Hi Everyone!
It seems that one of the significant late neurological manifestations from having COVID-19 is intense headaches with chronic pain that is resistant to easily accessible pain medications.
According to many studies, Long COVID headaches were observed in women over 39; half had never experienced headaches before COVID-19, and those with a history of headaches reported worsening pain after COVID-19. People with Long COVID migraine state that they have them 2-5 times a week, which is debilitating!
If you have Long COVID and disabling headaches are among your symptoms, this post may relieve you greatly.
Long COVID Symptoms
Most people recovered from COVID-19 and continued their regular lives, but symptoms have debilitated many.
There were more vulnerable people, after all, since if somebody had an existing inflammatory disease, they were at high risk. Many people have silent inflammation running, which can be surprising!
Headaches were one of the most common symptoms that ran alongside COVID-19; for some, they never went away and got worse. If you have Long COVID, migraines may not be your only symptom. Some of our members who had Long COVID have stated (in the Testimonials) that they used to have:
• Migraines
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Obesity
• Bloating
• IBS
• Anemia
• Chronic stress
• Joint pain
• Muscle pain
• High blood pressure
• Breathlessness
• No energy
• Exhaustion
• Loss of taste/smell
• Insomnia
• Brain fog
• Memory issues
• Less focus and concentration
• Worsened existing conditions
• Continual viruses
• Heartburn
• Stomach cramps
• Diarrhea
• Skin rashes
With inflammation implicating Long COVID and Long COVID causing more inflammation, which causes the immune system to be dysregulated, this would explain why Long COVID symptoms went away for our members.
By reducing inflammation and boosting immunity through improving gut health, liver health, anti-inflammatory movement, stress reduction, other neuroplasticity exercises, and better quality consistent sleep, they can live a regular life again.It also explains why Long COVID symptoms persist if you are not on an anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle.
How is Inflammation Connected to Long COVID Migraines?
Numerous studies show an increase in inflammatory markers in Long COVID patients, as shown here: Interleukin 1, Interleukin 6, and Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) cytokines are associated with Long COVID. Cytokines are a protein that increases inflammation as part of the innate immune response. Levels can increase to incredibly high levels after having COVID-19. These are all powerful pro-inflammatory agents!
This is why migraines may not be the only symptom you suffer from. In fact, migraines are often reported alongside chronic inflammatory conditions.
Chronic inflammation and immunological alterations with cytokine storms running all the time like this will do that!
It will switch on anything hereditary, leaving you at risk of developing chronic conditions like autoimmune diseases and picking up viruses quickly. You may enjoy reading How to Recover from Virus Infections, Can Food Poisoning Cause Inflammation? and How to Boost Your Immunity to Fight Viruses.
Why Are Your Migraines Different Than Before COVID?
Through studies, people who have Long COVID migraines state that they are different from any headaches that they have had previously.
Since most people with migraines already have elevated inflammation, any further inflammation can cause changes since chronic inflammation stimulates pain-causing nerves and other processes that can affect migraines.
People also report that stress and anxiety have increased due to the challenges of having more migraines. Trying to navigate daily activities, life, work, school, social occasions, holidays, vacations, and relationships when you don’t know when an attack will occur has a considerable physical and mental impact.
One migraine a week would be challenging, but a Long COVID migraine causes up to five a week, it states in one study. 3 out of 4 reported spending time alone in a dark room without noise for 6+ hours on each attack and then dealing with the after-effects.
Stress and anxiety promote a never-ending cycle of inflammation.
Stress induces many changes in the brain and body, like increasing gut permeability and a leaky gut, reshapes gut composition and triggers pathogenic bacteria, activates our immune system, and increases inflammation, increasing neuroinflammation.
This will alter the gut-brain axis because of the bidirectional link between the gut and the brain. Briefly, what goes on in the gut goes on in the brain and vice versa. (If you think about how you get butterflies in your tummy or need to go to the bathroom before speaking in public or before an event, this is the brain-gut connection).
It would be no surprise to feel low and anxious when you have a debilitating condition, but gut bacteria imbalance and inflammation actually increase the chances of depression & anxiety (neuroinflammation).
Some gut bacteria actually encourage dysregulated eating!
Stressful times can also influence your diet and lifestyle choices, which affects gut health and increases inflammation. Have you seen the Live Masterclass on Emotional Eating recently?
Let’s not forget how sleep quality changes during stressful times. Gut imbalances mean less serotonin production, too, which is the precursor to melatonin, which enhances sleep (and happiness!). There are so many reasons to reduce inflammation through gut health!
These articles may interest you: Weight Loss and The Link to Sleep & What Happens if You Don’t Sleep Well?
Why Migraine Meds Don’t Work
Firstly, medications have saved millions of lives!
It has been recognized, though, that severe headaches are one of the major debilitating symptoms of Long COVID that are resistant to over-the-counter pain medication.
Ultimately, medications can cause damage to our gut health by reducing good bacteria and increasing harmful bacteria, like antibacterial resistance genes, for instance.
The gut lining may also become perforated, and pathogens can leak into the bloodstream.Steroids and anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) that are given for migraines drive inflammation through gut dysbiosis.
You may want to read: NSAIDs, Gut Health & Inflammation & Painkillers Not Helping your Headaches?
Diarrhea that our members said they used to have (without the condition of IBD) can be because of the medication they were taking, for instance. They reported an increase in taking anti-inflammatory drugs with Long COVID migraines due to the occurrence, length of time, and pain intensity but have not had much relief.
This is because NSAIDs increase gut imbalance. For one, the pathogenic Clostridium difficile bacteria grow. This causes diarrhea. It lives in our gut under the control of beneficial gut bacteria, but a gut imbalance encourages its growth.
Plus, certain headaches are resistant to medication, like Refractory migraine.
How Do You Treat Migraines?
Understanding gut health and brain health will help you with Long COVID migraines and many other disorders. Eat Burn Sleep’s health education will empower you because you will get to know how your body works in an easy way.
Second-nature choices occur the more you learn and the more you do for your health with our tools on this platform.
Enjoy meals like Bolognese Sauce & Kung Pao Chicken.
In time, you don’t need to reach for painkillers; you have reduced stress in your mind and body, better body composition, and good quality sleep, for instance. In time, life will be less challenging, and you can plan and be spontaneous.
Your migraines may just be reduced considerably in a matter of days. Our member Jewel reported relief on day 1 of being on the program after three weeks of continual headaches (check out the COVID testimonials). Members indeed feel the instant changes in many ways, but I would allow for longer and start the Six-Week Reset for a next-level health reboot.
Taking charge of your health through health education and taking control where you can is key.
Members, access the Expert Advice for Long Covid Recovery here and Migraines are in the same section.
I am wishing you good health and a good day!
Hello everyone!
If you are here because you want to improve your fertility, have a healthy pregnancy, and have a healthy baby, you are in the right place.
Whether you are looking to give your body the best chance to conceive naturally or are on IVF and want a greater chance of success, we are glad you are here because we can help you.
It could be that you have had recurrent miscarriages – or want to prepare your body for having a baby in the future – but if it’s your mission to have a baby, this post is for you.
Keep reading because you are about to find out how to improve your chances of having a baby – and this applies to women and men.
The Impact of Infertility
Astonishingly, there are 1 in every 6 couples in the UK and the US right now who have difficulties conceiving. That equates to 3.5 million! Worldwide – between 48 million couples and 186 million individuals have infertility!
The cost of fertility treatments, which include artificial insemination, intrauterine insemination, and in vitro fertilization, is expensive.
If you are experiencing infertility, there is no doubt that it impacts your life. The emotional stress of trying to have a baby and being disappointed regularly, with an enormous cost financially and to physical health, can take over your life.
Diet and Lifestyle Helps People Have a Baby
Eat Burn Sleep is a 360-degree anti-inflammatory lifestyle. We assist people with lower inflammation successfully at a systemic level and improve gut, mental, liver, and immune health (which amounts to optimum health).
Lowering inflammation helps you have a baby because many reasons you cannot conceive, carry and have a baby are linked to chronic inflammation (excessive).
Chronic Inflammation and The Reproductive System
The female reproductive system is geared to resolve inflammation since an average amount of inflammation is required to function at full capacity.
The menstrual cycle, for instance, deals with clearing tissue debris and regeneration as a regular function. An acute amount of inflammation is needed for cell repair during ovulation, menstruation, implantation, and giving birth.
However, it is important to keep inflammation low because chronic inflammation will cause problems with ovulation, low sperm count, erectile dysfunction, low testosterone, implantation, hormone imbalance, early pregnancy health, and even after the baby is born.Chronic inflammation is linked to infertility, miscarriages, endometriosis, PCOS, and autoimmune disorders that impact the ability to have a baby.
Preparing Your Body For Having a Baby
Lowering your inflammation is key to preparing your body for having a baby. Whether that is naturally, through IVF, to lessen the risk of miscarriage or boost sperm count, you must look at your whole lifestyle.Eat Burn Sleep is successful at helping people have healthy babies, and I will briefly explain.
You see, inflammation is lowered, and the gut, immune, liver, and mental health are also optimized. These are all major in improving fertility, IVF success, pregnancy, and giving birth.
Chronic inflammation conditions that affect your chances of having a baby are all treated on this lifestyle successfully.
For instance, check out the testimonies for weight loss, endometriosis, and PCOS. Many men are boosting their testosterone and sperm count by following this lifestyle. It really works!
Improving the Immune For Fertility, Pregnancy + Having a Baby
The immune system plays an integral role in the reproduction of both males and females. There is a close functional relationship between the immune system and the reproductive tracts.
For instance, a healthy immune will heal the ovary after the egg erupts and then help repair the uterine lining during menstruation.
