Dr. De Adrea Fontaine

Wellness Tip #160
The caffeine and stimulants in energy drinks hurt your heart. Avoid them.

Energy drinks have several bad effects on the heart, mainly due to high levels of caffeine. Most energy drinks contain 150-300mg which is too much for the heart.

1. Increases Heart Rate
Caffeine stimulates the central nervous system, which leads to a faster heart rate.

2. Raises Blood Pressure
Stimulants in energy drinks causes blood vessels to constrict and the heart to work harder, which raises blood pressure. This strains heart.

3. Causes Heart Palpitations
Some people get irregular heartbeats or heart palpitations after drinking energy drink.

4. Increases Risk of heart attack
In rare cases, especially for people with underlying heart conditions, energy drinks have caused cardiac arrest and heart attacks. 

5. Increases stress hormone - Energy drinks release adrenaline, which raises heart rate and blood pressure, while increasing inflammation in your heart.

6. Platelets stick together- Energy drinks make blood platelets clump together, increasing blood clots like DVT, PE, or stroke.

Wellness Tip #159
Eat more cucumber for many health benefits!

🥒 Health Benefits of Cucumbers 🥒

💧Hydrate your body! Cucumbers are 96% water!
💊 Full of Vitamin K, C, potassium & magnesium
🛡️ Rich in antioxidants — fights inflammation
🩸 Keeps blood sugar levels low
🌿 Helps digestion & prevents bloating
❤️ Decreases blood pressure
✨ Strengthens skin
🦴 Strengthens bones naturally

Eat more cucumbers every day and let nature do the work!

Wellness Tip #158
Look around your yard! Eat more dandelion greens!

Eat your weeds! Dandelion greens are amazing!

🥇 Full of Vitamins — vitamins A, C, K, calcium & iron
🛡️ Antioxidant Power — Powerful antioxidants that protect your body from damage and disease
🔥 Fights Inflammation — Anti-inflammatory compounds to decrease pain and inflammation
💛 Loves the Liver — Helps strengthens the liver and decreases fatty liver
🩺 Lowers Blood Sugar
💧 Reduces Water Retention — Natural diuretic that reduces bloating — without depleting potassium
🦠 Prebiotic fiber that feeds good gut bacteria
❤️ Heart Healthy — Supports heart health & healthy blood pressure

The Health Benefits of Okra 🫛

🌱 Packed with nutrients – Vitamins C & K, folate, and magnesium in just 30 calories per cup!

🦠 Gut health hero – Its natural gel feeds good gut bacteria and aids digestion

🩸 Balances blood sugar – Slows sugar absorption and may improve insulin sensitivity

❤️ Heart healthy – Lowers bad cholesterol and reduces inflammation

💪 Antioxidant powerhouse – Fights oxidative stress and chronic disease

🦴 Strong bones – Provides 35% of your daily Vitamin K needs

🤰 Great for pregnancy – High in folate, which supports healthy fetal development

👁️ Protects your eyes – Lutein & zeaxanthin reduce risk of vision loss with age

Wellness Tip #156
Eat more papaya!

The carotenoids like lycopene and beta-carotene and vitamin C in papaya fight free radicals and reduce inflammation, which may lower the risk of chronic diseases

🍈 The Power of Papaya 🍈

Nature’s most underrated superfruit is packed with goodness!

🌿 Aids digestion with the enzyme papain
💛 Boosts your immune system because of high vitamin C, Potassium and Zinc
❤️ Lowers blood pressure and cholesterol
🔥 Fights inflammation and pain with papain
👀 Helps strengthen skin & eyes
🍫Helps lower blood sugar levels

Wellness Tip #155
Eat more rosemary!

Rosemary contains several antioxidants like osmarinic acid and carnosic acid, which benefit your body in many ways!

