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Do you experience gas, bloating, constipation, dia Do you experience gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, heartburn/GERD, bad breath, rosacea or depression? If you answered yes to any of these symptoms, chances are you have LOW STOMACH ACID or hypochlorhydria. ▫️ Turns out you actually NEED stomach acid in your stomach to prevent all of those symptoms, absorb nutrients from your food and stop bacteria and pathogens getting into your blood stream. ▫️ Take heartburn for example - it’s actually caused by too little stomach acid. The frustrating thing is, the doctors are aware of this and all studies lead to fixing heartburn with diet improvement and increasing the production of acid flow in your stomach, yet - your average GP will still prescribe antacids. ▫️ But if antacids make it feel better what's the big deal, right? Not having enough stomach acid to break down the food you eat leads to: maldigestion, malabsorption, malnutrition, gastritis, allergies, poor absorption of vitamins and minerals, asthma, depression, SIBO, anemia, stomach cancer, acne, dermatitis, eczema, gallbladder disease, arthritis, lupus, graves disease, colitis, crones, osteoporosis, accelerated ageing, to name a "few". ▫️ OKAY if I can't have Tums what DO I DO!? Repairing the cause of indigestion "...can be accomplished by proper diagnosis, elimination of offending agents, food allergies and sensitivities, toxins and then by taking a variety of natural substances including inexpensive supplements of stomach acid (HCl) itself." ▫️ Want more information, read this book! Incredibly informative. I work with many clients dealing with digestion disorders, and low stomach acid is typically the root cause of most health problems. Want help in navigating all of this? I'm trained to help you. Shoot me a DM or get in touch via nourishingworks.com 🙏🏻 . . #heartburn #gerd #indigestion #health #healthylifestyle #saturdayreading #nutritionaltherapy #functionalnutritionaltherapypractitioner #fntp #digestionsupport #whystomachacidisgoodforyou #paleodiet #keto #aip #autoimmunepaleo #guthealth #HCL #nutrientdense #nourishingworks #fntp #nutritionaltherapist #nutritionbusiness #functionalnutriotion
recipe👇🏻 || What is SARCOPENIA and what does recipe👇🏻 || What is SARCOPENIA and what does protein found in ground meat have to do with it? • Sarcopenia, or the degeneration and loss of muscle mass and strength, is the deadliest, but also most silent and unknown health condition affecting older adults today. • People just don’t think about losing muscle mass and strength as they get older. If they do, they assume it’s just part of the aging process. They figure it’s unavoidable, because, after all, everyone around them just gets weaker and more decrepit as they age. It’s one of those “inevitabilities” that you “just have to accept.” Screw that! • Muscle loss is not your destiny. You don’t have to sit there and take it. In fact, sitting there and taking it is the single best way to get sarcopenia; standing up and fighting is the single best way to avoid it. Plus, taking the necessary steps to mitigate or even prevent sarcopenia will help prevent all those other age-related maladies. • One of the things you can start doing today to avoid getting muscle loss later in life is to EAT MORE PROTEIN. • As we get older, our ‘protein efficiency’ deteriorates rapidly. To get the same amount of muscle protein synthesis, we need to eat a lot more protein than younger people. • Make sure the protein you eat is primarily animal-based. Foods like meat, whey protein, eggs, and dairy are all far more effective at promoting muscle protein synthesis then plant-based sources of protein. Check out a simple recipe for my meatballs, which are excellent as a snack on their own or a meal accompanied by a salad or roasted veggies. • Other things you can do to avoid sarcopenia are: •lift heavy things •get sunlight/supplement with vitamin D •check your hormonal levels, especially testosterone, and optimise them. •reduce inflammation in the body. Start addressing your muscle loss today, don’t wait until you’re 50 years old. You want to go into middle age with as much muscle as you can build so that you’re starting your “decline” from a higher baseline. Saying that, it’s never too late to rebuild your muscles and address sarcopenia. • What are you doing today to avoid age-related sarcopenia later in life? #sarcopenia
Introducing the newest product in the Nourishing W Introducing the newest product in the Nourishing Works skincare range - face mask made with activated charcoal and bentonite clay. • Healing clays like Bentonite have a high concentration of minerals including silica, calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron and potassium. It also absorbs and removes toxins, heavy metals, impurities, and chemicals. • Dr. Weston A Price, in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration reported that several native cultures including those in the Andes, Central Africa and Australia consumed clays in different ways. Commonly they would carry balls of the dried clay in their bags and dissolve a small amount of clay in water with meals to prevent poisoning from any toxins present. • Charcoal is another star ingredient of the mask. It has unique ability to bind with toxins and impurities, so it’s most likely that bacteria, dead cells, oil, and toxins are swept away when charcoal enters the game. • Other ingredients are equally healing and nourishing: organic green tea made with filtered water, vitamins A and C for topical application and natural product preservation, as well as uplifting organic essential oils of orange and lemon. • You can purchase this mask in two sizes: 150g tin at $32 and 100g tin at $25 plus postage. DM me for purchasing while I’m getting this product on my website over the next couple of days. • Support small local businesses - choose face mask that works. 🙏🏻💕
By now, most of us agree that fat is an essential By now, most of us agree that fat is an essential nutrient. Certain fats, like linoleic acid and alpha linolenic acid, are essential because our bodies cannot produce them. • Other fats, like those found in extra virgin olive oil, avocado oil and grass-fed butter are culinarily essential because they make food taste really good. • How do we know when to increase our fat intake? • Here are some indicators that you might need more fat. If any of the following issues are giving you trouble or sound familiar, consider increasing your intake of fat. It may very well help solve your problem. • You have dry skin. Dry skin can mean a lot of things – allergic reactions, imbalanced gut microbiota, topical exposure to chemicals – but it often means that you simply need more fat in your diet. Some of the fats come from our own body stores, of course, while others have to come from the diet. Increasing fat intake, then, is a painless, simple way to potentially improve your skin’s moisture levels. • Your physical performance is lagging. Fat plays a big role in physical performance, specifically saturated fat. We use saturated fat as precursors to steroid hormones like testosterone. Without enough saturated fat in the diet, we can’t make enough testosterone. Without enough testosterone, we can’t build muscle or recover from our workouts. • Your joints ache. Achy joints can mean a lot of things, but whatever the cause, reducing inflammation through diet can really help reduce the pain and improve the underlying issue. The omega-3s found in meat, eggs and fatty fish have been shown to improve symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. Removing PUFAs from your diet would also help to reduce inflammation. • You’re never satisfied after meals. Low-fat diets are notorious for making people starve, whereas low-carb, high-fat diets are well known for curbing out-of-control appetites. In my experience, loading up on protein alone makes me sick of eating, whereas eating fatty meats satisfies me. • Hope you found this info useful. What fats are you using in your kitchen?
