​Whatever it takes! These three words take on a whole new meaning when you are ill, don’t they? From the very first time I heard the words “Ulcerative Colitis” I was on a mission whether I knew it or not to do whatever it took to get better. That I was ready to do whatever it took to heal my mind so that I could get better! During my recovery from a really nasty flare in 2015, I was very honest with myself and repeated over and over to myself, dammit I am going to do whatever the hell it takes to get better! I embarked on a whole new lifestyle. I changed how I ate. I removed things in my own world that were causing me to fall apart on the inside. I altered my perception on healing and no longer viewed myself as a victim of this freaking disease! I can still feel the day when I knew that things were going to be different. It was an amazing feeling. So much so, that I get the goose bumps thinking about it right now as I am putting my thoughts out there for you to read. This was an unusual feeling. One that I hadn’t really felt before and one that embodied the concept of “whatever it takes”. Almost three years later, I am still a work in progress! We all are in this perpetual state, aren’t we? If we are really honest with ourselves, it’s a never ending process. 

​That’s a good thing though. Change is good and especially if those changes are life giving, life altering. I firmly believe that the small course corrections in how I was viewing my life really sparked healing. This is how it starts; small changes that make a big splash! You are not as a mess as you think you are! In fact you are probably so close to achieving something so magnificent and you don’t fully realize it yet. ​

When I started to re-frame how I was looking at this boulder, it started to break apart right in front of my eyes! Suddenly those irrational thoughts of where I was at on this non-linear path of wellness started to float on. The thought was losing its two feet to stand on because I was allowing rather than pushing. I have always felt that my own autoimmune hell was in big part due to my inability to go with the flow of life rather than pushing against it. When I started to let go a little bit my own body gave me re-insurance and I started to see signs that this GAPS diet, this change in lifestyle was really having an impact on my mind and body. The more I let go, the better my outlook became. ​

This is a huge thing to learn not only in times of illness, but just life in general right? Think about any situation and be really honest about it and ask yourself, am I living in sync with life or am I trying to control the things that are not able to be tamed? Setting realistic goals and achieving them is different than pushing. It’s kind of a fine line between too much and too little. Too little and you beat yourself up for not getting there. Too much and you end up with your adrenal glands screaming at the master orchestra conductor, the pituitary gland to help out. You end up wasted from the head to the toes. Once that happens anything meaningful you are working on is seriously in jeopardy of being phased out.  

​The big learning lesson for me through this health journey has been about letting go of control. I was wound so tight for so many years that my own little world mirrored my internal chaos. And it was a tiny world for me. My mind was pretty closed up to new ideas as giving up control of “my way” made me way too vulnerable. It made me feel weak if I didn’t have all of the answers and the only messages that really came to me were in the form of pain, inflamed intestines and despair. This wonderful thing that I have learned about myself is what I think makes me connect well with others, connect well with my clients. 

I fully realize now that my “whatever it takes” is different than someone else’s version. My threshold is pretty high in some ways when it comes to life, especially the things I do to try to heal. However, the healing journey and process unfortunately at times had become like a full time job on top of my full time job and took on a life of its own. I know I am not alone with this. Countless numbers of people trying to find their own path out of their own hell have taken on every old and new type of fix imaginable. For me this second full time job of wellness had really become a drain on my energy at points. It became a chore. I had to reinvent myself and my way of thinking on this very thing. I had to give up control to get better. The message is this, don't get sucked into this trap of trying to control every facet of your recovery. Its hard to get out of and can become too much very quickly. Just know that you will heal if you fully allow and within your own zone of healing. In my practice I fully embrace this mentality and know that for one my threshold to change can be entirely different than someone who comes to see me to make change. Keep in mind, that the idea of “whatever it takes” doesn’t mean blindly throwing darts hoping to get a bulls-eye. It means things like finding new ways to change your mind set about illness and healing but doing it in a way that is comfortable and in alignment with your own ideals. Maybe you have a level of guilt because you are comparing yourself to someone else’s journey and where you are not. Your ability to mind shift at any one point in time can be a moving target. Your threshold may be low now, but quite possibly it will ebb and flow to the point where you are ready for new ideas at points in your future. The quickest way to sideline improvements is to compare what you are doing with what someone else is doing. The bottom line is that at any one point you may need do multiple things to bring on positive change. Dance to the beat of your own drum! Do what works for you! Ask yourself if you feel better? If so then thats great, you are on the right path! If not, move forward and fake it until you make it. Where we get into trouble is when we set the wrong expectations, our reality doesn’t manifest and then we are left holding the fragments of our goals. I hope this reaches you and I always wish you the best along your own personal journeys. Thanks for reading!  