🌿 Why You Should Be Eating Rosemary

1. 🧠 Protects the brain — protects against cognitive decline and oxidative brain damage
2. 🔥 Fights inflammation — helps reduce chronic inflammation linked to most major diseases
3. 🛡️ it’s a superfood— one of the highest antioxidant levels of any herb
4. 🩸 Balances blood sugar — may improve insulin sensitivity and metabolism
5. ❤️ Protects your heart — helps prevent LDL cholesterol oxidation
6. 🫁 Aids digestion — relieves bloating, gas, and sluggish digestion
7. 💪 Rich in minerals — iron, calcium, and magnesium in every sprinkle
8. 🦠 Antimicrobial — naturally fights harmful bacteria in the gut

Wellness Tip #154
Eat more coconuts! 🥥

🥥 Top Reasons to Eat Coconut Every Day 🥥

1. ⚡ Instant Energy Boost
Medium Chain Triglycerides are called MCTs. The MCTs in coconut are converted by your liver — giving your brain and body fast, clean energy without the crash.

2. 🔥 Weight Loss
MCTs have been shown to increase calorie burning and promote fat loss, especially around the midsection.

3. 💪 Strengthens Your Immune System
Lauric acid converts into monolaurin in the body — a powerful compound that fights bacteria, viruses, and fungi.

4. 🫀 Boosts Heart Health
Coconut raises HDL (“good”) cholesterol, helping to protect your cardiovascular system naturally.

5. 🌿 Good Bacteria
High in fiber, coconut nourishes good gut bacteria, improves digestion, and keeps things moving.

6. 💧 Keeps You Hydrated
Coconut water is packed with natural electrolytes — potassium, magnesium, and sodium — making it nature’s sports drink.

7. 🛡️ Fights Inflammation
Powerful antioxidants like gallic and caffeic acid protect your cells from damage and reduce chronic inflammation.

8. 🦴 Builds Strong Bones
High in manganese and copper, coconut supports bone density and collagen production.

9. 🧠 Sharpens Brain Function
MCTs provide ketone energy to the brain, which may improve focus, clarity, and cognitive performance.

10. ✨ Skin & Hair
Eaten or applied, the healthy fats and antioxidants nourish skin from the inside out and strengthen hair.

🥥 Nature’s most complete superfood — add it to your smoothie, cooking, or snack today!

Wellness Tip #153
Please wash all fruits and vegetables, even if it says washed.

Watermelon
Bananas
Bagged salad
Bagged vegetables

It has to be washed.

There are too many opportunistic bacteria like Salmonella and E. Coli that want to live inside of you.

There are several methods to remove viruses, bacteria, and chemicals from produce, but I use baking soda and water. Some people use vinegar and water, others use a produce wash. After soaking for 20 minutes, rinse thoroughly with water, and scrub with a vegetable brush.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is an activist group that educates the public on safe food. Each year, they make a list of The Dirty Dozen, a list of fruits and vegetables that have the highest levels of pesticides, and The Clean 15, a list of produce with the lowest levels of pesticides. If you are unable to buy all of your produce organic, please follow this list. It can be found on their website www.ewg.org.

Wellness Tip #152
Every day, eat more vegetables of different colors!

Purple artichokes
Yellow bell pepper
Purple cauliflower
Purple potatoes

Eating colorful vegetables is easy, and it provides numerous benefits for your health:

🥕Many vegetables, especially leafy greens, are rich in potassium, which helps decrease blood pressure.

🥕The fiber in vegetables can also help lower cholesterol levels, and heart disease.

🥕The nutrients in vegetables, especially Vitamin A, like carrots, help your eyes and skin.

🥕Vegetables are packed with essential vitamins like A, C, K, minerals such as magnesium, and iron.

🥕Eating vegetables daily lowers risks of heart disease, stroke, cancers, and type 2 diabetes. The antioxidants and phytochemicals in vegetables help protect your cells from damage.

🥕 The fiber in vegetables prevents constipation, and provides good bacteria for your intestines.

🥕Since vegetables are low in calories, but high in fiber and water content, they help you feel full and satisfied, making it easier to maintain a healthy weight.

Wellness Tip #109
If you have heartburn, acid reflux, GERD, stomach ulcers, drink 1 teaspoon of baking soda in 8 ounces of warm water an hour after dinner. Sip it slowly.

Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate.
🍎it Acts as an antacid by neutralizing stomach acid
🍎it Provides quick, temporary relief
🍎it Neutralizes stomach acid
🍎it Coats the stomach