A healthy immune system is required for internal protection from infections and for tolerating sperm.
A healthy immune is required to trigger blood vessels necessary for growing the placenta to facilitate the healthy development of a baby, for instance.
Conditions like obesity, diabetes, and metabolic dysfunctions impact male fertility, endometriosis, and PCOS, for instance, for women, since they are characterized by chronic inflammation and immune alterations.
Women with autoimmune disorders can fail to recognize a pregnancy or develop antibodies attacking sperm (and even embryos), seeing them as foreign invaders.
Many autoimmune diseases are treated and put into remission with this anti-inflammatory lifestyle.
As many of you know, due to this lifestyle, I have put my two autoimmune diseases into remission and do not take any medication anymore.
Improve Gut Health For Fertility
Your gut microbiota is linked to infertility since poor gut health can cause a hormonal imbalance.
Many studies improving gut dysbiosis lead to more pregnancy successes.
Since 70% of your immune cells reside in the gut, it makes sense that your gut needs to be in optimum health to protect your immune system and reduce inflammation.
Eat Burn Sleep recipes are packed with the ultimate nutrition to improve health, fertility, IVF success, and having a baby. The lifestyle helps you digest, absorb, and hold on to that nutrition.
Improving gut health helps your baby’s health when it arrives since it inherits its Mother’s microbiome! It also lessens the chance of postpartum depression.
Improve Liver Health For Fertility
Your liver is linked to infertility since a tired and congested one can produce a multitude of symptoms that are often caused by hormone imbalances.
Medication, unhealthy foods, exposure to toxins, and an inflammatory lifestyle contribute to a congested liver. Eat Burn Sleep’s reset will detox, recharge, and renew your liver efficiently.
Your liver needs detoxification if you are having IVF treatment. You will no doubt be feeling rather sick if you are taking IVF.
This powerful anti-inflammatory lifestyle kickstarts you on your road to improving chances of IVF and fertility, lessening the risk of miscarriage, and helping you give birth.
Natural Ways of Improving Chances of Having a Baby
Stress is linked to infertility, miscarriage, and giving birth since chronic inflammation is also linked to mindset.
E.g., Excess cortisol levels can inhibit the body’s main sex hormones and suppress ovulation, sperm count, and sexual activity.
Sleep is linked, too. During sleep, HGH is produced, which is essential for optimum health. (There’s Insomnia advice as well as Fertility advice in the Expert Advice section.)
Lower levels of HGD are linked to obesity and diabetes, which can affect your fertility and having a healthy pregnancy. Chronic sleep deprivation is recognized as one of the major contributors to diseases like type 2 diabetes, too.
Lowering stress and improving restorative sleep are significant parts of Eat Burn Sleep through mind reprogramming, guided meditations, movement, mindfulness, and other neuroplasticity exercises.
Because improving gut health leads to improved mental health, it is a biological reaction, not just through seeing and feeling the positive results of being on this lifestyle.
If you are looking for a fertility diet to improve pregnancy health and a diet to have a healthy baby, you have found it!
The whole body is optimized to improve fertility, support the success of IVF, lessen the risk of miscarriage, and help give birth on this anti-inflammatory lifestyle.
I am barely covering the surface here, but suffice it to say that Eat Burn Sleep is a beautiful lifestyle to follow if you want to improve your chances of having a baby.
Check out the fertility success stories, see how many Eat Burn Sleep babies there are, and come and join our community!
Feel free to reach out to me with any questions.
Wishing you the very best and hope you will soon welcome a baby into your life.
Hello Everyone!
If you have ever had food poisoning, you will know that it is a very unpleasant experience that you want to avoid happening again, but have you ever wondered if it was food poisoning?
If several people ate the same food as you, how come they didn’t have the same reaction?
There are many reasons why humans differ in their responses to bacterial infections. For this post, I will tell you why good gut health armors against food poisoning and the subsequent risk of developing inflammatory conditions like IBS and IBD.
Food Poisoning Statistics
Approximately 600 million people fall ill to food poisoning a year, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Most of the cases reported are caused by Salmonella and Campylobacter, which have high levels of antimicrobial resistance.
(It isn’t just food where Salmonella and Campylobacter can be harbored, as pets can spread the bacteria, and they may not show any symptoms).
Bacteria breed faster in warmer temperatures, and there is a greater contamination risk when you prepare and eat food outside.
6 Ways to Avoid Food Poisoning
Separate raw meat, eggs, and fish from other foods
Wash your hands and the cooking preparation area, using different chopping boards and different knives
Avoid touching your mouth and face while prepping
Cook food to a safe temperature (e.g., steak, lamb chops, and fish need to be 145 degrees)
Don’t leave food and leftovers out of the refrigerator for more than an hour (maximum of two for leftovers). Keep food in a cooler until you cook it.
Improve gut health.
Does Gut Health Reduce Food Poisoning Risk?
Absolutely! Ensuring that your gut health is tip-top means that if you eat contaminated food, your gut and immune system are fully equipped to fight Salmonella and Campylobacter’s maneuvers!
It will also reduce the risk of developing leaky gut syndrome, IBS, IBD, diabetes, and other chronic inflammatory conditions.
Indeed, good gut health reduces inflammation and aids in putting autoimmune conditions into remission.
Suppose you have a compromised immune system or inflammation running in your body. In that case, it will leave you susceptible to bacteria and viruses, and it will be challenging for your body to fight them.
How Does Gut Health Stop Bacteria?
The bugs in our tummies provide immune homeostasis.
As I mentioned, poor gut health (dysbiosis) is linked to a weakened immune system, making it less able to fight bacteria.
Compromised gut health is also linked to non-communicable diseases. 70% of gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) resides in the gut.
GALT and the intestine are essential for the body’s immune defense. They allow tolerance to good bacteria and nutrients from our diets while dispelling invaders!
A healthy gut contains an arsenal of barriers to incoming pathogenic organisms that come in physical, immune, chemical, and enzymatic forms!
Because Salmonella and Campylobacter have high-level antimicrobial resistance (which is why they can be transmitted from animals to humans through the food chain), they pose an extra challenge to the immune system (particularly when it is compromised!).
How Does the Body Deal With Poisons?
What usually happens is that when pathogens enter the body, an inflammatory response is triggered. A lot goes on to successfully engulf and destroy invading microorganisms in a healthy body.
The innate immune system prevents invaders from entering via:
skin – keeping them out!
mucus – trapping them!
immune system cells – attacking them on entry!
sweat and tear enzymes – which are anti-bacterial compounds!
stomach acid – destroying them.
Our Adaptive Immunity
Our adaptive immunity is where our immune system recognizes what a pathogen is, and when it enters the body, our cells and organs create antibodies. A process of attack and destruction occurs, and then the immune system puts that bacteria that has infected you into a memory box so that you can get long-term protection from that pathogen.
During the invasion, amongst many other things, the immune system induces reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, too. This is where Salmonella and Campylobacter gain strength because they thrive on the proteins from this reaction.
Many gut bugs in your tummy at this time cannot survive the changed environment, which gives these bacteria an advantage as they take over!
However, certain bacteria in healthy, diverse microbiota, before the invasion, prevent Salmonella from raising their internal pH, thereby facilitating cellular functions required for their growth.Increasing the diversity of gut bugs enhances resistance to pathogen colonization.It’s all a complex interplay of different strains and species in the gut, where one microbe affects other microbes’ functions.
Quite like the Eat Burn Sleep lifestyle! One factor affects the other/s in a symbiotic way!
An interplay of nutrition (from recipes like these: Italian Chicken Salad & Paleo Energy Bars), lifestyle, sleep, movement, and neuroplasticity is needed for good gut and immune health.
This is why you can’t just do one thing like take some probiotics and expect them to do the trick of good gut and overall health.
Nutrition absorption and distribution are significant factors influencing a robust bacterial community.
In case you missed these posts: What Kills Candida Fast, Naturally?, How to Recover From Virus Infections,How to Boost Your Immunity to Fight Viruses.
What Raises the Risk of Food Poisoning?
Many people are more vulnerable to bacteria, which is one explanation why you could eat the same contaminated food as someone else, and only one of you has a reaction.
Vulnerable people include children who are under five and people who are over 65, pregnant, and who have existing conditions. Members, for advice on what to avoid for your condition, follow the personalized advice for your condition.
Here is a list of ways our immune is weakened:
Poor nutrition
Autoimmune diseases
Chronic inflammation conditions
Cancer
HIV/Aids
Liver disease
Kidney disease
Unhealthy lifestyle: smoking, alcohol, lack of exercise, high fat/ high sugar diets, low-calorie diets
Food poisoning usually clears up within 3-6 days, but there is strong evidence of how food poisoning can lead to further disease.
Leaky gut syndrome, gut bacteria imbalance, immune dysregulation, and inflammation are induced by the proteins in food-poisoning bacteria like Salmonella.
Due to the changes in the gut lining and gut bacteria imbalance, symptoms can continue once the infection has passed.
Gut dysbiosis equals immune dysregulation and chronic inflammation, and the risk of autoimmune diseases and immune dysregulation causes gut dysbiosis!
This leads to immune dysregulation and other chronic inflammatory conditions.
Food Poisoning and Further Disease Studies
So, in answer to whether food poisoning can cause chronic inflammation, the answer is yes.
A significant volume of research shows the link between disease development after food poisoning and IBS, reactive arthritis, IBD, Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and other chronic inflammatory conditions.
