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as I'm going back over my past history and items and journals and years, I come across all sorts of things, like the pencil I saved from that so-precious memory from second grade, and a pair of flip flops I've been missing for two years, and (tw for murder/crime/killings) the modern-high-school-AU-kidnapped-by-a-serial-killer story I wrote in late high school jdfsjdfsjkjlksfd
#i can't wait to find out what red flags I didn't see in my own self back when I last read this thing in 2015 hfdhfdhjsfd#also. there's gonna be like a good sentence here and there and then CRINGE. the whole rest of everything is just me still trying to copy th#breathing pace (essentially) and ways-of-describing-things of mainstream authors like I thought I was supposed to#so this'll be somewhat painful but also god what a joy and a gift and an honor and a delight to get to hold this close to my heart#and witness it with understanding and empathy and slow reflection and care like my past younger self deserves#i'm so lucky i'm alive to be here and do this#i'm so grateful i'm headed towards welcoming back and embracing the last little girl i was that still felt a lot of things#so excited for her focus and precision and tenacity and constant curious joy and movement to be back someday#i'm afraid people won't like the me i was before rule after rule and then dangers#but my god it'll feel so good to be the fully-flowing energy machine and dance and conduit again how will I have enough bother to care?#people who are good to each others' nervous systems cumulatively feel better and better#if i'm not good for you and yours then you really truly SHOULD go elsewhere and find someone who makes YOUR self feel right and light + war#anyway now that i wrote an essay in the tags as usual [nervous laughter]#personal#add to journal#words n rhythm#WHY DID I FEEL CAPABLE OF UNDERTAKING A STORY LIKE THIS#cradling my past self gently but also BANGING my HEAD against the WALL lmao#i'm proud of myself for writing and sharing this and its creative ideas. even if i don't like it now or feel ashamed or see mistakes.#anything. it mattered that it came to me and it mattered that i explored it and it mattered that i poured myself through it to help shape i#and it mattered that I left it on the internet so that now it still exists. i'm going to honor this story no matter what current me would#objectively think about it if it was written by anyone else.#this is a gift i give myself now.#this is a lot of what I learn and learn to do#trauma evolution#mosswrites
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paleorecipecookbook · 5 years
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The Benefits of Using Wearable Technology for Health Tracking
You’re ready. To sit less, move more, sleep eight hours a night—to adopt new habits in order to become the healthiest you possible. As I shared recently, I recommend shrinking the change you want to make to set yourself up for success. Can wearable technology for health also help? Should you use these devices to aid you in achieving your wellness goals? Can tracking measures like your activity level, heart rate, and sleep really add up to big health gains?
Let’s explore some of the wearables currently on the market and discuss how making lifestyle shifts using the data they provide may mean you not only look and feel better today, but also avoid chronic disease down the road.
Do you use wearables to track your health? These devices can help you hit your wellness goals—when they’re tracking the right things. Check out this article for my recommendation on the best tech to track your sleep, stress, and activity levels. #healthylifestyle #chriskresser
What Are Wearables, and Do We Really Need More Technology?
Wearables are smart electronic devices that can be worn on the body to track a variety of health markers, such as:
Activity level: time spent sedentary, number of steps taken, etc.
Sleep patterns
Resting heart rate and heart rate variability
Stress level
Body temperature
A wide range of wearable health devices are available, from watches to rings—even shirts. I suspect we’ll see much more innovation in the coming years. After all, the industry is booming: analysts predict that more than 245 million devices will be purchased this year alone. Sales of smartwatches like the Apple Watch and products by Garmin, along with Fitbit’s watches and other fitness trackers, are on the rise, making these some of the most popular options today. (1)
And they do have merit. Although I often write about technology’s detrimental impact on health, these tech devices can support well-being.
They’re remarkable, really, in that they allow you to monitor wellness markers that not too long ago only doctors could track and measure. As a result, you gain important knowledge about your body that is vital to improving your health. What’s more, these devices take continuous, round-the-clock measurements, providing you with much more information than what you’ll get from annual trips to your physician, or even semi-regular visits to a healthcare practitioner. This wealth of data can also help your clinicians in making diagnoses and recommending treatments.
I see wearable health trackers as effective tools in your behavior-change toolkit. In this way, they integrate well into a Functional Medicine approach to healthcare. In Functional Medicine, we believe that for patients to overcome a persistent ailment, they must shift their behavior; we also know that behavior plays a major role in preventing—or contributing to—chronic disease.
Making the shift to an ancestral lifestyle that includes regular movement, quality sleep, and a focus on stress reduction—all trackable with today’s best wearables—is key to promoting general health and staving off chronic illness.
But Do Wearables Work? A Look at the Research
In some intervention studies, fitness trackers have a moderate effect on increasing step count and physical activity, leading to improved health outcomes for wearers.
Older patients who were given trackers increased their activity, lost weight, and had decreased LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels after 12 to 14 weeks of use. (2)
Obese and overweight participants who wore trackers for 36 weeks and increased their step count lost weight and saw marked improvements in their body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage, waste and hip circumferences, and other body composition measures; they also saw a bump in their HDL (“good”) cholesterol. (3)
Overweight individuals who accumulated 10,000 steps per day over 12 weeks not only had lower body weight and BMI at the end of the study period than when they began, but they also experienced significant reductions in feelings of anxiety, depression, anger, fatigue, and confusion. (4)
However, the majority of the currently available research on activity trackers hasn’t concluded that they’re extraordinarily or overwhelmingly effective. In fact, some studies have found conflicting results to those mentioned above; in one, people wearing trackers lost less weight than those who used standard behavioral weight-loss approaches. (5)
All in all, the cumulative scientific results are mixed as to whether or not fitness trackers make people more fit. Even within studies, the results are often at odds and inconclusive. For instance, one study using the Fitbit generated tracker-damning headlines a couple of years ago. Yet, the results weren’t all bad: although wearers didn’t see improvements in weight or blood pressure, they did get more physical activity than non-wearers. (6) Another study published in 2018 found that the Fitbit increased wearers’ activity levels. But its authors noted that their research required participants to check in with a health coach (health coaches are extremely beneficial for behavior modification), and they suggested that it's possible being accountable to someone did more for increasing participants’ exercise levels than self-monitoring with the tracker. (7)
A grain of salt: The latter study brings up an important caveat to wearables research. Many previous studies were conducted with devices that are now several years old. They were essentially glorified pedometers without other meaningful function. They didn’t connect to your smartphone. They didn’t track sleep or measure heart rate variability (HRV)—more on those in a minute. They didn’t factor in practices that can be crucial for behavior change, like goal-setting or community support, as in the most recent study.
Fortunately, today’s wearables are much more sophisticated. The better ones address the points mentioned above and then some, and can track activity, heart rate variability, and sleep all in one device.
Regardless of what the studies show, you and I know that increasing physical activity and leading a less sedentary life—the aims of these trackers—are absolutely necessary for overall health and well-being and the prevention of chronic disease.
Why Wearable Technology for Health Tracking Needs to Include Sleep and HRV
It’s not enough for your device to simply count your steps; it should track other important health indicators, like your sleep quality and your heart rate variability (HRV).
Why Sleep Matters
Modern life is wrecking our sleep, with serious negative health consequences. Sleeping less than seven hours in a 24-hour period is associated with: (8)
Cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk
Depression
Learning and memory problems
An overall increase in mortality
Other research has shown that poor sleep can undo the benefits of a healthy diet and exercise. It’s the dealbreaker of all dealbreakers. (9)
What HRV Is, and Why It’s an Important Indicator to Track
HRV, which stands for “heart rate variability,” is a calculation of the time variation between each heartbeat. (It is not the same measurement as “heart rate,” which refers to the number of heart beats per second.) You may have heard about HRV in the context of assessing an athlete’s performance readiness. But it’s also useful in terms of evaluating stress in the human body. HRV involves measuring the function of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), part of the central nervous system that affects heart rate. To put it simply: if you’re stressed, you’ll have a low HRV; if you’re relaxed, a high HRV. (10)
No matter what diet you follow, what supplements you take, or how much exercise or sleep you get, if you don’t manage your stress, you’ll still be at risk for modern degenerative conditions like heart disease, diabetes, hypothyroidism, and autoimmunity. Low HRV specifically is tied to a host of chronic conditions, from chronic kidney disease to cardiovascular complications. (11, 12, 13)
My Recommendation: Find a Device That Tracks Everything
Of all the next-generation devices on the market that track a multitude of health indicators, I think the Oura smartring is the most effective, as it tracks your sleep, heart rate variability, body temperature, and activity level. I have one myself, and we use it extensively with patients at the California Center for Functional Medicine. (To my knowledge, it’s the only wearable with sleep-tracking technology that has been validated by a peer-reviewed study.) (14)
Each morning, the Oura ring displays a sleep score in its app. This is an overall calculation of how well you slept, which takes into account total sleep, efficiency, quality, disturbances, REM sleep, deep sleep, sleep latency, sleep timing, and your lowest resting heart rate during sleep. This data can be used to make changes that will lead to better slumber. For example, lowest resting heart rate measures the lowest 10-minute average heart rate you experience during the night. This ranges anywhere between 40 and 100 for adults, and you can determine your average by looking at your data history. If you are significantly high or low, it can signal an increased need for recovery from activity or that you are in an active stress response and may benefit from interventions like mind/body relaxation techniques or breathing exercises.
The Oura ring also tracks your body temperature, which plays a role in everything from fitness to ovulation and HRV. According to Oura’s creators, a ring—versus, say, a watch—can gather more accurate heart data because of its position on the finger.
If you do decide to try the Oura ring, enter the promo code KRESSER at checkout for $50 off.
My bottom line: All wearable devices will have pros and cons for you, and all can be helpful when used wisely. That’s the key. Wearables and the data they generate are only effective when truly put to use to change your behaviors.
To succeed in adopting new, healthier habits, I encourage you to combine wearable technology with the shrinking the change technique. For example, if your big objective is to get more regular physical activity, use a wearable to help break that change into smaller, more achievable goals. The right fitness tracker can nudge you to take breaks if you sit at your desk all day and stand, stretch, or move; to get in your daily steps; to schedule a regular run, bike ride, or other workout of your choice, etc. And it will record this physical activity in real time—daily data you can use to celebrate each incremental win, as you get closer and closer to your big objective.
It may seem ironic to use technology to create more balance in your life. But technology is just a tool, and it’s up to us how we employ it. I’m a big fan of using technologies like these to create harmony through healthy habits.
Do you use wearable technology for health tracking? Do you focus on your sleep, activity, or stress? What have you noticed about how these devices affect your habits? Comment below and let me know!
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Chiropractic Care Is Helps People To Sleep Better
You're not alone if you're having trouble going to sleep or staying asleep. According to a study, 50 to 70 million individuals in the United States have a sleep problem. Sleep disorders can prevent you from receiving the rest you require to stay healthy and feel good throughout the day. On the other hand, chiropractic therapy may be essential for better sleep. 
In this article, we'll talk about how chiropractic treatment can help you have a better night's sleep and effectively treat conditions such as insomnia and sleep apnea.
