8 Food Documentary Films That Will Help Motivate You To Make Healthier Food Choices!
Need some motivation to start making healthy food choices for your journey to wellness? Here is a list of food documentaries to help motivate you to make healthier food choices!
All documentaries can be found on Netflix Continue reading
FibroTV Podcast #18 Treating The Mind, Body, and Spirit When Diagnosed With A Chronic Illness
Western medicine is well advanced for acute conditions and trauma but when it comes to chronic illness has it failed us? Treating the body as a whole (Mind Body Spirit) might just be the link you are looking for in your journey to wellness.
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An Herb No One On Medication Should Be Without!
Many medications are very hard on the liver and when on medications your liver enzymes should be checked on a regular bases by your doctor.
The liver is the largest glandular organ in the body and performs many vital functions to keep the body pure of toxins and harmful substances. It is a vital organ that supports nearly every organ in the body in some facet. Without a healthy liver, a person cannot survive.
The liver plays a central role in all metabolic processes in the body. In fat metabolism the liver cells break down fats and produce energy. They also produce about 800 to 1,000 ml of bile per day. This yellow, brownish or olive green liquid is collected in small ducts and then passed on to the main bile duct, which carries the bile to a part of the small intestine called the duodenum. Bile is important for the breakdown and absorption of fats. Continue reading
Epsom Salts For Pain and Stress Management
Epsom salt, named from a bitter saline spring at Epsom in Surrey, England, is not actually salt but a naturally occurring pure mineral compound of magnesium and sulfate. Long known as a natural remedy for a number of ailments, Epsom salt has numerous health benefits as well as many beauty, household and gardening-related uses.
Studies have shown that magnesium and sulfate are both readily absorbed through the skin, making Epsom salt baths an easy and ideal way to enjoy the amazing health benefits. Magnesium plays a number of roles in the body including regulating the activity of over 325 enzymes, reducing inflammation, helping muscle and nerve function and helping to prevent artery hardening. Sulfates help improve the absorption of nutrients, flush toxins and help ease migraine headaches.
Most people know about the importance of calcium and vitamin D, but many Americans are also magnesium deficient. Also many do not realize if you are magnesium deficient your body can not use any of the vitamin D you ingest orally or absorb via the sun. Many Vitamin D deficiencies are caused from magnesium deficiency and the bodies inability to utilize vitamin D. Doctors say it stems largely from the increasing prevalence of processed foods in our diets. Today, 68 percent of U.S. adults consume less than the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of magnesium, according to the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, and 19 percent consume less than half of the RDA. Continue reading
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The Benefits Of Coconut Oil For Those With Cognitive Memory Issues (Fibro Fog)
Many of us with Chronic illness have cognitive memory issues. Fibromyalgia patients often experience a loss of mental clarity and problems with memory. Dubbed “fibro fog,” this side effect of the syndrome can have a significant impact on patients’ lives. The difficulties, which many people find very distressing, include being forgetful, feeling confused, difficulty concentrating and the inability to speak clearly.
Coconut oil is an edible oil that has been consumed in tropical places for thousands of years. Studies done on native diets high in coconut oil consumption show that these populations are generally in good health, and don’t suffer as much from many of the modern diseases of western nations where coconut oil is seldom consumed anymore.
Some of the most recent research has come from people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, with reports of people improving or even reversing the effects of Alzheimer’s by using coconut oil. Continue reading
Bubbly Alternatives To Diet Sodas
We all know that sodas and diet sodas are terrible for us but some of us still keep drinking them. If you are drinking them because you think they help you keep the pounds off you might want to reconsider your reason for drinking them. A Purdue University study found diet soda may be linked to health problems from obesity to diabetes to heart disease.
“Public health officials are rightfully concerned about the consequences of consuming sugar-sweetened beverages, such as soft drinks, but these warnings may need to be expanded to advocate limiting the intake of all sweeteners, including no-calorie sweeteners and so-called diet soft drinks,” said Susan E. Swithers, a professor of psychological sciences and a behavioral neuroscientist. “Although it seems like common sense that diet sodas would not be problematic, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Findings from a variety of studies show that routine consumption of diet sodas, even one per day, can be connected to higher likelihood of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and high blood pressure, in addition to contributing to weight gain.” Continue reading
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Free Sleep Videos With Binary Beats To Promote Stage 4 Sleep
For the last few months I have been experimenting with Videos on YouTube that promote sleep. I have had a lot of success with a more deep and refreshing sleep with videos that have binary beats in the background so I thought I would share some of them with you.
What are Binary Beats?
Binaural beats were originally discovered in 1839 by physicist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. He discovered when signals of two different frequencies are presented separately, one to each ear, your brain detects the phase variation between the frequencies and tries to reconcile that difference.
In doing so, as the two frequencies mesh in and out of phase, your brain creates its own third signal — called a binaural beat — which is equal to the difference between those two frequencies.
For example, if a frequency of 100 Hz is presented to your left ear, and a frequency of 105 Hz is presented to your right ear, your brain “hears” a third frequency pulsing at 5 Hz, the exact difference between the two frequencies.
Research has proven that introducing a binaural beat will cause the brain to begin resonating in tune with that beat. By creating a binaural beat at 10 Hz — an Alpha frequency — you can trigger your brain to resonate at that same 10 Hz frequency, automatically inducing brain activity in the Alpha range. This same technique can be used to quickly and easily guide your mind into any state. Continue reading
