The Kind of Health

And he is here. 🐨😍
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Koa Rees Margo, born on Friday 11/3/22 at 23:53, by emergency c-section. He gave us a good freight, but all happy and healthy now.
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He is obviously perfect and has absolutely taken our breath away. Our family was complete at three, now this little addition has made us have more than enough forever in life. And our big boy will always have a little buddy to look out for, to care for, to show him that life is just simply magical.
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Let’s dive into how your Vitamin C supplement, aka Ascorbic Acid, might be increasing your chances of “anaemia” and can lead to iron dysregulation.
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To refresh yourself before reading this, read my last post on Vitamin C and look back on my ‘iron’ post from last year for more info.
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To just recap a bit – low iron is not the reason why we get diagnosed with “anaemia” and the reason why we are lacking in energy. Iron dysregulation and low bioavailable or/and unbound copper is THE issue!
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For us to be able to use and metabolise iron, we need copper! Copper will be loaded into a protein called Ceruloplasmin and basically, we need Ceruloplasmin to ensure that iron stays in motion and doesn’t accumulate in the tissues.
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Low iron often means low iron in the blood but iron accumulation in the tissues (again, read my old post on iron) and increased oxidation of iron = inflammation!
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How is this linked with your Vitamin C supplement? 🧐
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Ascorbic Acid has shown to decrease absorption of copper in the gut and lower Ceruloplasmin, plus that it can lead to increased iron absorption in the gut – double whammy. Therefore, it can lead to dysregulation of iron! 💁🏼‍♀️
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In one study, Vitamin C supplementation of 1,500 mg/day for two months resulted in a significant decline in ceruloplasmin oxidase activity. (PMID: 6837490)
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Another study from the Department of Foods and Nutrition at the University of Georgia showed high vitamin C intake significantly decreased tissue copper levels in rats with adequate copper intake. It also showed that high vitamin C (plus high iron intake) caused severe anaemia in copper-deficient rats, while dropping ceruloplasmin levels in copper-adequate rats by 44%. (PMID: 3337044)
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Are you supplementing with Vitamin C to boost your !mmune system or to fight off that cold?
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Stop for a minute and read on the back of your supplement what it actually contains…
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If it says Ascorbic Acid or Ascorbate or Liposomal C or Sodium Ascorbate (more or less the same 💩), then do yourself a favour and chuck it in the bin!
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‼️Ascorbic Acid is not real Vitamin C!
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Yes, you will find Ascorbic Acid in the Vitamin C complex, but you will also find bioflavonoids, copper, iron, manganese, zinc, selenium, phosphorus, magnesium etc.
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Ascorbic Acid is like the shell of a car without no moving parts, the whole C complex is like the whole thing - it has an engine, steering wheel, 4 tires, PLUS the shell covering.
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The isolated and synthetic Ascorbic Acid form of Vitamin C found in fortified foods, vitamins, and pasteurized foods is just a small piece of what your body is looking for. When we take Ascorbic Acid alone, it forces the body to scavenge the other ingredients from other tissues and organs.
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Ascorbic Acid actually competes for the binding sites for the real Vitamin C on our cells and can cause the excretion of the real vitamin molecule in our urine – not exactly the effect we are after, hey?
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Ascorbic Acid will also deplete our adrenal glands of Vitamin C where we store most of it, and where it is essential for the production of cortisol.
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It is also interesting to know that almost all of the AA on the market is produced from GMO in China. The GMO corn is processed with chemicals like acetone (AKA nail polish remover) – not something I would recommend supplementing your health with.
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🤩 Due Date is here, 22/2/22 🤩
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“Baby bear, are you ready?
Can you feel our love pulling you?
Baby bear, are you ready?
Are you just as excited as we are too?
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Baby bear, are you ready?
Very soon we will hold you and kiss your face.
Baby bear, are you ready?
Your big brother is waiting with all his love and warm embrace.
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Baby bear, are you ready?
Your little Earthlife is about to start.
Baby bear, are you ready?
Under 9 precious months I have carried you under my heart.
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Baby bear, are you ready?
Very soon, you and me, will ride those waves to the shore.
Baby bear, are you ready?
You will finally join us Earthside and close the circle when we grow from three to four.”
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💙 Sweet little boy, we are ready and waiting, whenever you are to meet the world. 💙
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So, how can we optimise our levels of Vitamin D without turning to supplements then (if you want to know what I mean, please see my previous posts in this series)? 🧐
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As we now have seen, trying to boost a low Vitamin D-status from a blood test with a Vitamin D-supplement, might not always be the best way around it (again, if you don’t know what I mean, then head back and catch up on my last 4 posts in this series)?
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If you ask me, there are more areas that need to be addressed.
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We need to look at possible inflammation, at increasing our Mg intake, getting outside in the sunshine every day, limit the overuse of sunscreen and using those sources of food that we can use to boost. 🤩
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Please swipe left for ideal food sources. ⬅️
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With spending time outside, aim for 20-30 mins outside between 10am-3pm (without covering up in sunscreen). The key is not to overdo it! 😎
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30 mins of time spent in the sunshine can provide the following Hormone-D levels (with skin exposed, for example when wearing a bathing suit):
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🔸Most Caucasians: 50,000 IUs
🔸Olive/tan complexions: 20,000-30,000 IUs
🔸Dark complexions: 8,000-10,000 IUs
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Also, try to opt for as much organic as possible (to avoid glyphosate) and stay clear of fortified products (will only contain a synthetic, crap version of the Vitamin), such as milk and cereal.
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To boost even more, you can also look into a Vitamin D light or sunlight light as they’re also called. The lamp needs to provide UVB for it to produce Vitamin D, but I advise that you speak to your health provider before using one as there are certain conditions where you should avoid it.
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There we are! That’s the end of the Vitamin D-part in this Supplement Series. 🥳
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Next, we will look at another one often recommended during these Winter months – Vitamin C!

