Dec 27, 2017
When you think of meditation you probably don’t associate it with better digestion and gut health. I know I didn’t until I learned just how much stress influences our gut health and just how powerful meditation is for decreasing stress.
What Evolution Has to do With Healthy Digestion
Issues like leaky gut often come from living a high-stress lifestyle. Most of us are under a lot of stress in today’s world. When you’re feeling anxious or rushed, your body goes into fight or flight. This is a survival mechanism that’s been with us since long before our frontal lobes developed. Back when we had to struggle just to survive, fight or flight was useful, but nowadays we don’t have to fight off predators and run for our lives (at least not often). This response to external stress kicks in anytime something triggers our stress response.
When your body is in fight or flight it isn’t able to direct much energy towards proper digestion. The food we take in when we’re in a hurry, working, or worried just sits in our guts until we’ve calmed down enough to initiate digestion. But a person’s still gotta eat and that’s where things get tricky. If you want healthy digestion, more energy, clear skin and a calm nervous system, meditation is one the answers.
How Meditation Helps Our Digestion
Learning and practicing meditation over time helps to decrease stress and turn off the fight or flight response that many people are all too familiar with. The nervous system and the gut are inextricably linked. Humans were never designed to be stressed out all the time, and when we learn to calm our nervous systems our health improves dramatically.
When you get used to tuning into your breath and releasing stressful negative thought patterns your digestion will improve, you’ll have more energy for fun activities and life will seem a whole lot less overwhelming.
Easy Ways to Incorporate Meditation in your Life
- Simply taking even 5-10 minutes a day to sit down in a quiet comfortable place and focus on the breath is enough to make a difference.
- Set aside time each day to do nothing but breathe. Allow any thoughts that arise to drift away without attachment.
- HeadSpace happens to be one of my favorite apps that you can use to help you easily make meditation a part of your life.
Mediation and deep breathing are just one part of the puzzle. If you’re seriously interested in getting healthy, restoring your digestion and boosting your energy then check out my comprehensive Restore your Gut & Thrive Program! In the program you get group and personalized coaching, a ton of delicious satisfying recipes as well as strategies that will help rebuild your intestinal flora. Check it out today!
Sep 15, 2017
My blog has been really quite this past year. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I have been growing my coaching practice and also shifting more content sharing to social media platforms. That being said, I am still going to use the blog to share resources and ideas.
I wanted to share a resource for my thyroid/Hashimoto’s clients, but really this is a great resource for anyone with autoimmune disease or someone just looking for clean recipes.
Download a Free Sample Recipe: Asian Lettuce Wraps
I’m delighted to introduce you to two amazing nutrition experts who have created a long-awaited, groundbreaking, and scientifically supported cookbook containing over 100 “food as medicine” recipes for those with Hashimoto’s (autoimmune hypothyroidism) – The Essential Thyroid Cookbook: Over 100 Nourishing Recipes for Thriving with Hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s.
Lisa Markley is a registered dietitian nutritionist with over a decade of nutrition and culinary experience and Jill Grunewald is an integrative nutrition and hormone coach who’s been in practice since 2008 successfully guiding her clients and students with hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s to health and vitality.
They both know first-hand the challenges of Hashimoto’s and have discovered that the most impactful way to reduce symptoms and improve thyroid and immune health – for themselves as well as their clients – is to focus on the sound nutrition and lifestyle strategies outlined in this first-of-its kind cookbook. They’ve been working on it for five years and now they are (and I am) excited to finally share this essential resource with you.
The mouthwatering recipes are easy enough for any home cook, appeal to a broad variety of palates (Hashimoto’s or not), and are thoughtfully crafted to perfectly translate thyroid- and immune-supportive nutrition recommendations to your plate.
If this weren’t enough, The Essential Thyroid Cookbook is a book-within-a-cookbook. It contains a substantive, rigorously researched educational component focused on practical ways you can maximize nourishment to help restore your thyroid and immune system, or better yet, help to prevent thyroid dysfunction to begin with.
For anyone who has wanted to cook confidently for optimal thyroid and immune function, this is your definitive guide. The Essential Thyroid Cookbook belongs on the shelf in every kitchen of anyone diagnosed with hypothyroidism or Hashimoto’s.
There is a free book bonus available until Sept. 19th
http://www.thyroidcookbook.com/bookbonus
Feb 10, 2017
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Feb 9, 2017
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