Rest is Important For Optimal Health
Chronic sleeplessness has a slew of adverse health consequences. This includes daytime weariness, irritability, attention difficulties, delayed reaction time, an impaired immune system, and memory issues. Sleep deprivation affects your ability to think clearly and act promptly. This cognitive sluggishness can be deadly when driving a car or at work. Living well is tough if you feel tired and restless all the time.
Sleep deprivation also has a cumulative impact; the ill effects of sleeplessness grow worse each night you sleep poorly. This increases your risk for numerous severe medical problems, including stroke, seizures, heart attack, high blood pressure, a weakened immune system, diabetes, depression, and anxiety over time. Sleep deprivation has been linked to many adverse health effects, including reduced memory, cognitive function, decision-making, and sex drive.
Chiropractic Care and Good Sleep: A Connection?
Many people aren't aware that chiropractors can help with sleep problems. However, it is true! In fact, according to the National Sleep Foundation, over one-third of individuals who have received a chiropractic adjustment claim to have had an immediate improvement in their sleep.
Regular chiropractic care for those with sleeping problems may provide the following benefits:
● Stimulating circulation and blood flow
● Relaxing the body 
● Relieving pain and discomfort 
● Boosting the central nervous system's ability to function better
● Easing muscle tension that causes restlessness  
A competent chiropractor may also advise you on a better sleeping position, postural training, supportive mattress, and ergonomic pillow to assist YouTube sleep better after a thorough examination.
Chiropractic Care Can Assist with Treating Sleep Disorder
The use of chiropractic to assist individuals with severe yet typical sleep problems is also being embraced.
Insomnia 
The most frequently diagnosed sleep problem is insomnia, which refers to difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, and getting enough rest. Insomnia can be caused by mental illnesses or medical issues, poor sleeping habits, illicit drugs, and biological factors. However, it's also essential to remember that discomfort can play a role. According to the National Sleep Foundation, chronic neck and back pain are numerous medical problems that cause insomnia. 
Patients who have insomnia should first be assessed to determine the source of their sleep problem to receive appropriate treatment. Chiropractic therapy may treat insomnia in combination with other therapeutic techniques. According to recent studies, there is a link between insomnia and subluxations. Subluxations, or spinal misalignments, may be corrected with targeted adjustments by chiropractors. HVLA (high-velocity, low-amplitude manipulation) targets regions of joint weakness.
The effectiveness of this drug-free therapy in relieving pain and enhancing sleep quality is undisputed. Patients immediately experience less pain and muscular relaxation, according to their feedback. Some chiropractors believe that subluxation correction helps cure insomnia by restoring balance in the brain's dopamine and serotonin levels.
Sleep Apnea 
Sleep disorders, including sleep apnea, have become a significant health issue in the United States. It is estimated that 22 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is the most common type of sleep apnea when soft tissues in the mouth and throat relax and block the upper airway.
This hazardous condition causes frequent apneas during sleep or when you don't breathe in several times each hour. Pauses in breathing may last 10 to 20 seconds, which is long enough for the blood's amount to drop. When the brain detects a drop in blood-oxygen levels, it rouses the rest of the body to restart breathing. Apneas can occur more than 30 times per hour throughout the night, preventing you from obtaining a whole night's sleep. OSA sufferers who do not receive treatment can suffer brain damage due to insufficient oxygen and are prone to many other serious health problems.
According to a chiropractor in Gilbert AZ, subluxations and misalignments resulting from injury, poor posture, or a sedentary lifestyle, are treated with chiropractic therapy. The goal is to cure neck and upper-body misalignments that might obstruct breathing or contribute to airway obstruction. Chiropractors target areas of tension in the body with soft tissue massage and spinal adjustment to help relax muscles, relieve strain, and increase respiratory function. Practitioners may also recommend breathing exercises promoting healthy breathing while strengthening soft tissue structures responsible for snoring and apneas. 
Those who believe they have sleep apnea should see their doctor about getting a sleep study. Patients might use chiropractic care to help them manage the signs and symptoms of sleep apnea during their overall health treatment plan.
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Tips for Teens: Taking Care of Yourself During a School Shutdown by Sara Primo I am not a mental health professional, but I am a high school teacher, parent, yoga teacher, and aunt to a teenager. As my own school prepares for an imminent shutdown to mitigate coronavirus risks in Philadelphia, I am finding my attention span is fractured, my nerves shaky, my moods unpredictable. While stocking our pantries is important in anticipation of the uncertain weeks ahead, I have been thinking more and more about stocking the internal reserves in our own psychological pantries. Here are the suggestions I find most fortifying at this stage. 1. Small choices matter; respect the mind/body connection. I am not here to tell you to only eat green leafy vegetables. I will be stress-eating gummy bears by the bag-full while I grade my students’ essays. On the other hand, I want to remind you that there is a cumulative effect of forgetting to eat well, forgetting to drink water, forgetting to move around -- and it doesn’t just manifest in a stomach ache or headache, but actually affects worldview. To stay brave and optimistic, stay hydrated and consider your nutrients. Reach for your running shoes. (I am literally eating jelly bellies while I write this. Moderation in all things.) 2. Use breathing exercises as a tiny meditation practice. It is a common thing to hear someone say “I don’t have time to meditate” or “I know meditation would help but --.” Forget it. If you have time to breathe, you have time to meditate. I believe this sincerely. My daughter and I have been practicing “triangle breathing” and “square breathing” as a way to center and restart. In triangle breathing, you breathe in for three counts, hold your breath for three counts, and exhale for three counts (imagining and picturing your breath sliding up/down the three sides of a triangle while following those three instructions). In square breathing, you inhale for four counts, hold your breath for four counts, exhale for four counts, and hold your breath for four counts (before repeating a few times). My daughter is six and this is not too hard for her, so I know you can do it. I guess to commit to do it you would have to believe in its effects, and the best I can attest to is an entirely settled nervous system which basically feels like a new chance at life. No big deal. 3. Create boundaries between things: between school and home, technology-centric hours and tech-free times. Under normal circumstances, one of the “advantages” of online learning is the blurred definition between homework and classwork. Right now, that blurred line may be a source of dread or concern... This shift to remote learning can be unsettling for those of us (students and teachers alike) who tend to work very hard, to begin with. This can give the sense that we are never quite done or never quite off duty. I go back to a lot of my burnout prevention strategies, such as the pomodoro method of giving yourself breaks after twenty-five-minute bursts of productivity. But beyond that, think about defining the different portions of your day. You might need to do more than usual to “draw lines in the sand” in your mind between different modes and activities. This could mean having aspecific area of your home where you do homework, or it could mean leaving your phone and computer charging somewhere other than your bedroom when you go to bed. 4. Rediscover something that used to delight you. This morning I pulled out our bright red teapot and made a big pot of English Breakfast that lasted me all morning. Later I pulled out a pile of beloved board games like Qwirkle and Ticket to Ride that I haven’t seen in a while. Yesterday I bought big fat markers at the craft store that I plan on using with my kids when the days get a little long. Dig out a favorite old t-shirt that is so much softer than anything else you own. Take out that half-knit scarf you gave up on finishing a few years ago. Ride your rollerblades up and down the hallway, until someone tells you to stop (does anyone own rollerblades anymore?). This might reconnect you to simpler times or younger you -- chicken soup for your soul, so to speak. 5. Choose something you have been wanting to watch/read to finally indulge in. Most of the “best movies of 2019” are still or finally streaming, as are the best comedy specials. My bedside table full of books is shimmying excitedly, proud to about to have its moment in time. These are ways of “escaping” that feel good for my repository for beauty and connection to a broader creative community. Not to mention a reminder to appreciate details in my days or a reminder to keep my sense of humor. 6. Keep your space tidy. I am not suggesting you turbo Marie Kondo your whole home with all your restless energy, though go for it if you feel inspired. I am instead pointing out a space/mind connection, parallel (if not as dire) to the mind/body connection. During snow days in my past, it was easy to let dishes pile up and craft projects expand aggressively. Since this “snow day” might last for quite a while in some cases, staying sustainable involves cleaning up after yourself. I have committed to working on my tendency to live out of a volcano-like pile of sweaters and sweatpants in my room over the following weeks, simply because when I live that way, my mind feels like it is itself a pile of sweaters and sweatpants. Your mind feels cared for when your space is; I wish it weren’t true (I would love to avoid those dishes) but it is. 7. Stay connected not just to people outside your home but people inside your home. You will hear a lot about staying in touch with your friends, via the internet if necessary. But what about the people living in your home? Try not to take family members for granted. Try to listen attentively as they talk, as if you are on a long road trip or family camping trip. Try to balance asking for space with making time for each other. Have daily rituals that complement the hours spent in your own world. 8. Take care of something. Roll around with your dog, keep a windowsill of plants alive, play My Little Ponies with your little sibling. Make a casserole for a way older neighbor (washing your hands beforehand, of course). Get out of your own head and remember to feed something and keep it alive, from friendships to pets. Life goes on and keeps expanding, from within a crisis-slowed-down world. 9. Do something unexpected to break up or combat a feeling of monotony.As I type this, my kids are having a snack in the camping tent we built in our dining room at lunchtime. I like to think that maybe I would have built a tent indoors as a high schooler. We all know the feeling when our relaxation turns against us. When we look down at the sweatpants we’ve been wearing for three days and see them as proof of something untoward, as opposed to proof that we are living our best life. You need to jostle yourself out of these holes. These self-surprises can range from low maintenance to high maintenance, from dressing up unexpectedly to taking a midmorning bubble bath. From watching an eyeliner tutorial and perfecting your cateye wings, to blasting a favorite song and dancing. If you are legitimately surprised by yourself, then you are sparking something that can sustain you. 10. Don’t feel guilty for pockets of joy, play, or creativity. It is painfully obvious that the world is in crisis and that the coronavirus will leave an astonishing mark on civilization. That can be true, and you can also be feeling OK or even great some of the time. Take those moments as sustenance that will get you through times when the anxiety or sorrow might hit harder. 11. Consider yourself a radical surfer! Similar to #10, work on staying nimble with yourself. All those books and articles about resilience in teenagers -- some of the time, you get to be the poster child for what they’re talking about! But you also need to be patient and gentle with yourself during the low, slow dips when you don’t feel like the poster child for anything except eating too many gummy bears in one sitting. 12. The adults around you might not have all the answers, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have any of the answers. :) If the adults in your life are like me, they are surprised to not be able to offer you a better sense of what the next month will look like. These are uncertain times. But just as you don’t get to rest assured that the adults have it all covered, so too do you have the same amount of power that we do to stay strong and calm on the inside, which is what we are all equally called on to be right now. And we are as here for you as always, if not more so!
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How to Get More Results Out of Your Can CBD Curb Anxiety
When the majority of people think about handling nervousness, several area diet regime and nourishment higher about the priority list. Most likely it's because we wish an answer correct below and at the moment, as speedily as possible.
