Vitamin C is essential for brain health. However, only an extremely small portion of the nutrient’s molecules ingested are conveyed into the organ. In 2014, biochemists in South Korea found high-dose vitamin C supplementation reduces amyloid plaque burden and ameliorates pathological changes in the brains of mice with genetically engineered Alzheimer’s disease. If you want to get more vitamin C accumulated in your brain, do high-dose supplementation or take regular vitamin C supplements. The latter method is likely better, as high-dose supplementation can cause adverse effects, according to some medical researchers.
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Wheelchair Clothing Products Can Help
Ordinary clothing can be very challenging to deal with when your range of motion is limited. Wheelchair-bound users with disabilities can find it difficult to dress in conventional clothing, especially when they are unable to weight bear and/or are challenged with lowered upper mobility. Our clothing is designed to be slipped on and off easily from a seated or prone position. Snap closures are discretely placed to prevent bed sores and avoid pressure wounds. Adaptive clothing is designed specifically to ease aided dressing.
How Feelings Shape Your Reality
It is not enough just to choose “good feeling thoughts” and ignore the rest. Thoughts from fear-based feelings will continue to manifest in our lives, often in unexpected ways. It’s why “bad” things seem to happen to “good” people!
Love-based feelings completely neutralize a negative thought. Remember, any thought that you hold with feeling will become a thing! You can choose fear or love.
If you want to know what you’ve been thinking, look at your life today. Take fear-based feelings and replace them with love-based ones.
The Gut and Your Metabolism
What does healthy glucose metabolism mean? It means all-day energy because your levels don’t drop, so say goodbye to that afternoon nap. It also means that those persistent cravings become a distant memory, because you don’t need that pick-me-up snack to get through the day. But Plexus Slim, along with that, also helps to maintain healthy blood pressure levels and cardiovascular health, and helps the body metabolize carbohydrates and fats, which in turn helps with weight management. It all adds up to a healthier you.
It’s time to take control of your health, rebalance your metabolism, and recharge your life!
Natural Product Spotlight
Garden of Life Sport Organic Plant-Based Protein is the cleanest protein available having quadruple, third-party certifications saying so. Not only is it Certified USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified, Organic Plant-Based Protein takes it to the next level for sport by being NSF Certified for Sport and Informed-Choice for Sport Certified. This ensures there are no banned athletic substances—just whole clean nutrients. This product is formulated to help your body recover faster, build and repair muscle and fuel your metabolism with Truly Clean multi-sourced plant-based protein and antioxidants. Support immune system health during training with 2 Billion CFU of Clinically Studied Probiotics.
Do You Suffer From Hypertension?
Hypertension affects more than one in five Canadians. The Government of Canada states that it is the number one reason for taking medication. Unfortunately, many people have difficulty controlling their blood pressure even with conventional medical treatments. If the cause of your hypertension is due to plaque build-up in your arteries, very often it can be helped naturally. To determine if there is arterial narrowing and restricted blood flow, a simple, non-invasive test using digital pulsewave analysis can be performed. Depending on the results, specific nutritional formulations can be taken to open the arteries, thereby decreasing blood pressure.
Sometimes Timing is Everything
Waiting is essential, required and can’t be rushed. A spiritual practice that involves knowing when to pause and stay open and when to move and take action. Honouring and trusting the mystery of life’s timing. Patiently awaiting is one of the more difficult things we have to learn in a human body. In a world that never stops, practicing the fine art of slowing down and tuning in invites a deep inner knowing and wisdom that can only be revealed rather than forced. There is a sacred timing once we unhook from the mind’s chatter, learning to differentiate our instincts from our fear awaiting an inner green light to reveal a clear yes or no. Trusting the answer will unfold at the perfect timing instead of the one we have pressured ourselves to create and re-enforce.
Muscle Pain? Try Dry Needling!
Pain and muscle soreness is something that affects many of us. One of the most supported treatments for muscle pain is trigger point dry needling. This treatment has been demonstrated to have a significant effect on muscle tone and myofascial trigger point pain, through mechanical, electrophysical, chemical, and neurophysiological mechanisms. Dry needling has been shown to be effective for numerous pathologies, such as muscle strains, neck and back pain, jaw pain (TMJ), headaches, and chronic pain syndromes such as fibromyalgia. It is especially effective when combined with other physiotherapy techniques and treatments, including manual therapy, exercise, and education.
Family Gathering Tips
Family Gathering Tips. Enjoying the company of relatives you don’t see very often is one of the best parts of family gatherings.
Enjoy your day to the fullest by taking every opportunity you can to connect and speak an encouraging word to every person in attendance. In doing so, you will start a ton of great conversations and learn fun facts about your relatives. Here are a few more family gathering tips to help you make the most out of your time spent with loved ones.
Enjoy your Tribe to the Fullest with These Family Gathering Tips
1. Talk about past memories. If it’s an annual gathering that’s been going on since you were a kid, start a conversation to bring up some of the funny and heartwarming memories of years gone by. Include aunts, uncles, and cousins as you relive the “good ole days”.
2. Get into a conversation with your favorite relatives. If you just them a hug or a handshake and move on, you may be missing out on special stories and memories.
3. Changing up your surroundings where you normally host your gatherings are both great ways to encourage fresh conversation and connections. Make an effort to create a Family Gathering Committee. Rotate members in and out every gathering so everyone has a chance of honing their leadership and planning skills.
