Are you looking to kick-start your metabolism? Here are a few tips! 1. Build muscle. Your body always burns calories, even when you’re doing nothing. Your resting metabolic rate is much higher if you have muscle. 2. Keep drinking water. Your body needs water to process calories. If you are even mildly dehydrated, your metabolism may slow down. 3. Power up with protein. Your body burns many more calories digesting protein than it does with carbohydrates. As part of a balanced diet, replacing some carbs with lean, protein-rich foods can boost metabolism at mealtime.
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Problems with Snoring?
Snoring is a topic that is well known to many of us and our spouses. If you have tried all of the pillows, mouth guards and gadgets advertised, you may want to try these simple suggestions so that you can get a perfect night’s rest. Here are some natural, effective essential oils for snoring. Sage, Thyme, Marjoram, Lavender, and Cedarwood. Diffusers are really a terrific way to use the following essential oils at night time. They are also a practical solution when applied topically. For more information and instructions: purejoynaturals.ca/blog
Why Can’t I Put Down My Phone?
Detaching yourself from your phone and truly unplugging can seriously improve your life. While there’s no doubt technology has made our lives easier in many ways (remember roadmaps?), research suggests that our addiction to it is real. Every new notification triggers the release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that drives us to seek rewards, so you keep coming back for more. This vicious cycle is taking a toll on our health, mental wellbeing, and relationships. But this habit isn’t entirely your fault. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter—they’ve all been designed to make you repeatedly use them and check back in. Time for a digital detox?
Ride Don’t Hide!
Outdoor exercise is a great way to soak up the sun’s vitamin D, get your blood pumping, and reconnect with your community – all proven ways to boost your mental health. Need some motivation? Join Ride Don’t Hide, Canada’s largest bike ride for mental health! Two routes will take riders through Winnipeg’s beautiful streets. Ride Don’t Hide is for cyclists of all skill levels. Come ride with us to honour the recovery journeys of those living with mental illness and celebrate mental health! For details, visit: www.ridedonthide.com/mb/ride/winnipeg
Needing a Brain Software Update?
Stress and trauma disrupt the flow of our brainwaves between brain lobes and hemispheres. Too much or too little activity in one area or the other has a domino effect on the whole brain and develops into abnormal brainwave patterns that can, for example, be experienced as insomnia, anxiety, depression, or ADHD. This often leads to chronic conditions, self-medication and addictions. Brainwave Optimization allows the brain to retrain itself and self-regulate with a non-invasive acoustic mirror that helps you get out of being stuck in a rut and relax into well-being. As part of your summer holidays, consider taking yourself to our “brain spa” to “reboot” your brain.
How to Prevent Golfer’s Elbow
Golfer’s elbow, also known as medial epicondylosis, is an overuse injury caused by overloading and/or repetitive stress to the flexor tendon. The common flexor tendon attaches to the end of the humeral bone at the inside of the elbow and is formed by muscles that flex the wrist and run along the length of the forearm. The ulnar nerve is near this tendon, and if it becomes irritated, you may experience numbness or tingling along the inside of the forearm and into the ring and pinky fingers. Doing strengthening exercises and stretches can help to prevent this tendon microtrauma.
Possibilities from Unanswered Questions
How can asking questions create more for you? When you ask a question and draw conclusions or points of view about the question, it doesn’t allow answers or possibilities to reveal themselves to you. Asking questions about your life and then purposely not answering them creates possibilities in your life that you may have never even dreamed of. An example is, “What else is possible here that I haven’t considered?” Don’t answer it right away; see what comes to your awareness that you never would have considered otherwise. What other questions can you ask today to create more for you?
Contemporary Neurofascial Blade Massage
Contemporary neurofascial blade massage is based on the traditional techniques of Gua Sha. Its core purpose was to “induce crisis to hasten the resolution of disease” by using a specific tool to massage the area by countering internal inflammation. These short stroking techniques were used along with traditional acupuncture to treat pain. These same traditional tools stimulate piczo (electrical current) and spread the interstitial fluid along connective tissue planes (increasing local blood flow) with light, gentle, repetitive strokes. This offers another method to decrease inflammation manually.
Community Profile: Kelburn Estates
Kelburn Estates Mental Health & Addictions Recovery Centre is a private residential wellness centre on 45 beautiful acres along the red river, here in Manitoba. We pride ourselves in providing confidential and multi-disciplinary expertise for our guests to reclaim, develop, and sustain a meaningful life. A life free from the destructive mental health disease and related substance abuse. Our mission is to create and maintain a lasting relationship with our guests, families, and community service providers. At Kelburn Estates, we will walk with you on your journey to recovery.
Natural Product Review: Botanica Health
Botanica Health offers organic, plant-based, fermented super foods and herbs. As a society, in recent years, we’ve moved away from the traditional growing, preparing and eating of foods in a mindful way. Botanica Health aims to inspire mindfulness daily by looking at what we eat, and how it makes us feel. Consider these tips:
• Maintain a food journal.
• Aim for a colourful rainbow of whole foods.
• Chew your food until it is completely smooth.
• Listen to your body; eat when you feel hungry, and not just bored.
• Ask yourself if you feel nourished, or physically or emotionally uncomfortable.
Find Botanica Health products at Hedley’s Health Hut.
Book Club: Metabolism Revolution
Bestselling author, leading health and wellness entrepreneur, celebrity nutritionist, and motivational speaker Haylie Pomroy has the answers. Drawing on her fundamental “food as medicine” techniques, she’s created the Metabolism Revolution diet, which strategically manipulates macronutrients to speed the body’s metabolic rate, a guaranteed way to kick start a stalled metabolism. Following the Metabolism Revolution plan, you will burn fat, build muscle, improve your skin, boost energy levels, and look and feel great—all while losing weight quickly and keeping it off for life.
