NATUROPATHIC INSPIRATIONS Love your Life into Recovery

Love your Life into Recovery

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Summer is such a great time for healing and

rejuvenating yourself, getting out of your work routine and maybe not caring about too much. After all, you are on holidays! It is also a great time to take stock of your life and paint its landscape over the next 12 months. Some people love to do this in January, but I think “Back to School” time is also a great time to lay out some of your “if only” goals.

Have you put on weight during these past 18 months and are now saying “enough is enough”? What kind of exercise routine would you love to put back into your life and can you find an exercise buddy to do it with? Working out with a friend is more fun and challenging than with an app! Starting small and gradually working up so that you are exercising one hour, five days per week is an optimal goal. This might mean walking or cycling to work, walking at lunch hour or signing up for a fitness class.

One of the ways to de-stress your life is to “let one thing go” in clutter, foods, or unhealthy habits that are no longer serving you. Does that mean clearing a space on your counter top so that you get back to those morning smoothies instead of a full breakfast? Or visiting your naturopathic physician to refresh your “optimal health program” and get back onto a supplement regime? Or eating one less meal per day and trying the 12 -18 hour intermittent fasting idea? Research shows that those who eat fewer calories without sacrificing nutrition live longer.

What about fasting from our technology addiction? During the pandemic, use of devices by all ages increased dramatically. Phone usage degrades the quality of our sleep, our productivity and our creativity. It is linked to heightened levels of anxiety, depression, compromised child-parent relationships and more. So how can our phone serve us rather than it being our master? We need to establish boundaries, and create structure and rules. Don’t waste the miracle of this life you were given!

Is your life fear based? How can you learn to love your life? One of the ways that works for me is turning off the “idiot box” as my mother used to call the TV. If I want an update on the news I listen to the radio or read it in my favorite newspaper to avoid sensationalism. I choose carefully the energies I want to surround me to include gratitude and beauty.

Are you suffering from neck pain and headaches or muscle aches and pains? Chiropractors now recognize a phenomenon called the “text neck” caused by looking down at your phone too much. The same can happen with “texting thumbs”. The chiropractor can help fix the subluxation of your neck but getting to the root cause is always the goal. I do my best daydreaming gazing skyward as I lay on the “grounding” grass or beach imagining all kinds of images in the clouds

Here is a short list for your “recovery kit”: calcium and magnesium (both are good for headaches), vitamin D and C and E, zinc, selenium, B vitamins and essential fats. These nutrients are well studied to help with headaches, anxiety, depression, insomnia, blood pressure, heart irregularities, blood clots, lung issues, colds and flus, many cancers, eating disorders and fatigue. Now isn’t that amazing and for such a small cost!

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Saunas, either radiant heat or infrared, are effective at increasing the ability to sweat, eliminating toxins through the skin: the second kidney. Exercise also falls into this category. People such as hair dressers can smell chemicals exuding from their skin after sauna therapy. Use air filters in the home to improve air quality. Don’t forget toxins come into the home on the furniture and other household items.

Don’t store food in plastics or microwave in plastics.

Eat foods that help eliminate toxins: Cruciferous vegetables, resveratrol and quercitin foods (ie: blueberries, apples, onions, kale), celery, garlic, ginger, green, black, peppermint, rooibos and chamomile teas.

Use chemical free make up and skin care products: ie Lei Lani Makeup (Save On Foods) or Jane Iredale.

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For more of Dr. Pincott’s articles visit www.PerceptiveHealth.ca or www.drpincott.com and www.bcna.ca to find an ND near you.

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