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However, considering the fact that there isn't any swift fixes for pressure and anxiety, an extended-expression method of recovery seems to be a more practical proposition. As a result, commencing a great diet routine these days can speed lengthy-expression recovery from Long-term anxiety as well as panic attacks.You know it should be mentioned in this article so let us begin with the plain. Consume a good amount of water, eat a lot of fruits and veggies, and cut down on the Unwanted fat and meat.To find out more details on ways to get nutritious pores and skin ,head and body Click this link how to get rid of whiteheads on nose and protein rich meals for vegetarians.
Naturally this essential 'guideline' can implement to healing quite a few physical and mental Ailments, and stress is no exception. So starting to consume much better currently surely raises your possibilities of beating stress faster.
Keeping Your Bodily Rhythm In Harmony.
A person with nervousness is probably going for being 'away from stability' body-smart. This may be due to the fact quite a few anxious persons typically contend with the problem by often ingesting a lot of Liquor or consuming a lot of convenience meals objects. After a while, this cumulative habitual ignorance can ravage the human body -leaving it much more liable to emotion anxious, and getting to be from stability.
Since getting into bodily rhythm is very important for someone with anxiety, taking in 3 well balanced meals each day is vital, Specially breakfast. Food items each morning really should not be averted beneath any circumstance- it calms an empty tummy and offers Your system toughness to ward-off stress the rest of the day. In inclusion you'll want to take in your breakfast, lunch and dinner around the very same time daily. Not only will The body thanks by strengthening your digestion, you could locate other rhythmic components of your lifetime enhancing far too, which include excellent of rest. This rhythmic period of bodily improvement can only Obviously filter all the way down to your frame of brain and at some point diminish episodes and your severity of nervous wondering.
Though high quality of foodstuff is obviously crucial, quantity might also upset your nervous program. Constantly prevent around-ingesting at a person sitting. Consuming a lot of foods may make you are feeling quickly superior, but may lead to stomach or other digestive pain down the road, leaving you more prone to stress and anxiety. For those who end up vulnerable to binge-ingesting, make an effort to consume more smaller sized foods rather than less huge foods all through the system from the working day.
Your Nervous Technique, Caffeine and Alcoholic beverages.
For the majority of people today with panic, caffeine really should be averted totally. No great can from feeling 'jittery' If you're anxious previously- caffeine will only more tax your anxious process. Caffeine will help established off a panic attack or possibly a severe prolonged nervous episode. It could also enable stop you from using a perfectly-required nap or getting fantastic snooze during the night. Even though not as negative, sugar must also be avoided just as much as you can.
Alcoholic beverages ought to be kept to the minimum, or fully averted. It's organic for somebody with stress and anxiety to choose to relax and alcohol provides A brief prompt 'heat and fuzzy' sensation. Having said that abnormal use (especially day just after working day) will deplete Your system of needed nutrients needed for just a healthier nervous method. Like caffeine, Alcoholic beverages may well depart you sensation jittery afterwards during the working day (or the next day). This can make you more at risk of stress and anxiousness, and will make you really feel the necessity to consume additional, only including to your vicious cycle.
Eating plan and nourishment entirely will likely not overcome anxiousness, but can ease the severity and frequency of episodes. When coupled with Way of living adjustments, exercise, a nutritional supplement regimen and psychological therapy, anxiety can start to be a issue with the earlier.
The way to Remedy And About Arrive Nervousness And Depression;
A great deal of people who find themselves exerting an excessive amount in their Mind energy usually exhaust not merely their Bodily toughness when partaking in a variety of multi-tasking routines, In addition they tend to above extend their brains as many as the point when it plainly requires some very good outdated time for relaxation. A great deal of chaotic people who seem to are not able to fathom the idea of comforting and taking time of from perform, and also their problems, are inclined to actually start out having anxious breakdowns, stress and anxiety despair and a number of mental diseases that may cause a person sanity to go haywire, fortunately, if your a kind of bad unfortunate kinds who're not able to distress and is continually fearful and fussing in excess of issues, there are literally offered cures and various therapies for dealing with stress and anxiety melancholy.
Stress depression is in fact characterized by a number of irregularities and erratic habits from the one that is suffering from it, this is generally due to selected anxiety triggers which will have a tendency to simply induce a person undue jitters and strain. Also, lots of people who have a tendency to get easily nervous more than stress filled pursuits are actually prone to having panic depression, its only a make a difference of staying sturdy-willed On the subject of going through complicated and worry-susceptible actions. It could be pretty tough to beat in the beginning, but Can CBD Curb Anxiety looking to be quiet and funky in periods of utmost tension is what in fact saves your psychological health from going entirely downward spiral.
With regards to successfully curing a person self from a mental health issues, a single should Remember that You will need to be basically sincere with yourself and evaluate what sort of depression or mental health issues you even have, head over to trustworthy psychiatrist to get by yourself diagnosed correctly in addition to have the capacity to get the proper despair cure on your own. Here are the varied varieties of melancholy:
Manic or Bipolar melancholy - characterized by sudden and Serious alterations in types mood wherein a single minute he / she is within an elevated point out of euphoria while the next minute (working day or 7 days) she or he is experience to be in a personal hell.
Postpartum melancholy - characterised by a protracted disappointment and a sense of emptiness by a fresh mother whereby Bodily stress all through little one birth, an uncertain perception of accountability in the direction of the new born child is usually just many of the feasible elements why some new mom experience this.
Dysthymia - characterized by a slight similarity with despair, Though this time, it has been verified for being quite a bit significantly less extreme, but naturally with any scenario, need to be addressed straight away.
Cyclothymia - characterised by a slight similarity with Manic or Bipolar despair wherein the person struggling from this psychological sickness may perhaps once in a while experience serious adjustments in ones moods.
Seasonal Affective Condition - characterized by falling inside a rut only for the duration of particular seasons (i.e. Wintertime, Spring, Summer time or Slide) studies nonetheless, show that more and more people actually fall in to your rut far more during the Wintertime and Drop seasons and lastly, Mood swings, wherein an individual temper might change from content to unhappy to angry in only a short time.
But the sort of depression which has really been tested to become quite prevalent amongst men and women is anxiousness despair, which is actually characterized from the condition of becoming overly anxious about items. Nervousness, a supposedly regular behavior that could actually assist somebody modify much more to a certain annoying action like first date jitters or even a grueling Examination the next working day. Panic really allows you get psyched up towards going through particular "tough situations"; anxiousness therefore is really an excellent factor. Stress and anxiety melancholy having said that, is actually the opposite, never to be easily dismissed for a "scenario of your nerves"; Nervousness depression is in truth an health issues that could be caused from the Organic make-up of a person, or To put it differently, a hereditary health issues.
Also, there are actually numerous kinds of Stress melancholy, Just about every having its very own unique features. Just take one example is Generalized Nervousness Dysfunction or GAD, this kind of Panic melancholy is lots additional complicated than the normal Anxiety melancholy, Despite maybe becoming every day-to-day behavior for individuals who experience this kind of Panic depression, Generalized Stress and anxiety Problem truly helps make the individual really far more paranoid than typical, stress and anxiety assaults tend to be more Recurrent, even absurd sometimes.
They might even be nervous even if there is no clear explanation that calls for them to behave in such a way. Folks struggling from Generalized Anxiousness Dysfunction truly shows a lot of signs and symptoms, from deficiency of rest, to getting struggling to unwind, finding drained effortlessly, cannot consider the things they are undertaking and also suffering from despair.
This sort of Anxiety despair remains to be curable; just a little do the job will truly do the trick, look into my Writer Bio to discover the assistance you actually need and Are living a happy and also a Panic Depression cost-free life!
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The Benefits of Using Wearable Technology for Health Tracking
You’re ready. To sit less, move more, sleep eight hours a night—to adopt new habits in order to become the healthiest you possible. As I shared recently, I recommend shrinking the change you want to make to set yourself up for success. Can wearable technology for health also help? Should you use these devices to aid you in achieving your wellness goals? Can tracking measures like your activity level, heart rate, and sleep really add up to big health gains?
Let’s explore some of the wearables currently on the market and discuss how making lifestyle shifts using the data they provide may mean you not only look and feel better today, but also avoid chronic disease down the road.
Do you use wearables to track your health? These devices can help you hit your wellness goals—when they’re tracking the right things. Check out this article for my recommendation on the best tech to track your sleep, stress, and activity levels. #healthylifestyle #chriskresser
What Are Wearables, and Do We Really Need More Technology?
Wearables are smart electronic devices that can be worn on the body to track a variety of health markers, such as:
Activity level: time spent sedentary, number of steps taken, etc.
Sleep patterns
Resting heart rate and heart rate variability
Stress level
Body temperature
A wide range of wearable health devices are available, from watches to rings—even shirts. I suspect we’ll see much more innovation in the coming years. After all, the industry is booming: analysts predict that more than 245 million devices will be purchased this year alone. Sales of smartwatches like the Apple Watch and products by Garmin, along with Fitbit’s watches and other fitness trackers, are on the rise, making these some of the most popular options today. (1)
And they do have merit. Although I often write about technology’s detrimental impact on health, these tech devices can support well-being.
They’re remarkable, really, in that they allow you to monitor wellness markers that not too long ago only doctors could track and measure. As a result, you gain important knowledge about your body that is vital to improving your health. What’s more, these devices take continuous, round-the-clock measurements, providing you with much more information than what you’ll get from annual trips to your physician, or even semi-regular visits to a healthcare practitioner. This wealth of data can also help your clinicians in making diagnoses and recommending treatments.
I see wearable health trackers as effective tools in your behavior-change toolkit. In this way, they integrate well into a Functional Medicine approach to healthcare. In Functional Medicine, we believe that for patients to overcome a persistent ailment, they must shift their behavior; we also know that behavior plays a major role in preventing—or contributing to—chronic disease.
Making the shift to an ancestral lifestyle that includes regular movement, quality sleep, and a focus on stress reduction—all trackable with today’s best wearables—is key to promoting general health and staving off chronic illness.
But Do Wearables Work? A Look at the Research
In some intervention studies, fitness trackers have a moderate effect on increasing step count and physical activity, leading to improved health outcomes for wearers.
Older patients who were given trackers increased their activity, lost weight, and had decreased LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels after 12 to 14 weeks of use. (2)
Obese and overweight participants who wore trackers for 36 weeks and increased their step count lost weight and saw marked improvements in their body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage, waste and hip circumferences, and other body composition measures; they also saw a bump in their HDL (“good”) cholesterol. (3)
Overweight individuals who accumulated 10,000 steps per day over 12 weeks not only had lower body weight and BMI at the end of the study period than when they began, but they also experienced significant reductions in feelings of anxiety, depression, anger, fatigue, and confusion. (4)
However, the majority of the currently available research on activity trackers hasn’t concluded that they’re extraordinarily or overwhelmingly effective. In fact, some studies have found conflicting results to those mentioned above; in one, people wearing trackers lost less weight than those who used standard behavioral weight-loss approaches. (5)
All in all, the cumulative scientific results are mixed as to whether or not fitness trackers make people more fit. Even within studies, the results are often at odds and inconclusive. For instance, one study using the Fitbit generated tracker-damning headlines a couple of years ago. Yet, the results weren’t all bad: although wearers didn’t see improvements in weight or blood pressure, they did get more physical activity than non-wearers. (6) Another study published in 2018 found that the Fitbit increased wearers’ activity levels. But its authors noted that their research required participants to check in with a health coach (health coaches are extremely beneficial for behavior modification), and they suggested that it's possible being accountable to someone did more for increasing participants’ exercise levels than self-monitoring with the tracker. (7)
A grain of salt: The latter study brings up an important caveat to wearables research. Many previous studies were conducted with devices that are now several years old. They were essentially glorified pedometers without other meaningful function. They didn’t connect to your smartphone. They didn’t track sleep or measure heart rate variability (HRV)—more on those in a minute. They didn’t factor in practices that can be crucial for behavior change, like goal-setting or community support, as in the most recent study.
