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Quinton Minerals for Optimal Hydration
Why drinking water isn’t enough to keep your cells hydrated. Staying hydrated, having enough fluid in the body, takes more than just drinking the standard 6-8 glasses daily. Our bodies have both extracellular fluid, which includes water in the veins, arteries, lymphatic system and abdominal area, etc., and intracellular fluid, which refers to fluid within cells. The water you ingest must be able to optimally hydrate both areas and to combat the dehydration which almost everyone suffers from due to the low level of minerals in our food. In order to pass through the cell membrane into the cell water must have a crystalline structure, and salts (minerals) are an integral…
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Achieve Hormonal Balance Naturally
In order to maintain a healthy hormonal balance throughout our lifetime we need to honor the natural hormone cycles; those that happen each month and those that happen at each phase of our womanhood. I am often surprised at how few women actually know what hormones are around at what phase of the menstrual cycle, or even when their fertile window is. When they will naturally feel more vivacious and energetic and when they will want to do less, be less sociable have lower motivation. Our society makes no allowance for these cycles and the result is often PMS, depression, anxiety and other signs of hormonal imbalance. Hormonal Balance –…
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Nourishing Wisdom
A workshop for women from all walks of life. Join us as we discuss topics surrounding the realms of women’s wisdom and wellbeing and how we can use holistic practices and nature’s medicine to support and bring us back into harmony and balance with our life. Learn ways in which we can tap back into the innate feminine wisdom which we tend to stray from in this crazy and fast paced world. Many of us are often responding and surviving rather than embracing and thriving! Some of the topics we will be covering… Managing stress & overwhelm Relieving anxiety Supporting our gut health Boosting immunity Intentionality & mindfulness Harnessing the…
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THE IMMUNE SYSTEM: AN INTRODUCTION
Let me introduce you to the immune system. The immune system is an auto-regulating system which aims to create a purposeful defense against internal and external toxins or threats of all kinds. PARTS OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM THE BARRIER SYSTEM – presents physical obstacles to invasion by foreign cells or particles The skin – Composed of tightly packed cells with an inter-cellular cement between them. The mucous membranes – play an important role in keeping toxins and microbes from entering the body, secreting sticky fluids to trap and wash away invaders (saliva, stomach acid, tears, oily secretions of the skin, urine and secretions of the vagina). These secretions also contain…
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Hair Loss in Women
Hair loss – Increased daily hair loss is called “effluvium”; visible hairlessness is called “alopecia”, which can be diffuse (all over the head) or focal (small patches), chronic or acute. Normal Hair Cycle A hair follicle has a three-phase life cycle. A growing phase, which lasts 2-5 years (anagen), a dying off phase lasting 3-6 weeks (catagen), and a resting phase, lasting 3-5 months (telogen). Most of the hair is in an anagen phase. During the telogen phase the hair shaft matures into a club hair, and eventually sheds from the follicle. If the percentage of scalp follicles present in the telogen phase increases, this results in excessive shedding…
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Better vision through eye exercise – part 2
Exercises shown here were developed for better vision by Meir Schneider, who healed himself of congenital blindness using the Bates Method. His even principals for healthy vision are: Deep relaxation Adjusting to light frequencies Looking at details Looking into the distance Expanding your periphery Balanced use of the two eyes Body and eye coordination Deep Relaxation Exercises Step 1: The Long Swing- This exercise develops a sense of fluidity and flexibility that will allow you to look at details with more ease, to adapt to light easier and to adapt to new livelier visual habits. Stand with your legs far apart, hold one forefinger up before your eyes, about two…
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Toxins – hidden poisons destroying our health
Toxins do all sorts of damage, contributing to inflammation, digestive problems, mitochondrial dysfunction, hormonal imbalances, low energy, low immunity etc. The build up of toxins over time overburden the body and cause disease. We are exposed to toxins via foods, personal care products, home-building materials, mold, industry. Toxins damage every aspect of our physiological function and plays a role in virtually all diseases. Dr. Joseph Pizzono, The Toxin Solution How Do Toxins Cause Disease? poison enzymes causing them not to work properly and efficiently. Every function within the body depends on enzymes to produce proteins, energy, create molecules like serotonin and create cellular structures. replace minerals in cellular processes, e.g.…
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Dirty Dozen
The Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 lists (see below) can help you avoid as many pesticides as possible, even when you can’t buy organic. The Dirty Dozen is a list of the most pesticide-laden produce, while the Clean 15 is a list of the fruits and veggies that contain the smallest traces of pesticides. Both lists are published by the Environmental Working Group each year, an organisation that educates people about chemicals found in food and household products. Dirty Dozen 2020 These foods contain the most traces of pesticides (when grown conventionally). Strawberries Spinach Kale Nectarines Apples Grapes Peaches Cherries Pears Tomatoes Celery Potatoes Most of the foods on the Dirty Dozen…
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Your Eyes: A Window to your health-part 1
Do you ever think about your eye health? Do you just expect your eyes to get worse as you age? From the moment we wake up our eyes are working hard, bringing us the world. We spend most of the day staring at either a phone or a computer, and then come home and look at a TV screen. Our eyes were not meant to do some much forward focused activity, and be exposed to moving light as a result they weaken. “If you take care of your vision you will not only see better, but you will also feel better and you will positively affect your whole body’s health”…
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Weight Gain? – Stop the middle age spread
Have you ever struggled to lose weight? Have you ever had unstoppable cravings that plagued you and tarnished your ability to get to your “ideal weight”? Well, you are not alone. For many, they are able to lose weight easily when they are younger but by the time they hit 40, the extra weight becomes stubborn and resistant, this has to do with chronic inflammation and impaired hormone function. Hormonal Weight Gain With onset of menopause or perimenopause, where estrogen levels are fluctuating we often women see weight gain especially around the middle and top of the hips. There are are a few reasons for this. our metabolic rate tends…