Heal X Well Collective

21/04/2023

More awareness and help out there. We are glad that Stress is being acknowledged as one if the prime drivers for mental and emotional health issue in Singapore. Do share with your friends and family.

03/01/2022

Stress can be silent and damaging for decades without causing major mental illness or diminished performance. But the physiological and metabolic changes are far from minor or negligible.

Modern medicinal approaches offer little to acknowledge or alleviate these effects of stress. On the other hand, ancient wisdom has many tools that take stress and well being into account to define healthy living. Yoga is one such method, that comes from Ancient India. Several eastern traditions have similar tools or modalities.

The benefits of Yoga are numerous. They are a slow but steady way to address systemic damage related to stress and modern lifestyles. Do give it a shot (and patience 🙂) to realise what you have missed!

There are many different approaches to modern yoga— though most forms have three core elements: physical postures, breathing exercises, and spiritual contemplation.This blend of physical and mental exercise is widely believed to have a unique set of health advantages. But is yoga actually benefici...

01/12/2021

Here are 7️⃣ simple ways you can instantly achieve a better night’s sleep:

✅Take a warm shower or bath before bed to help cool your core temperature and drift off to sleep more easily.

✅Create a hard cut-off time for stimulants like caffeine and ni****ne. At least six hours before bedtime should be the minimum.

✅Make sure your room is cool, dark, and quiet to help you sleep uninterrupted.

✅Create a consistent sleep and wake schedule, even on weekends.

✅Dim your home in the hours leading to sleep, as darkness acts as a cue for sleep.

✅ Write down pending tasks and plans to be implemented the next day. This way you can avoid the anxiety while you set out to sleep.

✅ Follow a bedtime routine 30-60min prior to sleeping. Some examples are reading or listening to a book( avoid ebook on mobiles or tablets due to blue light stimulus), journaling, affirmations, listen to a podcast or soothing music, meditate, yoga nidhra, etc

Article inspired by Ultimate Performance Singapore

01/12/2021

Sugar has been ubiquitous in modern day diets. Often times it goes unrecognised due to the misleading nutritional labels. It is one of the biggest health disruptors, and several health risks and diseases are directly linked to sugars aka simple carbohydrates. Matters worsened by the sedentary lifestyles and nutrient deplete soils.

Here Dr. Mark Hyman explains the effects of sugar in a crisp manner.

https://fb.watch/9CU-eu1kdX/

30/11/2021

Continuous stressors, or stressors from multiple sources at once, can have a cumulative toll on our mental and physical health. Stress can affect just about all the system of the body, including these systems (and more):

-Cardiovascular
-Central and peripheral nervous
-Digestive
-Endocrine
-Immune
-Musculoskeletal
-Reproductive
-Respiratory

It's abundantly clear how pervasive stress is and how it manifests adversely in our lives. Stress can also affect our sleep hygiene.

Are you looking for stress and support? Determining your body response and balance mechanism helps to tackle the effects of negative stress significantly. Our experts have worked with high performing individuals from different walks of life to address their productivity and performance concerns. The solution also includes diagnostics and tools that are tailored for your individual needs. ZenBiome Sleep and ZenBiome Cope are two such supplements that were products of extensive microbiome and functional medicine research.

30/11/2021

Our Vision is to apply advances from the fields of Precision Medicine, Nutrigenomics, Functional and Metabolic Medicine to help individuals achieve optimum health. According to the Precision Medicine Initiative, precision medicine is "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person." This approach will allow doctors and researchers to predict more accurately which treatment and prevention strategies for a particular disease will work in which groups of people. It is in contrast to a one-size-fits-all approach, in which disease treatment and prevention strategies are developed for the average person, with less consideration for the differences between individuals. This approach has helped many individuals solve complex and stubborn health challenges like obesity, insulin resistance, chronic fatigue, infertility, eczema and inflammatory bowel issues. Do arrange for your consultation with our experts.

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Precision medicine looks at the genetics, environment, and lifestyle of a person in order to select treatment that could work best for them.