Healthy Choices with Carlien

11/27/2025

11/12/2025

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08/26/2025

04/03/2025

🌸 Menopause & Frozen Shoulder—Who Knew? 🤯

Many of my peri- and post-menopausal clients experience shoulder and hip pain.

Ever wondered why your shoulder or hips suddenly feels stiff, painful, or just won’t move like it used to? You’re not alone! Frozen shoulder and nagging joint pain are surprisingly common during menopause, and here’s why:

❌ Estrogen Decline – Less estrogen = less collagen = stiffer joints!
🔥 Inflammation Rises – Estrogen is a potent antioxidant and when estrogen becomes deficient or decline, we lose protection and becomes more inflamed. Your body becomes more prone to swelling and pain.
🛑 Slower Healing – Tendons and ligaments lose flexibility due to collagen loss, making movement harder.
😴 Stress & Poor Sleep –Inflammation causes increased cortisol. Cortisol spikes can break down muscle and increase pain sensitivity.

The good news? 💡 You can take action! Look at the video I attached.

✔️ Move daily – Gentle stretches & strength training keep shoulders mobile.
🥑 Eat smart – Anti-inflammatory foods (hello, omega-3s! 🐟🥑) support joint health.
🧘‍♀️ Manage stress – Cortisol regulation = less pain.
💊 Consider HRT or supplements – Supporting hormones may help!

If your shoulders feel frozen in time, you’re NOT crazy—it’s your hormones talking!

Have you experienced menopause-related shoulder pain? Let’s chat in the comments! ⬇️👇



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01/01/2025

Happy New Year! 🥳

11/19/2023

New clients often tell me that they don't add salt to their food and that they don't eat a lot of sugar. The question is why are they avoiding salt and are they looking at the ingredients of their foods?

Below is an example of some of the 'healthy' choices people are making.🙄 Let me rather not start on protein bars, energy and diet drinks and so called healthy smoothies!

09/29/2023

McDonald's is losing the legal battle with chef Jamie Oliver, who proved the food they sell is not fit to be consumed because it is highly toxic.
Chef Jamie Oliver has won the battle against the world’s largest junk food chain. Oliver demonstrates how burgers are made.

According to Oliver, the fat parts of meat are "washed" with hydrogen ammonia and then used in the packaging of the meat cake to fill the burger. Before this process, according to the presenter, this meat was not suitable for human consumption.

Oliver, a radical activist chef who has waged a war against the food industry, says: We’re talking about meat that would be sold as dog food and then served to humans after this process. In addition to the quality of meat, ammonium acid is harmful to health. Oliver says this: "The process of pink nonsense".

What sensible person would put a piece of meat soaked in ammonium hydrogen in a child's mouth?

In another of his initiatives, Oliver has shown how chicken nuggets are made: after selecting the "best parts", the rest: fat, skin, cartilage, statues, bones, head, legs are subjected to a mec split smoothie canica - it's the euphemism that engineers use in food, and then is that blood pink pasta deodorant, bleached, refreshed and repainted, dipped in flower and baked melcocha, this is left in mostly partially hydrogenated oils, i.e. toxins.

The food industry is using hydrogen ammonium as an antimicrobial agent, allowing McDonald's to use meat in its burgers, which is unfit for human consumption.

But even more worrying is the situation that these hydrogen ammonium substances in the food industry are considered 'legal components in the manufacturing process', with the blessings of health authorities worldwide. Consumers will never be able to discover which substances they are putting in our food.

The more you know. Please STOP feeding your children these fake foods because now you know.

Source: KIHP