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What’s blocking you?

Did you know your natural state is one of health? Why then, does it seem that so many of us struggle with so many health problems? The problem isn’t you, its interference! Have you tried to drive across Winnipeg lately? You don’t get very far before you are slowed down or stopped by an orange sign or pylon. Your progress halted, frustration/irritation blazing! Then the repairs are completed, the signs are removed and traffic sails along, JOY! You have 70 trillion cells that know exactly what they are supposed to be doing every second you are alive, but something is in the way. The roadblocks holding your health back can come in many forms; stress, nerve interference, nutrition, exercise, and toxicity. When you identify the interference and remove the roadblocks, you will be rewarded with a body that begins to function normally. Remember though, health is a journey, not a destination, when you feel like you’re there – keep going!

Dr. David Newsham, Academy Chiropractic
www.academyhealthsite.com

Caregiver Pharmacy Support

It can be difficult to be a caregiver and manage multiple or complex medications for a loved one. It is important to ensure medications are taken appropriately to help maintain good health. A visiting pharmacist provides personal support with regular medication delivery and home consultations. The pharmacist reviews a client’s prescription drugs and over the counter medications to advise if there are any drug interactions and makes adjustments as necessary. This level of support can reduce emergency room visits and hospital stays and results in strong, trusting relationships between clients, caregivers and pharmacists. The visiting pharmacist also provides seamless care for hospital discharge patients and works closely with other health professionals to deliver a high level of care to the client. Care is tailored to specific individual needs such as assisting with blood pressure readings, adding medications as needed to adherence packaging and making changes in an efficient manner.

Teresa Giesbrecht, Care at Home Pharmacy
www.careathomepharmacy.ca

The Procrastinator’s Challenge

How many projects are on your back burner? If you’re like most people, that back burner is chock-full of tasks that have been in the planning phase for far too long. Getting stalled projects off the ground can be difficult. A plan of action is what’s called for:

1) Set a specific date and time aside for your project, allowing time for prep and cleanup.

2) A week previous, anticipate and gather all required supplies.

3) Enlist help! There are times in our life when we all could use a hand – that extra push is often what we need to see a project through to a successful conclusion.

4) Put on some great tunes, have your beverage-of-choice on hand and get to work.

5) You’ve done it – enjoy your results!

Done & Done Family Concierge Service
www.doneanddone.ca

Better with Balance

Balance plays a key role in sports performance, injury prevention, and the activities of daily living. Good balance is a fine coordination of muscles, nerves, the brain, the inner ear (vestibular system), and your eyesight. Every move you make sparks rapid-fire communication between these systems, to keep you upright. Any injuries to your muscle-skeletal system and in fact simply aging, can affect your balance. Balance exercises enhance the mind-body connection to keep you safe and injury free. Our physiotherapists can assist you in instruction of exercises to maximize your balance.

Nicole Marier, Action Physiotherapy & Wellness Clinic
www.actionphysio.net

Book Club: Gut

The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ. By Giulia Enders. The gut’s nervous system, food intolerances, allergies, gut bacteria and the science of bad breath are detailed, suggesting the body’s “most underrated organ” plays a greater role in our overall wellbeing than we might have otherwise thought. Throughout the book, Enders points out, it is the gut that most frequently presents us with some of life’s most pressing questions. Pick up a copy at your local book store.

Clean Eating: Easy Healthy Borscht

Ingredients:

4 cups of organic beef broth
1 cup diced carrot
½ cup garden peas
1 cup chopped green beans
1 cup chopped potatoes
2 cups beets with stems and leaves diced
1 onion chopped
4 fresh sprigs of dill
2 Tbsp Italian seasoning
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Combine all ingredients into a crockpot and cook on low for 6-7 hours. Alternately, cook on top of the stove until the vegetables are soft enough to eat. Serve topped with sour cream.

 

Burn Fat, Don’t Abuse Carbs

Many leading scientists, medical professionals, and nutrition experts agree the ketosis lifestyle is the pinnacle of health and wellbeing. Ketosis is a natural metabolic state where the body burns fat for most of its energy rather than carbohydrates. Fat offers the body 225% more energy than carbohydrates. Today, most people have sugar-burning bodies, not fat-burning bodies. Fat-burning bodies typically experience better energy and fewer cravings due to balanced blood sugar levels. Typically, without several days of fasting or sticking to unrealistic diet plans, our bodies cannot reach ketosis and take advantage of this energy. So unless you have serious discipline and nowhere to go, nutritional ketosis has been believed to be out of reach… until now.

David Warfield, ForeverGreen Ketopia
www.warf.fgxpress.com

The Procrastinator’s Challenge

www.doneanddone.ca

How many projects are on your back burner?

If you’re like most people, that back burner is chock-full of tasks that have been in the planning phase for far too long. Getting stalled projects off the ground can be difficult. A plan of action is what’s called for:

1) Set a specific date & time aside for your project, allowing time for prep and cleanup.

2) A week previous, anticipate and gather all required supplies.

3) Enlist help! There are times in our life when we all could use a hand – that extra push is often what we need to see a project through to a successful conclusion.

4) Put on some great tunes, have your beverage-of-choice on hand and Get to Work.

5) You’ve done it – enjoy your results!

Done & Done Family Concierge Service
www.doneanddone.ca

Say Goodbye to Guilt

Letting go of guilt is a huge step in becoming the STRONG being you are! We hold a lot of responsibility to our children, significant other or our parents to make sure they are happy and taken care of. We often feel guilty for saying NO or for spending any time on ourselves. This is especially true for women. We spend time in negative self-talk even though we know this is not the way we should be. Feeling guilty is a bad habit that we could kick out of our lives. When you feel the heaviness in your heart, you just have to talk yourself through it. Spend some time and dig deep to see why you’re feeling this way. This isn’t always easy to work through on your own. Engaging a Holistic Health Coach can help you figure out the cause of the guilt and release it.

Martina Vantuchova
www.martinahealthcoach.com

Detox with Betalains

Did you know that the anti-oxidant glutathione is the most critical and integral part of your detoxification system? Glutathione helps your immune system fight infections and prevent cancer because toxins stick onto glutathione molecules, which are then carried into bile and stool, and then out your body. The good news is that your body produces glutathione. The bad news is poor diet, pollution, toxins, medications, stress, trauma, aging, infections and radiation all deplete your glutathione. This leads to further sickness and soon we are in a downward spiral of chronic illness. You can help your body to stimulate production of glutathione through supplementing your diet with Betalains, which help support the body’s ability to fight inflammation at the cellular level and help prevent cells from becoming a target for disease. Betalains will strengthen your cells so they are resistant to toxins and bad bacteria, and are found in beet supplements.

Donna Ladan, Evolv Health
www.donnaladan.myevolv.com 


Financial Fitness

During the beginning of a training season in rowing, I always have my athletes go through a phase of weight training called symmetry and hypertrophy. The idea behind this training is for athletes to build a lot of strength and increase their training capacity. When it gets closer to race day we lower the weight and volume of their strength training and focus more on endurance. When my clients are just getting started with their investments I follow a very similar approach. I get their portfolios to do the heavy lifting early so that later on they can settle in to less risky and steadier investments. At a young age it is best to take on more risk to amplify returns. As you get closer to retirement risk is something we want to avoid.

Jesse Reitberger
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