Fermented foods are the most natural source of probiotics – bacteria that are good for your gut. As one of the oldest ways to preserve food, fermenting involves a process called lactofermentation, where bacteria feed on starches and sugars in food and create lactic acid. This promotes good bacteria and beneficial B vitamins, vitamin K, enzymes, and short chain fatty acids that are great for our health when consumed. Some common food items that contain probiotics include yogurt, sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, milk and water kefir, certain cheeses, tempeh, and miso. Try adding as many fermented foods as possible to your daily diet!
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The Effects of Stress on Your Hair
It has been said that stress can make you go gray or cause you to lose your hair. But can it? Hair loss due to stress can occur after a traumatic life event such as divorce, death, or severe financial worries. This temporary hair loss, called ‘telogen effluvium,’ can also be caused by factors such as hormonal changes, illness, or poor diet. Hair evolves in a cycle of growth (anagen); transition (catagen); and resting (telogen). Prolonged or extreme stress can cause hair to prematurely enter telogen and break more easily. Stressful events can shock the hair cycle, pushing more hair into the shedding phase.
WellnessNews Welcome
I hope you enjoyed the first monthly edition of the WellnessNews Choices for Healthy Living® here in Moose Jaw! Healthy Living means making positive daily choices and taking personal ownership to enrich our life in areas such as our physical, emotion, social, occupational, financial, and spiritual wellbeing. Moose Jaw has so much to offer, and this monthly resource will help to connect you to so many local supports, deals and offers. Please share with your family & friends, like our FB page, and subscribe to local health tips via email – online at www.skwellnesshub.ca!
Next-Level Relationships
Ready to take your relationship to the next level with the support of not one, but two expert Relationship Coaches? Michael Snow and Nicole Mohr of MindurMindset Coaching bring their combined expertise in Neuro-linguistic Programming, Timeline Therapy, and Hypnotherapy to help couples build stronger and more fulfilling relationships. Working with two coaches means: a more diverse perspective and range of expertise, a more supportive and collaborative environment, improved communication within the coaching relationship, and opportunities for self-work as individuals. For the month of March, any couple that registers for a FREE exploratory session will also receive a FREE gift!
Tired of Feeling Tired?
Are you suffering with insomnia, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, chronic pain or a racing mind that keeps you up at night? Never getting a sleep where you wake feeling refreshed? Many of these issues start from an unbalanced Endocrine System. This system regulates 95% of all neurotransmitters and hormones in our body. When the thyroid isn’t functioning, the adrenal glands pick up the slack but will eventually BURN OUT! Adrenal fatigue unfortunately plagues many of us, leaving us feeling groggy, tired, anxious and depressed and with chronic headaches, brain fog and pain! But there is hope! These systems can be rebalanced with homeopathy.
4 Ingredients of Holistic Health
Holistic health encompasses physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. It focuses on every aspect of one’s life, including daily habits and routines, stress management, weight loss, mental health, hormones, sleep, and so much more. Whole food nutrition and the effects it has on our bodies, our mindset, our confidence, and our overall health and wellness is also a major focus of holistic health. With the support of one-on-one coaching, you can learn to better understand your overall health and work with a coach to create a completely customized program that keeps you on track and encourages you to stay motivated.
Business Spotlight: Strong With Nature Yoga
Strong With Nature Yoga is designed to make it easy for people to get movement into their life. Learn how to connect with yourself through mindfulness and support your life with what nature gives you. Strong With Nature Yoga helps you unite your movement practice with the community by taking what you learn on your mat out into your daily life. Workshops and events help people learn more about their own body and how to easily add mobility into their day. Private sessions allow for customized training. Check out the online classes/programs library to take with you on the go!
Product Spotlight: Green Up! with GRAMS
Green Up! with GRAMS is 100% plant-based, certified organic, natural, and GMO-free. The first and only formulation of its kind, Green Up! with GRAMS combines the raw power of greens, red fruits, and superfoods (like spirulina, chlorella, acai and goji), along with a potent dose of immune-boosting mushrooms and fatigue-fighting adaptogenic herbs. This powerful and nourishing combination offers important antioxidants, and soothing and stress-relieving benefits to help you energize your nutrition and power up your health. Diversify your diet with Green Up! with GRAMS – enjoy it daily in your favourite smoothie, juice, or simply mixed with water.
Accessing Consciousness
What change have you been asking for that, if you weren’t going to the definition of it, would alter your life dramatically? If there is an area of your life you have wanted to change, would you consider asking yourself a question? Access Consciousness® was created by Gary Douglas, who received the process of the Bars® and has since propelled a new conversation of consciousness throughout the world. Having your Bars® “run” by a certified Practitioner and Facilitator has been compared to defragging a hard drive on a computer, allowing life to come to you with ease and joy.
Improve Wellbeing through Pet Adoption
Adopting a pet is an incredible way to live life with a compassionate attitude, towards all living things. There are so many health benefits when you adopt an animal. Emotionally, pets bring a sense of comfort, as they improve feelings of loneliness and isolation. They are the hug that brings warmth and love into your family. You will exercise more, as those big puppy eyes will want to go for a walk and in return, your cholesterol and blood sugar will drop! Adoption is the most rewarding act of kindness with the benefit of having a companion of a lifetime.
Tips for Lowering Blood Pressure
Lifestyle changes are an effective way to lower your blood pressure and can be used alongside medication you’ve been prescribed. To maintain or lower blood pressure, it’s important to: 1) Exercise regularly: 30-60 minutes of moderate activity 4-7 days per week. 2) Eat healthy: try the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet. 3) Reduce stress: relaxing, exercising, meditating, and getting plenty of sleep. 4) Limit alcohol and caffeine. 5) Quit smoking. 6) Maintain a healthy weight: maintain a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 and a waist circumference of less than 102 cm (men) and less than 88 cm (women).