​There is so much that we don't know yet about this magnificent creation we call the human body. Until just recently, our emotions were deemed as separate from our body by most. Since the 17th century, any connection between the brain/psychological & health/disease has been really been off limits. This stems from an agreement between Rene Descartes, the founder of modern medicine and the Pope at the time. Descartes wished to obtain body's for study and in return it was agreed upon that there would be NO involvement of the soul, mind or the emotions. This has been the norm for many centuries now. We are now just starting to make correlations between mind and body and the concept of our emotions impacting our health is quite real. ​

The emotions that we feel at any one time are not isolated and are not just thoughts. They impact the internal chemistry of the body. Thoughts and emotions match up with receptors in the brain and also to other specific receptors scattered throughout the body. The various hormones communicate with one another and other cells & receptors throughout the body. So an emotion is not isolated to just the brain, it impacts other cells throughout the body in turn impacting the health of the cell and systems of the body. Its all interconnected. This is a very simplistic view, but science has been able to demonstrate the interconnections of our emotions, cells and bodily systems.

For me knowing this has been a game changer in how I view my emotions. When I get mad, stress, depressed or anxious for an extended period of time, I know there is so much more going on then I first thought. Neurons that fire together wire together. Ultimately an extended period of mental anguish will eventually turn from chronic thoughts to chronic illness and disease. I had an absolutely terrible three years or maybe I could turn that around and say because I had a rough three years it led me to an entirely different place. But during these three years it felt like my world was crumbling and I know that it was at the heart of my health decline. These thoughts ultimately created neural circuitry that in turn created genetic transformations. For example, my ability to manufacture certain things in my own body to protect my cells was ultimately turned off. 

Chicken or the egg? 

I often wonder about the progression of it all. Was it my chronic negative thoughts that led to disease? Or was it disease that just came about that impacted my thoughts? I mean I have been around some pretty negative people and they didn't have disease? So what gives? Personally though, my stress levels were a 10 out of 10 for many many years. I didn't really understand how to get a handle on this and looking back I am so surprised that my body lasted as long as it did before giving out to colitis. But there is always a trigger to autoimmune disease and illness and it starts in the gut! Always! 75% of autoimmune disease stems from our environment. So things like wheat, inflammation, diet, allergies, food sensitivities, toxins, mental/physical and spiritual stress and many more things lead to illness. What really happens at this point is you get stuck in a current and can't get out. A viscous cycle of illness. The inability to digest proteins specifically leads to an inability to break them down into the precursors that are used to build brain neurotransmitters that make us happy and give us vitality. So the stress and emotional turmoil just gets worse and worse until digestion dysfunction is supported. So it really starts with things in our environment and for some of us (actually probably most of us) it starts from birth as the health of BOTH parents will put us in a negative deficit that we are continually trying to balance as we grow up. Throw in the Standard American Diet (SAD) and the million and one toxins in our environment + the genetics and you are a prime candidate to land on the autoimmune spectrum. None of us are immune from autoimmunity! 

