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Kickstart your day with a powerful boost of Chief’s NEW Collagen Protein range! ☕

Ingredients:
• 1 shot of organic coffee
• 1 cup organic milk or hot water
• 2 heaped tbsp Chief Collagen Protein Powder
• 1 tsp organic cacao powder
• 1 tsp organic grass-fed ghee
• Pinch of organic cinnamon

Directions:
1. Place all ingredients into a high-powered blender.
2. Blend for 15 seconds. Once combined, carefully pour it into your favourite mug.

Enjoy! 🌟

✨ Elevate your well-being with Gaia Herb’s top 5 stress management tips!

Embrace the power of self-care and mindfulness to navigate life's challenges. Remember, you've got the strength within to conquer stress and shine.

🍽️ Need some digestive support for your culinary adventures? Digest Gold has your back!

What's on your menu for this week?

Stress Less and embrace the calm with our new Ashwagandha Apple Cinnamon Gummies 🍏 ✨

A delicious blend of soothing ashwagandha and the warmth of apple cinnamon. A daily dose of serenity in a sweet treat! 🌿

Say hello to .nutrition Collagen Powder! ⚡️

A sustainable and environmentally friendly option your gut will adore! 😍

Packed with all the goodness your body needs, these three flavours will give you a dose of premium protein to keep you going strong. 💪🏽🌟

Have you tried Enymedica’s Berberine powerhouse? 💥

Berberine Phytosome provides support for blood sugar metabolism, a healthy body composition, as well as heart, circulatory, and immune health.

Our recommendation for the most delicious way to incorporate Elderberry into your daily routine? Try Gaia’s Black Elderberry Syrup. It’s delightfully tasty and powerfully potent!

Here’s why:

🫐 For starters, its plentiful stores of vitamin A and C give it a strong antioxidant punch (even stronger than blueberries and cranberries).

🏃🏽It activates your innate immune response…FAST. In fact, a recent pilot clinical trial found that Elderberry offered positive benefits within just 24 hours.

⏱️ The effects of Elderberry can last a long time. In addition to providing a short-term immune boost, Elderberry can also be taken at a lower dose (once a day) to build resistance all winter long.

Explore the numerous advantages of incorporating a Vitamin B supplement into your routine 👇🏻

💚 Aids in collagen formation for radiant skin, strong nails, and healthy hair
💚 Aids in the development and upkeep of bones, cartilage, and teeth
💚 Facilitates nutrient metabolism and boosts energy metabolism in the body

Make sure to whip one of these smoothies up at least once a week to keep your immune system strong this winter! 
 
Not only is this a delicious way to start the day, but it’s also an easy way to make sure you take your daily dose of Chief’s Beef Liver, Heart and Kidney Capsules without tasting a thing. Add Chief’s Lemon Tart Collagen Protein Bar to this smoothie for an extra dose of protein and a citrusy flavour! 🍋 

Ingredients: 
• 1 Lemon Tart Chief Collagen Bar
• 4 x Chief Beef Liver, Heart & Kidney capsules
• 1/3 cup frozen raspberries 
• 1/3 cup frozen banana 
• 1 /2 small beetroot, cut into small chunks 
• 1 cup unsweetened almond milk 
• 1 thumb-sized piece of fresh ginger, skin removed 
• 1/4 cup coconut kefir 
• Bee pollen, to garnish (optional) 

Directions: 
1. Place smoothie ingredients in high-speed blender, and blend until smooth and creamy. 
2. Pour into a tall glass or bowl and top with bee pollen (optional).   

Enjoy!

Make sure to whip one of these smoothies up at least once a week to keep your immune system strong this winter!

Not only is this a delicious way to start the day, but it’s also an easy way to make sure you take your daily dose of Chief's Beef Liver, Heart and Kidney Capsules without tasting a thing. Add Chief's Lemon Tart Collagen Protein Bar to this smoothie for an extra dose of protein and a citrusy flavour! 🍋

Ingredients:
• 1 Lemon Tart Chief Collagen Bar
• 4 x Chief Beef Liver, Heart & Kidney capsules
• 1/3 cup frozen raspberries
• 1/3 cup frozen banana
• 1 /2 small beetroot, cut into small chunks
• 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
• 1 thumb-sized piece of fresh ginger, skin removed
• 1/4 cup coconut kefir
• Bee pollen, to garnish (optional)

Directions:
1. Place smoothie ingredients in high-speed blender, and blend until smooth and creamy.
2. Pour into a tall glass or bowl and top with bee pollen (optional).