Fortunately, today’s wearables are much more sophisticated. The better ones address the points mentioned above and then some, and can track activity, heart rate variability, and sleep all in one device.
Regardless of what the studies show, you and I know that increasing physical activity and leading a less sedentary life—the aims of these trackers—are absolutely necessary for overall health and well-being and the prevention of chronic disease.
Why Wearable Technology for Health Tracking Needs to Include Sleep and HRV
It’s not enough for your device to simply count your steps; it should track other important health indicators, like your sleep quality and your heart rate variability (HRV).
Why Sleep Matters
Modern life is wrecking our sleep, with serious negative health consequences. Sleeping less than seven hours in a 24-hour period is associated with: (8)
Cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk
Depression
Learning and memory problems
An overall increase in mortality
Other research has shown that poor sleep can undo the benefits of a healthy diet and exercise. It’s the dealbreaker of all dealbreakers. (9)
What HRV Is, and Why It’s an Important Indicator to Track
HRV, which stands for “heart rate variability,” is a calculation of the time variation between each heartbeat. (It is not the same measurement as “heart rate,” which refers to the number of heart beats per second.) You may have heard about HRV in the context of assessing an athlete’s performance readiness. But it’s also useful in terms of evaluating stress in the human body. HRV involves measuring the function of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), part of the central nervous system that affects heart rate. To put it simply: if you’re stressed, you’ll have a low HRV; if you’re relaxed, a high HRV. (10)
No matter what diet you follow, what supplements you take, or how much exercise or sleep you get, if you don’t manage your stress, you’ll still be at risk for modern degenerative conditions like heart disease, diabetes, hypothyroidism, and autoimmunity. Low HRV specifically is tied to a host of chronic conditions, from chronic kidney disease to cardiovascular complications. (11, 12, 13)
My Recommendation: Find a Device That Tracks Everything
Of all the next-generation devices on the market that track a multitude of health indicators, I think the Oura smartring is the most effective, as it tracks your sleep, heart rate variability, body temperature, and activity level. I have one myself, and we use it extensively with patients at the California Center for Functional Medicine. (To my knowledge, it’s the only wearable with sleep-tracking technology that has been validated by a peer-reviewed study.) (14)
Each morning, the Oura ring displays a sleep score in its app. This is an overall calculation of how well you slept, which takes into account total sleep, efficiency, quality, disturbances, REM sleep, deep sleep, sleep latency, sleep timing, and your lowest resting heart rate during sleep. This data can be used to make changes that will lead to better slumber. For example, lowest resting heart rate measures the lowest 10-minute average heart rate you experience during the night. This ranges anywhere between 40 and 100 for adults, and you can determine your average by looking at your data history. If you are significantly high or low, it can signal an increased need for recovery from activity or that you are in an active stress response and may benefit from interventions like mind/body relaxation techniques or breathing exercises.
The Oura ring also tracks your body temperature, which plays a role in everything from fitness to ovulation and HRV. According to Oura’s creators, a ring—versus, say, a watch—can gather more accurate heart data because of its position on the finger.
If you do decide to try the Oura ring, enter the promo code KRESSER at checkout for $50 off.
My bottom line: All wearable devices will have pros and cons for you, and all can be helpful when used wisely. That’s the key. Wearables and the data they generate are only effective when truly put to use to change your behaviors.
To succeed in adopting new, healthier habits, I encourage you to combine wearable technology with the shrinking the change technique. For example, if your big objective is to get more regular physical activity, use a wearable to help break that change into smaller, more achievable goals. The right fitness tracker can nudge you to take breaks if you sit at your desk all day and stand, stretch, or move; to get in your daily steps; to schedule a regular run, bike ride, or other workout of your choice, etc. And it will record this physical activity in real time—daily data you can use to celebrate each incremental win, as you get closer and closer to your big objective.
It may seem ironic to use technology to create more balance in your life. But technology is just a tool, and it’s up to us how we employ it. I’m a big fan of using technologies like these to create harmony through healthy habits.
Do you use wearable technology for health tracking? Do you focus on your sleep, activity, or stress? What have you noticed about how these devices affect your habits? Comment below and let me know!
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The Benefits of Using Wearable Technology for Health Tracking
You’re ready. To sit less, move more, sleep eight hours a night—to adopt new habits in order to become the healthiest you possible. As I shared recently, I recommend shrinking the change you want to make to set yourself up for success. Can wearable technology for health also help? Should you use these devices to aid you in achieving your wellness goals? Can tracking measures like your activity level, heart rate, and sleep really add up to big health gains?
Let’s explore some of the wearables currently on the market and discuss how making lifestyle shifts using the data they provide may mean you not only look and feel better today, but also avoid chronic disease down the road.
Do you use wearables to track your health? These devices can help you hit your wellness goals—when they’re tracking the right things. Check out this article for my recommendation on the best tech to track your sleep, stress, and activity levels. #healthylifestyle #chriskresser
What Are Wearables, and Do We Really Need More Technology?
Wearables are smart electronic devices that can be worn on the body to track a variety of health markers, such as:
Activity level: time spent sedentary, number of steps taken, etc.
Sleep patterns
Resting heart rate and heart rate variability
Stress level
Body temperature
A wide range of wearable health devices are available, from watches to rings—even shirts. I suspect we’ll see much more innovation in the coming years. After all, the industry is booming: analysts predict that more than 245 million devices will be purchased this year alone. Sales of smartwatches like the Apple Watch and products by Garmin, along with Fitbit’s watches and other fitness trackers, are on the rise, making these some of the most popular options today. (1)
And they do have merit. Although I often write about technology’s detrimental impact on health, these tech devices can support well-being.
They’re remarkable, really, in that they allow you to monitor wellness markers that not too long ago only doctors could track and measure. As a result, you gain important knowledge about your body that is vital to improving your health. What’s more, these devices take continuous, round-the-clock measurements, providing you with much more information than what you’ll get from annual trips to your physician, or even semi-regular visits to a healthcare practitioner. This wealth of data can also help your clinicians in making diagnoses and recommending treatments.
I see wearable health trackers as effective tools in your behavior-change toolkit. In this way, they integrate well into a Functional Medicine approach to healthcare. In Functional Medicine, we believe that for patients to overcome a persistent ailment, they must shift their behavior; we also know that behavior plays a major role in preventing—or contributing to—chronic disease.
Making the shift to an ancestral lifestyle that includes regular movement, quality sleep, and a focus on stress reduction—all trackable with today’s best wearables—is key to promoting general health and staving off chronic illness.
But Do Wearables Work? A Look at the Research
In some intervention studies, fitness trackers have a moderate effect on increasing step count and physical activity, leading to improved health outcomes for wearers.
Older patients who were given trackers increased their activity, lost weight, and had decreased LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels after 12 to 14 weeks of use. (2)
Obese and overweight participants who wore trackers for 36 weeks and increased their step count lost weight and saw marked improvements in their body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage, waste and hip circumferences, and other body composition measures; they also saw a bump in their HDL (“good”) cholesterol. (3)
Overweight individuals who accumulated 10,000 steps per day over 12 weeks not only had lower body weight and BMI at the end of the study period than when they began, but they also experienced significant reductions in feelings of anxiety, depression, anger, fatigue, and confusion. (4)
However, the majority of the currently available research on activity trackers hasn’t concluded that they’re extraordinarily or overwhelmingly effective. In fact, some studies have found conflicting results to those mentioned above; in one, people wearing trackers lost less weight than those who used standard behavioral weight-loss approaches. (5)
All in all, the cumulative scientific results are mixed as to whether or not fitness trackers make people more fit. Even within studies, the results are often at odds and inconclusive. For instance, one study using the Fitbit generated tracker-damning headlines a couple of years ago. Yet, the results weren’t all bad: although wearers didn’t see improvements in weight or blood pressure, they did get more physical activity than non-wearers. (6) Another study published in 2018 found that the Fitbit increased wearers’ activity levels. But its authors noted that their research required participants to check in with a health coach (health coaches are extremely beneficial for behavior modification), and they suggested that it's possible being accountable to someone did more for increasing participants’ exercise levels than self-monitoring with the tracker. (7)
A grain of salt: The latter study brings up an important caveat to wearables research. Many previous studies were conducted with devices that are now several years old. They were essentially glorified pedometers without other meaningful function. They didn’t connect to your smartphone. They didn’t track sleep or measure heart rate variability (HRV)—more on those in a minute. They didn’t factor in practices that can be crucial for behavior change, like goal-setting or community support, as in the most recent study.
Fortunately, today’s wearables are much more sophisticated. The better ones address the points mentioned above and then some, and can track activity, heart rate variability, and sleep all in one device.
Regardless of what the studies show, you and I know that increasing physical activity and leading a less sedentary life—the aims of these trackers—are absolutely necessary for overall health and well-being and the prevention of chronic disease.
Why Wearable Technology for Health Tracking Needs to Include Sleep and HRV
It’s not enough for your device to simply count your steps; it should track other important health indicators, like your sleep quality and your heart rate variability (HRV).
Why Sleep Matters
Modern life is wrecking our sleep, with serious negative health consequences. Sleeping less than seven hours in a 24-hour period is associated with: (8)
Cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk
Depression
Learning and memory problems
An overall increase in mortality
Other research has shown that poor sleep can undo the benefits of a healthy diet and exercise. It’s the dealbreaker of all dealbreakers. (9)
What HRV Is, and Why It’s an Important Indicator to Track
HRV, which stands for “heart rate variability,” is a calculation of the time variation between each heartbeat. (It is not the same measurement as “heart rate,” which refers to the number of heart beats per second.) You may have heard about HRV in the context of assessing an athlete’s performance readiness. But it’s also useful in terms of evaluating stress in the human body. HRV involves measuring the function of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), part of the central nervous system that affects heart rate. To put it simply: if you’re stressed, you’ll have a low HRV; if you’re relaxed, a high HRV. (10)
No matter what diet you follow, what supplements you take, or how much exercise or sleep you get, if you don’t manage your stress, you’ll still be at risk for modern degenerative conditions like heart disease, diabetes, hypothyroidism, and autoimmunity. Low HRV specifically is tied to a host of chronic conditions, from chronic kidney disease to cardiovascular complications. (11, 12, 13)
My Recommendation: Find a Device That Tracks Everything
Of all the next-generation devices on the market that track a multitude of health indicators, I think the Oura smartring is the most effective, as it tracks your sleep, heart rate variability, body temperature, and activity level. I have one myself, and we use it extensively with patients at the California Center for Functional Medicine. (To my knowledge, it’s the only wearable with sleep-tracking technology that has been validated by a peer-reviewed study.) (14)
Each morning, the Oura ring displays a sleep score in its app. This is an overall calculation of how well you slept, which takes into account total sleep, efficiency, quality, disturbances, REM sleep, deep sleep, sleep latency, sleep timing, and your lowest resting heart rate during sleep. This data can be used to make changes that will lead to better slumber. For example, lowest resting heart rate measures the lowest 10-minute average heart rate you experience during the night. This ranges anywhere between 40 and 100 for adults, and you can determine your average by looking at your data history. If you are significantly high or low, it can signal an increased need for recovery from activity or that you are in an active stress response and may benefit from interventions like mind/body relaxation techniques or breathing exercises.
