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If I thought my brain was swimming yesterday, then I have no words to describe it now!  What an incredible “weekend” of learning.  One of today’s presentations was on a subject especially dear to my heart.  It was entitled “Returning to Our Ancestors’ Ways to Heal Our Modern Selves”, presented by Sarica Cernohous.

Her presentation discussed traditional food techniques and traditions that we can use even now in our modern lives to support living vibrantly.  They were soaking, culturing/fermenting and making broths/stocks.  Here are some tidbits gleaned about each of these things.

Soaking:

• grains, nuts, legumes and seeds should all be purchased in small, prepacked batches (large bulk bin items tend to be rancid from exposure) and soaked before using
• soaking is a method used to remove the phytic acid which is referred to as an “anti-nutrient”, that is lightly bound to many of the minerals in grains, nuts, legumes and seeds
• this phytic acid binds minerals so they are not absorbed upon eating and if eaten with other foods often bind the minerals in those foods not allowing your body to absorb these nutrients leading to mineral deficiencies

Culturing/Fermenting:

• to ferment or culture means to add a lactic – acid producing bacteria to a given carbohydrate and/or protein source to begin the pre-digestion of the food in which its placed
• fermenting foods is important because our gut bacteria needs to be replenished in order to nourish our gut health which is vital not just for good digestion, but for ALL of our body’s systems (many new studies link the damaging kind of bacterial overgrowth to fibromyalgia, menopausal symptoms, migraines to name a few)
• examples of fermented foods: kefir, raw sauerkraut (not pasteurized), kimchi, kombucha, miso, yogurt

Broths/Stocks:

• back in the day of our ancestors, every part of an animal was used for nourishment; these days we tend to throw away the bones, joints, organs and other “cast off” pieces, but long-cooking of these especially with a bit of an acid medium such as vinegar, creates a deeply nutritious broth solution
• broths and stocks made this way give us minerals, collagen, gelatin; all very important to supporting our bodies to rebuild tissues and absorb other nutrients and is very soothing to the gut wall
• click here for a lovely “perpetual soup“

Well, I hope you have all enjoyed my highlights from this year’s Sunshine Symposium.  I look forward to next year’s.  In the meantime stay tuned for my next post coming around the 15th of August when I will have more information about the relaunch of Vibrant Life consulting services on September 4th, 2012.

Make every day a Living Vibrantly day!

Wow, my brain is just swimming right now; information overload; in a good way.

Today we tested our inner age.  Now in the past, I have always come out much younger in these tests than my biological age; come from a great gene pool and for the most part, I practice what I teach.  My father has been told by doctors that his insides are that of a 60 something year old, and he looks much younger in appearance than his 80+ years.  I knew going into this my results were not going to be stellar due to many influences over the last couple of years, including stress on many different levels; but I have to admit, I was still shocked by my results.  After I picked my jaw up off the ground, I remembered the good news is I know how to reverse this.  And I can check my results again as often as every month to see if I am on the right track.

Would you like to know your inner age?  Coming in September, you can!   Email me (jt@iLiveVibrantly.com)  to find out more.  You might be wondering why this is important and what it could mean for you, and well, that’s a much more involved discussion which I will save for a future post.  But I will share with you a hint of what’s to come in today’s top three.

Today’s top three learnings I wanted to share are actually words that Systemic has coined and their definitions:

1. Nutrigenomics – Affecting cells genetic/epigenetic expression with nutrition
2. Nutri-metabolomics – Supporting inner cell metabolic function
3. Herbolomics – Affecting cells genetic/epigenetic expression with herbs

We are so blessed to be living in an age where we get to dive deeper and deeper into the body beginning to scratch the layer beneath the tip of the iceberg that is our body.  We have the possibility and potential to thrive which equals…you guessed it! Living Vibrantly every day!

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post!!

Today is the first day of the Sunshine Symposium hosted by Systemic Formulas and I am so excited to be here.  As I am learning many new and interesting items, I thought you might like to hear some of the highlights of each day.  The theme for this year is “Discover Your Inner Age”.  How many of you are curious to know what you inner age number is?  Over the course of the next few days the attendees will learn how to test this and actually get ours tested.  More to come on that.  For today, the following are the top three pieces I took away from the program that I would like to share with you.

Did you know:

1. That Glutathione is the strongest antioxidant in the world?  Why?  Because its what your own body produces.
2. Your cells can live longer without oxygen, water and food than it can without Glutathione.
3. Glutathione is 5000 times stronger than any other antioxidant such as vitamin C and E:

• Vitamin C has 5 extra electrons to donate
• Vitamin E has 3 extra  electrons to donate
• Glutathione has 1 million!!!!

So at this point you could be asking why are we talking about glutathione?  Because without it, you wouldn’t be alive.  Simple equation.  And in this world we live in we are faced with multiple things that deplete our glutathione.  I’ll take you on a deeper dive of this subject in the future and share with you what you can do to prevent and rebuild glutathione levels in your body.

In the meantime, stay tuned for tomorrow’s post…

Make everyday a Living Vibrantly day!!

PS. Why do I use predominantly Systemic Formulas in my practice; click here to find out.

Ahhhhhchooooooo!!  Ahchoo!!  Bless you.  Ugh, allergies, they’re driving me crazy!!

Is that you?  I see so many people around me suffering from mild to severe symptoms; sneezing, watery eyes, headaches, sinus pressure, fitful sleep, poor appetite and so on. Want some relief?  Keep reading then!

There are so many contributing factors that could be behind your allergy issues.  You may be surprised to hear that your adrenal health, digestive and liver health play a major role in how your body is going to respond to allergens.  So supporting those systems with extra nutritional therapies often helps relieve or alleviate some or all of your symptoms.

What to eat (or not eat!):

• All your food should be ORGANIC: the chemicals, pesticides, toxins in commercially grown food do not provide nutrition for the body to thrive; rather they put stress on your digestive system, liver, kidneys, turning your body into a toxic wasteland and dumping ground
• Lots of fresh, vegetables with lean protein; both raw and cooked variations
• Eliminate grains and sugar laden foods
• Eat a protein and vegetable combined breakfast; don’t skip breakfast; it’s the most important meal of your day
• Add fermented foods into your daily food choices; such as sauerkraut, miso, kombucha
• Avoid eating the same foods over and over again; mix it up!  variety is the key
• Add watercress to your diet; contains vitamins E, B and C.  Antiallergen

Nutritional Therapies:  (if purchasing on your own:  I recommend New Chapter; Organic, Whole Food supplements)

Basic:

• Take a digestive support with every meal
• Add a good probiotic formula into your daily regime
• Make sure you are taking a high quality multi vitamin
• Make sure you are taking high quality fish oils

Additional: (pick and choose what suits your needs)

• Add adrenal support product
• Add a specific allergy support product
• Add sinus support product
• Add respiratory support product
• Add liver support product

These are just some basic suggestions that can support you to live each day more vibrantly and comfortably.  If you would like to customize your allergy plan or take it to a deeper level, please contact me via email:  jt@iLiveVibrantly.com.  Vibrant Life will officially relaunch it’s consulting services on Sept.4, 2012 and I have limited slots available before then, so don’t wait! find out what options are currently available.

Make everyday a Living Vibrantly day!!