I hope this post helps you to understand some of the key core events that are going on in our bodies that lead to illness. Thoughts are not just thoughts and benign. Dark and negative thoughts do become cancerous if they persist for too long. On the flip side, positive thoughts are indeed life building. Fortunately we do have a level of control over this and it starts with changing our environment. Remove the things that stress the body and ultimately stress the mind as they all work in harmony together and the body is only as strong as its weakest link. Take care of yourself and thanks for reading! ​​

We live in a country full of different healthy food choices, yet we still choose to eat the same three foods day in and day out. Why do we stick with the same food options repeatedly? 

This is an interesting issue to analyze. Our behaviors, especially those surrounding food are formed when we are children and they tag along into our adult lives whether we want them to or not. Maybe you were forced to eat something that just didn't resonate with you when you were a kid and left a mark. Possibly, you grew up with only processed foods and never really got a taste for whole foods.  Or maybe its a matter of preparation. A lot of us have this stigma around vegetables and the like. No taste. No fun! You are the chemist here and you can use some creativity to add fresh spices or new oils. Cut up some fresh ginger for example and add it into something and taste the foods come alive. Today, most of us get 60% of our calories from the same three foods: Corn, wheat & soy. Any processed food will contain some flavor of one of these three and its not uncommon to have a trio of them all together. Its really no surprise we don't eat anything else. If we are getting 60% of our calories from these three things alone, it doesn't leave much space for other foods unfortunately. Wheat has a unique property that actually makes us want more of it and we do this all day meanwhile filling up on these things leaving no room for other options. 

When is enough enough! Bleaching? Deodorizing? No, we are not talking about the solicitor that just brought the new hydro steam 1000 into your home to clean your carpet. We are talking about the commercial process to make an "edible" oil. Guys this is a serious deal. These oils are not the least bit healthy and a far cry from the healthy alternative to animal fats that have been touted by this industry for so many years. And they are everywhere! Any processed food that you eat will contain an unhealthy oil of some kind. Dine out at most fast food establishments and you are getting more of the same and probably worse as these unstable oils are subjected to high heat as they cook french fries and the like. All of this contributes to free radicals in the body which translates into inflammation and ultimately illness and disease. 

The first time I saw this process years ago I began to see a connection between my own health struggles and the things I was consuming. You see I was like so many others that just didn't know what was in the products that I was consuming and oblivious to what it was doing to me. I read snippets here and there from various experts, but I just chalked it up to another of the million points of view on the subject. Today its healthy. Tomorrow its not was the attitude that I had so I just became numb to it all and just ate it anyway. I think this is by design. It creates doubt and ultimately keeps us right where we are wanted, buying these inflammation makers. It wasn't until I put on the detective cap that I began to smell something odd and it was the rancid oils that I had been consuming probably since I was old enough to eat.

There is a huge huge vested interest in promoting this type of product and squashing anyone who disputes its health benefits. This is yet another billion dollar industry that doesn't give a hoot about your health. If the consumer is to make different choices, it forces the hand of the companies who make stuff like this. Until then, the supermarket shelves will be littered with clear plastic bottles of rancid pseudo oils. 

There are options here and looking for quality oils is the starting point. Look for oils that are unrefined and protected from light. Do some research on the company. Think twice if you are told that oils like canola are healthy or that it gets the healthy heart approval from the AHA. Keep in mind that junk food boxes of cereal also have the AHA stamp! I highly value Sally Fallon Morell's take on health. Take a look at Sally's suggestions (http://nourishingtraditions.com/all-those-new-oils/) Put on the cap of someone who is fed up with feeling crappy as maybe this "franken" food is at the heart of your own health struggles. Your dollar is your voting power, make a different choice and be healthier as a result of your empowering choice! 

​Whats behind our diabetes and obesity epidemics in this country? How about the Snackwell Phenomenon? 