The Oura ring also tracks your body temperature, which plays a role in everything from fitness to ovulation and HRV. According to Oura’s creators, a ring—versus, say, a watch—can gather more accurate heart data because of its position on the finger.
If you do decide to try the Oura ring, enter the promo code KRESSER at checkout for $50 off.
My bottom line: All wearable devices will have pros and cons for you, and all can be helpful when used wisely. That’s the key. Wearables and the data they generate are only effective when truly put to use to change your behaviors.
To succeed in adopting new, healthier habits, I encourage you to combine wearable technology with the shrinking the change technique. For example, if your big objective is to get more regular physical activity, use a wearable to help break that change into smaller, more achievable goals. The right fitness tracker can nudge you to take breaks if you sit at your desk all day and stand, stretch, or move; to get in your daily steps; to schedule a regular run, bike ride, or other workout of your choice, etc. And it will record this physical activity in real time—daily data you can use to celebrate each incremental win, as you get closer and closer to your big objective.
It may seem ironic to use technology to create more balance in your life. But technology is just a tool, and it’s up to us how we employ it. I’m a big fan of using technologies like these to create harmony through healthy habits.
Do you use wearable technology for health tracking? Do you focus on your sleep, activity, or stress? What have you noticed about how these devices affect your habits? Comment below and let me know!
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The Benefits of Using Wearable Technology for Health Tracking
You’re ready. To sit less, move more, sleep eight hours a night—to adopt new habits in order to become the healthiest you possible. As I shared recently, I recommend shrinking the change you want to make to set yourself up for success. Can wearable technology for health also help? Should you use these devices to aid you in achieving your wellness goals? Can tracking measures like your activity level, heart rate, and sleep really add up to big health gains?
Let’s explore some of the wearables currently on the market and discuss how making lifestyle shifts using the data they provide may mean you not only look and feel better today, but also avoid chronic disease down the road.
Do you use wearables to track your health? These devices can help you hit your wellness goals—when they’re tracking the right things. Check out this article for my recommendation on the best tech to track your sleep, stress, and activity levels. #healthylifestyle #chriskresser
What Are Wearables, and Do We Really Need More Technology?
Wearables are smart electronic devices that can be worn on the body to track a variety of health markers, such as:
Activity level: time spent sedentary, number of steps taken, etc.
Sleep patterns
Resting heart rate and heart rate variability
Stress level
Body temperature
A wide range of wearable health devices are available, from watches to rings—even shirts. I suspect we’ll see much more innovation in the coming years. After all, the industry is booming: analysts predict that more than 245 million devices will be purchased this year alone. Sales of smartwatches like the Apple Watch and products by Garmin, along with Fitbit’s watches and other fitness trackers, are on the rise, making these some of the most popular options today. (1)
And they do have merit. Although I often write about technology’s detrimental impact on health, these tech devices can support well-being.
They’re remarkable, really, in that they allow you to monitor wellness markers that not too long ago only doctors could track and measure. As a result, you gain important knowledge about your body that is vital to improving your health. What’s more, these devices take continuous, round-the-clock measurements, providing you with much more information than what you’ll get from annual trips to your physician, or even semi-regular visits to a healthcare practitioner. This wealth of data can also help your clinicians in making diagnoses and recommending treatments.
I see wearable health trackers as effective tools in your behavior-change toolkit. In this way, they integrate well into a Functional Medicine approach to healthcare. In Functional Medicine, we believe that for patients to overcome a persistent ailment, they must shift their behavior; we also know that behavior plays a major role in preventing—or contributing to—chronic disease.
Making the shift to an ancestral lifestyle that includes regular movement, quality sleep, and a focus on stress reduction—all trackable with today’s best wearables—is key to promoting general health and staving off chronic illness.
But Do Wearables Work? A Look at the Research
In some intervention studies, fitness trackers have a moderate effect on increasing step count and physical activity, leading to improved health outcomes for wearers.
Older patients who were given trackers increased their activity, lost weight, and had decreased LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels after 12 to 14 weeks of use. (2)
Obese and overweight participants who wore trackers for 36 weeks and increased their step count lost weight and saw marked improvements in their body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage, waste and hip circumferences, and other body composition measures; they also saw a bump in their HDL (“good”) cholesterol. (3)
Overweight individuals who accumulated 10,000 steps per day over 12 weeks not only had lower body weight and BMI at the end of the study period than when they began, but they also experienced significant reductions in feelings of anxiety, depression, anger, fatigue, and confusion. (4)
However, the majority of the currently available research on activity trackers hasn’t concluded that they’re extraordinarily or overwhelmingly effective. In fact, some studies have found conflicting results to those mentioned above; in one, people wearing trackers lost less weight than those who used standard behavioral weight-loss approaches. (5)
All in all, the cumulative scientific results are mixed as to whether or not fitness trackers make people more fit. Even within studies, the results are often at odds and inconclusive. For instance, one study using the Fitbit generated tracker-damning headlines a couple of years ago. Yet, the results weren’t all bad: although wearers didn’t see improvements in weight or blood pressure, they did get more physical activity than non-wearers. (6) Another study published in 2018 found that the Fitbit increased wearers’ activity levels. But its authors noted that their research required participants to check in with a health coach (health coaches are extremely beneficial for behavior modification), and they suggested that it's possible being accountable to someone did more for increasing participants’ exercise levels than self-monitoring with the tracker. (7)
A grain of salt: The latter study brings up an important caveat to wearables research. Many previous studies were conducted with devices that are now several years old. They were essentially glorified pedometers without other meaningful function. They didn’t connect to your smartphone. They didn’t track sleep or measure heart rate variability (HRV)—more on those in a minute. They didn’t factor in practices that can be crucial for behavior change, like goal-setting or community support, as in the most recent study.
Fortunately, today’s wearables are much more sophisticated. The better ones address the points mentioned above and then some, and can track activity, heart rate variability, and sleep all in one device.
Regardless of what the studies show, you and I know that increasing physical activity and leading a less sedentary life—the aims of these trackers—are absolutely necessary for overall health and well-being and the prevention of chronic disease.
Why Wearable Technology for Health Tracking Needs to Include Sleep and HRV
It’s not enough for your device to simply count your steps; it should track other important health indicators, like your sleep quality and your heart rate variability (HRV).
Why Sleep Matters
Modern life is wrecking our sleep, with serious negative health consequences. Sleeping less than seven hours in a 24-hour period is associated with: (8)
Cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk
Depression
Learning and memory problems
An overall increase in mortality
Other research has shown that poor sleep can undo the benefits of a healthy diet and exercise. It’s the dealbreaker of all dealbreakers. (9)
What HRV Is, and Why It’s an Important Indicator to Track
HRV, which stands for “heart rate variability,” is a calculation of the time variation between each heartbeat. (It is not the same measurement as “heart rate,” which refers to the number of heart beats per second.) You may have heard about HRV in the context of assessing an athlete’s performance readiness. But it’s also useful in terms of evaluating stress in the human body. HRV involves measuring the function of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), part of the central nervous system that affects heart rate. To put it simply: if you’re stressed, you’ll have a low HRV; if you’re relaxed, a high HRV. (10)
No matter what diet you follow, what supplements you take, or how much exercise or sleep you get, if you don’t manage your stress, you’ll still be at risk for modern degenerative conditions like heart disease, diabetes, hypothyroidism, and autoimmunity. Low HRV specifically is tied to a host of chronic conditions, from chronic kidney disease to cardiovascular complications. (11, 12, 13)
My Recommendation: Find a Device That Tracks Everything
Of all the next-generation devices on the market that track a multitude of health indicators, I think the Oura smartring is the most effective, as it tracks your sleep, heart rate variability, body temperature, and activity level. I have one myself, and we use it extensively with patients at the California Center for Functional Medicine. (To my knowledge, it’s the only wearable with sleep-tracking technology that has been validated by a peer-reviewed study.) (14)
Each morning, the Oura ring displays a sleep score in its app. This is an overall calculation of how well you slept, which takes into account total sleep, efficiency, quality, disturbances, REM sleep, deep sleep, sleep latency, sleep timing, and your lowest resting heart rate during sleep. This data can be used to make changes that will lead to better slumber. For example, lowest resting heart rate measures the lowest 10-minute average heart rate you experience during the night. This ranges anywhere between 40 and 100 for adults, and you can determine your average by looking at your data history. If you are significantly high or low, it can signal an increased need for recovery from activity or that you are in an active stress response and may benefit from interventions like mind/body relaxation techniques or breathing exercises.
The Oura ring also tracks your body temperature, which plays a role in everything from fitness to ovulation and HRV. According to Oura’s creators, a ring—versus, say, a watch—can gather more accurate heart data because of its position on the finger.
If you do decide to try the Oura ring, enter the promo code KRESSER at checkout for $50 off.
My bottom line: All wearable devices will have pros and cons for you, and all can be helpful when used wisely. That’s the key. Wearables and the data they generate are only effective when truly put to use to change your behaviors.
To succeed in adopting new, healthier habits, I encourage you to combine wearable technology with the shrinking the change technique. For example, if your big objective is to get more regular physical activity, use a wearable to help break that change into smaller, more achievable goals. The right fitness tracker can nudge you to take breaks if you sit at your desk all day and stand, stretch, or move; to get in your daily steps; to schedule a regular run, bike ride, or other workout of your choice, etc. And it will record this physical activity in real time—daily data you can use to celebrate each incremental win, as you get closer and closer to your big objective.
It may seem ironic to use technology to create more balance in your life. But technology is just a tool, and it’s up to us how we employ it. I’m a big fan of using technologies like these to create harmony through healthy habits.
Do you use wearable technology for health tracking? Do you focus on your sleep, activity, or stress? What have you noticed about how these devices affect your habits? Comment below and let me know!
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The Benefits of Using Wearable Technology for Health Tracking
You’re ready. To sit less, move more, sleep eight hours a night—to adopt new habits in order to become the healthiest you possible. As I shared recently, I recommend shrinking the change you want to make to set yourself up for success. Can wearable technology for health also help? Should you use these devices to aid you in achieving your wellness goals? Can tracking measures like your activity level, heart rate, and sleep really add up to big health gains?
Let’s explore some of the wearables currently on the market and discuss how making lifestyle shifts using the data they provide may mean you not only look and feel better today, but also avoid chronic disease down the road.
