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Lifestyle Health and Integrative Preventative Medical Center. Hoogland provides allopathic health services and medically supervised water fasting.

https://hoogland.co.za/health/mental-health-the-human-condition/

18/09/2025

Fast vs Slow Medicine

Fast medicine saves lives in crisis; slow medicine heals the whole person over time. Both are essential — and most powerful when they work together. Our latest article explores how urgent interventions (tests, treatments, surgery) and long-term care (rest, nutrition, movement, mental health support) complement each other for lasting wellbeing, and how we practise this balance at Hoogland.

Read more: https://hoogland.co.za/health/fast-vs-slow-medicine/

📬 We also share a monthly newsletter with a feature article, seasonal specials, and a nourishing recipe. To subscribe, email info@hoogland.co.za

Hoogland Health Hydro
Lifestyle Medicine Institute

16/09/2025

An Invitation to Healing

We are delighted to offer a limited number of 4-Day Lifestyle Health Core vouchers — a retreat designed to restore balance and nurture long-term wellbeing.

Each voucher includes R1,500 in treatment value and is available for R8,300 (valued at R12,000). This is both an investment in your own health and a meaningful gift of healing for someone you love.

What’s included:
🌿 Comfortable, private en-suite accommodation
🌿 Unlimited access to hydro and wellness facilities
🌿 Daily guided meditation, breathwork, and exercise classes
🌿 Two nature walks each day
🌿 Balanced meals, fresh fruit, and herbal teas
🌿 Health monitoring and support from our caring professionals
🌿 Supervised water-fasting (up to 3 days) with guided refeeding
🌿 Inspiring talks, demonstrations, and workshops

Only 20 vouchers are available. Vouchers are valid for 1 year from purchase (excl. 13 Dec – 11 Jan and long weekends), and cannot be used in conjunction with other vouchers or promotions.

📧 To secure yours, please email info@hoogland.co.za

13/09/2025

Journaling & Pause

In a world that often rushes us along, journaling offers a gentle way to slow down. With pen in hand, thoughts untangle, emotions soften, and the noise of the day finds quiet order on the page.

Research shows that journaling can lower stress, support emotional regulation, and even strengthen the immune system by giving the mind space to process and release. It becomes both reflection and release — a private conversation with oneself.

Tips for starting:

🌱Write freely, without worrying about grammar or structure.
🌻Begin with a simple prompt, like “Today I noticed…” or “I am grateful for…”
✨Set aside a few minutes each day, perhaps in the morning or before bed.

At Hoogland, moments of pause are honoured. Whether through journaling, puzzles, or quiet reflection, these unhurried practices create space for healing to unfold.

For more information on what we have to offer, visit the link in our bio.

Hoogland Health Hydro
Lifestyle Medicine Institute

06/09/2025

The Science of Rest
Rest is not a luxury — it is one of the body’s most essential medicines.

During quality sleep, the immune system is strengthened, cells repair, and the brain clears toxins that build up during the day. Hormones such as cortisol, insulin, and melatonin find their balance, shaping how we respond to stress, regulate energy, and even manage appetite.

Daytime rest cycles are equally important. Pausing between activity allows the nervous system to reset, lowers inflammation, and supports steady concentration.

At Hoogland, rest is honoured. Gentle rhythms, quiet spaces, and daily opportunities for pause allow the body and mind to do what they are designed to do: restore.

For more information on what we have to offer, visit the link in our bio.

Hoogland Health Hydro
Lifestyle Medicine Institute

04/09/2025

The Role of Breath in Healing
Breath is both anchor and medicine.
At Hoogland, daily breathwork and meditation invite guests to pause, soften, and return to themselves.

Gentle diaphragmatic breathing activates the vagus nerve, lowering heart rate, easing muscle tension, improving digestion, and supporting the body’s natural healing.

Meditation builds on this calm foundation. With regular practice, thoughts settle, focus strengthens, resilience deepens, and anxiety is reduced. The benefits ripple further: improved sleep, steadier mood, lower blood pressure, and a greater sense of inner ease.

In these quiet daily practices, body and mind meet in balance — and healing begins.

For more information on what we have to offer, visit the link in our bio.

Hoogland Health Hydro
Lifestyle Medicine Institute

30/08/2025

A Quiet Spot in Nature

Sometimes what the body needs most is stillness.
Scattered throughout our grounds are small benches and tucked-away corners where guests can pause — to breathe, to notice the play of light through the trees, or simply to sit in quiet company with themselves.

Even a few minutes in nature can calm the nervous system, ease mental strain, and restore perspective. It is often in these small pauses that a sense of balance begins to return.

📍 A gentle reminder that these quiet places are always waiting, both here and in the spaces of nature near your own home.