This is a term referenced in The Great Cholesterol Myth where big food companies jumped all over the low fat bandwagon after the USDA announced its official policy on fat. This is where we started to see masses of low fat products infiltrate our store shelves, like Snackwell cookies and other big food trend followers looking to cash in on this gold mine. The glaring problem here that was left unchecked was the fact that sugar was the main ingredient added in place of fat. Sugar is very inflammatory to the body. So the ongoing decades long issue with diabetes and obesity began as grains and carbs were substituted faithfully by those that trusted our government body's to make good sound decisions for the good of all our people. I am not a conspiracy theorist, but the series of events that have led to this disastrous outcome scream of foul play. 

How do we continue to overlook the glaring holes in the data that started this whole crusade in the 1950's? As the authors of The Great Cholesterol Myth point out, the story is one of staggering amounts of money to be gained and lost, bad ideas that continue to live past their expiration & the revolving door between government advisory committees and the industries they are supposed to police. I scratch your back, you scratch mine. Serious conflict of interest all over the dang place. 

It saddens me at where we have landed in this country. Its a testament really to the power of the people in charge of this country how an erroneous theory like the diet heart hypothesis could gain momentum in the first place, later become policy and then have the majority of health figures in this country fully on board with this theory. Is this the greatest marketing campaign of all time? Is this the greatest smearing campaign ever in full swing? Is adoption of this due to the thousands of lobbyists that make their impact on our politicians? Is it due to the many connections and dollars between healthcare, insurance companies and big pharma? Where is the love in all of this? I have to believe there are people that genuinely care and there are people out there in positions to make a difference that are slowly making waves of change. But until that day comes, It seriously astonishes me at how many people I am surrounded by have chosen to fully adopt that cholesterol and saturated fats are the root cause of heart disease! Subsequently these are the same people who chose to take statin drugs based on the "sound" recommendation of their doctors. I like so many others (including the authors of this book) were on the other side in favor of cholesterol, saturated fat and heart disease theories until the evidence became so apparent the other way. 

So where do we go from here? I don't think there is an easy answer to this. From where I sit, I try to get the word out as much as possible. I like to be well rounded with all of this information to be able to present it so that others can start to question things. This is where it starts really. Question your doctors. Question your dietitians. Question anything that makes you wonder. I encourage my clients to question things... including me! Question those that suggest you take a cholesterol lowering drug based on bad scientific data. Question the numbers and what do my specific particle counts look like. What do my LDL-A numbers look like? How about lp(a), which is actually the most important part of cholesterol? Many questions. This is your life and you shouldn't put your life in the hands of anyone who doesn't make themselves vulnerable enough to be trusted. The my way or the highway approach to medical care doesn't work anymore. Step out of the line and help yourself. 

In 2015 I had a meeting with destiny where I had to decide how to put myself back together again. ​This storm did indeed rip me to pieces. So much so that I get teary eyed writing about it,  but this was necessary for me to grow and I embraced this more than I had anything in my life which was good, because I needed every ounce of courage and stamina to make it through this! 

​In my present I still think about those days and I occasionally have to work through some old emotions. So I had a conversation with someone I just met over the weekend and we talked about diet restrictions. As I described the level of sensitivity and allergies that I have to foods, I got a sense that maybe there was some judgment there. Maybe it was just that she felt sorry for me? I began to second guess the number of questions that she was asking me though.  Cutting out grains can't possibly help she said almost like she thought I was crazy for taking the number of steps that I was taking to reverse this condition? For a brief moment, it immediately made me feel like I did when I first started on the GAPS diet years ago and how the people around me had shook their heads at me in disapproval. Once again, how can I expect to be healthy if I don't take pills? Don't stop taking those pills I was told because Colitis will kill you. How can I be healthy if I don't visit doctors weekly? You need to get some blood work, you aren't looking so good! Aren't you going to die of a heart attack if you keep eating that amount of fats, this GAPS diet is not a good choice? You mean you can't eat cereal anymore? Man, I couldn't live without bread. No, no and no. 