These are just a few food poisoning and further disease studies:
Chronic inflammation can cause DNA damage, epigenetic modulation, and chromosome instability, leading to colon cancer risks. Mughini-Gras et al. (2018).One in every nine people exposed to foodborne illness develops IBS at a rate four times higher than the non-exposed individuals, according to a meta-analysis of 45 studies. Klem et al. (2017).IBD is linked to food poisoning, according to numerous studies. For instance, a study in Denmark found that an episode of gastroenteritis caused by Salmonella and Campylobacter species was significantly associated with an increased risk of new-onset Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease.
Do enjoy traveling, eating outside, and socializing, though. It’s all good for your mental and physical health, and your immunity needs you to be social (unless your doctor has told you otherwise).
Just remember, use your nose when it comes to food and drink. Don’t take the chance if they don’t pass the sniff test; if you think food is undercooked when you dine anywhere, don’t eat it. Don’t compromise your health.
It’s never too late to focus on gut health. It’s imperative to combat many health issues.
Have a beautiful day!
Hello Everyone. If you have endometriosis, there is no doubt that the impact on your life is profound.
Endometriosis pain can be different for every woman. It can feel like your insides are being torn apart or electrified at some parts of the month, or you may have dull, nagging aches in the back and pelvic area regularly. Accompanying symptoms can interfere significantly with your daily life.
This post is to reassure you that there is natural help if you have endometriosis and are worried about infertility. Please share with anyone that suffers from this debilitating condition. It may give them great hope.
Life with endometriosis can be extremely limiting and can often send sufferers to bed for days on end, where they spend the time curled up in a ball, with intense pain, feeling unable to move.
Your tummy can swell, causing what is commonly known as an ‘endo belly’. The pain can be excruciating when you go to the bathroom, extending to other parts of your body, like your back and legs.
Heavy periods can accompany endometriosis, meaning you can never be far from a bathroom. Endometriosis can lead to hormonal acne, painful cysts, psoriasis, and arthritis.
Endometriosis can be exhausting and can leave little room for life’s pleasures.
Intimate relationships, work, school, social life, and mental well-being can all be affected, and for many, there’s the added worry about infertility.
Infertility With Endometriosis
As I mentioned, endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition that can present itself with severe pelvic pain throughout the month, along with many debilitating symptoms.
It can cause dyspareunia (painful intercourse) and severe constipation and is linked to infertility. This chronic inflammation condition often goes undiagnosed mainly.
The World Health Organisation reports 190 million women of reproductive age globally receive an endometriosis diagnosis. It describes endometriosis as the tissue that lines the uterus, which then grows outside the uterus.
An immunosuppressive state caused by chronic inflammation (dysregulation of the immune system) can be the perfect environment for this to occur.
The American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology (AJOG) states that 6 out of 10 endometriosis cases are not picked up in the US.
AJOG classifies endometriosis as a wide-ranging and pervasive sequela (a condition that is a consequence of previous injury) described as ‘nothing short of a public health emergency ‘requiring immediate action.’AJOG also states that from a clinical perspective, endometriosis may be better defined as a menstrual cycle-dependent, chronic, inflammatory, systemic disease that commonly presents itself as pelvic pain.
Oftentimes, other health challenges present themselves with endometriosis. Like iron deficiency and the symptoms of what that entails, like extreme fatigue, difficulty walking, or the need for infusions.
Can Endometriosis Cause Depression?
Depression often accompanies this chronic inflammation condition, which is understandable. Endometriosis can take over your life. If social life is diminished, work life is a challenge, and you are confined to bed regularly, this can all contribute to low mental well-being.
Depression also occurs due to a physiological process due to the nature of the chronic inflammation.
Chronic inflammation increases neuroinflammation (brain and spinal cord inflammation), which affects mental well-being.
Anxiety and depression are heightened when inflammation is present.
You may want to read Do You Often Feel Like Crying?
Can You Get Pregnant With Endometriosis?
Yes, you can get pregnant with endometriosis. Many women with endometriosis have gone on to have healthy babies by reducing inflammation.
Inflammation can disrupt the function of the endometrium, causing impairment in critical cell processes that prepare the endometrium for pregnancy, and it can reduce progesterone levels, for instance.
Discuss this anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle to treat endometriosis with your doctor.
We start with a focus on the microbiome and the liver on the 6-week Reset. Read the testimonials about the benefits of this health-changing protocol before going forward to next-level health.
Certain bacteria in the microbiome are associated with endometriosis, which is balanced through the Eat Burn Sleep lifestyle. Treating gut dysbiosis improves immune response and reduces chronic inflammation.
This is why members who have endometriosis and other inflammatory conditions, with fertility concerns, have been able to conceive and have a baby on this lifestyle.
Chronic inflammation is linked to infertility and miscarriages.
When you reduce inflammation around the uterus, the chances of having a healthy implantation and a positive outcome for pregnancy are much higher.
You may want to read Improve Fertility for A Healthy Baby & Inflammatory Infertility.
How Can You Have a Healthy Baby?
Lowering chronic inflammation in the whole body will assist with treating dyspareunia, increasing the chances of getting pregnant, and carrying you through to delivering a healthy baby.
There are reasons why our members who have endometriosis feel like they can live a normal life again. Treated from all angles, with the right foods, exercise, and stress management, inflammation is reduced at systemic levels immensely.
When you have endometriosis, it can seem like there are not many days to look forward to that don’t have the ramifications of what the chronic inflammatory condition entails.
The excellent news is that on Eat Burn Sleep, pain, bloating, and inflammation reduce as the days go by. Days can be looked forward to as these subside, and life can be enjoyed again.
If you have the Eat Burn Sleep Premium Membership, you can personalize the program, depending on your health goals.
We have so many ways that you can incorporate tailored health advice for endometriosis. There’s the fertility (with or without IVF) section for men and women, plus endometriosis, hormonal balance, and depression section.
You may have other health concerns accompanying your endometriosis that you need help with, like bloating, migraines, acne, psoriasis, and hair loss. There’s a pregnancy and postpartum section for when your fertility dream has been realized!
Whether fertility is a goal for now or the future, don’t despair, and certainly don’t delay reducing your chronic inflammation systemically. Everyone’s health improves dramatically when you follow the Eat Burn Sleep method.
I am sending good wishes for a healthy, happy day!
Hi Everyone! This post is about an anti-cancer diet and lifestyle that may aid in the recovery and prevention of cancer. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 30-50% of all cancer cases are preventable.
WHO has stated that dietary and lifestyle factors, physical inactivity, and being overweight significantly contribute to cancer.
Even people with ‘cancer genes’ may not develop cancer without dietary and lifestyle insults that turn healthy cells into abnormal cells that thrive in an inflamed microenvironment.
You can help yourself and your family to be more protected against cancer by living in an anti-inflammatory, gut-healthy way. By reading on, you can learn why an anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle may help you prevent and reduce an environment for tumor cells to survive and grow.
What Diet Helps Prevent Cancer?
An anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle will not only encourage weight loss (obesity is one of the leading causes of cancer) but may help prevent and reduce the chances of tumor growth because tumor cells survive where chronic inflammation exists.
Targeted at gut health, an anti-inflammatory diet promotes good bacteria diversity, regulates inflammation, and provides anti-tumoral effects in gut bacteria.
For instance, as one example, some bacteria can stimulate cancer formation by blocking immune cells that usually inhibit the growth of tumors.
Unhealthy food, chemicals, additives, lack of exercise and sleep, being overweight, stress, toxins, alcohol, smoking, and pollutants are some factors that increase pro-inflammatory cytokines, inflammatory enzymes, adhesion molecules, chemokines, and so on.
Read: Why Aspartame Is Linked to Cancer.
Living an anti-inflammatory lifestyle will provide you with more protection; the sooner you start, the better. We need to educate our younger loved ones!
How Is Inflammation Linked to Cancer?
Inflammation has powerful effects on not only the development of cancer but also the spreading of cancer because it allows tumor cell survival.
A chronic inflammation microenvironment causes DNA damage and cell mutation, allowing tumor cell survival and growth.
Microbial pathogens are known to drive the growth of tumors, and many malignancies are associated with gut health imbalance.
Inflammation can exist in the body without symptoms for a long time. You may be interested in reading Signs of Inflammation That May Surprise You and How to Silence Hidden Inflammation.
Are Genetic Cancers Common?
According to Cancer Research UK, it doesn’t mean you have a cancer gene if you have relatives with cancer.
Cancers from inherited genes are less common than you may think (5-10%). Most cancers develop because of our environment, diet, lifestyle, and chance, not because of specific genetic inheritance.
Inherited genes usually have a pattern. The more relatives with the same or similar cancer, and the younger they were at diagnosis, the stronger the chances of a family history of cancer are.
Inherited genes mean you have a higher risk of developing diseases, but further gene changes need to happen for cancer to develop.
I always advise making your body less inflammatory, even if you don’t have apparent symptoms or non-communicable diseases that run in the family. 78% of deaths are linked to chronic inflammation.
How Can You Reduce Cancer With a Diet?
According to The Lancet, more than 19 million new cancer cases were diagnosed in 2020 worldwide. By 2040, that burden is expected to increase to around 30 million new cancer cases annually. Cancer is a disease caused by many factors, including diet, lifestyle, immune response, hormones, stress, genetics, and environment.
When you consider WHO’s statement that 30-50% of cancer cases are preventable, you can better bolster against cancer by looking at the factors of diet, lifestyle, stress, etc. It is hard to escape chemicals and toxins because they are everywhere, but tobacco, alcohol, and obesity remain the leading causes.
What we feed ourselves has a significant impact on the risk of disease.Focusing on gut health to reduce inflammation and boost immunity is a great place to start if you don’t smoke and drink in moderation.
Obesity is a chronic inflammatory condition, which is treated with this anti-inflammatory lifestyle, as well as better protection from cancer.