Do you use wearables to track your health? These devices can help you hit your wellness goals—when they’re tracking the right things. Check out this article for my recommendation on the best tech to track your sleep, stress, and activity levels. #healthylifestyle #chriskresser
What Are Wearables, and Do We Really Need More Technology?
Wearables are smart electronic devices that can be worn on the body to track a variety of health markers, such as:
Activity level: time spent sedentary, number of steps taken, etc.
Sleep patterns
Resting heart rate and heart rate variability
Stress level
Body temperature
A wide range of wearable health devices are available, from watches to rings—even shirts. I suspect we’ll see much more innovation in the coming years. After all, the industry is booming: analysts predict that more than 245 million devices will be purchased this year alone. Sales of smartwatches like the Apple Watch and products by Garmin, along with Fitbit’s watches and other fitness trackers, are on the rise, making these some of the most popular options today. (1)
And they do have merit. Although I often write about technology’s detrimental impact on health, these tech devices can support well-being.
They’re remarkable, really, in that they allow you to monitor wellness markers that not too long ago only doctors could track and measure. As a result, you gain important knowledge about your body that is vital to improving your health. What’s more, these devices take continuous, round-the-clock measurements, providing you with much more information than what you’ll get from annual trips to your physician, or even semi-regular visits to a healthcare practitioner. This wealth of data can also help your clinicians in making diagnoses and recommending treatments.
I see wearable health trackers as effective tools in your behavior-change toolkit. In this way, they integrate well into a Functional Medicine approach to healthcare. In Functional Medicine, we believe that for patients to overcome a persistent ailment, they must shift their behavior; we also know that behavior plays a major role in preventing—or contributing to—chronic disease.
Making the shift to an ancestral lifestyle that includes regular movement, quality sleep, and a focus on stress reduction—all trackable with today’s best wearables—is key to promoting general health and staving off chronic illness.
But Do Wearables Work? A Look at the Research
In some intervention studies, fitness trackers have a moderate effect on increasing step count and physical activity, leading to improved health outcomes for wearers.
Older patients who were given trackers increased their activity, lost weight, and had decreased LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels after 12 to 14 weeks of use. (2)
Obese and overweight participants who wore trackers for 36 weeks and increased their step count lost weight and saw marked improvements in their body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage, waste and hip circumferences, and other body composition measures; they also saw a bump in their HDL (“good”) cholesterol. (3)
Overweight individuals who accumulated 10,000 steps per day over 12 weeks not only had lower body weight and BMI at the end of the study period than when they began, but they also experienced significant reductions in feelings of anxiety, depression, anger, fatigue, and confusion. (4)
However, the majority of the currently available research on activity trackers hasn’t concluded that they’re extraordinarily or overwhelmingly effective. In fact, some studies have found conflicting results to those mentioned above; in one, people wearing trackers lost less weight than those who used standard behavioral weight-loss approaches. (5)
All in all, the cumulative scientific results are mixed as to whether or not fitness trackers make people more fit. Even within studies, the results are often at odds and inconclusive. For instance, one study using the Fitbit generated tracker-damning headlines a couple of years ago. Yet, the results weren’t all bad: although wearers didn’t see improvements in weight or blood pressure, they did get more physical activity than non-wearers. (6) Another study published in 2018 found that the Fitbit increased wearers’ activity levels. But its authors noted that their research required participants to check in with a health coach (health coaches are extremely beneficial for behavior modification), and they suggested that it's possible being accountable to someone did more for increasing participants’ exercise levels than self-monitoring with the tracker. (7)
A grain of salt: The latter study brings up an important caveat to wearables research. Many previous studies were conducted with devices that are now several years old. They were essentially glorified pedometers without other meaningful function. They didn’t connect to your smartphone. They didn’t track sleep or measure heart rate variability (HRV)—more on those in a minute. They didn’t factor in practices that can be crucial for behavior change, like goal-setting or community support, as in the most recent study.
Fortunately, today’s wearables are much more sophisticated. The better ones address the points mentioned above and then some, and can track activity, heart rate variability, and sleep all in one device.
Regardless of what the studies show, you and I know that increasing physical activity and leading a less sedentary life—the aims of these trackers—are absolutely necessary for overall health and well-being and the prevention of chronic disease.
Why Wearable Technology for Health Tracking Needs to Include Sleep and HRV
It’s not enough for your device to simply count your steps; it should track other important health indicators, like your sleep quality and your heart rate variability (HRV).
Why Sleep Matters
Modern life is wrecking our sleep, with serious negative health consequences. Sleeping less than seven hours in a 24-hour period is associated with: (8)
Cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk
Depression
Learning and memory problems
An overall increase in mortality
Other research has shown that poor sleep can undo the benefits of a healthy diet and exercise. It’s the dealbreaker of all dealbreakers. (9)
What HRV Is, and Why It’s an Important Indicator to Track
HRV, which stands for “heart rate variability,” is a calculation of the time variation between each heartbeat. (It is not the same measurement as “heart rate,” which refers to the number of heart beats per second.) You may have heard about HRV in the context of assessing an athlete’s performance readiness. But it’s also useful in terms of evaluating stress in the human body. HRV involves measuring the function of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), part of the central nervous system that affects heart rate. To put it simply: if you’re stressed, you’ll have a low HRV; if you’re relaxed, a high HRV. (10)
No matter what diet you follow, what supplements you take, or how much exercise or sleep you get, if you don’t manage your stress, you’ll still be at risk for modern degenerative conditions like heart disease, diabetes, hypothyroidism, and autoimmunity. Low HRV specifically is tied to a host of chronic conditions, from chronic kidney disease to cardiovascular complications. (11, 12, 13)
My Recommendation: Find a Device That Tracks Everything
Of all the next-generation devices on the market that track a multitude of health indicators, I think the Oura smartring is the most effective, as it tracks your sleep, heart rate variability, body temperature, and activity level. I have one myself, and we use it extensively with patients at the California Center for Functional Medicine. (To my knowledge, it’s the only wearable with sleep-tracking technology that has been validated by a peer-reviewed study.) (14)
Each morning, the Oura ring displays a sleep score in its app. This is an overall calculation of how well you slept, which takes into account total sleep, efficiency, quality, disturbances, REM sleep, deep sleep, sleep latency, sleep timing, and your lowest resting heart rate during sleep. This data can be used to make changes that will lead to better slumber. For example, lowest resting heart rate measures the lowest 10-minute average heart rate you experience during the night. This ranges anywhere between 40 and 100 for adults, and you can determine your average by looking at your data history. If you are significantly high or low, it can signal an increased need for recovery from activity or that you are in an active stress response and may benefit from interventions like mind/body relaxation techniques or breathing exercises.
The Oura ring also tracks your body temperature, which plays a role in everything from fitness to ovulation and HRV. According to Oura’s creators, a ring—versus, say, a watch—can gather more accurate heart data because of its position on the finger.
If you do decide to try the Oura ring, enter the promo code KRESSER at checkout for $50 off.
My bottom line: All wearable devices will have pros and cons for you, and all can be helpful when used wisely. That’s the key. Wearables and the data they generate are only effective when truly put to use to change your behaviors.
To succeed in adopting new, healthier habits, I encourage you to combine wearable technology with the shrinking the change technique. For example, if your big objective is to get more regular physical activity, use a wearable to help break that change into smaller, more achievable goals. The right fitness tracker can nudge you to take breaks if you sit at your desk all day and stand, stretch, or move; to get in your daily steps; to schedule a regular run, bike ride, or other workout of your choice, etc. And it will record this physical activity in real time—daily data you can use to celebrate each incremental win, as you get closer and closer to your big objective.
It may seem ironic to use technology to create more balance in your life. But technology is just a tool, and it’s up to us how we employ it. I’m a big fan of using technologies like these to create harmony through healthy habits.
Do you use wearable technology for health tracking? Do you focus on your sleep, activity, or stress? What have you noticed about how these devices affect your habits? Comment below and let me know!
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Get Sleep : Discover the Surprising Benefits
What time are you going to sleep? Surprisingly, the answer to this question makes a big difference in our lives. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), adults should be getting seven or more hours of sleep each day to maintain great health—yet more than one-third of adults say they don’t get enough sleep. Are you one of them?
Getting the right amount of sleep benefits us in more ways than one. It’s not just about being tired and worried about getting dark circles under your eyes after staying up late—it’s about the long-term, cumulative effects of not getting the proper amount of sleep night after night. If you’re in the group that could use a little more shut-eye, keep reading to discover the top six reasons you need sleep. Plus, you’ll get our handy tips for getting quality sleep night after night.
SLEEP COUNTS: 6 SURPRISING REASONS WHY
Improves Mood
Do you easily lose your temper with people or feel lousy during the day? If you’re short-changing yourself on sleep, you may be experiencing sleep deprivation. This can spell trouble when it comes to your mood and disposition. As you sleep, your mind and body are able to reenergize, especially during the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep. If the balance of neurochemicals in the brain is disrupted, you may end up feeling irritable and unable to cope with life’s issues. More sleep is good news for these problems.
Sharpens Ability to Focus
At work, home or in the classroom, do you find yourself forgetful, disengaged or struggling to pay attention? Sleep rests your body and mind; so a lack of it can impair your ability to accomplish tasks or even drive a car. If you continue depriving yourself of sleep, you increase your risk of forming anxiety disorders, getting into a car accident and making mistakes.
Helps Manage Stress
Are you facing stress and feel overwhelmed? When you get proper sleep, you are better able to cope with stress because your levels of the growth hormone and melatonin are balanced. Without sleep, stress can cause havoc for your health.
Encourages Weight Loss
Feeling hungry all the time? It could be due to lack of sleep. Because your body’s hormones are regulated as you sleep, getting proper sleep can actually decrease your appetite, which leads to weight loss. On another note, sleep increases growth hormone levels, which offsets cortisol that causes fluid retention and inhibits fat burning. This is especially helpful if you’re trying to trim the waist line.
Helps Prevent Chronic Disease
Research studies, according to the CDC, show that proper sleep helps decrease your risk of developing chronic diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke. For type 2 diabetes, sleep may be important for improving blood sugar control and may even help reduce the risk for developing the disease.
Helps you Live Longer
Studies show that people who get the right amount of sleep are less likely to die at an early age. Reason being: sleep helps to ensure their immune systems are strong and continuously working, so they’re less likely to pick up infections. Sleep also promotes the healthy regeneration of your body’s cells, which helps with longevity.
TIPS FOR BETTER SLEEP
With sleep being so important, you may be asking yourself, “How can I get the sleep I need and make it great?” Here are several tips for getting quality, restorative sleep.
GET A NEW MATTRESS
Is your mattress sagging? Have you had it more than eight years? If “yes” is the answer to either question, it may be time for a new mattress.
Explore the wide world of mattresses. Discover how different mattresses like memory foam, hybrid, wrapped coil and innerspring offer different benefits that may impact your health.