We do have a herd mentality in this country and standing apart is tough whatever it is. Food is so in the middle of everything in our culture, so this one was tougher than a lot of things for sure. The one thing that escaped me initially in the middle of feeling sorry for myself years ago when I embarked on this, was that it all was choice. Okay, so the initial path may have had limited choices, but it was a still a choice nonetheless! And in hindsight, it was the best choice for me and working with what I had at the time opened up more options in the future.  For me I knew that something had to change. I didn't want to keep beating the same non-working drum so I seemed to swim upstream on this, but in reality I wasn't resisting, I was allowing and listening to something different. A different less traveled path. 

The biggest idea of this whole post is that choices can be your saving grace in this life! Even if you don't feel like you have choices, take a step back and rethink it, because you absolutely do have one. You always have a choice to reach for a better thought. If I would have stayed on the course of hating everything about my new lifestyle, I would not have succeeded one bit. Sure there is an adjustment period to change, but learning to cooperate and be partners with change is the best thing I ever did. Let me just say this, disease sucks! For anyone that spends the majority of the day dealing with the symptoms, it sure is hard to think of good things. I know this! But what I realized is that what I was doing wasn't working for me anymore. I stepped out of feeling like I was painted in a corner with no choices to one of empowerment. 

There are so many options to recovery even if things look bleak. For some, medications work to put disease in remission. For some, the medications stop working. You have to be willing to see the choices in front of you and take action to find the better one for you. Its so individual! For me it was a difficult choice to completely change my habits, but things just got to the point for me where I wanted something more empowering. I knew that there was something that I was doing that was contributing to my pain. I just didn't want to believe that there were no other choices besides surgery or harsh medications. Food is medicine and rather than slowly poisoning myself, I made a choice to leverage and harness the power of it. I identified the things food and non-food that were causing me to flare and I harnessed the power inside of me. We all have it and if you are reading this, just know that you have it as well!  Embrace it and always look for the better thought. 

As I look through various recipes that quite honestly appear to be top notch on the taste meter, when I dive into the ingredients, I can't help but wonder just why people put this stuff into there body's. So why do we? 

Before I dive into this let me preface by saying I care. The reason why I write is because I care about people and can't stand to see people suffering needlessly while big food companies, big pharma and others with similar interests benefit so much from our pain. These giants in most cases are here to make money and as bad as it may sound as long as there are people buying, big food will keep making destructive foods and big pharma will keep putting band-aids on our issues with medications that really have no place in our medicine cabinet. Its not all, but there is a lot of conflict of interest here and you need people that look out for your best interest. If you choose to listen to this then that's wonderful, but if you choose not to, that's okay as well. Some may not be ready to hear things that are life altering. Anyway, on with the rest of the piece. 

So why do we continue to put this stuff into our body's? Well, number one is that for most us of we grow up surrounded by sugar. Sugar is the filler that big food uses to replace the fat that is stripped out due to it's false link to coronary artery disease and high cholesterol. They do this for a reason and that's because they are in existence to make a profit. They know how to sell a product and they know that sugar is addictive! From that very first bite of sugary birthday cake we are hooked. Suddenly, kids don't want to eat the more plain things on the plate and instead you come back into the room to find your kid on the counter getting into the cabinet to reach the Oreos. You can't eat your vegetables, but you can polish off five times the serving size of cookies? I often wonder about things like this. Just why is it in our experience in the first place. If it causes so much issue then why are we presented with things like this. I think its because we need contrast in life and it is filled with highs and lows, positives and negatives and its essential really to know what we truly want. You don't know what you want until you are faced with something you don't want. This is a topic for another article, but I think it explains at least to me why we have things like this in our life.