If you think about tumor cells needing an inflammatory environment to grow, reducing inflammation gives them less chance of survival.
A powerful anti-inflammatory technique involves the bacteria in your gut.
The bacteria in your gut have the unique ability to reduce inflammation, as well as strengthen your immunity, and reduce metabolic, infectious, and chronic diseases. The bacteria in your gut can even lessen genetic expression (epigenetics) if certain cancers do run in your family.
Gut bacteria also promote regular, quality sleep by producing serotonin and dopamine neurotransmitters, which assist your body in optimum health! (The production of serotonin and dopamine will also aid your mental health).
It’s astonishing what balancing your gut bacteria will do for you mentally and physically! The power of those microbes in your gut should not be underestimated!
Plus, eating a wide variety of the proper nutrients daily in your anti-cancer diet that work synergistically together will prevent cellular stress, boost immunity, and reduce fat cell composition, as they aid in inhibiting inflammation and optimizing health.
If you eat anti-inflammatory foods predominantly, you can get away with having pro-inflammatory foods occasionally. A more detailed anti-cancer diet and recovery protocol are in the personalized advice. You can access that section here or click on the link below.
In case you missed these posts: What Foods Help With Cancer Prevention and Recovery?,How Can You Prevent and Treat Cervical Cancer?
How Can Lifestyle Change Gut Health?
Of course, the bacteria in your gut cannot change your lifestyle, but your lifestyle can change your gut bacteria.
(However, those bugs in your tummy have the power to let your brain know what it needs to survive. Good food or junk food, feed it, and it will grow and want more! Yet, you can soon change it around).
So, your gut bacteria changes if there are any stressors, and it becomes less diverse, increasing inflammation and dysregulating the immune system. If you are exposed to smoke, pollution, or lots of chemicals, these will change your bacteria, reduce immunity, and keep inflammation high.
Diet, lifestyle, and immune system are among the factors that influence microbiota composition and activity.
You may enjoy the post: The Benefits of Sun Exposure, which includes how to sunbathe safely to avoid skin cancer. Did you know that too little sunshine can be detrimental to other cancers?
Infections and Cancer
Cancers are linked to infections like hepatitis, H-pylori, and HPV.
During infection and bacterial overgrowth, bacterial pathogens can expand and release toxins when the gut is affected by dysbiosis (imbalance).
These toxins cause DNA breakdown, which can contribute to DNA mutations, tumor initiation, and the progression of cancer cells.
Your immunity is improved with less inflammation in your body becausechronic inflammation is a dysregulation of the immune system.
You may be interested in reading How to Recover From Virus Infections.
Members, reduce bacterial overgrowth by following the advice for candida and h-pylori here.
Weight Loss Will Protect Against Cancer
Cancer Research UK states that obesity is the cause of 13 different types of cancer, and having a healthy diet overall, which will reduce weight, can reduce the risk of cancer.
Members, you can kickstart weight loss on the 6-week Reset. Large amounts of weight can be lost initially, and then weight reduces continuously, daily, as optimal health returns. The beautiful thing is that it is safe and nutritious and heals your chronic inflammatory condition and symptoms. There are no health risks, and it isn’t temporary. Not many weight loss schemes can say the same!
Read: How Can You Lose a Lot of Weight Fast?
Stress and Cancer
Chronic stress over some time can cause gastrointestinal disorders, which lead to gut dysbiosis, which leads to inflammation and dysregulation of the immune system.
It can cause anxiety and depression and increase the risk of developing diseases, including cancer.
Excessive stress hormones also prevent immune cells from effectively controlling cancer cells by increasing inflammation and suppressing immunity.
Not all things that cause stress are controllable, I know, but there are many ways to reduce stress that will aid in dealing with uncontrollable stress-related incidents.
For instance, stress worsens if you don’t eat or drink well, get little sleep, and exercise. Have you heard my conversation with Dr. Tamsin Lewis on the links between mental health and physical health?
Expert Advice for Cancer Prevention and Recovery
New members, check the Cancer Prevention and Recovery Expert Advice on how to navigate this lifestyle, which will aid in stress reduction profusely. Also, check the Expert Advice on Depression and Anxiety.
Or, if you would like to have a confidential 15-minute Zoom consultation with me, please click here or get in touch with the EBS Team.
Non-members, here are some taster recipes: Egg Muffins: Sweet Potatoes, Carrots & Chives & Asian Chicken Soup With Konjac Noodles.
You may also like to visit the podcast section. A host of subjects are covered with my wonderful guests, including cancer survival, stress reduction, food additives and your microbiome, mental health, mindset tips, and the immune system.
While the evidence continues accumulating about cancer protection and reduction with an anti-cancer diet and lifestyle, following the Eat Burn Sleep way of eating, moving, thinking, reducing stress, and sleeping will likely help (check the reviews)!
After all, there is a strong correlation between not paying attention to what we eat and how we live, which causes chronic inflammation and cancer risk. Taking into account that cancer cells love an inflammatory microenvironment.
Please look after yourself.
As always, I wish you well.
Hi Everyone. If you have been following Eat Burn Sleep for a while, you may remember that I wrote about thyroid foods and health at the beginning of the year.
In this article, I will briefly explain the link between digestive issues like leaky gut syndrome and thyroid issues.If you have digestive issues, like leaky gut syndrome or IBS, along with thyroid issues, you may be deficient in micronutrients. What is unfortunate is that these micronutrients are imperative to keep your thyroid healthy, which puts you in a perpetual cycle of less-than-optimum thyroid health.So this post is about how you can heal digestive issues and intestinal conditions like leaky gut syndrome, absorb the proper nutrients for thyroid hormone synthesis, and protect yourself from other diseases related to the thyroid.
The best thyroid diet has a focus on gut microbiota. You see, your gut bacteria influence many functions in the body.
Not only does the gut microbiota influence the availability of the micronutrients needed for thyroid hormone synthesis, but as I mentioned above, it influences the development of further thyroid diseases.
Healthy gut bacteria have beneficial effects on immune system activity and may prevent thyroid hormone fluctuation and disorders.
A healthy composition of gut bacteria influences things like the availability of iron, which allows the utilization of vital nutrients for thyroid health. It also provides the perfect reservoir for T3 (one of the thyroid hormones), for instance.
Thyroid Issues and Leaky Gut Syndrome
There’s a reason why if you have the autoimmune thyroid disease Hashimoto’s or Graves disease, it wouldn’t be surprising if you had leaky gut syndrome. Or any intestinal disease like celiac disease or digestive issues like IBS, bloating, and diarrhea.
Intestinal diseases and thyroid diseases often co-exist.Chronic inflammation and autoimmune diseases affect the thyroid gland.
What Is Leaky Gut Syndrome?
Leaky Gut Syndrome, also known as ‘increased intestinal permeability,’ is an intestinal (or digestive) condition.
Inside our stomachs, we have an extensive intestinal lining. Like a tight net, this lining forms a barrier and filters what gets absorbed into the bloodstream. When it is damaged and malfunctioning, a barrier doesn’t exist, and it may have cracks and holes in it. It may become ‘leaky’.
These holes allow partially digested food, harmful bacteria, and other toxins to penetrate the tissues beneath them.
The immune system then becomes activated because it sees the particles as foreign objects or can react with other intestinal tissues.
The tissues become inflamed, and the regular bacteria change.
How Food Links to Thyroid Issues
The changes in gut bacteria (dysbiosis) lead to inflammation and digestive conditions and affect other aspects of your health too.
The gut dysbiosis that occurs with digestive issues alters the immune response by promoting inflammation and reducing immune tolerance. This interferes with important conversion and functions of thyroid hormones. Plus, nutrients for the thyroid are not absorbed.
Dysbiosis has not only been found in autoimmune thyroid diseases like Graves and Hashimoto’s, but it has been reported in thyroid carcinoma (which is treatable these days).
What you eat can change gut bacteria, cause dysbiosis, and affect thyroid hormone synthesis.
Gut bacteria that are fed by the food that you choose may be having a detrimental effect on your thyroid.
Bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract (gut) must be diverse and are a mix of viruses, protozoa, fungi, etc. If the mix gets disturbed and the harmful bacteria start multiplying, then this is the state when health becomes challenged.
The bad guys can multiply for many reasons, but certainly because of the type of food you eat (and don’t eat!).
For example, if you love fried foods every day of the week, the harmful bacteria that welcome compounds that are not particularly good for you will thrive on that. Feed them regularly, and your body goes into a state of disease.
Malnutrition (insufficient nutrition) affects the functioning and recovery of the gastrointestinal tract, immune and thyroid (as well as every single organ!).
Micronutrients Affect the Thyroid
Gut microbiota has to be a certain mix to ensure essential micronutrients obtained from food are available for thyroid hormone synthesis.
Also, the necessary conversion of T4 (thyroxine: mood, body, temperature, metabolism) to T3 (triiodothyronine: digestive, metabolic, bone health) is performed in the liver, as well.Then, it would help if you had vitamin D because this hormone (vitamin D is a hormone) assists in regulating the immune response and for healthy bones, teeth, and muscles. 90% is produced by sunlight and 10% by food.The Benefits of Sun Exposure explains more about vitamin D.
This is why the liver needs to be looked after, too.
Not to mention that thyroid medication is heavy on the liver!
Have you read: Detox Your Liver Naturally?
Studies have shown that these specific co-existing micronutrients, including iodine and zinc, essential for hormone synthesis and immune response regulation, are deficient in people with autoimmune thyroid diseases.
* the importance of liver detoxing (our detox is so powerful!) for thyroid health
What Food Affects the Thyroid?
Many foods affect the thyroid, but you must ensure that you eat the right food with the right micronutrients because malnutrition can lead to thyroid malfunction.
