The Caring Yogi

08/08/2025

Baseline Dexa scan. I got mine today and I’m pretty happy with the results. I have some room for improvement though. I need to gain 5 lbs of muscle and loss about 3% body fat. Just started HRT and that should help. Here’s to strength training and bone density.

08/03/2025

07/20/2025

07/20/2025

You can be doing everything right; eating well, exercising, meditating, journaling, but if your minerals are depleted, your biochemistry won’t cooperate.

Mineral deficiencies are a silent epidemic that can sabotage your health, often without obvious signs. Even in developed countries, they’re more common than you think.

Why?
-Soil today is depleted of key nutrients like magnesium and zinc.
-Processed foods are stripped of minerals and sugar actually depletes them further.
-Stress, caffeine, alcohol, and medications (like antacids or diuretics) drain your mineral stores.

🧬 Minerals are essential for hormone balance, energy, sleep, immune function, and brain health. Magnesium regulates over 300 enzymes. Zinc supports immunity and healing. Iron delivers oxygen. Selenium protects your thyroid.

Symptoms like fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, hair thinning, and dizziness aren’t always psychological. They could be biochemical.

Work with a practitioner to optimize, not just normalize, your levels. Sometimes healing isn’t about mindset, it’s about minerals. Get the basics right, and the rest becomes a lot easier.

07/19/2025

The next frontier in medicine isn’t another drug.

It’s a radical shift in how we view the body, the brain, and disease itself.

Depression is often rooted in systemic inflammation, gut dysbiosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, insulin resistance, trauma, or disrupted circadian rhythms. ADHD may be tied to neuroinflammation, poor blood sugar control, or nutritional gaps like low magnesium, zinc, or omega-3s. And heart disease? It’s largely a food-borne illness, driven by a diet of ultra-processed, inflammatory, nutrient-poor calories.

There is no single root cause. But there are root causes.
And they are almost always connected by lifestyle, environment, and systems-level dysfunction.

Medications have their place… But they were never designed to reverse chronic disease. They manage symptoms, often while the underlying dysfunction worsens.

If we want to reverse the chronic disease epidemic, mental and physical, we need to stop asking what drug treats this and start asking why the body lost balance in the first place.

The answer isn’t in the pharmacy… It’s in how we eat, move, sleep, connect, and live.
It’s in our soil, our food system, our communities, our kitchens.

The next revolution in medicine will come not from the lab but from returning to the root.

07/17/2025

07/15/2025

07/15/2025

07/10/2025

Gratitude is the best attribute! 🙏

Gratitude walks have been a gamechanger for me.

There’s something powerful about getting outside, connecting with nature, and intentionally naming the things you’re thankful for.

It shifts your mindset. It grounds your nervous system. And it brings peace, especially on the anxious, overwhelmed days.

Whether it’s journaling or silently listing your blessings on a walk…Choose gratitude today.

Then notice how different you feel.

07/10/2025

07/08/2025

Forest bathing.

Did you know that trees release special natural chemicals called phytoncides, which can actually help lower your stress levels?

Phytoncides are antimicrobial compounds released by trees and other plants to protect themselves from insects, fungi, and bacteria. But when humans inhale these compounds—especially in forest environments—they can trigger a calming effect on the body.

Research, especially from Japanese studies on forest bathing (shinrin-yoku), shows that spending time in nature where you're breathing in phytoncides can:

▪️Reduce cortisol levels, the hormone linked to stress

▪️Lower blood pressure and heart rate

▪️Boost your immune system, particularly by increasing the number of natural killer (NK) cells, which help fight viruses and tumors

▪️Improve mood, focus, and sleep quality

The effect is strongest in forests with trees and plants that emit high levels of phytoncides. Examples include:

🌲 Evergreen trees like pine, cedar, spruce, and cypress
🌳 Hardwoods such as oak, beech, and birch
🌿 Aromatic plants like eucalyptus, tea tree, rosemary, and garlic

So next time you walk through a forest, you're not just enjoying the view—you’re actually breathing in nature’s own form of stress relief.

🔬 Source Info :
This information is based on studies from researchers in Japan and around the world, including work published in the Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine journal. Scientists like Dr. Qing Li have found that trees release natural compounds called phytoncides—and breathing them in while walking in forests can reduce stress and improve immune function. These findings have also been reviewed by public health experts, including articles from Harvard Health Publishing and international environmental health journals.