The shift in culture has created one where we consume massive amounts of sugar all day, everyday! In a lot of cases without knowing. Do you know the common disguises for sugar in your ingredient lists? How about wheat, do you know how much it raises your blood sugar? I am not suggesting that big food companies are evil or even that sugar is "evil". But when you compare it with what the cigarette companies do to make sales, the separation becomes a little hard to distinguish if I am honest. Different delivery mechanism, but the same response in the brain. You get it and you want more and more. So when kids and adults alike are presented with a choice between something that we know will give us that "high" and something that is good for us, but elicits no brain response, we choose the high. 

I think a second reason is our need to be satisfied by external things all the time. This is really addiction 101 and for me personally my life has been filled with a lot of quick fixes. As we grow up, we tend to lose that wonderful quality of being happy from the inside out as we are subjected to the many things that shape us as we grow older. I may be way oversimplifying this, but what we learn when we are young sticks with us. When we learn consciously and subconsciously that we can feel almost instantly better by eating a piece of cake, it sticks with us. Sweets become rewards for things done well or taken away when we are bad, so this is another psychological component that aids the addiction. Sweets take on a whole new meaning. Its the allure of happiness. Its happiness until you eat so much that you feel like crap, but then you learn that the crash goes away if you eat more later. So the cycle continues. It sets us for continued pain and heartache as we move into adult life. 

My main point is this; learn how to focus on eating foods for the enjoyment of what it is doing for your body. Are you really aware of what sugar is doing to you for example? Are you really aware of what artificial colors and preservatives do to your body? How about wheat? Some might be aware and maybe you just don't care or maybe the desire always wins out. Its your life and you choose to do what you want to do. Its free will. From the course in miracles it states, every decision you make is either a choice between a grievance or a miracle. Sugar is no miracle. Processed foods are quite miraculous in concept, but implementation and impact on lives is very much a grievance. For others though, you can feel it in your bones and at your core. You know that it doesn't ultimately feel right, but you continue to do it until you are really forced to make changes. I cant really put my finger on it other than it is a voice inside, a very subtle voice that tells you to knock it off. Eventually the sugar, refined and processed foods will drive your body into the ground. Sorry to be harsh, but it will. The truth is that if you continue to drive your blood sugar up and up, it will literally drive you into the ground. Some cases the ending may be quick, but for most its a slow miserable process to the boneyard. If you continue to stress out the body with pseudo foods it will leave a mark. It doesn't matter if you are a world class athlete or not. It all has the same impact on the body and its always going to wreak havoc. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but eventually and nobody is spared. 

So a page from my playbook looks like this. With autoimmunity, sometimes even if you are doing all the right things, you still may get a touch of a flare up or a full blown flare. There are so many factors that go into this, but every single time this happens, I have to make choices that are for the greater good of my body. Keep in mind this goes for anyone whether you are sick or not.  My #1 example is liver or organ meats. The simple mention of liver makes me people cringe. I get it. Liver can be pretty yucky, but even more yucky if you tell yourself that it is. My main strategy is to know what it is doing for me. Every time without fail, a few extended meals with liver per week will usually give me enough nutrients to push through. In fact when I was having a really rough month some years back, I ate liver every day for weeks. For most that is way too much, but for someone not absorbing nutrients its critical. Its critical to reset. Its critical to give your body what it needs and that nutrients as opposed to the anti-nutrient of processed food is what it is screaming for. For the average person that gets the flu for example, what you do in the early stages is so important. If you continue to drink soda, eat sugar and processed foods during this time and disregard what your body needs, I am afraid you may be sick for a while. I hear people say, "oh, I cant take that, its freaking yucky". What if you had a crystal ball and you knew it would work? Would you consume it then? Maybe? Most likely not though because its not sweet and good tasting. Back to that again. 