Tips:
• Look for mattresses that will conform to your body. They provide proper spinal alignment and soothing relief for pressure points. • Mattresses with gel memory foam help you achieve optimal sleep temperature for a restorative sleep. • Suggested mattress brands include: Ashley-Sleep®, Beautyrest®, Sealy®, Serta®, Stearns & Foster® and Tempur-Pedic®, all found here. 
IMPROVE SLEEP HABITS
Getting seven or more hours of sleep is no easy task especially if you lead an active life. Take time to evaluate when and how you sleep, then make the necessary changes to create a sleep favorable environment.
Tips:
• Schedule a regular bedtime and keep to it. This means waking up and going to bed at the same time each day. • If you’re having trouble getting to bed early, gradually adjust your bedtime no more than 30 minutes earlier each day. • Keep the bedroom cool between 65°F and 75°F and use room darkening shades. • Quiet the room by turning off the TV and giving your laptop or cell phone a break. • Spritz your pillow with relaxing scents. Mix lavender, chamomile or ylang-ylang oil drops with water to create calming scents.
RELAX BEFORE BED
Make time and find a way to wind down before getting into bed. Putting yourself in a mellow state of mind can do wonders for achieving your new sleep goals.
Tips:
• Try deep breathing techniques to help calm your central nervous system and quiet your mind. • Gentle stretching before bed helps soothe tired muscles. • Set worries aside to be addressed the next day. Turn your focus to a book, soothing music or meditation to help you unwind.
GET A NEW PILLOW
Is your pillow more than a year old? If so, it may be time to get a new one for proper head, neck and shoulder alignment.
Tips:
Look for pillows that offer the right fit and keep you cool such as those from Bedgear®. These pillows have React® foam that contours to your body and climate control fabric that deflects heat.
Some pillows, such as this Zephyr Gel Memory Foam pillow, are uniquely designed with adjustable gel-infused memory foam inserts—helpful for customizing your own personal fit for all sleep positions and improving airflow.
Dual sided cover pillows like those from Zephyr offer cooling fabric on one side and cozy fabric on the other for a warmer feel—ideal for climates with change of seasons.
EAT HEALTHY
Who knew your dinner plate could have an effect on quality of sleep? Making healthy choices can benefit your bedtime routine. According to the Mayo Clinic, there’s evidence that shows fatty foods should be avoided. Take steps before bedtime to ensure undisturbed sleep.
Tips:
• Enjoy a balanced diet full of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and lean proteins. • Plan a healthy snack an hour before bed. • Avoid sleeping on a full stomach. • Limit how much you drink so you won’t have to use the restroom. • Avoid caffeine and alcohol.
By taking steps to get more sleep and improve the quality of your sleep, you’ll reap the rewards of a healthier life. If you have improved your sleep habits, we’d love to hear about your experience and what has worked for you. Please share how you did it at #MyAshleyHome on Instagram.
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Why Panchkarma
BEST  TIME  FOR  PANCHKARMA
Are you feeling stressed out and anxious? Do you have trouble getting a good night's sleep? Are you struggling with pain, a chronic condition, or a difficult diagnosis?
If physical and emotional roadblocks are preventing you from fully enjoying your life, it's time to experience Perfect Health.
People come to Panchakarma for a variety of reasons, but with a shared desire to increase health, vitality and energy. To experience a calm mind and balanced nervous system and to have an inner sense of well being, that feeling of being truly comfortable in our own body.
Panchakarma is appropriate for almost everyone except young children and those of advanced years. There are specific contradictions for Panchakarma. We are very careful at Living Ayurveda to insure that Panchakarma is an appropriate treatment for you and your present level of health.
Some people are basically healthy, yet have a specific health concern. It may be as simple as the need to pause and renew due to a hectic life. It may be the desire to insure that a genetic family health trait is kept in check so as not to develop. Perhaps there have been issues and challenges around pregnancy. Panchakarma is an opportunity to unwind and release long held toxins, worries and memories. It is a time for you to create optimal good health in all areas. A time to reflect on life and determine if the life you are living is truly good for you, and if it is not, a time to change your direction to one more positive.
Others come to Panchakarma as the result of chronic disease and seek to stop the downward spiral of health. Addressing chronic or vague health issues or those difficult to diagnosis is one of Ayurveda’s strong suites. At some point people recognize that there are consequences to a lifetime of choices that are cumulatively creating a negative impact to their health. Poor diet, over exertion, smoking, drugs, alcohol and unhealthy relationships take a toll on our health. Panchakarma is a powerful yet kind and gentle way to remove these toxic accumulations and to begin to regain your health, your prosperity and your life.
Our physical, mental and emotional environments have changed dramatically in the past 70 years, more change has occurred on the planet in this time than the total change in all of time before. The introduction of new synthetic chemicals and electromagnetic influences from the impressive array of communication technologies are only two examples of recently invented outside influences. These outside influences combined with the pace at which we live, and the not so positive lifestyle choices we sometimes make, have created an unprecedented burden on the body. The human body is an amazing, evolving organism, but it simply does not have the capacity to adequately adapt to maintain health in the face of these radical environmental changes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, both very conservative health agencies, report that 85% of all diseases are the result of environmental exposure. More than 86,000 new chemical compounds are been created since Word War II. Less than 1% have been tested for impact to human safety. These chemical assaults are in our food, water and air. They are in our clothes, our homes and workplace.
It is mind boggling to realize that the very first television broadcast originated from Nazi Germany only 70 years ago. Today we are bombarded continuously with multiple forms of electromagnetic communication signals; cell phones, radio, microwaves and more.
It is hard to believe, given the pace that we now live, but the concept of “being on time” did not exist 80 years ago prior to the industrial revolution and modern manufacturing coming into being. We are pushed everyday to make every minute count. Consultants charge for the services by the minute, we pay for parking by the minute, and even our news is “up to the minute”. It is little wonder that we collapse into bed at night.
And there is the impact of our personal choices. The small choices that we make everyday in regards to diet, nutrition, exercise and even relationships, make a big impact on determining our level of health and disease. As a society we are living longer, yet very few of us reach our senior years disease free. There are a number of diseases and disease processes with non-specific causes; cancer, chronic fatigue, arthritis, osteoporosis, essential tremor, various auto-immune diseases and the list continues to grow. What is the value in living longer if to only suffer poor health? And to be a burden? These small choices we make everyday are similar to a snowball rolling down hill picking up “flakes” of poor health.
Education is a central component of care at Living Ayurveda. By being actively involved with every aspect of your care, we are able to spend more time with you, learn more about you, your life, and how you live. We can then provide education that is in alignment with your life and your constitution, to help you make better day-to-day choices. You begin to understand how you can exchange foods, activities and ways of thinking that do not match who you are for ones that truly support you and begin to stop the formation of this toxic snowball.
The good news, Panchakarma is as effective today as it was 5000 years ago. Panchakarma can counter these many challenges and be an invaluable aid in keeping us strong, vital and healthy. Panchakarma offers a systemic treatment that cleans and balances every cell in our bodies. Given the proper nutrition and removal of blockages and toxins, the human body will right itself and steer a course to good health.
Why Should I Undergo Pancha-karma Treatment?
Stress, environmental pollutants and poor lifestyle choices create a toxic load on the body that—if left in the tissues and bloodstream—results in poor health.
Panchakarma  reverses this degenerative process quickly and its effects are often profound and long-lasting. Panchkarma uses a combination of massage, herbal saunas, special foods and nutritional directives, mild fasting and colon therapies to rid the body of accumulated toxins.
Your personal Panchkarma program begins with a thorough exam by an Ayurvedic Physician, which enables the doctor to recommend a program tailored to your individual health. As your Panchkarma treatments progresses, you will be given a special diet combined with certain herbs and essential oils to use at home. These will help stimulate your liver and digestive organs, helping them to purge toxins.
What Can I Expect?
The Panchakarma cleansing process affects the whole person. Thus, during the program, you may notice changes on mental, physical and emotional levels. Many of our patients experience a “healing crisis.” This is a normal part of the healing process, and may be seen as a beneficial step toward optimal health.
The Healing Crises
A healing crisis occurs when a large quantity of toxins that have been locked in our tissues for years are released into the system for elimination. As these toxins are expelled, you may experience insomnia, heaviness, aching or general discomfort and flu-like symptoms. You may also develop a feverish feeling, which is simply your body’s way of burning up toxic waste. You may notice some emotional mood swings or experience intense feelings. Do not be alarmed—this is both a natural and necessary part of tissue cleansing. Make time to visit with your Ayurvedic Physician or facilitator on a daily basis while undergoing Panchkarma treatments and they will help to walk you through the process.
Completing the PANCHKARMA Cycle
To complete your Panchkarma treatment, you will do a mild fast and special liver purge followed by a specialized rejuvenation program. You will be amazed at your increased energy level and renewed vitality. Periodic Panchkarma treatments, in addition to your individual dietary and exercise routines, will help to prevent disease and maintain optimal health.
Our Commitment to You :
We established Completely authentic panchkarma centre AROGYAM HEALTH RESORT to provide high quality, personalized, compassionate, hands-on health care. We understand the frustration that many people have experienced with the impersonal, hurried healthcare that is all too common today. Providing a safe, comfortable, professional environment for our clients allows us to help each client to actively participate in their health care and also to cultivate the inner awareness that is necessary for good health and piece of mind.
We take the responsibility of the trust you place with us in assisting in your healthcare seriously and personally. Health is everyone’s most precious assets. We will always answer your questions and always encourage your active participation in your healthcare. Know that we want to hear any and all of your concerns, about any areas or issues which cause you to be uncomfortable. We will make every effort to find a positive workable solution.
So, For What You Are Waiting For ?
Schedule an Ayurvedic Consultation and let us create a custom PanchaKarma (rejuvenation) program to address your specific health needs and restore vitality.
Book your dates At AROGYAM HEALTH RESORT : http://www.ayurvedahimachal.com/index.php?page=home
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So I’m writing this on the small, round wooden patio table on my parents back deck. The legs are wobbly and the table slightly shakes when I type - I am having very lovely flash backs to my office in KK00 because I used to work at a round table that had uneven legs. Although the shaking table is kind of annoying, it is mostly comfortable. Feels like wearing an old sweatshirt.
I’m currently reading Flow. It has come into my life, like many things, through multiple encounters. The first time I heard about the book and the Hungarian psychologist was at Malthouse, after many beers, about a week before I left Wellington. I remember somewhat drunkenly, but nonetheless excitedly writing it down in my notes on my phone. But then, of course, I forgot about it. The second time Flow came into my life was when I was hanging out at Alex’s last week. He bought a condo last year and had been living with his gf - they broke up about a month ago and he was talking about changing his abode a bit, to suit his recent bachelor lifestyle change. He had a bunch of books on his mantelpiece, but they weren’t stacked in a Pintrest friendly way so we started playing around with how they could be arranged in a more aesthetically pleasing formation. Then I saw it - Flow! I asked him if it was good - Yes. I asked him if I could borrow it - Yes. Then we sat at his table and smoked some muerte and he got out his fine tip Sharpie pen and wrote something in the front jacket of the book. Given recent events where Amie has been giving me books with hand written notes, addressed to me (!), on the front jacket, my ego got the better of me and I assumed that he had written me a note. When I got home I realised that he’d simply written his name, to make sure that the book came back to him. It was better this way.
