Drink of Wellness

16/11/2022

If you’re shopping on a budget it can be tempting to forego organic produce for its regular counterpart and save a little money. But not all fruits and vegetables are created equally – some contain far more pesticides and as such can have a greater adverse effect on your health should you decide to buy anything other than organic. Knowing what you absolutely must buy organic and what you may be able to get away with buying regularly is tricky. Fortunately the Environmental Working Group – a non-profit, non-partisan organisation dedicated to protecting human health and the environment – have produced and regularly update the dirty dozen and clean fifteen lists. As the name suggests the dirty dozen are those fruits and vegetables with the most pesticides.
Even if you do buy inorganic from this list, you still can remove most pesticides by using salt, baking soda or vinegar.

The Dirty Dozen 2022:
⭐Strawberries
⭐Spinach
⭐Kale and mustard greens
⭐Nectarines
⭐Apples
⭐Grapes
⭐Bell and hot peppers
⭐Cherries
⭐Peaches
⭐Pears
⭐Celery
⭐Tomatoes

15/11/2022

Follow for inspiration and clean nutrition. The mind body connection is real!

❤❤From my heart to yours❤❤

08/11/2022

Sometime all you need to do is just being.

Try and sit with yourself for 10 mins and watch your thoughts pass by.

Do not interact, do not judge... just be.

You are the master of your mind not its puppet.

🔥🔥Namaste🔥🔥

19/10/2022

Question: when you cook or bake anything in your kitchen. Are these any of these ingredients part of your recipes?

The first step to clean living is stop buying processed food with endless ingredients and start making food at home.

🔥🔥Start by keeping it simple!🔥🔥

18/10/2022

To remain healthy, you need to start to eat clean. There are so many foods that are labelled as healthy, but the ingredients are far from, e.g., palm oil, rapeseed oil, any seed oil, inverted sugar, natural flavourings, natural colourings... etc. The list is big, but you can just start by returning to the shelf any food that contain an ingredient you don't know or can't pronounce. And that doesn't exclude bread!!

🔥🔥Start by keeping it simple!!🔥🔥

28/09/2022

🔥🔥Stop what you are doing right now and focus on your breath.

Inhale for 4, hold for 4, exhale for 8... repeat until you feel your heart slowing down. Feel the bliss, create a memory and come back to it each time you feel stressed, anxious or angry.

⭐You have the power, don't let anyone take it away from you.⭐

14/09/2022

It took me a few years to realise something very simple to reduce stress, anxiety or anger.

⭐⭐The fastest way to slow down our nervous system and allow us to relax is to turn the attention to your breath and lengthen your exhale.

When we exhale the heart naturally slows down. So, when we lengthen the exhale and exaggerate the effect, our parasympathetic nervous system activates, and we start to feel space in our heart and mind.

Try it the next time you feel stressed, feel anxiety or even when you are angry.⭐⭐

🔥Learn to not react, turn your attention to the breath and lengthen the exhale. All you need to do is practice.🔥

13/09/2022

Chia seeds may have several benefits for digestion and the absorption of some components of the food you eat.

Research into this is in the early stages, but potential digestive benefits of chia seed include improving intestinal tissue health, promoting the growth of beneficial gut bacteria (flora), altering absorption of some dietary components, and easing constipation.

🔥Why not have chia seed pudding for breakfast?

⭐⭐Ingredients
1/4 cup chia seeds
1 cup coconut milk (or milk of your choice)
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract (optional)
1/4 tsp. cinnamon (optional)
Pinch kosher salt
Sliced fruits, and nuts for serving

⭐⭐Directions
In a medium bowl, whisk to combine chia seeds, milk, vanilla if using, and salt.
Cover and refrigerate until thick, 2 hours up to overnight.
Serve with mix-ins and toppings of your choice.

09/09/2022

⭐⭐Sourdough bread is one of my favourite types of bread.
Not only do I find it tastier than conventional bread, but it’s also arguably more nutritious. Sourdough bread is also less likely to spike your blood sugar than conventional bread.

⭐⭐Sourdough is one of the oldest forms of grain fermentation. Experts believe it originated in ancient Egypt around 1500 B.C. and remained the main method of leavening bread until baker’s yeast replaced it.

⭐⭐Sourdough bread is a leavened bread. However, rather than using baker’s yeast to rise, it’s leavened by “wild yeast” and lactic acid bacteria that are naturally present in flour.

Lactic acid bacteria are also naturally found in several other fermented foots, including yogurt, kefir, pickles, sauerkraut, and kimchi.

The fermentation process used to make it improves its nutrition profile in several ways.
For one thing, whole grain breads contain a good amount of minerals, including potassium, phosphate, magnesium, and zinc.

