Angel Luis

"Practicing body-gratitude is all about shifting focus from the way that your body looks, to thinking about all of the incredible things that your body does for you everyday."👊🏽

What if instead of 'body love,' you worked on 'body gratitude?' For many people the jump from ‘body hatred’ to ‘body love’ feels overwhelming and impossible. There’s a lot of talk in the media about focusing on ‘body ...

"Sugar...Ahhh, honey, honey."🎼

"The environment is becoming increasingly stressful, dogmatic and full of confusion and misinformation and this is especially true in relation to conversations about what ‘sugar’ actually is and how much might truly be required to achieve closer to optimum metabolism."

Do You Really Know It's True? | CowsEatGrass Do you really know that it's true that sugar - even when consumed in quantities well beyond 'daily requirements' - is bad for you? Before you say 'yes', or even after you say 'yes', let's just run through it a bit because I think it's important. What is it you have experienced in order to come to th...

"For a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research this past February, a group of international researchers set out to understand why people with desk jobs are attracted to grueling athletic events. They interviewed 26 Tough Mudder participants and read online forums dedicated to obstacle course racing. What emerged was a resounding theme: the pursuit of pain."🙄

Why Rich People Love Endurance Sports Cycling, running, and obstacle course racing are dominated by white-collar workers. Sure, the extra money makes competing a little more feasible, but researchers are starting to understand that there's something psychological as well that draws these types of people to painful endurance sports.

While you are much more then what your labs say you are, they're still very useful in helping to introduce and initiate nutritional therapies...And it still amazes me how often I received labs from clients that don't include these markers, with especially clients 40 + years of age.

I'd add homocysteine (also often missing) to determine if a person has a vitamin B12 or folate deficiency. The homocysteine concentration may be elevated before B12 and folate tests are abnormal. Some health practitioners may recommend homocysteine testing in malnourished individuals, the elderly, who often absorb less vitamin B12 from their diet, and individuals with poor nutrition, such as drug or alcohol addicts.

Homocysteine may be ordered as part of a screen for people at high risk for heart attack or stroke. It may be useful in someone who has a family history of coronary artery disease but no other known risk factors, such as smoking, high blood pressure, or obesity.

Five Lab Tests Your Doctor Isn't Ordering Do you have unresolved symptoms and don't know where to start? Learn about the five most useful blood tests I use with my patients to guide their healing!

"Steady improvements in American life expectancy have stalled, and more Americans are dying at younger ages. But for companies straining under the burden of their pension obligations, the distressing trend could have a grim upside:.....

There’s no simple answer for why longevity gains are slowing. For years, economists and public health experts have been trying to ascertain what’s behind America’s troubling death trends, among them a rise in death rates for certain demographic groups. A much-discussed 2015 paper suggested that mortality was rising for middle-aged white Americans, citing suicides, drug overdoses, and alcohol, collectively sometimes referred to as “deaths of despair.” Women have been particularly affected." 🤔

Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions Life expectancy gains have stalled. The grim silver lining? Lower pension costs

Kaboom! Don't Believe what isn't true. Kate breaks down 5 of the biggest lies told about health/metabolism! 👊🏽

"The truth survives our skepticism, but we cannot say the same thing about lies. Lies can only survive if we believe them. The truth is still the truth, whether or not we believe it. That is the beauty of the truth."

-Don Miguel Ruiz

Now, Im not sure Ruiz was referencing nutritional beliefs when her wrote this, but I think this statement is very true in the nutritional world.

5 BIG Lies we have been told in the nutritional world:

1. Saturated fat is bad for you. The TRUTH despite what you may believe is is that saturated fats are actually healthy for you. This does not mean you can consume tubs of butter with no consequences, it just means consuming saturated fats in the amounts your body can use, can be healthy for you not harmful. Best saturated fats are coconut oil, butter, and ghee.

2. Sugar gives you diabetes, metabolic syndrome, causes obesity and feeds cancer. The TRUTH is sugar feeds all cells energy--in a healthy body sugar is used rapidly, leading to increased ATP, heat and CO2. In an unhealthy body, where the cells are dysfunctional, sugar fights with fat to be used as energy. Thus, this person, although needs sugar, must be careful of the amounts, the frequencies and the macro ratios, so sugar can be used in the amounts it is being burned. Sugar is best if it is accompanied by nutrients. Fruit, juice, milk, roots and honey are best.

3. Salt CAUSES high blood pressure. The TRUTH is salt does not cause high blood pressure, stress causes high blood pressure, and stress will cause your body to hold onto salt. Removing salt is not the answer. Removing stress and processed foods is a better answer.

4. The liquid oils (polyunsaturated fats) are heart healthy. The TRUTH is PUFA oils can lower cholesterol, but this does not mean they are healthy for you. Low cholesterol does not assure you a healthy heart, it just means you have low cholesterol--period. Alcohol can lower cholesterol as well.
In addition, the PUFA oils inhibit mitochondrial respiration, inhibit protein digestion, and suppress immune function.

5. You need 64 oz. of water a day. The TRUTH is yes, you need fluids, but they are best if they are accompanied with minerals and energy (sugar). Better choices are mineral broths, OJ, milk, coffee, coconut water and bone broths. There is NO place in your body that is water ONLY--water is always accompanied by minerals. Those with a high metabolism will sweet more and need to more water (along with more minerals). Those who are hypo metabolic need less water. If you are hypo metabolic and consuming tons of water, you are sure to be peeing 12x a day and stressing your bladder and kidneys.