn't die. Modern humans in America at least, have completely rid our society of bitter tastes. Evolutionary speaking, we are missing bitter compounds that we can leverage to tonify our digestive tract and support our immunity. .
So add some bitter leafy greens & bitters into your bubbly & support your digestion!
#bitters #darkgreens #bittergreens#rootandstem #immunestrength#functionalmedicine
30 Chews!
30 chews! 😄🍲
A common issue I find when I look at labs is that the person’s just body isn’t absorbing food correctly. We may be eating the best and healthiest food, but that dense protein isn’t getting broken down and then overwhleming the kidneys, for example. .
While there are many factors to assisting proper absorption, one of the best ways is to chew your food, lol! I know that I often eat on the go, and I really have to stop myself from scarfing down my meals. .
Cooking food is the first part of digestion, but the enzymes in saliva really help macerate it to a consistency that the stomach can truly handle, making the rest of your organs happy. It might seem easier said than done, but when you eat dinner tonight, try to do 30 chews for each bite. ✌🏽
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