4. Crack a joke at an unexpected time, or grab a smaller group to go hunt down some hot chocolate.
5. Exchange phone numbers and emails with cousins and others you’ve grown distant from. You might have lost your childhood closeness, but why not bring that closeness back as adults? That way, when the next family gathering rolls around, you’ll already feel connected, both as family members and as friends.
6. Whip up some of your favorite recipes as a special treat. Or make it a recipe swap, either with or without the actual dishes. Start a fun new family tradition by creating a family “Secret Recipe” collection that can be added to over the years.
7. Create some completely new Family Traditions. Whether serious or funny, family traditions are the catalyst for bonding opportunities that can be continued for hundreds of years. Just make sure they’re memorable and a somehow representative of your family.
So, dust off your electronic family address book and plan a get-together. Gather for an annual winter marshmallow roast, a monthly poker game, or a quarterly brunch where you all wear your finest clothes and drink orange tea. After all, anything goes. It’s tradition!
Check out more great tips on our Edge Blog www.wildernessedge.com/blog
Balance and Blood Sugar Levels
When it comes to a healthier and happier life, your gut is your best friend. But we all know that daily life can get in the way. Poor sleep, bad diet, lack of exercise and even stress—affects your gut health by throwing off your body’s ability to effectively metabolize carbs, fat and glucose. All those daily stresses can also affect your heart health too, becoming a real recipe for a health disaster.
If you feel you need to take control of your health, Slim can help provide support with those concerns like healthy glucose metabolism, healthy blood pressure levels and help you manage weight.
Listen to what my friend, Shoshanna, a food purist and the founder of a Bulk Herb Store, says about why blood sugar levels are so important for our health, and the why we have DETOX symptoms when we balance the gut…
“Our body has thousands of different things going on all at once, while it works harmoniously as one. It needs constant communication with each part to do the job it was made to do. When your body stops listening to itself, piece by piece it will start to break down. What can keep our bodies from this extremely important communication? Insulin resistance.
The one common denominator that researchers have found in people that have lived to be over 100 years old; or tribal members that live much longer than the average life span, is their insulin sensitivity.
So, what is insulin?
Whether you eat, don’t eat, or eat starchy foods or sugary foods, all those things make your blood sugar go up or down. The body is very intelligent and knows how important it is that your blood sugar level stays balanced. So, every time you eat your body gives you a dose of insulin.
Insulin resistance is where your body gets confused because it is flooded with insulin and the cells stops listening. Let’s say you eat some oatmeal for Breakfast, an organic whole wheat sandwich for Lunch, and then you have some organic, brown fried rice for super in the evening. Sounds way healthier than 90% of the average Canadian diet, right? True. It is healthier, but still all those carbs you ate (oatmeal, bread, and rice) turn into sugar giving your body a big dose of insulin every time you eat. Your body is made to have only a little insulin release. When you start getting too much insulin on a regular basis, your cells stop listening and you become insulin resistant.
Insulin is one of your master hormones. So, if you get that balanced… it can then “talk” to all the other hormones and get things going in the right direction. That communication is vital for health. That communication is called “Insulin Sensitivity”, and it is the opposite of “Insulin Resistant”.
When the blood sugar is balanced, and the body is not being flooded with insulin it can then start to heal itself. Little by little, your body will start that necessary communication again. The communication brings harmony and balance back to your body.
Slim (aka “the PINK drink”) was designed to help keep our blood sugar levels balanced. That is why so many people are seeing that their bodies are finally starting to heal from so many different health issues, with one simple product: SLIM!
If you are sick or feel like your body has been overrun with toxins for a long period of time, and you start taking something that will begin to balance out your body and in turn it will also detox it. If you do not know what you are looking at, detoxes can scare you off from what your body needs (have any of you quit because you didn’t understand CANDIDA DIE OFF?).
Sometimes when you take something that detoxes you, you might just start feeling better right away! But some people have a period of die off. This can happen when you have bad bacteria, yeast, candida, fungus, parasites, lyme, mold, staff, strep, or something bad living in your gut or blood stream. Once your body starts communicating with itself again, it will realize that there are harmful things that it needs to get rid of. However, if it kills that bad stuff too fast, then you can experience what is called “die off” or “hertz reaction”.
When this happens to me, I always just slow it down, and cut whatever I am taking in half. I make sure I’m drinking lots of lemon water to flush all the toxins out. I also make sure everything is moving smoothly in the right direction (pooping at least once a day or more).
It normally takes the average person anywhere from 3 days to 3 weeks for the die off period to end, but I know some people that have had them last for 3 months. Just take it slow, and let your body have time to clean itself out as you detox. Even if it is a pain, it is always kind of exciting to me because I know I’m getting rid of all that JUNK!!! Hope is here!
It is a exciting journey to take health back into your own hands! Life is worth living and to really enjoy it we need our health. We have known sickness in our family, but we learned, grew and strived for health and healing. We are not just living now, we are thriving!
Natural Product Review:
The Wild Rose Herbal D-Tox has been used in Canadian clinics for over 30 years and provides a complete multi-system detoxification of the colon and kidneys; acts on the urinary tract and the gastro-intestinal system; and has a healing effect on the liver. By following the recommended diet and taking the herbal formulas provided, the Herbal D-Tox program helps to keep a healthy balance of assimilation and elimination. Whether to stay in good health, to clear a congested system, or to use after over-consumption, a detoxification program can be the beginning of a new lifestyle, a way to break unwanted habits, and an integral part of your continued health.
