Keeping you & your athletes healthy! Is it spring sports season at your house? It is at ours – spring season is crazy 🤪 intense for many athletes ⚽️🥍⛹🏽♀️🏊🏼♂️🤽🏼♂️ A few of our boys love ❤️ water polo 🤽🏼♂️ and in our neck of the woods, its high school water polo season 🏊🏼♂️ Last weekend […]
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Let’s talk about fiber and how much you’re eating in the average day. The current guidelines tell us we should be eating roughly 30g of fiber every day but most of us are nowhere near this.. With supermarket shelves packed with processed foods, and an increased reliance on take -out and fast foods, many people
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So many treasured holiday food traditions are born from ancient practices of wellness I am excited to share with you this next series on the herbs and super foods of the holiday season. There are records of cranberry use by Native American populations dating back to the early 1500’s (and I’m sure they were in
So here’s the truth… For many people, wine is toxic and new research is showing it may cause more problems than benefits. But there’s something better! Looking for a natural and effective way to lower blood pressure, increase testosterone, inhibit certain type of cancer (colon, lung, skin & breast) It also has benefits for
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ELDERBERRY!! If there is only 1️⃣ thing you do after reading any of my posts, do THIS – get some elderberry in your home. Flu & Cold season is SO MUCH BETTER with this amazing botanical helper. In several double-blind placebo-controlled studies where people began taking elderberry within 48 hours of developing symptoms, 93% reported
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Someone had to say it – but when it comes to immune boosting foods – Greens are Queens 👑. Not only do they contain large amounts of Vitamin C, many of the leafy green vegetables are an important source of plant based iron (low iron levels cause low energy and suppress the immune system). And
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More Immune Boosting helpers – Fruit in order of highest vitamin C content: Guava Dried Jujube (I’ll post more on this powerhouse later) Black Currants Kiwi Litchis Apples Pummelo Lemon Strawberries Oranges Papaya Grapefruit PIneapple Cantaloupe Mangoes Tangerines Avocados Starfruit Raspberries Pomegranates Apricots … there are 137 fruits that are considered good sources of vitamin
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Remember all those lovely antique and wild roses that bloomed all summer? 🌹 If you are lucky enough to have passed by them again once their blooms have faded you might have found an abundance of Rose Hips. 🥀 Most modern cultivated roses don’t grow rose hips – so you may not see them in
Back in 1991 a study compared two groups of cold virus sufferers – one group was given decongestants and pain relievers to manage cold symptoms -the other group was given 1000mg doses of vitamin C every hour for the first 6 hours then 3 doses a day thereafter. WHO’S SYMPTOMS DECREASED BY 85%? the Vitamin C
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