So, Flow. It is written by the grandfather of positive psychology, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (/ˈmiːhaɪ ˈtʃiːksɛntˈmiːhaɪ/). Csikszentmihalyi’s ( henceforth C) point is basically this: if you are able to control your consciousness, then you are able to control the quality of your experience. Sounds simple enough (haha), but what is consciousness even? I guess I had never really thought about it - I think I just saw it as the binary opposite to being unconscious. According to C though, there’s two parts to consciousness. The first part is the biological part. Consciousness is simply a part of the human nervous system - and the nervous system is built according to instructions contained in the protein molecules of our chromosomes. This is a very scientific explanation, and one that kind of bores me - well doesn’t bore me, but it doesn’t really get me excited. But, when I keep reading - C tells me that the other part of consciousness is that it is self-directed. And, because of this inherent autonomy, our consciousness has developed the ability to override the genetic instructions (in our proteins) and to set its own independent course of action. This is where I sit up and start to pay attention. What I take from this is that although there is a biological explanation for the ‘what’, there is also a very exciting explanation for the ‘how’ - in that, basically our state of mind is so powerful that it can literally take over what was genetically pre-programmed into our bodies. Now I’m interested!
 Everyone knows that we should have a positive outlook. Everyone knows that when you have a pessimistic outlook on life, usually, negative things follow. Everyone knows that ‘mind over matter’ is a good motto. But it’s still so hard. C says it’s hard because seeing the world as a ‘half glass full’ kind of person requires knowledge that is not cumulative. The knowledge, absolute trust in the silver lining, must be earned through trial and error experience by each individual, generation after generation. This work must be done alone.
For a long time I haven’t really liked being alone. I’ve always thought that I was an extrovert, and that I drew energy from being in large groups of people. I guess this is somewhat still true, but in the past few years I have also really been tapping into the power of doing work within. Yoga has been the real conduit of this practice for me. Dropping into my breath, meditating, being okay with what is and how I am – not who I want to be – these parts of my yoga practice have been so helpful for my personal development.
The last reason why being positive is hard, is the best reason. C says that there is a big difference between knowing something, and actually doing something. Doing the work is the proof. Having recently uprooted my life, I have been presented with multiple opportunities to Do. The. Work.
This morning I had two such opportunities. The first situation seems a bit random, but for me it was really significant. I look for signs. I trust intuition. I make decisions and judgements based on how things make me feel. What’s more – romantic/ esoteric things are important to me, like the colour of the ocean and the shape of the clouds and the colour of the trees. These things have a profound effect on my wellbeing, for better or for worse. As a result, I had been saving dipping my toes in the ocean here. I was waiting for the right moment and the feeling and the intuition – for some reason, this morning was the day.
But. The tide was way out and it was muddy and the ocean was a dull grey, like the colour of dirty dish water. The sand was muddy and felt gross between my toes. But somehow, instead of getting bogged down by comparison – instead of letting that feeling of anxiety rise up from my belly into my chest which tells me “the turquoise ocean in Wellington is so much better than this”, I took a couple of breaths. I would like to think that I took a couple of steps in the right direction of my self-directed consciousness controlling the quality of my experience this morning at the beach. Those biological proteins can get fucked!
The second opportunity to practice flow was when I sat down at my computer, all Monday mode, coffee in hand, and re-looked at a job that I thought would be really good for me to apply for. I started to re-read the job description and again, that sickly sweet feeling of anxiety started to creep up from my belly. Every bullet point that I looked at in the job description seemed to point out my weaknesses and lack of experience. I opened up my resume/CV and felt disgusted. In the past, I am sure that I would have let this get the better of me. I would succumb to the feelings of inadequacy and let it ruin my day. I would be less fun to be around – for others and also for myself. When I was growing up my dad used to tell me that I was my own worst enemy. Weirdly, I thought of this as a badge that I could wear. Secretly I thought it was something to be proud of – being hard on yourself and having (too) high expectations of yourself is how you get ahead, how you become successful and satisfied. That’s what I thought.
For some reason though, this morning was different. I’ve been having these out of body experiences where I can now start to see myself doing things, and I am able to observe. I see myself slipping into bad habits and somehow I am able to intervene. Rather than letting myself slip down the self-indulgent slide of negativity, I flipped my perspective. I closed my CV and focused on what I can do well. I made a list. I sent some emails. I connected with people.
Flip it. Reverse it. See it from the other side. Don’t only KNOW that you should see it from the other side, but actually SEE it from the other side. Do the work.
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Natrol Complete Balance Review: Don’t Buy Before You Read This!
What is it?
Natrol Complete Balance a supplement designed to address a range of menopause symptoms like night sweats and hot flashes. Natrol Complete Balance also works to help users get a good night’s sleep.
Natrol Complete Balance is made from a combination of herbal ingredients, vitamins and minerals aimed at improving mood and helping users sleep at night without night sweats or hot flashes getting in the way. This product features both an AM and PM formula, which work together for maximum comfort throughout the entire day.
N looking at a wide range of menopause solutions, it’s clear Femmetrinol PM best helps users fight menopause symptoms, while also delivering the sleep support so many women need at this point in their lives. Click here for a closer look at how Femmetriniol PM can help you sleep easy.
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Natrol Complete Balance Ingredients and Side Effects
Natrol Complete Balance is made from a variety of ingredients, all of which are listed on the label, as well as the product descriptions on the website and on the Amazon page. Here’s a look at what users can expect to find inside Natrol Complete Balance:
Black Cohosh Soy Isoflavones B Vitamins Melatonin Calcium  
Black Cohosh: An herb long used by Native Americans and later, Europeans for reducing severity and frequency of menopausal symptoms.
Black cohosh contains phytoestrogens, plant-based hormones that behave like estrogen would in the body, which may help regulate hormone levels and alleviate a number of symptoms associated with an imbalance.
Soy Isoflavones: The active ingredient in soy beans, isoflavones are used to prevent breast cancer and other breast issues, PMS and many of the symptoms associated with menopause. Isoflavones change inside the body, becoming phytoestrogens, which mimic the effect of the hormone.
Soy may cause some mild side effects like bloating, gas or constipation, as well as an allergic reaction in some people.
Melatonin: Melatonin is hormone found naturally inside the body and helps regulate sleep patterns. This ingredient is key in helping people develop proper sleep wake cycles that correspond to day and night times.
Calcium: An essential mineral for the health of bones and teeth, as well as the cardiovascular and nervous systems, calcium absorption tends to decline as women age and estrogen levels fall.
B Vitamins: A group of vitamins that help the body run a number of key functions, B vitamins are primarily used to help the body make energy from the foods you eat.
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Natrol Complete Balance Quality of Ingredients
Natrol Complete Balance mostly relies on black cohash to do the heavy lifting in this formula. The other ingredients like the calcium and B vitamins are present for some nutritional benefit, but likely don’t provide much relief as far as things like hot flashes are concerned.
Overall, this formula could provide some benefits. The PM version contains melatonin, which has been shown to help people sleep better, which is a problem many women face while going through menopause.
Based on the ingredient profile, we aren’t sure if we would recommend this product. There simply don’t seem to be all that many active ingredients included in Natrol Complete Balance and it may not provide a complete range of benefits to users.
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The Price and Quality of Natrol Complete Balance
Natrol Complete Balance is sold through a number of outlets, like Target, CVS, Walmart, Walgreens and Amazon, as well as a few more vitamin-specific platforms.
Natrol Complete Balance generally costs users about $8-152 for a bottle containing 60 pills—half are for daytime, and the other half are for night time.
Amazon currently offers this product at $8.80 for a one-month supply, while Walgreens is priced slightly higher—at $10.49 for the same amount.
Natrol, the company, appears to function exclusively as a distributor and does not sell directly to consumers, though they do have a website that can direct customers to stores in their area that may sell this product.
Additionally, this company that makes this product has a coupons page on their official website, offering discounts to consumers when purchasing from one of the above third-party retailers.
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Business of Natrol Complete Balance
Natrol Complete Balance is made by a supplement manufacturer known as Natrol. Their contact information is listed below:
Phone: 800-262-8765
Address: 21411 Prairie St. Chatsworth, CA 91311
Natrol’s official website leads consumers through their assortment of products—all herbal-based formulas targeting specific health concerns. The website is attractive and modern, and provides some detailed information for consumers looking to learn more about a certain supplement.
While we like the layout of the site and presentation of each of the products, we do wish there was a bit more information in regards to how Natrol Complete Balance delivers the advertised results — there’s no scientific data here showing how it works.
There’s also no mention of how long it takes to get results from this product. Many menopause supplements take at least a few weeks to start working and it would be nice for consumers to get a sense of what the time frame looks like when it comes to finding relief for uncomfortable symptoms that interfere with daily activities.
That being said, this company seems to be operating a business with no major issues. They offer deals to their customers and have a consistent presence across multiple sales channels, which does make a difference when customers are evaluating whether they can trust a product is safe.
Customer Opinions of Natrol Complete Balance
Results skewed positive according to most of the reviews we came across for Natrol Complete Balance, though there were some mixed results. Here’s a look at some of the experiences people shared online:
“I really like the PM portion of this product — I feel like it’s helped me sleep much better and balance out my moods. You do need to take this every day for best results, as it has a cumulative effect.”
“I tried this product for just over a month, and stopped because it just wasn’t doing much for me. I was still getting pretty bad hot flashes, but I never actually found out how long it takes to kick in.”
“This product really controls my menopause symptoms and is pretty affordable. Better than most of the other non-hormonal products I’ve tried.”
“I purchased this product after reading several positive reviews. It didn’t really work as I had hoped. I did get a little relief from the night sweats and hot flashes, but not much.”
Natrol Complete Balance had mostly positive feedback from women who had used this product. There were enough people, however, who did not feel any changes or claimed the results were really minimal and didn’t warrant continued use.
Natrol Complete Balance may not be the right choice for everyone, since it doesn’t always offer the advertised effects. We didn’t see any safety issues or read reviews from anyone who felt ill or uncomfortable from taking, but that doesn’t mean this is the best option.
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Conclusion – Does Natrol Complete Balance Work?
In general, we liked that Natrol Complete Balance is both offered at a low price point and didn’t seem to cause any adverse reactions with use. However, we’re not sure that it yields the kind of consistency users are looking for.
While some people claimed they saw some great results, others were disappointed. It could be that this product is aimed more toward people with mild to moderate menopause symptoms, or it simply might not be the right fit for everyone’s body chemistry—either way, some people were looking for more potency.
After looking at the company information, there are no red flags that emerge both on the Natrol site, nor on the web. Customers can feel safe purchasing this brand, as it seems well-established and is widely available from retailers across the country.
In the end, users suffering from insomnia, night sweats or severe hot flashes should talk to a doctor in order to find the right supplement or prescription solution for them.
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The makers of Femmetrinol PM operate in an FDA-certified facility, and have put this product through several rounds of quality control testing to ensure users get the best possible product in every bottle. Click here for a look at the full scope of benefits Femmetrinol PM can provide.
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