Enjoy!

Embrace the winter chill with a twist! Dive into the frost with ✨ The Giselderberry Boost Smoothie ✨

Crafted with the magic of our fav' product, Certified Organic Black Elderberry Syrup. Let every sip be a celebration of health and happiness this season! ❄️

Ingredients:
• Gaia® Herbs Black Elderberry Syrup
• Water
• Butterfly pea powder
• 4 oz. Coconut meat
• 2 Bananas
• 1 pack Acai
• 1 Date
• 1 Tbsp Almond Butter
• 1 Tbsp Lucuma
• 1 Tbsp Unflavored plant protein
• 1 Tsp Vanilla collagen

Directions:
1. Create the glaze by mixing the Black Elderberry Syrup, butterfly pea powder and water. Set aside.
2. Blend the rest of the ingredients together.
3. Prep a cup with a scoop of almond butter.
4. Pour in the smoothie mixture then add in the glaze on top.
5. Enjoy! ✨

Curious about intermittent fasting?

Fasting Today changes the fasting experience by providing:

💧 An electrolyte complex to help with hydration and overall function, as well as cramping during fasting. Ideal for pre and post-exercise or daily use.

🌱 Organic, wild-harvested baobab fruit from Africa. This sustainably sourced fruit offers soluble and insoluble fiber, which can contribute to feelings of fullness without breaking your fast.

💪 An essential amino acid complex that serves as building blocks of protein. This blend can help provide support for muscle health and help maintain strength throughout your fasting experience.

Mushrooms are known for their age-old traditional properties, and SUKU® Vitamins Super Mushrooms are potent little gummies packed with four different types:

🍄 Reishi - provided support for the maintenance of a healthy immune system and heart health, and as well as supports the body's stress response.
🍄 Chaga – great source of polysaccharides called beta-glucans which have been studied to provide support for immune health, overall wellness and normal, healthy cell growth and turnover.
🍄 Turkey tail – prized for its beta glucans, provides support for healthy immune function, liver function, and cleansing.
🍄 Lion’s mane – nootropic mushroom with a long history of use in Traditional Chinese and Japanese Practices for supporting the brain and neurological health.

Exploring inner silence: the practice of Antar Mouna ✨

Antar Mouna explores inner silence through meditative techniques. It extends mindfulness to daily life, enhancing present-moment awareness and reducing habitual reactions, with benefits extending to physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

To read more, click the link in our BIO

Try out this healthy warming hot chocolate that your body will thank you for! ☕️

Ingredients:
• 400ml your choice of milk
• 2 tbsp cacao powder
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp ground cardamon
• 1/4 tsp ground turmeric
• 1/4 tsp ground ginger
• 1sp your choice of sweetener (honey, maple syrup or coconut sugar will work well)
• 4ml Life Cykel Reishi Liquid Extract

Directions:
1. Heat the milk in a saucepan over a medium heat
2. Add the spices and whisk to combine
3. Add Reishi Liquid Extract and sweetener
4. Pour into your mug
5. Sprinkle on toppings such as extra cacao powder, cinnamon or grated dark choc
6. Sit back and enjoy on the sofa with a good book or some relaxing music 🎶

Keep movin' and groovin' with our NEW Doctor’s Best® Boswellia Extract with UC-II®.

