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When Stress is Your Gateway to Purposeful Ascension

The dose of the stressor is very important. You’ll need to get mindful in assessing both the timing and quantity of your stressor.  Too little may do nothing, whereas too much may hurt you.  When you reach this threshold (and not go over it), you are in the range to feel benefits

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Is Your Fat Loss Journey on Track?

The people that joined me on this ride had a different outlook as they premised that a Paleo lifestyle would get so much easier once they survive the initiation of Eating Whole 30. They were looking for a diet protocol that they could abide to, follow strictly to get them on target towards being in the external body they desired. But the opposite is often true. It gets much harder because …

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Upgrade your Nutritional Mindset - Don’t Eat Late at Night or You will Add Fat to your Girth

Absolute claims are a heavy burden — we get stuck in one place, rather than exploring our possibilities.  The “don’t eat late” myth has caught many people and continues to harm healthy progress.  I’ve found trials that support eating early and then concluding your eating earlier in the day and those that show an advantage in late eaters, who delay their first meal of the day and  finish their eating for the day a little later.  On the surface of these studies there is no super impressive difference between the two.  But none of these trials  on offer are “perfect, real life studies”, there are so many compounding variants that destroy the credibility of a real life scenario.

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Is Coconut Oil Right For You?

The American Heart Association advisory warns against coconut oil, yet many zealot internet health advisors tout it’s benefits. Once again we are returned to the “nothing is black and white” caution. The minimum that you need to consider is that coconut may increase cardiovascular disease risk, but the evidence is super conflicting (we really don’t know). Observational evidence is positive, however trial evidence on humans is mixed.

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Flexibility is a Force Multiplier


Flexibility is a Force Multiplier - try doing this without good range of motion. People with good flexibility can use their strength through wider ranges of motion, so they can do things other people just can’t

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Are You Wasting Your Money on Probiotics?

Probiotics cannot help a sinking ship if the ship keeps taking in more water than it can cope with.  If you are still indulging in too many sweet treats you are wasting your money on probiotics.  Perhaps that is a motivator in itself for you to quell your sugar demon.

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Creatine monohydrate for brain power

Interestingly, creatine monohydrate doesn’t just boost your muscle power, it also boosts your brain power! Creatine supplementation is in widespread use to enhance sports-fitness performance, and has been trialled successfully in the treatment of neurological, neuromuscular and atherosclerotic disease.

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The Power of Oxygen

A common bodily response during intense exertion or stress (even anxiety and panic) is difficulty in breathing. You know the feeling - short, shallow laboured breathing.

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Connect with your instinct 💕

There’s a suggestion that we are the average of the 5 people we spend most thought time with. Listening to too many voices with unchallenged dedication, can cloud our judgement. Connect with your instinct 💕

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Rest and digest

Spend time in parasympathetic status (rest and digest). This nervous state increases motility and secretion by digestive organs, relaxes sphincters to allow foodstuffs to move through your tract! It also increases glucose uptake from blood and excited the gallbladder to expel bile! = better digestion and assimilation of nutrients from your food for more energy and health 🌱

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Do you want sugar with that?

Pretty much every single study that espouses the benefits of coffee does refer to black coffee. No heavy cream or traditional sugars. So keep this in mind when your to order your third cappuccino.

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