40: Gut Health, Mostly Plants, Relaxation Techniques, Stories we Tell Ourselves, Exercise and Longevity

🧠 Edition 40 Back to Health Basics 🌱
 

This week is all about reviewing and implementing the basic HEALTH pillars. Let's Do this! 

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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. Health Starts in the GUT: 5 steps to rebalancing your gut health.

Gut health is at the centre of human health and it’s no wonder that the gastrointestinal system is often referenced as our second brain and the body’s first line of defence against illness.  To get well, lose weight, or fix digestion, often it’s about looking deeper at healing your gut where the hidden underlying root causes of imbalance typically reside. Until you fix your gut, your immune system is going to be imbalanced as proteins spill over into the bloodstream acting as foreign objects.  It is only after the removal of fungal, bacterial overgrowth, parasites, or pathogens, that you’ll be able to fully reduce inflammation.

The long-term benefits of rebalancing the gut can include:

  • Improved digestion and nutrient absorption

  • Clearer thinking

  • Deeper sleep

  • Vibrant skin

  • Increased Energy

  • Weight loss

There are several common symptoms of gut dysbiosis, a condition where the bacterial colonies of the gastrointestinal system are out of balance, which is closely associated with several other conditions including: IBS, colitis, candida, celiac disease, leaky gut, PCOS, chronic UTIs, as well as skin conditions such as acne, psoriasis, and eczema.

Read the full article here: 5 Steps to Rebalancing your Gut Health by Stephanie Jackson

2. Eat Food, Mostly Plants, Not Too Much.

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Michael Pollan summed up in seven words, everything he's learned about food and health, : "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."

"Eat food" refers to real food: vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and, wild fish and grass-fed meat  and to avoid what Pollan calls "edible food-like substances".

Here are Michael Pollan's 7 golden guidelines:

  1. Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. 

  2. Don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.

  3. Stay out of the middle of the supermarket; shop on the perimeter of the store. 

  4. Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot. 

  5. It is not just what you eat but how you eat. Many cultures have rules that you stop eating before you are full. 

  6. Eat as a family/with people you love at a table and not a TV, at regular meal times. 

  7. Don't buy food where you buy your gasoline. 

3.  Rebalance the Sympathetic : Parasympathetic Nervous System with Relaxation Techniques.

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4. Mindset & Emotional Balance

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5. Exercise

Researchers have estimated that for every hour of exercise, there is a two-hour increase in longevity.
 

Murray, Michael T.,Pizzorno, Joseph. The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine Third Edition (p. 207). Atria Books. Kindle Edition.