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COVID-19: What you can do to help boost immunity in addition to washing your hands: Diet: Cut down on sugar & processed foods - this will help your immune system. Processed foods and sugars suppress it. Some ideas: • Add organic and/or wild fruits and veggies ( can get frozen!) • Frozen wild salmon filets • potatoes or frozen brown rice / quinoa etc • Vitamin C / Zinc / Elderberry supplements Try and eat clean, I know you’re home so you want some fun foods, take some time and try and make healthier alternatives if you can! If you do want to eat some processed foods, keep it to a minimum. • Exercise: NOT overexercising, go walk outside, try and get 10k steps a day by walking outside in natural sun to get vitamin D. Do some cardio, some weights (if able to), do NOT overtax your body especially if you’re already anxious or stressed because it will suppress your immune system. DO NOT OVERDO IT. • Stress: it will lower the immune system. Higher cortisol boosts insulin which boosts glucose and suppresses the immune system. TRY to relax. Read a good book. Try and take breaks from the news. Be informed but also be proactive and take that energy to help teach others best practices. Walk, listen to music, take some time at home for a DIY or reorganization project. Lets control our response to all of this as best as we can. • Rest: Now is the time to get 8 hours of sleep! We naturally fight off - We naturally fight off invaders / pathogens / microbes when we get that deep sleep and REM sleep. If you’re stressed before bed try, try some adrenal soothe supplements and magnesium (I have links for what I use). Emotions: Remind each other we are going to get through this. Being proactive and connecting with each other (which will be digitally for a lot of us) will help. • Now… when all of this is over, let’s try and keep up some of these practices :) IT shouldn’t take a pandemic to finally try and be healthier.
Hey Friends! Back from a week in Rio Hato Panama! We spent time with four of our friends in the cutest villa walking distance from the beach. We did the typical eat, drink, and have a good time, yet also managed to be asleep by 10 every night. We mostly stayed in our area but explored the area with four wheelers as well. • Corona Virus: We traveled through Miami International Airport which looked like a war zone with all the masks we saw. While we didn’t wear any face masks, we took cleaning wipes for our seatbelts, seats, tray tables, and basically anything we touched on the plane, and tons of hand sanitizer. • I took the last two days home to rest, catch up on sleep, and eat lots of nourishing foods / actually take my supplements. While I’m not sitting here in panic of catching the virus I think we should all take the sanitary measures (which we should ALREADY be doing) of washing our hands, using wipes on handles at the grocery store, WIPING DOWN GYM EQUIPMENT you use, shower, and eat well. It also doesn’t hurt to take additional zinc and vitamin c. • While this is a serious issue for our economy, the elderly, and others, let’s all try and stay sane and not spread hysteria to each other. Anxiety & fear will only hurt us more. Be smart, stay informed, and stay clean 😊
The start of the year you’ll often hear the word “Detox” thrown around. This can exist in the form of a juice cleanse, water fast, Whole 30, and other diets, but you can also detox in other ways not involving food. (Also new or expecting mamas — this is for you! 😉) • Enter our daily product use. Ever thought about detoxing the home? The water we drink, air we breathe, and products we topically apply are just as important as the food we ingest. And while you may not realize it, most consumer products such as make up, detergents, cleaners, etc. are FULL of toxins that we could benefit from eliminating. Enter some of my favorite non-taxic products to help deload that “toxic” barrel: 1. @beautycounter: For all my skincare regimen — they do make up, cleansers, moisturizers, and more! I have a few posts on my favorite and can send some samples to anyone interested! DM me. They have a whole baby line as well 👶🏼 2. @branchbasics: (also 📸 cred to them) I started with the Starter kit & Oxygen boost and this kit can replace all your home cleaning / laundry / dish products you currently have with one purchase! Super easy that comes with bottles you can spread around your home as needed for an easy clean. This will be great to remove any chemicals you don’t want around your babies or pets! #tossthetoxins • There are a ton more options out there. To see what products you currently own and how toxic they are, check out this website: “www.ewg.org”.
I have found the BEST addition to my chia pudding! Flavored hemp honey from @apismercantile ! • For any new followers on here, chia pudding is one of my favorite & easy breakfast recipes. Also awesome for anyone on the go. In my version I use the following: • @foragerproject cashew unsweetened plain yogurt container (or 4-5 oz if you buy the big container) • .5 cup mix of raspberries and blueberries • 1-2 tbsp of chia seeds • I add a serving of @vitalproteins collagen peptides for an extra burst of protein for satiation • I top with either granola, an @gratisfied empower bar, or in this case, a @blenderbombs half a banana! • As you can see I typically use unsweetened yogurts so I’m in control with any added sugars. Enter the hemp honey! This one is a raspberry flavored hemp honey which blends in perfectly with my chia pudding adding to that fruity flavor from the berries. • @apismercantile just recently launched in Charleston! Each honey is comprised of hemp and hive ingredients. They are cruelty free and all products are manufactured right here in Charleston! #supportlocal. They also have body butters, other CBD products, and other delicious flavored honeys. My husband and I are going through this jar fast and loving it! You gotta give it a try! #beebetter
I consider myself to be #plantbased . Am I a vegan or vegetarian? No. But I don’t think plant based and eating meat are mutually exclusive. • Plant based to me means I try and incorporate fruits and veggies into almost every meal. I try to make vegetables the main focal point of my plate. If you look at my week as a whole, 80% of meals contain mostly vegetables. I also try to eat at least a cup of mixer berries a day (blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries primarily) These powerhouses contain so many essential micronutrients that we should never be in fear of them. • If you’re trying to make a healthy lifestyle change, I encourage you to think about where and how you can add vegetables to your meals vs. removing foods. This could be greens in a smoothie, wilting spinach or baby kale into a pasta, switching that pasta from white to chickpea, swapping one meal for a salad, or just aiming to get 5-7 cups of veggies a day via sides. This doesn’t mean you need to be vegan or vegetarian, I consider the Mediterranean diet to be plant based and that still involves meat / seafood and some dairy. It just means you want to incorporate as many plants as you can. Try to focus on the addition rather than the removal! And if you really have a hard time with the taste, DM me for a fruit and veggie blend from @equilibrium_nutrition that you can use in a shake which contains 22 organic fruits and veggies and safe ingredients! 💚🥦🥬🥗
Non Dairy Milks for coffee! I have been on the hunt for the best mike to use that froth well and have clean (or cleaner) ingredients. Unfortunately my favorite @oatly milk isnt’ the cleanest bc it has rapesseed oil. While I’ll still enjoy it every now and then I wanted to find a better alternative for my daily cup of coffee. - Enter @elmhurst1925. They offer oat, hemp, and a variety of nut milks with very few ingredients. They have both sweetened and unsweetened milks and a special barista edition which really works well! I was super pleased with the cashew barista blend paired with the light roast Guatemalan @lacolombecoffee coffee. I frothed the milk in my @gourmia frother (found on @amazon) and you can tell how well that worked! - I found elmhurst at our local pubix and I’m pretty sure target carries them as well. I posted some other alternatives that I found that are worth checking out! In the quest to cut back on my Starbucks addiction I gotta have my perfect cup at home! Been loving @charletsoncoffeeroastsers, @lacolombecoffee, and @secondstatecoffee coffee for my daily morning drink. I also freaking LOVE my @swiglife coffee mug. My sis in law @queenof1stjungle gifted me this for xmas and its amazing! Fits 18 oz coffee and keeps its temperature for hours. You can find on amazon!

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