Next Level Wellness

21/10/2021

Food for thought 🤍🧠 (credit: .mentalhealth)

18/08/2021

Something to think about… From as little as 1-7 drinks per wk is enough to shrink your Brain and cause damage. Alcohol can cause many diseases and cancer as it is a toxic we are consuming and puts so much more stress on the body than it should have.

29/07/2021

Experts have long known a relationship exists between stress, blood sugar and belly fat. In the face of chronic stress, insulin increases. This drives the relentless metabolic dysfunction that leads to weight gain, insulin resistance and ultimately diabetes.⁣⁣⁣
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When you’re stressed, your adrenal glands release hormones like adrenaline and cortisol that flood your system, raising your heart rate, increasing your blood pressure, making your blood more likely to clot, damaging your brain’s memory center, increasing belly fat storage and generally wreaking havoc on your body.⁣⁣⁣
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That hormonal havoc creates very practical adverse consequences. For example – you stop by your favorite coffee shop on your way to work. Frazzled by a million demands and work-hour traffic, you realize you haven’t had breakfast and order a muffin along with your gigantic coffee.⁣⁣⁣
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Looking at that seemingly innocuous breakfast scenario, the caffeine in coffee increases catecholamines, your stress hormones. The stress response elicits cortisol that, coupled with the sugar in that muffin, increases insulin. Insulin increases inflammation and this makes you feel lousy. And the sugar in the muffin increases cortisol and adrenaline, the stress hormones. Yes, sugar literally jacks up your stress hormones, even if you are not stressed!⁣⁣⁣
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Replace those foods with clean protein, healthy fats, leafy and cruciferous vegetables, berries, and non-gluten grains. Food is information that controls your gene expression, hormones, and metabolism. When you eat the right foods, you balance blood sugar, restore hormonal balance, and reduce stress’s damaging impact.⁣

01/03/2021

🙌 ❤️ Prevention is always better than a cure. Don’t wait til your sick to do something about it!

17/05/2020

11/03/2020

Here’s some research showing what helps boost immunity with simple supplements you can take. The elderly and people with a weaker immune system should get onto some of these. 🙌👌

06/02/2020

Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path. - Anonymous

31/01/2020

An Aussie grandmother’s simple photo of her groceries versus ci******es ‘challenge’ has gained some serious momentum on social media after it was posted over the weekend. Judy Kerrison said her grandchild commented on how much ci******es were after watching someone buy them, so she decided to ...

07/01/2020

Not knocking the scale, but there’s a lot of other MAJOR advantages to working out.

How you monitor progress can be done any of these ten ways and, honestly, they’re all really important.

So, don’t get down if the scale isn’t changing.

As long as you’re getting stronger, feeling more confident, and daily life activities are getting easier, you’re making amazing progress. Keep it up!

What progress have you made recently? Comment below⬇️

08/12/2019

We are super proud of Keely for achieving her goals. She lost 12kg and 93.7cm by training consistently 2-3 times a week with Alycia. She always works so hard in her sessions and now feels like a different person. Hard work and consistency definitely pays off! Well done Keely you have done so well. 💪💪