Have you tried it yet? 😍

Experience the synergistic benefits of two potent natural ingredients 🌳

Start your morning with a flavourful twist on a breakfast classic! Indulge in Chief’s Chilli Biltong scrambled eggs for a breakfast favourite with an added kick! 💥

Ingredients:
• 4 eggs
• 1 bag of chief Chilli Biltong
• 1 tbsp light cream (or sub for a DF milk)
• ½ tsp Himalayan Pink salt
• A pinch of ground pepper
• 1 tbsp butter (or sub for olive oil)
• 1 tbsp coarsely chopped chives (optional)

Directions:
1. Beat eggs in a bowl with cream, salt & pepper
2. Melt butter in a pan and add in your eggs
3. Occasionally stir eggs, until there are large curds
4. Stir in Chief Chilli Biltong and continue to cook eggs to your liking
5. Garnish with chives, and enjoy!!!

Biltong vs Jerky: What's the Difference? 🤔

Most people have heard of jerky, but unless you're South African you may not have heard of biltong! Biltong is relatively new to the snacking scene, despite African communities making it to preserve meat for hundreds of years. 🙌

Biltong is often confused with jerky because they’re both dried, meat-based snacks. 🥩 However, the ingredients and production methods are different. Chief Biltong is;

✔️ Air-dried which means vitamin B12 is retained
✔️ Made from 100% regeneratively farmed Aussie organic grass-fed beef
✔️ Low-carb
✔️ Rich source of iron
✔️ Does not contain nasty preservatives like added nitrates & nitrites

Warming delights: Effortless healthy snacks for the winter months! ❄️

Whether you need a speedy breakfast or a pick-me-up during the day, these energy balls are perfect for a nutritious boost, ensuring you stay strong and energized all season long! Don't forget to bring them along for your hikes, at work, after a surf, or wherever your adventures take you!

Ingredients:
• 2 cups dates (pitted and soaked for an hour)
• ½ cup flax seeds
• ½ cup shelled pumpkin seeds (aka pepitas)
• ½ cup sunflower seeds
• 2 tbsp chia seeds
• 1 cup dried figs and/or apricots
• ½ cup dried shredded coconut, plus more for rolling
• ¼ cup nut or seed butter (peanut, almond, sunflower, etc.)
• 1 tbsp ghee
• 1 ½ tsp ground green cardamom pods
• 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tbsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp ground black pepper
• ½ tsp ground nutmeg
• ¼ tsp salt

Directions:
1. Strain the dates and reserve about ¼ cup of the soaking liquid. Give the dates and dried figs/apricots a rough chop and set aside.

2. Pour the flax seeds into a food processor and process until it’s at a course ground. Whole flax seeds are not easily digestible and can pass through our digestive tract without providing much nutrition to our bodies. Grinding flax seeds prior to consumption assists in optimal digestion and reaping their full benefits.

3. Transfer the remaining seeds into a food processor and blitz until coarsely chopped, about 1 minute.

4. Add the dates, figs or apricots, shredded coconut, nut butter of choice, ghee, and spices. Process until a sticky dough-like mixture comes together.

5. Pour some shredded coconut onto a plate for coating. Roll about 2 tbsp of the mixture into a ball then into the coconut until covered. Transfer the balls onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet and repeat with the remaining dough.

6. Once they’ve all been coated, place the tray in the freezer for 30 minutes to help the balls set.

Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week or keep in the freezer for long lasting nutrition!

Never forgotten, always remembered. Let us give thanks.

The potent botanicals and nutrients in this carefully crafted Therapure formula work synergistically to support body’s immediate innate immune response to seasonal challenges.

🧡 Ideal support for the first signs of an immune challenge in the body

🧡 Supports a healthy innate immune response to pathogens providing comfort to the nasal, sinus, throat and respiratory passages.

🧡 Potent antioxidant support from Elderberry extract and Vitamin C encourage total body wellbeing and vibrant good health

🧡 Pure, clean formulations – no fillers, low sensitivity, high absorption, gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free

Forget Comparison, Embrace Your Bloom with Oubaitori! ⁣

Tired of social media pressure and feeling like everyone's better? Discover Oubaitori, the beautiful Japanese secret to accepting your unique journey and blossoming just like you are. Read more to learn how to:

🌸 Ditch the comparison trap: Learn the simple steps to break free from comparing yourself to others and find true self-worth.

🌸 Embrace your unique bloom: Discover the ancient wisdom of Oubaitori, inspired by the blossoming of cherry, apricot, peach, and plum trees, each beautiful in its own way.

