Edition 33 Beat Inflammation
Inflammation in the body equals inflammation in the brain which equates to imflam-aging. Feeling and looking youthful is an inside job.
Enjoy this week's tips, resources, and strategies all about minimizing inflammation from a root-cause level.
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❤️ Stephanie 🧠✨🤸♂️🌱
The Freedom to Live 5 things Friday
Every Friday, 5 things of value from the integrative health sciences.
The best of the best functional medicine, educational resources, research, quotes, books, tips, advice etc. all from the key pillars of the integrative health system.
1. Deficiencies
One of the root imbalances to inflammation can be a deficiency in specific vitamins such as: C, E, D, and the B vitamin family. The whole premise of functional and integrative medicine is to replenish deficiencies and remove toxicity to rebalance the body back to a state of health.
Our food and soil systems are depleted even if you are literally doing the best at getting in a variety of nutrients. I see this time and time again on reading functional medicine labs: people have systemic nutrient deficiencies and ratio imbalances.
A simple start is here: Foundation Level 1.
A good quality, functional medicine, 3rd party-lab tested, made in Canada, endorsed by practitioners supplement.
2. Heavy Metal Toxicity
Reduce Exposure in your food, air, and water systems.
1. Choose to eat wild caught small fish: Sardines, Mackerel, Anchovies, Salmon, Herring and avoid big fish with high Mercury content: Tuna, Sword Fish, Marlin, Sea bass to name a few.
2. Avoid drinking city tap water and have your well water tested. Filtering your water is always a good idea. I personally use a solid carbon countertop system by Berkey Filters.
3. Avoid using Aluminum cookware, aluminum cans, and personal care products that contain aluminum.
4. TEST your levels of toxic metals and mineral balance with the Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis.
5. Complete a Heavy Metal Detox Protocol that includes alkalizing Vitamin C, cilantro, chlorella, and biofilm disrupters.
3. Hormone Imbalance (Estrogen Dominance)
Make the UPGRADES and get rid of Plastics and other Xenoestrogens from your life.
8/10 of the people I work with experience some type of Hormone Dysfunction that holds them back from feeling and showing up to life at their best.
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🎈 Irregular or missed cycles
🎈 Bloat
🎈 Adult acne/ cystic acne
🎈 Hair thining
🎈Unwanted weight loss or Inability to lose weight
🎈Unexplainable body aches/ joint pain
🎈Heightened PMS
🎈Challenging pre/post menopause symptoms
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These are all signs of some type of subclinical imbalance in the body, which can be the start of a dis-ease based process in the body. Getting regular hormone tests done are the best way to prevent female dis-eases of the body because we can rebalance the body back to health.
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Thorugh functional medical lab testing, these are the lab markers that we look at from a functional medicine (education on your personal health) non-diagnostic perspective.
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We deliver the FULL picture all in ONE LAB:
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👉The cortisol curve C1, C2, C3, C4 (saliva taken 4x/day)
👉Estrogen, Progesterone and the E:P ratio (for estrogen dominance/in men too!!)
👉 Androgens: DHEA, Testosterone
👉Thyroid: TSH, T4, T3, TPOab, insulin, HbA1c
👉Vitamins D2, D3
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4. Low Omega-3 : High Inflammatory Vegetable Oils
Aim to increase healthy Omega3 from either fish or plant foods;
🐟SMASH (Sardines, Mackerel, Anchovies, Salmon, Herring)
🌱Flax seed, Chia Seed, Hemp Hearts
An example here above of an upgraded Mediterranean style fish and chips lunch. Home-made organic oven roasted potatoes with wild caught sardines in olive oil.
5. Chronic Food Sensitivities: Gluten & Dairy
The easiest way to reduce inflammation is through diet. If you haven't already downloaded, saved, and have my 3-day reset posted in your kitchen. Today is the day to get started. 😁
Get the 3-day Reset here.
Enjoy your week!
❤️ Stephanie ☀️🌴