Everyone loves a sunny day. Heck, there are a ton of songs with that very sentiment in the title. However, as nice and warm as sunshine makes us feel there is a much broader reason to dig it: it keeps us healthy. It's not just physically healthy but mentally as well.
Today I talk about the how the sunshine is converted into Vitamin D in the body along with a host of ways to get it each day. I will discuss the reasons we need it and in what supply. You won't want to miss it
Read MoreCortisol plays an important part in a healthy metabolism, the formation of memory and the body's treatment of inflammation. It is wonderfully efficient. It even gets the body ready to face a threat or run from that very same fear.
All good stuff. However, when the body is flooded with Cortisol it has anything but a healthy role in helping the body. In our hectic world the brain sees everything as a threat and accordingly pumps out Cortisol in large quantities. There needs to be a way to stop it and that is what I will talk about today.
Read MoreJoy comes from living an intentional life. If you think about the times when you were the most harried, out of balance, it came from simply responding to stimulus that were thrown at you. You were responding but not actively making choices based on what was best for you.
I bring this up because many times people eat not because of hunger but because of habit or other societal factors. If you want to maintain your health and be lean you need to understand hunger in a complete way. That is what we will do today.
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