🌸 Cultivate a more compassionate world: See how Oubaitori fosters acceptance and appreciation for individual differences, leading to a more positive and inclusive society.

Click the link in our bio to embark on your unique journey and blossom with Oubaitori! ➡️

Happy Easter from all of us in NaturalMeds!

May your long weekend be filled with sunshine, delicious treats, and happy memories with loved ones 🐰🐣

Turn up the dial on your daily coffee ritual! ☕️

Four Sigmatic® have expanded their range to cater for those individual coffee needs, introducing our new products:

❤️ Boost Organic High Caf Coffee (Ground), with L-theanine and Cordyceps Mushroom
💙 Calm Organic Decaf Coffee (Ground), with Reishi and Chaga Mushroom

Enjoy the everyday magic™ with Four Sigmatic® ✨

Living with ikigai: finding meaning in each day.

Ikigai, roughly translated to ‘reason for being’, alludes to the source of value in one’s life or the things that make one’s life worthwhile.
According to Japanese neuroscientist and author, Ken Mogi, Ikigai is a spectrum that includes all the things we value, from small everyday rituals to the pursuit of more life-defining goals, shown by:

✨ Building harmonious relationships and connections that align with your values
✨ Reaching a flow state in your hobbies, interests or work and by expressing your creative self
✨ Expressing gratitude and helping others
✨ Being present while performing daily rituals.

According to Mogi, Ikigai starts from very small things and it’s about making the joy of these little things work for you.

The sensory pleasures such as warming your hands around your favourite mug of hot drink or humming along to a great song, sharing a laugh with a loved one aren’t to be underestimated - they have a compounding effect resulting in a potent dopamine hit! It’s empowering to realise just how frequently we can experience Ikigai on a daily basis.

To learn more about Ikigai you can head to the mindful living section of our website and read the full article ‘Living with ikigai: finding meaning in each day’ by Namita Davey, Digital Projects Lead & Mindful Explorer.

Baked Apples, a delicious way to use Gaia® Herbs Black Elderberry Syrup this Autumn! 🍂

Ingredients:
🍎 4 large baking apples
🍎 1/4 cup of brown sugar (optional)
🍎 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
🍎 ¼ cup of chopped walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, or pecans
🍎 ¼ cup of raisins or dried cranberries
🍎 1 tablespoon of butter
🍎 ¾ cup of boiling water
🍎 Black Elderberry Syrup

Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees
2. Core the apples, leaving some flesh (at least ½ inch) on the bottoms
3. Stuff with the mixture of brown sugar (if using), cinnamon, nuts. and dried fruit.
4. Place a pat of butter on the top of each apple.
5. Pour the boiling water into the bottom of a baking dish and add the apples.
6. Cover the apples with foil and bake for for 30 to 45 minutes, until the apples are cooked through and tender, but not overcooked and mushy.
7. Remove the foil and continue baking for another 10 minutes.
8. When slightly cooled, drizzle Elderberry Syrup over the apples.
9. Enjoy!

Recipe from Gaia® Herbs.

✨ Make every day a good hair day!

Introducing our newest Therapure® product! My hair has been specially formulated to provide nourishment, using these key ingredients:

💙 Bamboo
💙 Lysine
💙 Selenium
💙Cysteine

Chief collagen bars were born from a desire to share the love that health-conscious consumers are looking for – namely, a zero guilt, sweet treat.

Say goodbye to the temptation of unhelpful habits, and hello to smart snacking with our two new Chief flavors!

🍫 Double Choc
🍫 Choc Peanut Butter⁠

Better for you, your tribe and our planet 🤎

Are your shoulders up by your ears? Jaw clenched? Let’s work on that!

Stress Awareness: Here are some easy tips to manage stress in your day-to-day life.

🌼 Maintain a regular sleep schedule

🌼 Get outdoors, whether you are relaxing or being active

🌼 Practice mindfulness

🌼 Move your body

🌼 Work from home? Set a regular time to end your work day

Check out what the NeoCell® users have to say about Glow Matrix and Super Collagen Peptide Powder ✨