I get that we all desire good taste. By no means am I suggesting that we give up things that taste good. I am simply saying to be aware of what your body really needs. To this day, I consciously eat organ meat once a week and sometimes multiple times if my body tells me so. I take cod liver oil once a day and this is another thing that people will give the yuck face on. But smart people for decades have been doing these very things and are better for it. Look at some of the groups of people that have a very long history and you wont find a single long living culture that has consumed foods similar to the standard American diet. To reject things because they don't taste good is doing your body a big disservice. And keep in mind that with most things, you can make them taste wonderful. Take a look at great Paleo recipes out there. Great ingredients that are great for you and taste great as well. You just have to be willing to open your mind and practice discipline to make a different choice and take the time to create something rather than opening a box.

I come at this from a place of personal experience and I don't like to see people suffer needlessly. Quite possibly if I would have known more about these things back before I landed on the autoimmune spectrum, I may have changed somethings that would have helped me avoid this. Nobody is exempt from this spectrum by the way and how you treat your body today will dictate how it responds later. That's why I write these things because I want people to thrive and remove suffering. I hope this reaches you and makes you think a bit. Peace! 

We have an epidemic of fatty acid deficiency in this country! Ratios of Omega 6:Omega 3 should be anywhere from 1:1 to 4:1, but we sit somewhere around 20:1. Way too high and unbalanced and this will create inflammation in the body. Inflammation is at the heart of all conditions in the body. What problems pop up with a diet low in fat or the wrong fats? 

One main thing is that when our fat ratios are too high in favor of Omega 6 fatty acids, it will shunt the Omega 6 prostaglandin pathway to the pro-inflammatory pathway. Essentially this will create a condition of too much insulin production and we know that insulin is a storage hormone. So what do you think happens next? That's right, it will get stored as fat and eventually create inflammation. Also eventually will spill over into the blood stream as triglycerides creating high small LDL cholesterol. 

Why are fats so important? Well number one, they provide a very stable long burning form of energy. This is the preferred energy source and can sustain for hours. In contrast when using carbs/sugar for fuel you get the perpetual case of crankiness in between meals. Another important aspect is one of hormones. If we dont get good fats, we cant build quality hormones. This causes all kinds of issues in the endocrine system and very likely will cascade throughout all glands. The last one here is that fats actually help absorb the all important fat soluble vitamins A, D, E & K. What we can do is balance our fatty acids through the things we eat by adding in a mix of oils. 

Our starting lineup of good fats and oils is key to making it to the ninth inning fresh and healthy. My lineup has a good mix of offense & defense that allows my body to stay in harmony. We all need a good balance of saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats to keep a balance between inflammation & anti-inflammation in the body. We need both! So we need a mix of all kinds of oils to maintain this. 

My starting lineup

​Coconut oil
Ginger root
Olive oil
Cod liver oil
Black currant seed
Fish oil
Turmeric root
Avocado oil
Hemp seed oil

Try to shoot for a mix of about 60% Monounsaturated 30% Saturated and 10% Polyunsaturated oils daily. Individual needs vary so these numbers are not set in stone. Just a guideline to shoot for a mixture.  

If you would like to work with me one on one please shoot me an email to setup a free 30 min consultation. 

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Quality and not quantity in life!👌🏻
 
This is such a problem for a lot of us in our fast💨 paced multi-tasking digital environments where the amount of things we collect seems like it should bring us happiness. Happiness by brute force doesn't work so well. It makes our lives more chaotic I think.
 
I was thinking about the quantity thing this morning as I was caught in the middle of doing ten things. I used to put a lot of stock in multi-tasking, mostly because my job at one point seemed to require a level or ability to work on many things at once. In the end this only made me more frustrated 😣and my life more chaotic. As a result, I would end up having a bunch of unfinished projects. Does this sound common to anyone? What a bad habit to get into and its constantly something that needs to be put in timeout🛑 as it comes up! This picture here was from a trip to Hawaii, where there is so much quantity of beauty, but so much quality too.
 
Take the time to focus 👈on one thing at a time. Don't miss the sunrise! Give the people around you the attention they deserve and really focus on quality life experiences rather than quantity! I think this is one of the main keys to life happiness!!😁
 
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