Many question why, in our days, is it that there are so many more children with that awful “C” word condition, why are there so many more with things like fibromyalgia, MS, and the list goes on? There are different answers from different healthcare individuals. But if we put some common sense into this what answers do we come up with. We know that “metals” and “chemicals” are not things well liked by our bodies, these are things we are not designed to process. Where do they come from, or how do they get into our bodies? This list is long but here are a few areas: the air we breathe is full of large particles of junk, the processing of foods – if you can’t pronounce it you shouldn’t be eating it - the chemicals that are used in the fields on our produce and then there are things that we take to “help us” but that’s a discussion for another day – but let’s look at the products that are grown for just a moment.
Growing plants need nutrients to become big and strong, where do they get these from? Well, one way is from the ground, they need sun, air, rain, and or water. What is the make-up of a plant, you start with a seed that grows into a plant, this is made up of cells, moisture and solids.
It takes the water and the nutrient to grow, then the next step is the fruit or vegetable, we will use tomatoes as an example here, the tomato is also made up of moisture and cells, equal solids. It gets its nutrition from the plant, which as I stated gets the plant nutrition from the ground. Let’s dig a little deeper here; our air is full of emissions, over sprays, and a very long list of things we should not be taking in. The rains come through the air taking with it to the ground chemicals. The farmer uses stuff on the plants that end up on the plant itself as well as the ground and then with the watering of the garden these end up in the water, in the ground, and the plant then holds the junk as it absorbs the water and the nutrients, which now becomes part of the cells of the plant and the fruit or vegetables that the plant is producing. Cool right? Yes and no, bad news is we are now eating these things and ingesting the junk that has been taken in by the plants -to no fault of theirs. Now can we get away from all of this, the honest answer to that is no – that being said, we can control how much of this we take in.
NEXT: did you know that what you smell goes directly to your brain? That’s correct and there is more to this, in fact that "smell" (chemical, flower or food) is in your brain in 12 seconds, it is in your blood in 2 minutes and in 20 minutes it is in every cell of your body! Smell will trigger memories, triggering emotions both good and bad. It will shift your bad mood to a good one or vis versa.
NOW, so how quickly do you think that the bad stuff from what you eat gets into your body – a body that is made up of what? You guessed it - cells!! We are not much different than plants, meaning we are made up of how much water? We consist of blood, water, and cells of many types just like plants and our body loves what we get from plants – part of why we need so many vegetables in our daily diets.
SO-What can we do to empower our own situations to bridge the gap in our health?
There are several things that will make this happen: exercise, eat right, sleep right, manage your stress, reduce toxic load, how about informed self-care?
SO – Exercise there are different answers here depending on who you ask and what if’s – but a good number is 150 minutes a week,
-Eat right – we hear more and more no white flour or sugars, more vegetables, 50-80% of your body weight in water ounces(so if you weight 200 lbs, you should be drinking 100 to 150 ounces of water a day), nothing processed, these are the big ones.
-Sleep – are you aware that an adult needs 7-9 hours of sleep? That being said anything less than 6 or more than 10 is not good for us either. And more importantly for all but especially women need to be asleep between 10-2 pm as our body works on hormones during that time.
-Manage stress – good and bad the body knows no difference, find your happy space and use it.
-Reduce toxic load – that we are talking about here
-Informed self care – the new plan for you and your family.
The talk about essential oils is important – but you have to be willing to learn about the quality, consistency, where and how they can be used to help bridge the gap. An associate shared that they can be the new 80/20 plan, 80% of things we can deal with in our homes and the other 20% go out to doctors, chiropractors, and the like. How can that be – I recall a talk regarding essential oils.
Essential oils are not new, but there are new criteria creating a more sustainable and trustworthy product. They do not own the titles of “snake oil” or “voodoo” medicines either. Recent findings are proving that have been around since 5000bc. And even closer to today they were used in WWII. How many of you know that the common aspirin (acetylsalicycli acid) was derived from the willow tree, the bark which has been in traditional medicine for a very long time, oh and don’t eat too many poppy seeds as morphine is an isolation from the straw of the opium poppy. And this a little less know fact, the pacific yew tree (taxus brevifolia) has found to produce the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel?
Essential oils are extracted from the roots, bark, tree, leaves, fruit, flowers and saps of plants. They are their own defense system against, bacteria, viruses, and pests.
Now this is a greater discussion than for this mere newsletter so hang out and find out what comes next.