However, your body’s ability to absorb these minerals is limited by the presence of phytic acid, or phytate.

The lactic acid bacteria found in sourdough bread lower the bread’s pH, which helps deactivate phytate. Because of this, sourdough bread tends to contain less phytate than other types of bread.

⭐⭐Sourdough bread is often easier to digest than bread that’s been fermented with brewer’s yeast.

The lactic acid bacteria and wild yeast present during sourdough fermentation help neutralize the antinutrients naturally found in grains, which helps your body digest foods more easily.

Sourdough fermentation may also produce prebiotics, a type of indigestible fibre that feeds the beneficial bacteria in your gut, in turn easing digestion and improving your gut health.

07/09/2022

When mast cells detect a substance that triggers an allergic reaction (an allergen), they release histamine and other chemicals into the bloodstream. Histamine makes the blood vessels expand and the surrounding skin itchy and swollen. It can also create a build-up of mucus in the airways, which become narrower.

Certain foods and phytonutrients help to stabilize mast cells, so they don’t release so many histamines. Quercitin and vitamin C are the biggies.

⭐️ Quercitin is a phytonutrient found in a lot of plant foods, especially capers, onions and apples. But you can also have a quercetin supplement.
⭐️ Vitamin C in high doses also stabilises mast cells. Don’t assume your body gets enough vitamin C from food.
⭐️ N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC) is a natural mucus breaker. It also helps increase levels of glutathione to combat oxidative stress, i.e., an antioxidant.
⭐️ Test-tube research shows that stinging nettle extracts can inhibit inflammation that can trigger seasonal allergies
This includes blocking histamine receptors and stopping immune cells from releasing chemicals that trigger allergy symptoms

🔥🔥If you really struggling with allergies or histamine overload, you may need personalised advice.🔥🔥

⭐DM for more information or
try eating more of the allergy helpers.⭐

06/09/2022

Yes it is!🔥🔥

Deep breathing, when done mindfully,

🏺lowers blood pressure
🏺reduces heart rate
🏺decreases stress hormones
🏺exercises the lungs
🏺increases physical and mental energy
🏺improves immunity

Start now!!🔥🔥

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02/09/2022

01/09/2022

Research shows that different emotions are associated with different forms of breathing, and so changing how we breathe can change how we feel.

For example, when you feel joy, your breathing will be regular, deep and slow. If you feel anxious or angry, your breathing will be irregular, short, fast, and shallow. When you follow breathing patterns associated with different emotions, you’ll actually begin to feel those corresponding emotions.

How does this work? Changing the rhythm of your breath can signal relaxation, slowing your heart rate and stimulating the vagus nerve, which runs from the brain stem to the abdomen, and is part of the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for the body’s “rest and digest” activities (in contrast to the sympathetic nervous system, which regulates many of our “fight or flight” responses).

⭐Triggering your parasympathetic nervous system helps you start to calm down. You feel better. And your ability to think rationally returns.⭐

31/08/2022

⭐⭐Make sure to include a moisturiser in your daily skin care routine. To prevent a moisturiser from causing breakouts, look for one of these descriptions on the container:
Oil-free
Non-comedogenic
Won’t clog pores

⭐⭐While hormones, bacteria and oily skin are generally accepted as contributors to acne, the role of diet and nutrition in creating or exacerbating the condition is still to be considered. The nutrient deficiencies most likely to contribute to acne are vitamins A, E and D and zinc.

⭐⭐The liver is one of your body’s main elimination organs. Any toxins that you eat, drink, absorb through your skin, or breathe in through your lungs have to be filtered out by your liver. In many ways, your skin is a direct reflection of how efficiently that filtration process is working.

A congested liver is less able to break down these toxins efficiently, causing them to build up. As a result, your body will try to flush these toxins out in other ways, such as through your sweat. When those harmful substances are expelled through your pores, they can irritate and inflame the skin. That’s where breakouts can occur!

24/08/2022

🔥🔥You might have one or two symptoms or all of them and you are still healthy but if they persist for a long time then maybe your gut needs more care🔥🔥

⭐⭐DM for more information. It's all free!⭐⭐

22/08/2022

Heartburn and acid reflux can be an indication of too little stomach acid and not too much.

So, if heartburn is caused by too little stomach acid, it doesn’t make sense to treat it with antacids or proton-pump inhibitors (PPI).

Instead make a few changes such as:

⭐Add fermented veggies to your diet.
⭐Use higher quality sea salt
⭐Chew your food thoroughly
⭐Explore your food combination
⭐Marinate your meats
⭐Use apple cider vinegar
⭐Work on your food sensitivity
⭐Stay calm and breathe

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