Members, please check personalized advice for thyroid issues and watch the Masterclass Live on thyroid issues. Non-members, you can join here to access the best thyroid diet and lifestyle to avoid malnutrition and heal your digestive condition.
Here are a couple of recipes to sample: Asian Beef Lettuce Wraps & Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies.It is easy to follow and equips you with all the tools you need to be in your best health, including the proper exercise for your thyroid that is associated with improving serum thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and cortisol-reducing practices (stress affects T4 and metabolism is affected), for instance.
Thyroid Healing Diet & Lifestyle
Healing your gut lining, promoting positive changes in gut bacteria, absorbing nutrients, boosting immunity, reducing inflammation, detoxing your liver, treating conditions like leaky gut, IBS, IBD, celiac, Crohn’s, Colitis, diverticulitis…it’s all here!
Be wary of following online thyroid diets from non-reputable sources. Some tell you to eat lots of vegetables, which is dangerous. Certain vegetables may block the body’s ability to utilize iodine, which is essential for thyroid health, as mentioned above.
Some minerals and foods interfere with thyroid medication. A good thyroid diet is rather complex; getting nutrition advice from a trusted source is essential.
Not everything ‘obviously’ healthy is healthy. Not everything is off-limits on EBS.
The impact of food on thyroid issues shouldn’t be underestimated.
Good nutrition is fundamental to good health.
Check out the reviews!
I hope that your day is healthy and happy.
Hello Everyone!
Chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis), has been a somewhat mysterious disease since the 1930s. Still, recent scientific studies connect the dots and reveal what may help restore chronic fatigue.
For this post, I refer to the studies by Montoya et al. (2017), Williams et al. (2021), and Missailidis et al. (2019), as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
If you have (or know anyone with) ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, I am sure you will feel some relief knowing there’s been some headway in identifying underlying causes. Spread the word!
Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Real?
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), is real.
It’s been around since 1930, and its prevalence is rising. The disease incidence at the beginning of the 20th Century was around 2 cases per 100,000 population. The 21st Century brings an estimated 30-50 cases per 100,000 population.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME can be found in all ages and races, and according to many international studies, it seems more prevalent in women.
For some, it may be chronic and disabling, with numerous symptoms like sleep problems, depression, and malaise.
How Does ME Develop?
Countless studies have been conducted to ascertain how Chronic Fatigue Syndrome develops. They are continuing, as it is not yet fully understood. Still, the links with inflammation, gut bacteria, stress which increases inflammation, and autoimmune disease, a chronic inflammatory condition, are increasing.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention lists possible causes:
Immune System Changes – ‘It is possible that ME/CFS is caused by a change in the person’s immune system and how it responds to stress. ME/CFS shares some features of autoimmune diseases, as they are more common in women and characterized by increased inflammation.’
Stress – ‘Cortisol levels lead to an increase in inflammation and chronic activation of the immune system.’
Infections, changes to energy production, and genes have all been linked by scientists.
This study by Montoya et al. (2017) links inflammation:
Cytokine measures from people with and without the condition were undertaken to determine whether inflammation could be associated with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and correlated with disease severity and fatigue duration.
‘Of the 17 cytokines that correlated with severity, 13 were found to be proinflammatory, likely contributing to many of the symptoms experienced by patients and establishing a strong immune system component of the disease.’
More research links to evidence of common denominators of disturbances to immunological and inflammatory pathways, heavy stress on the body, autonomic and neurological dysfunction, shifts in metabolism, and gut physiology or gut microbiota disturbances, as well as a wide range of mitochondrial dysfunction. Missailidis et al. (2019).
Symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Profound fatigue is a significant symptom, of course.Still, there are always more symptoms like sleeplessness, IBS, migraines, fungal infections, swelling, water retention, lymph pain, muscle and joint pains, low blood pressure, depression, attention deficit, lightheadedness, brain fog, memory problems, anxiety, and lack of well-being.
Many people have developed chronic fatigue syndrome after Covid-19.
Have you heard my chat with Dr. Tamsin Lewis about Long Covid, immunity, and energy in Podcasts?
How Do You Treat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
If a doctor has ruled out other possible causes, they tend to treat symptoms with anti-inflammatory medication, sleeping pills, antibiotics, muscle relaxants, autoimmune suppressants, and painkillers.
Medical treatments for chronic fatigue seem to target the symptoms since the entire understanding of the disease is still evolving, as mentioned above.
The trouble with medication, from my knowledge and experience, is that it is often life-saving but doesn’t treat the cause at systemic levels. It can overload the liver, irritate the gut lining, and create dysbiosis.Gut dysbiosis (changes in tummy bacteria) is a change in gut physiology and microbiota disturbances.
What Do Changes in Tummy Bacteria Do?
Gut dysbiosis (changed tummy bacteria) dysregulates the immune system, and chronic inflammation kicks in. These will cause susceptibility to developing other conditions.
In an already inflamed and immunocompromised body, more health challenges may arise (joint pains, IBS, migraines, depression, memory loss, fungal infections, and lack of well-being, as mentioned above).
Gut health is connected with mental health. Chronic inflammation extends to neuroinflammation. This is why depression, anxiety, and cognitive dysfunction (brain fog) can run alongside many health conditions.
Many people have high cholesterol with chronic fatigue, so if you are looking to lower your cholesterol, please check this article.
Does Gut Health Affect ME?
Recent studies have linked gut bacteria to chronic fatigue syndrome/ME. Drs Williams, Lipkin, and Snow, along with their collaborators, analyzed the genetic makeup of gut bacteria. The results showed critical differences in microbiome diversity, quantity, metabolic pathways, and interactions between species of gut bacteria. Williams et al. (2021).
Many studies show that people can recover from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME. The length of time is dependent on treatment.
What Is a Good Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME Diet?
An anti-inflammatory, gut-healthy diet and lifestyle may help you reduce the recovery time tenfold. If you do one thing today towards improving your condition, make it a focus on gut health.When you don’t have the energy to make a cup of tea on some days, the thought of doing anything right now may sound too much, but what you eat on Eat Burn Sleep may make a huge difference.
It will improve your gut health, reduce inflammation naturally, and boost your immune system. Eating nutrient-rich, gut-healthy food regularly is undoubtedly good for promoting restorative and regular sleep.
Support For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME
There is an Expert Advice section for extra support when you join a Premium Membership. You may experience conditions alongside ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, like depression, migraines, candida, IBS, bloating and bowel issues, Long Covid, weight loss, weight gain, water retention, and hair loss, for instance, are all listed here. Plus more.
There are guides on what to eat and what not to eat, supplements (our own supplement will be ready soon—so exciting!), therapies, inspiration, neuroplasticity exercises, and much more!
You can join EBS here or book a 15-minute Zoom call with me.
It could be life-changing.
I hope so.
Wishing you good health!
Hello Everyone! I was reading a nutritional assessment recently about women with celiac disease. It revealed that their daily micronutrients were unmet.
The study in Norway (Norkost 3) showed that women with celiac disease had an unbalanced diet with a higher intake of total and saturated fat, along with a low fiber intake, compared to the general population.
The results highlighted the need for people with celiac to follow a nutrition-dense diet free of all the triggers.*
This post is for you if you have celiac disease and need guidance in not just what to eat to ensure that you get the proper nutrition but to guarantee that taste, variety, and cakes are involved!
The only way to manage celiac disease is through diet and lifestyle, and if done successfully, you can live a symptom-free, rich life.
What Is the Best Diet for Celiac Disease?
If you are newly diagnosed, you may feel relieved that you finally know what has been causing all of your health challenges. You may have searched for the best diet for celiac disease online and resolved that you won’t be eating out anymore and will be taking food with you wherever you go.
You may have listed everything you can eat but then be flummoxed at putting a varied meal plan together to fit into your life or the family.
The best diet recommendations for celiac disease can often feel restrictive, unsustainable, and boring. Mourning all the food you love, like cake, bread, and cookies, is expected when you have been diagnosed with celiac disease.
You may not know what to avoid since many safe foods for people with celiac disease can be made, processed, and grown alongside foods that cause celiac flare-ups.
*Some surprising ingredients in gluten-free foods will not help your celiac condition.
You could replace your current favorites with ‘gluten-free’ foods but be gaining weight and not feeling optimum health. You may not realize that other ingredients in some gluten-free packaged foods may cause gut dysbiosis.
Gut dysbiosis will exacerbate your symptoms! It causes chronic inflammation, dysregulates your immune system, and makes you vulnerable to more disease.
It can be mind-blowing, I know.
How To Eat Healthily With Celiac Disease
With celiac disease, the lining of your small intestines is damaged, and your immune system has mistakenly attacked your healthy tissues when you have eaten gluten (the substances inside are seen as threats to the body!). This causes your body to be unable to take in nutrients.
I know that when you have to watch what you eat and drink due to the need to eliminate celiac flare-ups, you can often go with tried and trusted ‘safe’ options and limit your food variety. Getting through the day without cramps or sickness is easier than anticipating an attack!What happens to many people who have gastrointestinal symptoms with their autoimmune disease or chronic condition is malnutrition and dehydration.
These then present more issues that can develop. Anemia, as one example, then presents itself with more symptoms. Have you read Anemia, B12, & Iron Deficiencies?
Poor nutrition absorption can weaken your immune system. You may be interested in reading more about your immune system here.
What Happens if You Eat a High-Fat Diet?
The Norkast 3 study revealed women with celiac disease have high-fat intakes.
A high fat intake puts the risk of diseases of the heart at a higher rate. It can increase the risk of obesity, metabolic syndrome, fatty liver, type 2 diabetes, and certain types of cancer.