For more information on what we have to offer, visit the link in our bio.

Hoogland Health Hydro
Lifestyle Medicine Institute

28/08/2025

A Look Inside the Hydro Rooms

The gentle heat of the steam room does more than ease muscle tension. Research shows that regular steam bathing can support cardiovascular health by improving circulation, lowering blood pressure, and enhancing vascular flexibility.

The warmth also helps open the airways, making it easier to breathe deeply, while the rise in skin temperature encourages detoxification through sweating. Many guests notice a sense of calm afterward, as the nervous system shifts into its natural “rest-and-repair” mode.

At Hoogland, each steam room is prepared with eucalyptus essential oil added to the rocks, releasing a fragrant steam that further clears the airways, stimulates circulation in the mucous membranes, and leaves both body and mind feeling deeply refreshed.

It is a simple practice — but one with profound effects on health and wellbeing.

For more information on what we have to offer, visit the link in our bio.

Hoogland Health Hydro
Lifestyle Medicine Institute

26/08/2025

What Does “Medically Supervised Fasting” Mean?

When we speak about fasting at Hoogland, it is never left to chance.
Medical supervision means careful attention at every step — regular monitoring of blood pressure, weight, pulse, and oxygen levels, as well as a range of lab tests when indicated. Our doctors and nurses are available throughout the day to answer questions, guide the process, and ensure that fasting remains safe and beneficial for each individual.

It is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Each fast is adapted to your body’s needs, your health history, and your response along the way. Some require shorter fasts, others may benefit from longer ones — but always with the reassurance of professional oversight.

Fasting can be a powerful intervention when done correctly. With guidance, it becomes not just an act of abstaining from food, but a structured process of rest, repair, and renewal for the whole body.

For more information on what we have to offer, visit the link in our bio.

Hoogland Health Hydro
Lifestyle Medicine Institute

24/08/2025

Sunday Soak

A warm bath becomes more than comfort when minerals join the water. Magnesium from simple Epsom salts helps muscles soften, sulphates support the body’s natural balance, and trace elements gently restore tired systems.

It is a reminder that health is often found in quiet, uncomplicated rituals.

Do you make time for a soak that nourishes both body and mind?

22/08/2025

Abraham’s Honey Crunch Muesli

At Hoogland, food is more than nourishment — it is part of the healing journey.

Our home-baked Honey Crunch Muesli is one of those simple, grounding recipes that guests love to take home. Packed with nuts, seeds, and oats, lightly toasted with honey, it offers a steady source of energy, fibre for gut health, and the quiet pleasure of something made with care.

Enjoy it with yoghurt and fruit, or simply as a handful between meals.

Recipes like this remind us that wellness is not only in the treatments, the hikes, or the hydrotherapy cycle — but also in the everyday foods that sustain us.

This recipe is one of many in our Hoogland recipe book. Simply message us if you're interested!

For more information on what we have to offer, visit the link in our bio.

Hoogland Health Hydro
Lifestyle Medicine Institute

20/08/2025

The Power of Magnesium & Why Whole Foods Matter

Magnesium is quietly essential—supporting the nervous system, easing muscle tension, aiding digestion, and inviting softer sleep.

However, supplements often present more downsides than people expect. They can disrupt digestion, cause nausea or diarrhea, and may offer levels that outpace what the body needs (especially when kidney function is slowed). Alone, they lack the supporting nutrients and fibre found in whole foods—nutrient synergies that help absorption and gentler digestion. Some supplements even risk interacting with medications or disrupting gut flora when taken without balance.

In contrast, foods rich in magnesium—leafy greens, nuts, seeds, legumes, whole grains—offer not just magnesium, but a symphony of plant compounds, protein, fibre and enzymes your body recognises and uses more naturally.

Our quiet preference at Hoogland: nourish the body with food first. Let supplements be a seldom-used backup, reserved for when there’s evidence of true deficiency—and under thoughtful guidance.

17/08/2025

Pause. Listen. Breathe.

Imagine yourself by the river’s edge — the gentle rush of water carrying away the noise of the day.
Close your eyes and take a slow, steady breath in… hold… and let it flow out, just as the stream moves past the rocks.
This simple practice can calm the nervous system, and bring clarity to your thoughts.

Just a few mindful moments can rinse away the build-up of stressful thoughts and silly worries.

Our lives were never meant to be so filled with the sounds of cars, sirens, screams, blaring music or harsh lights. It takes hard work to regulate ourselves in such overwhelming conditions. Take extra time to love yourself, to bring peace to your mind. Take moments away from the noise, to bring some quiet back into your life.

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Hoogland Health Hydro
Centurion
0183

Telephone

+27120230224

Website

http://www.hoogland.co.za/

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