My daughter Jess @jjawnz took this picture of me w My daughter Jess @jjawnz took this picture of me when I met her at the airport on Saturday.❤️ • After almost 24 years, our relationship of a parent and a child evolved into something different. She’s still my child, but is also a stand-alone independent adult, whose views and decisions I’m learning to respect unconditionally. I hold space for her when she needs my advice, help or encouragement, otherwise I live my life as an independent adult too. We’re eternally connected, but we’re not constantly in each other’s businesses and lives. • I made a lot of mistakes as a parent when my girl was growing up, but at the end of the day - I did my best with information and awareness I had at the time. I’m not perfect at being a parent to an adult child either, but Jess and I figure things out as we go. • When Jess was little, we made up a little silly verse, which we sometimes still recite together in exaggerated theatrical voices: ‘Life is not a toothpaste commercial… Sometimes life is unfair, …but we’re still alive - thank god!!!’ 😅🙌🏻 • Take every life moment as it comes. Enjoy your little and grown up kids as unique and independent souls. We’re all here for the long haul, so embrace everything what comes along with being a parent - happy and challenging, familiar and complicated, perfect and messy, calm and stormy. Life is perfectly imperfect and that’s why it’s beautiful - no matter what. ✨💞😊
Brussels sprouts with bacon recipe.👇🏻 . I l Brussels sprouts with bacon recipe.👇🏻 . I love Brussel sprouts for their rich sulfur content. That stinky sulfur is actually an essential nutrient. Many of the liver's detoxifying enzymes can only be made with sulfur. The enzymes that break up mucus are made with sulfur. . Eating Brussels sprouts provides an important raw material for detoxification; a process the body can accomplish all on its own as long as it gets the sulfur it needs. In fact, Brussels sprouts support both of the key phases of detoxification. . Their vitamin C content contributes to the formation of Phase I enzymes, which break down toxic compounds into smaller chemicals. Their sulfur compounds support the formation of Phase II enzymes, which attach these smaller compounds to other chemicals that make them inert, or chemically inactive. . ⚠️However, it's always possible to get too much of a good thing, but eating cooked (but not overcooked!) Brussels sprouts several times a week is inherently healthy. Because of the goitrogens, raw or even fermented Brussels sprouts should only be consumed as an occasional food. . My sulfur-rich Brussels sprouts and bacon recipe is a super delicious side dish that your whole family will love. INGREDIENTS •300g bacon (from sustainably raised pork, nitrate and preservatives free) - cut into small pieces •1Tbs lard •2 dozen Brussels sprouts trimmed and halved •Salt and pepper to taste INSTRUCTIONS •Fry the bacon with some lard in a skillet over medium-high heat until crispy. •Take the bacon out of the pan (set aside until needed) and leave the grease in there.
•Add the Brussels sprouts to the pan, stir them until they're nicely coated in the bacon grease and lard, and cover the pan with a lid. •Reduce the heat to medium-low. Cook for 5 minutes. 
•Add the bacon back into the pan. Cook, uncovered, for a few more minutes or until the Brussels sprouts are as tender and/or browned as you want. 
•Season with unrefined sea salt and black pepper. Serve immediately. . This side dish is the perfect accompaniment to a roast (chicken, beef, or pork), or even served with eggs (also rich in sulfur) for breakfast. . What sulfur-rich foods do you eat every day?🥬🥬🥬
It’s always so rewarding and heart-warming to re It’s always so rewarding and heart-warming to receive such kind words from a client about my work. • Thank you, thank you, thank you to my amazing client Pauline who was a dream to work with. Results like that are why I love what I do. ✨ • Ready to start your own healing journey? Send me a DM or get in touch through nourishingworks.com and let’s have a chat about your health concerns and goals! • Take charge of your health and vitality through nourishment with nutrient-dense foods today.✨ . . . . #successstories #grateful #reviews #gratitude #clientfeedback #wellness #nutritionist #holisticnutritionist #nutritionaltherapy #nutritiousfoods #functionalnutritionist #foodformedicine #gutfriendly #guthealth #nourishingfood #healyourlife #healyourgut #guthealthmatters #healthgoals #guthealing #holisticnutrition #ancestralhealing #nutrientdense
This post is my last one in the series of posts ab This post is my last one in the series of posts about detoxification. ✨🙏🏻 • Throughout human history many traditional cultures and religious practices have used specific therapies to assist with detoxification and cleansing of their bodies and minds. Some of these practices are still used today. • Detoxification is a very personal experience that requires you to dive within the deepest parts of yourself and demolish all toxic waste - physical and metaphysical. As such, it should always be done with care, respect, and understanding. 🙏🏻✨
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