One of the problems is that processed gluten-free foods do not help you when you have celiac disease. They could be making your health worse in the long run.
You see, gluten-free processed food usually has a lot of saturated fat and chemicals to make them palatable. (Have you listened to my podcasts and Instagram Lives about additives and the microbiome with Dr. Dawn Shirling yet?).
There’s also a Masterclass Lives on Additives, that you can listen to/watch here.
High-fat diets change long-chain fatty acid metabolism and gut dysbiosis, which results in high levels of inflammatory triggers.
A high-fat diet and chemicals can alter the bugs in your tummy (microbiota) and decrease, in particular, certain ‘good’ bacteria and increase ‘bad’ bacteria.
As I often mention, bacteria are essential in gut, brain, and immune health.
Gut dysbiosis leads to chronic inflammation, which leads to immune dysregulation.
Oftentimes, with an alteration in the tummy microbiota comes depression, anxiety, low moods, and feeling like you want to cry, for instance. This is the brain-gut connection. Have you read How Do You Live with IBS and Anxiety?
Many people with chronic inflammation suffer low moods and depression, not just because of the challenges of having the conditions and how they present themselves.
What Happens if You Don’t Eat Enough Fiber?
The women in the study with celiac disease also had low fiber intakes.
Fiber is essential in our diets for digestion, gut health, and reducing the risk of developing chronic inflammatory conditions.
Your cardiovascular system is more protected with a fiber-rich diet because fiber reduces total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. LDL is a significant risk for heart conditions. Fiber also slows down carbohydrate sugar absorption, preventing blood sugar spikes after meals.
It is essential to get the balance right because low fiber intake changes tummy bacteria diversity and feeling fuller for longer, too.
Too little can cause bowel issues like IBS and even bowel cancer.
You can miss out on many nutrients if your diet is strict or limited for whatever reason (not the correct type of fiber and fats), but I will save that for another time.
As I mentioned earlier, many deficiencies occur due to conditions that trigger many trips to the bathroom. I have been there! You can feel really ill and low because of the lack of nutrients (as well as dealing with all of the complications and challenges).
Nutrition cannot be compromised. For many autoimmune diseases, mineral deficiencies, for instance, are not compensated for.
It is crucial to have a nutrient-rich diet for celiac disease while reducing inflammation, healing the condition, and protecting from developing other conditions and symptoms.
I have two autoimmune conditions in remission, and I feel amazing!
You may be interested in listening to how I put my autoimmune diseases into remission here or reading about how our bodies are wired for healing here.
Where Do You Find Celiac Nutrition Online?
Needless to say, Eat Burn Sleep’s nutrient-packed celiac-friendly diet and lifestyle may have you feeling the same way in very little time. Plus, it just gets better, and it isn’t temporary.
You don’t have to overthink too much because I have done all the meal planning, family and friends-friendly recipes, lunch boxes, and eating-out guide for you. When I was devising it, I decided that it had to be delicious and include tons of treats. I didn’t want to miss cakes and cookies! I don’t ‘do’ bland in life!
You don’t need to be good at cooking to prepare delicious nutrient-dense celiac-friendly meals. There are dozens of cake and cookie recipes (which have a reputation for being divine by cake-eating experts!), and you will know what to eat when you dine out (the eating-out guide is on the app!).
You can still eat your old favorites in moderation (but you may not want to because of the pain they used to cause and because gut microbiota is very clever!).
One important thing to note is I advise you to think about all of the beautiful new food and ways to live that are before you if you have been diagnosed with celiac, rather than feeling like you have to give up things you love. Adopting the Eat Burn Sleep gut health diet and lifestyle will reinforce the incredible way you will feel in no time.
Changing what you eat and how you eat will aid your gut healing, digestion, nutrient absorption, brain, energy, and sleep patterns. Moving and thinking in an anti-inflammatory, stress-free way will support them further.
Eat Burn Sleep allows you to be spontaneous again!
Life is to be lived well, after all!
I hope you have a wonderful day.
Breathe Easier with an Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle
Hello Everyone! Did you know that certain nutrients and what you eat make a difference to asthma when consumed regularly? Those bugs in your tummy that I talk about will also play a role in your asthma.
This post explains how this safe and natural anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle may benefit you if you have asthma.
What Is Asthma?
Asthma is a non-communicable disease affecting children and adults. One of the critical components is chronic airway inflammation.
According to WHO, 262 million people in 2019 were affected by asthma, and there were 455 000 deaths worldwide.
Asthma has been linked to many things like intestinal permeability, nutrition deficiencies, specific diets, certain exercises, genetics, stress, intense emotions, medication, tobacco smoke, pollution, weather, chemicals, animal hair and skin, pests, disinfectants, and overcleaning, dust, mold, and infections.Chronic inflammation and disruption in gut health are linked with asthma, which dysregulates the immune system, which many of the above can cause.
Maternal diet and lifestyle and how you were delivered into the world are linked to asthma, too!
How Does Gut Health Affect Asthma?
A healthy gut has 4-5 lbs of diverse bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa (known as microbiota). It produces metabolites that impact metabolic and immune responses and protects against pathogens.
Many factors determine the diversity of the bacteria in your gut. For instance, airway responses can increase with a gastrointestinal tract with more invasive bacteria than protective bacteria. The immune system is compromised, chronic inflammatory respiratory disorders increase, and so on.
In a study on the origin of respiratory diseases in children, Watson et al. (2019) determined that there was always gut dysbiosis (imbalance) with a diagnosis of asthma.
Balanced gut microbiota is imperative to health, considering that 70% of immune cells (Gut-associated Lymphoid Tissue) reside there, and gut lining strength depends on it.
If anything happens to the gut lining (intestinal barrier) and the gut-associated lymphoid tissue, this is when autoimmune and chronic inflammatory disorders may occur. Indeed, asthma has been linked to ‘Leaky Gut Syndrome’.
Changes in the gut are linked with altered immune responses and airway homeostasis.
What Is a Good Asthma Diet?
What you eat could impact your asthma. Many foods cause a great disturbance in homeostasis in the body, leading to inflammatory conditions and exacerbating symptoms in diseases like asthma.
As with many inflammatory conditions, like I say, gut-healthy nutrients in Eat Burn Sleep’s anti-inflammatory diet may prevent and alleviate asthma, too.
You see, short-chain fatty acids are produced in high amounts when you follow EBS, and they have immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effects.
We have an abundance of antioxidants in our recipes that will contribute to reducing airway inflammation and reactivity. They also have anti-allergic properties. They prevent, intercept, and repair oxidation and cellular damage (lungs are constantly exposed to oxidants).
Remember that our focus is gut health, which is imperative to overall good health.
How Can You Fix Asthma Naturally?
It isn’t just about what you eat, of course, because how we live, and sleep can cause inflammation. There are asthma triggers everywhere!
The health education that Eat Burn Sleep provides is vital to reducing your inflammatory condition and improving your health and quality of life tenfold.
By the way, I always advise to never give up medication that your doctor has prescribed you, and certainly run this gut health lifestyle for asthma by them.
Eat Burn Sleep gives you the tools to improve liver function. You see, allergies and many substances and compounds can create sub-optimum liver functioning. Members, access the potent and safe liver detox here.
The lifestyle enhances metabolism, nutrient absorption, immunity, and the reduction of oxidative stress and inflammation in the body.
The great thing is that it suits the whole family (I call it family and friend-friendly), and it’s portable. You can access the food lists, shopping guide and recipes (which you may have saved to favorites), and daily goals on the app, for instance, at the grocery store.The Eating Out Guide is handy on the app, too!
Does Stress Affect Asthma?
Cortisol and other hormones are released when stressed. If elongated, this can induce alterations in immune response, which may have implications for triggering asthma attacks and exacerbating the condition. It affects digestion and gut health, too.
Stress can worsen your asthma, promoting a cycle because asthma can exacerbate stress. Stress can also aid in the development of asthma.
(Some stress can’t be avoided, but EBS’s stress-reducing tools are incredibly effective!).
You may be interested in reading: Do You Often Feel Like Crying?
What Exercise Is Good for Asthma?
Many things can occur that will affect asthma with some exercises. For instance, airways can get smaller and inflamed with heat and water loss when breathing in dry air. Some exercises can induce asthma.
However, many sports are low-risk for asthma, and there are effective stress-reducing safe movements (as well as neuroplasticity exercises) to do on this anti-inflammatory lifestyle.
How to Live a Happy Life with Asthma
It can seem hard to believe, at times, that what you eat, what you do, and how you sleep could contribute to the intensity of your symptoms and long-term effects.
Living the EBS way treats chronic inflammatory conditions like obesity, GERD, and eczema. These are commonly linked to worsened asthma outcomes.
This anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle for asthma, along with good management of medications under your doctor’s guidance, may very well help you live a regular, active, and happy life.
I wish you all a happy, healthy day!
Nutrition is essential for brain health. Eating well for memory, focus, and the best cognitive function is a good plan when studying for exams.
So too, is focusing on what will feed the good bugs in your gut, aiding brain health.
Not eating good brain food, not exercising, or sleeping enough while preparing for exams may upset your gut health, which may upset your brain health.
This post is designed to help anyone who wants to improve their focus, memory, and cognitive thinking, which is particularly helpful for exam time and anytime!
What Is Good Brain Health?
In the British Medical Journal, the brain is defined as a complex organ with at least three levels of functions that affect our daily lives.
These are:
Maintenance of cognitive, mental, and emotional processes
Maintenance of normal behavior and social cognition
Interpretation of senses and control of movement
Brain health, therefore, may be defined as the preservation of optimal brain integrity and mental and cognitive function and the absence of neurological disorders. Wang et al. BMJ (2020).
