- 30 Days of Healthy Living, Lifestyle Medicine, Living Lifestyle Medicine, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Stress Reduction
25th January – Do something you enjoy
Do something you enjoy. Just because. De-stressing, relaxing, chilling out… it sounds like it should be so easy, doesn’t it? Just do… well, nothing, right? But ‘just relaxing’ is not as easy as it sounds for some people. I am definitely not very good at doing nothing. And, ironically, the more stressed you are (and therefore more in need of relaxing) the harder it is to settle and turn off. This is because when we are stressed our brains are busy churning out lots of stress hormones, like cortisol and adrenaline for example. These stress hormones put our bodies into “fight or flight” mode so we are revved up, jittery,…
24th January – Time Restricted Eating
⏰What is time-restricted eating (TRE)? Time restricted eating means eating only between certain times of the day, which is your “eating window”. There are lots of similarities with Intermittent Fasting, and the two terms are often used synonymously. How does it work? The physiology of eating is very complex, but in very simple terms our body is either in a “fed” state, where food is coming in, insulin levels are high, and excess energy coming in is stored. Or a “fasted” state, where the body uses previously stored energy to run. By having healthy balance between the ‘fed’ and ‘fasted’ states, our metabolism works more efficiently and healthily. TRE has…
23rd January – Eat fermented foods
Fermented foods have high levels of probiotics – these are the friendly bacteria that live in our gut.🦠They are good for helping establish and maintain a healthy gut microbiome. 🦠Having a healthy gut microbiome helps improve digestion and can help relieve lots of gastrointestinal symptoms. 🦠There is lots of increasing evidence that our gut microbiome plays an important role in immunity and keeping mental health well as well. What are fermented foods? Fermented food are foods or drinks which are produced with controlled microbial growth, the action of the microbes ( bacteria, yeasts or fungi ) changes the components of the food by enzymatic action, and often gives it that…