Neurological disorders are linked to systemic inflammation affecting the central nervous system.
For thousands of years, it has been known that nutrients can affect cognitive processes.
Along with other factors like exercise and sleep, nutrition plays a crucial role in shaping cognitive functions. The network of neurons that communicate with cells and the body relies on nutritious, anti-inflammatory, gut-healthy foods that will prevent oxidative stress, fight free radicals, and encourage neurotransmitter production, for instance.
Many foods contribute to cognitive decline.
Foods that increase inflammation will increase inflammation in the brain, too.
Take, for instance, ultra-processed foods (UPFs), which I talk about a lot. If they form the majority of someone’s diet, then essential brain nutrient requirements are not being met. For instance:
Short-chain fatty acids support the integrity of the blood-brain barrier, protecting the brain from toxic compounds.
Any foods that encourage bad bugs to flourish in your tummy causing gut dysbiosis (imbalance), are not good for memory, learning, and focus.
When you eat nourishing, nutritional food, which promotes a healthy gut and ‘feel-good’ neurotransmitter synthesis, it also reduces inflammation in the brain and supports healthy brain function.
Neurotransmitters are an integral part of the brain-gut axis. You can read all about the amazing things neurotransmitters do for our minds and bodies here.
Dopamine, for instance, is involved in memory and focus. 50% is produced in the gut by enteric neurons and intestinal epithelial cells. The rest is made in the brain by converting the amino acid tyrosine into another amino acid called L-dopa! L-dopa then undergoes another change, where enzymes turn it into dopamine!
The role of dopamine is also involved in attention, learning, cognition, mood, and motivation. These are all important, of course, and will assist you when you are studying for exams.
Tyrosine, for example, plays a critical role in dopamine production. Boosting levels with tyrosine-rich foods are a good way. It can also be made from phenylalanine, another amino acid in many protein-rich foods we love on EBS!
These provide an extra boost of memory and mental performance!
Like other minerals and vitamins, for instance, concentrating on tyrosine alone won’t work if your body lacks good nutrition.
Also, just taking ‘studying’ supplements are not enough, either. If you missed it, read my AGI Review: Is AGI Supplement Good for You?Needless to say, you always need complete nutrients to allow for conversions and synthesis in the body.
What Helps Studying?
Nourishing your gut and mind will also help you keep stress at bay and reduce any digestive issues and anxiety you may have while studying. Did you read last week’s article: How Do You Live With IBS and Anxiety?Various compounds and activities enhance brain health and help with studying for exams. They make an immense difference in learning and retaining information! Plus, you are protecting yourself from possible neurodegenerative disease, looking further down the line.
So many diets contribute to difficulties with studying, staying focused, and remembering. Snacking and not eating and drinking well during exam time is common. Just bear the thought that if you eat, drink, and sleep well, it is likely to enhance your studying at this time.
Make sure you read:
Focus and concentration can improve rather quickly when you switch to an anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle. It isn’t just about food!
Replenishing, nourishing brain health nutrients will kick in rather quickly. Following Eat Burn Sleep for brain food for studying, cravings for ultra-processed foods (UPFs) will diminish. This is good because UPFs won’t help your focus, memory, and cognitive thinking.
If you think that you are doing okay eating them, imagine how even greater your mind can be. Do bear in mind long-term use because oftentimes, we can get away with things if they are temporary.
Changing diet patterns isn’t as hard as it may seem, too. It’s all about those bugs in our tummies!
How Do You Stop Craving Sweets and Snacks?
You can stop craving sweets and snacks on Eat Burn Sleep.
Members say that foods they used to eat now taste so ‘weird,’ ‘strange,’ and ‘chemical,’ and they cannot believe that they used to form a large part of their diet.
Focusing on improving the bacteria in your stomach is so powerful because it removes those ‘addictive’ bacteria that keep telling your brain that you want more junk. Bacteria are so powerful. They, good or bad, tell your brain to feed them more of what they need to survive.
So, the harmful bacteria that cries out for unhealthy food wants to grow and multiply. If they are satisfied, the good guys will diminish. As this is happening, your body can become susceptible to digestive and immune issues and chronic inflammatory conditions. Your brain may not be at its optimum, slowing your cognitive function. This will mean that studying, memory, focus, and all learning abilities may not be not as switched on as they could be.
Looking after your brain and nervous system will look after automatic activities such as breathing and waking up. It will also aid in reading, learning, and remembering information.
Ensure that you eat well and live well. Support the vagus nerve, move correctly, keep stress and inflammation at bay, look after your immune system, and support neurotransmitter production by doing so. It will assist in your studying.
Having the right balance will ensure good quality sleep. It’s important not to fight sleep for good cognitive function.
Being kind to yourself is essential. During exams. During life.
I wish you good health and good luck.
Hello Everyone!
Here’s some good news if you’ve given up on life without IBS and anxiety!
There are 4-5 lbs of bugs in our tummies. They consist of viruses, fungi, bacteria, and protozoa, which are fundamental to our health.
IBS and anxiety can be reduced by changing these bugs in your tummy, and there are many ways to do that.
This post will tell you about the link between IBS and anxiety and how to put them into remission, possibly!
How Do You Develop IBS and Anxiety?
Bugs are all over and inside us. Trillions of them! They support critical bodily functions and have a potent effect on physical and mental health. They have a role in the development and severity of IBS and anxiety. In fact, with many conditions, anxiety runs alongside them because of this.
A good balance of bugs in our tummies equals better mental and physical health. A good balance of diverse bugs keeps our immune system healthy and chronic inflammation at bay.
They aid digestion and absorption of food. They also defend against pathogens and regulate immune homeostasis.
What Causes IBS and Anxiety?
An imbalance of tummy bacteria contributes to IBS, bloating, digestive issues, anxiety, depression, and a whole array of conditions. The list is endless.
An upset balance of bugs means that there can be more bad guys than good. The balance is easily upset through food, lifestyle choices, stress, medication, sickness, destructive sleep patterns, thoughts, who we live with, etc.
The thing is, the dominant species proliferate. The bad bugs may take over depending on what you eat and how you live. Too many of these affect your physical and mental health immensely.
When an alteration in the normal tummy flora occurs, stomach lining permeability, inflammation, gut motility, and the quality of life change, for the better or worse.
Oftentimes, the existence of IBS contributes to things like stress, inadequate sleep patterns, and malnutrition, and this creates an endless cycle. If you suffer from IBS and anxiety, it is no wonder that you think it will never end.
If you are on medication, this may also contribute to the alteration in your tummy flora because medicine can do that!It is no wonder that IBS often develops after a bout of gastroenteritis, an extremely stressful event, or any life stressors. People with depression, anxiety, and PTSD often have to deal with irritable bowel syndrome or some digestive issues, too, for a reason.
How Do You Cope with IBS and Anxiety?
When you have IBS, it can take over your life. Your day can be planned around it or changed at the last minute due to flare-ups! You can be in a vicious cycle because how do you stop being stressed about having IBS?
The anxiety and possibly depression about having IBS is not just because of dealing with the effects of having IBS. The gut is connected to the brain!
What goes on in the gut affects the brain, and what goes on in the brain affects the gut.
It is often described as the microbiota-gut-brain axis.
A whole load of physiological processes explains how the brain influences intestinal activities and how bugs in the tummy affect mental health.
What Links IBS and Anxiety?
The microbiota-gut-brain axis is explained in more detail here: Why You Need To Know This If You Have Depression.
The other thing to note is that if your gut is imbalanced, it isn’t producing the neurotransmitters that make us feel good. Read this article: 4 Secrets to Feeling Good.
Also, an imbalance means that essential vitamins needed for neuronal function are not being synthesized. This leads to fatigue, depression, anxiety, low moods, and brain fog!
The constant running to the bathroom will prevent you from absorbing nutrients, causing your tummy bacteria to become unbalanced. This can lead to low iron levels and anemia.
Will IBS and Anxiety Go Away?
I have noticed that many diets recommended for IBS include foods and compounds that exacerbate IBS symptoms. So, if you have tried an IBS diet and have not seen any positive results, this will be why.
This natural treatment for IBS I developed myself, and I suffered from IBS flare-ups for years. It truly works!
Eat Burn Sleep has many members who used to have IBS and anxiety. The great thing is that they got a handle on it early since this IBS diet and lifestyle guide are easy to follow.
Members, access the Expert Advice here for the IBS flare dietary protocol, foods to avoid, foods to favor, supplements, and nutritional advice for all symptoms of IBS.
Eat Burn Sleep doesn’t mask symptoms temporarily. It gets to the fundamental reason you have IBS and anxiety, and it assists with improving both until they no longer happen.
Increased energy, weight loss, reduced bloating and puffiness, glowing skin, better body composition, consistent good sleep, and a better quality of life are often reported side effects. Check the testimonies.
And there is nothing off-limits since this is all about limitation! Although those tummy bugs are powerful. When balanced perfectly, cravings reduce. It does feel magical.
I hope that you have a wonderful day.
Hi Everyone!
This article will explain the link between sleep deprivation, weight management, and a less-than-optimum physical and mental state of well-being.
Sleep deprivation plagues a quarter of the world’s population, and lack of sleep is linked to being overweight.
In this post, I explain how sleep is crucial for physical and mental health and weight management. I cover how sleeping more helps you lose weight, and reducing your weight can lead to better sleep. I discuss how sleep mitigates the risk of developing diabetes and other inflammatory conditions.
Plus, what if you exercise a lot and eat healthily – why aren’t you losing weight?
What Happens to the Body During Sleep?
During sleep, the tissues in your body get repaired. You also produce Human Growth Hormone (HGH) from the pituitary gland, which helps keep lower body fat levels and repairs your body, including the turnover of bone, muscle, and collagen.
Functions that happen during sleep increase longevity and a healthier body composition.Our hunger hormones, ghrelin and leptin, are regulated during good sleep. Ghrelin is responsible for hunger and leptin for feeling full, and lack of sleep causes dysregulation and an insatiable appetite!
Both sleep and exercise induce HGH. Exercise increases HGH and, depending on the type of exercise and for how long, could be detrimental to the body.
The right type of exercise regime for optimum health is essential for sleep, too.
Experts estimate that as much as 75 percent of the human growth hormone is released during sleep.
In normally healthy people, the significant period of HGH release occurs during the first period of Stage 3 sleep stage during the night, about an hour after you first fall asleep.
Stage 3, also known as deep or slow-wave sleep, accounts for about one-quarter of your sleep each night.
Deep sleep is the most restorative stage of sleep.
During this stage of sleep, HGH is released and works to restore and rebuild your body and muscles from the stresses of the day.
How Much Sleep Do You Need?
It would help if you aimed to go to bed between 10 and 11 p.m. and, depending on your needs, try sleeping between 8 and 9 hours.
If you feel like you could go back to bed before noon and sleep or self-medicate on caffeine throughout the day, then it is likely that you are not getting good quality sleep and not being kind to your body.
If this is consistent, it will manifest in all sorts of inflammatory physical and mental ailments.
This program supports anyone seeking complete lifestyle change guidance and work because it is not about perfection.
For instance, if you have coffee all day long now and can’t see how you could change that on the program, you will soon find that you reduce it (of your own accord, it seems, with no hardship – because of the health education and the full audio and visual lifestyle support).
Soon, you will have one or two perfect cups in the morning, and it will be enough. It’s true! Coffee is good for many of us, in moderation, after all!
The production of HGH levels peaks in your youth and steadily declines with age.Seniors, in particular, spend less time in deep sleep, which explains the link between a lack of HGH and other disorders associated with aging.
For example, lower HGH levels correspond with a higher risk of heart disease, obesity, and diabetes.
So, with less sleep, there are more chances of dementia and higher chances of many inflammatory diseases. All of our cells renew during sleep, and hormones regulate themselves.
Have you read How to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?
Is Sleep Affected by Alcohol?
Yes, another culprit for our destructive sleep patterns is alcohol. Studies have shown that drinking alcohol makes you fall asleep faster, but the sleep cycles are disturbed.
The likelihood of waking up in the middle of the night after drinking is high, and sleep is not as valuable.
What happens is the body is focused on metabolizing the fermented sugars in the alcohol, and so the REM deep sleep cycle is reduced.
Alcohol keeps you in the lighter stages of sleep, so you don’t experience the lovely, deep sleep we need.
Alcohol, like a ‘sleeping tablet,’ is a sedative. It takes you from being awake but not to sleep.
So many people think that alcohol helps them to sleep, but it doesn’t. It puts you into a state of sedation, good, natural sleep, and REM isn’t experienced.
The liver is left to detoxify the sugars produced by alcohol, which interferes with the fat-burning process, and overall sleep quality is impaired.
Also, I don’t know whether you notice, but on the days when you sleep less or have had excess alcohol the night before, you have an enormous appetite and can crave calorie-rich, high-carbohydrate, and high-fat foods the next day.
Some sweet alcoholic drinks play havoc with your blood sugar levels and start inducing cravings while drinking them!
This is why people nibble after drinking alcohol and why it is so hard to quell intense cravings when you consume sugary alcohol. The more calories in an alcoholic drink, the more of a craving the next day!
The more often glucose and insulin are disturbed, the more we are at risk for illnesses and diseases.
How Sleep Affects Metabolism
Studies show that sleep deprivation increases metabolic dysregulation.
When we sleep less, we also have less stable sugar levels (glucose intolerance and insulin resistance) and more cravings, so more cases of diabetes and obesity.
Chronic sleep deprivation is recognized as one of the significant contributors to the escalation of type 2 diabetes – and it can be avoided.
Also, less sleep generally means slower movements and less energy for exercise, which increases the chances of obesity and other chronic inflammatory diseases.
Less sleep also disrupts the circadian rhythm (24-hour internal clock).
The circadian rhythm activates many body and brain mechanisms during daylight hours, designed to keep you awake, and then when it is time to sleep, the processes slow down and deactivate ‘alert’ signals.
The circadian rhythm plays a vital role in the sleep/wake cycle, including sleep duration and continuity, which I discuss more in the Personalized Advice section for Insomnia.
How Sleep is Affected by Oxidative Stress
A good amount of sleep increases resistance to oxidative stress, too. Oxidative stress is an imbalance of free radicals and antioxidants in the body.
Free radicals are unstable molecules created when we eat, exercise, and are exposed to smoke and pollution.
Studies have shown that the deprivation of REM sleep alters cellular physiology and can potentially generate free radicals.
Oxidative stress increases chronic inflammation, damaging DNA, proteins, and cells and leaving the body more susceptible to diseases like macular degeneration, Alzheimer’s, prostate cancer, and Parkinson’s Disease.
Antioxidants are produced by foods abundant in vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, lutein, lycopene, zeaxanthin, carotenoids, and selenium, which help fight free radicals.
This anti-inflammatory lifestyle is packed with antioxidant-rich recipes.
See the bottom for some taster recipes for you!
Is There a Link Between Depression and Lack of Sleep?
There’s a Strong Link Between Depression, Inflammation, and Sleep Disturbance
Sleep disturbance may activate the expression of inflammatory genes. These inflammatory cytokines are highly correlated with the occurrence of depressive disorders. Meanwhile, inflammatory activity, in turn, can influence sleep.
Depression and anxiety lead to insomnia, which can lead to depression and anxiety.
In a nutshell, depression and anxiety are linked to chronic inflammation.
These are two of the conditions subscribers have stated they have lifted since they have been on this anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle.
Click to read about Christen, our member who has lost over four stone and doesn’t have depression anymore!
As the lifestyle reduces chronic inflammation and promotes good health and good sleep, it is not a surprise – and I am delighted, as you can imagine.
You can see why it is essential for your whole physical and mental well-being to get regular, sound sleep.
Sleep is an essential component of life, an important component of the Eat Burn Sleep lifestyle (hence the SLEEP in the title!).
Check the Expert Advice for Depression support.
Is Stress Linked to Lack of Sleep and Weight Gain?
Mental stress, whether part of or as a result of poor sleep, can enhance appetites, increase weight gain, and decrease motivation for physical activity.
Sleep deficiencies associated with shift work and circadian misalignment may contribute to metabolic dysregulation.
This can also lead to stress, weight gain, obesity, diabetes, chronic inflammation, impaired glucose intolerance, insulin sensitivity, and energy balance.
It is essential to recognize a strong link between sleep and circadian disruption in the development of diseases.
Reducing stress and eating the right foods at the correct times, with the proper movement, on an optimum health program like Eat Burn Sleep will contribute significantly to rectifying this.
My comments were featured in The Sun recently about how to get a good night’s sleep.
What I Recommend for a Good Night’s Sleep:
Many people with poor sleeping patterns for decades have turned their lives around through the Eat Burn Sleep program. Just by being on the program. However, for those who want more comprehensive support for insomnia, check the personalized advice section for Insomnia. I know I repeat this a lot, but it’s essential: not eating enough of the right foods for the right nutrients can lead your body to starvation, sleep deprivation, and disease susceptibility.
You have often heard me talk about switching your genetics off with the right lifestyle. Taking the right exercise and using techniques to decrease stress to reduce inflammation and for overall good health is essential.
Following the Eat Burn, Sleep program is scientifically proven to optimize mental and physical health and will promote good sleep.
Can Supplements Help Sleep?
Please listen to the supplements talk under Nutrition in the Videos section about my findings with supplements and the companies that produce them.
I was shocked to find out that there are no regulations in place. Always go for reputable brands. Even if it is a reputable store that you are buying from online, check the brand is legitimate.
Studies have shown that many supplements from sources not as well known or bought online contain 83 percent less of the substance than is claimed on the label.
(You can check out many of the products to use on the Yalda Loves page.)
Finally, sleep is essential for brain function and performance. This means the quality of your sleep impacts your work, studies, and mood.
The worst form of torture is sleep deprivation – ask new moms and dads about that!
Make sure your whole family is benefitting from enough sleep.
After a good night of sleep, I see “La vie en rose” (life in pink) and find myself a better mother, friend, and partner in life and business.
Summary About Sleep and Weight Loss
To summarize the above, no matter how well you eat and exercise, your efforts will be in vain if you do not get proper sleep. If you don’t eat nutritiously, exercise correctly, or lead an unhealthy lifestyle, you will be more prone to sleep disturbances.Sleep is necessary for good health, and it is never too late to get out of poor sleep patterns.As I mentioned, members of Eat Burn Sleep have reset their bodies into good sleep patterns with the proper nutrition and lifestyle guidance – and lost weight.
There’s more ‘sleep talk’ in the article: What Happens If You Don’t Sleep Enough?Is Coffee Good For You? And The Benefits of Sun Exposure.
You may be interested in my podcast on mental health and chronic inflammation.
Also, you can sample a few of the (300+) anti-inflammatory gut health recipes that are on the program:
Chicken Tagine With Onion & Olive ConfitThai Fish CakesCarrot and Quinoa SaladChocolate Banana Nice creamMake sleep a priority, and your performance at work – and play – will also be positively impacted.Your mental and physical well-being will be enhanced, you will lose weight, and life will be enjoyed more!
Have a lovely day!
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