So now to the big question, should we supplement with Vitamin D or not? 🧐
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Swipe left on the slides to see reasons why I don’t recommend you to. ⬅️
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At the moment all we hear from all different directions is how amazing it is for “boosting your immune system” but we need to understand what can happen when we take such high amounts and what the long-term effects can be.
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Yes, in the right amounts it can definitely support functions of the immune system, but the role of Hormone D is for and foremost to regulate Calcium and Phosphorus levels.
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‼️ It is very important to consider that the recommended intake for 1–70 year-olds is 600 IU and that the maximum intake should not exceed 4000 IU!!
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Still, I constantly hear about people being recommended insane amounts of 10 000 – 25 000 IU a day.
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If you still considering supplementing, then first of all we want to consider that D2 (ergocalciferol) is derived from plants and won’t contain any cholesterol while D3 (cholecalciferol) does and can actually be converted into the active form (calcitriol).
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But, even with D3, where the vast majority of it will come from lanolin in sheep’s wool, we should be aware of the process of actually manufacturing it. It goes through a long process of extraction, saponification process, solvent washing and so on for it to actually become the finished product. 💁🏼‍♀️
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Maybe there are much better ways of trying to make sure we are reaching optimal levels of Vitamin D instead. And this is what I will go through in my last post in the Hormone D-part in my Supplement Series.
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Today I want to dive into why inflammation is a massive reason why we are seeing blood tests with low-vitamin D and why supplements might make it all better! ⬇️
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Many drivers of deficiencies are driven by inflammation and there is no difference when we are looking at Vitamin D.
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When inflammation is present, the body will actually start converting more storage Hormone D (25OH) into active Hormone D (1,25OH) to boost the antimicrobial properties of the immune system.
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Why does this matter in relation to blood tests that show low Vitamin D-status? Because the blood tests will only test for storage Vitamin D, not active Vitamin D‼️
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Maybe all what the blood test really is showing us is that we are possibly dealing with chronic inflammation? Maybe we are not looking at it from the correct angle?
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Yes, we can see that healthy people have low levels of storage vitamin D as well (in the end there are many factors that matter – see my last post) but what we can see is that sick people have elevated active vitamin D instead of normal levels (like we can see in healthy people).
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Maybe instead of looking for low storage Vitamin D, we should look for high active Vitamin D instead which would indicate signs of inflammation.
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But taking Vitamin D is making me feel much better, you might be thinking? 🤨
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Yes, because Vitamin D is actually a steroid hormone! And as many of us know, steroids will suppress inflammation and make us feel better! This action is very similar to pharmaceutical steroids. 💁🏼‍♀️
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But just because it makes you feel better, doesn’t mean it is getting to the root of the problem – the fact why we are dealing with inflammation in the first place (stress, lack of light, wrong type of fats, hormone imbalances, parasites, toxins etc. etc. etc.).

In my next post in this series, I will talk more about why I don’t recommend supplementing with high doses of Vitamin D and then we will dive into what to do instead.

Let’s keep going on our Hormone D (“Vitamin D”) chat – to understand what I mean regarding Hormone D ➡️ see my last post.
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Before heading into supplementing with Vitamin D or not, I want to explain what we need to consider regarding the activation of the “vitamin” – hormone, and some reasons why we might be deficient. 💁🏼‍♀️
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So, as we now know, Hormone D needs to be made into the active form for us to be able to use it. And for this to happen, there are several factors that will matter. ⬇️
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🔸First of all, we need an adequate amount of cholesterol as when the cholesterol in our skin is hit with sunlight, it becomes Vitamin D Sulphate.
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🔸The sulphated Vitamin D is then transferred to the liver via the blood where it is made into its storage form – calcidiol.
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🔸Calcidiol is then transferred to the kidneys where it is converted into the active form – calcitriol (D3).
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🔸And after that D3 is transported, to target organs including the kidneys themselves, the pancreas, the bones, and the immune system. These organs all have Vitamin D Receptors (VDRs), which D3 can bind to, allowing for the absorption and regulation of calcium.
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As you can see on the slides, we need plenty of co-factors for us to be able to activate the “Vitamin”, such as Magnesium and Retinol.
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Sooo, maybe the answer is not always to just chuck isolated supplementation of Vitamin D into the mix⁉️
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Inflammation is something else that matters massively when it comes to our levels of Hormone D, and this is something I explain more about in my next post. 🥳
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Stay tuned! 😊️
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Are you supplementing Vitamin D, or thinking that you should? 🤔
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I get a lot of questions regarding vitamin D, so I thought I would share my opinions on the vitamin and why I don’t recommend supplementing high doses of such.
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Vitamin D is what most of us would know as our “sunshine-vitamin” 😎, hence people think it is crucial that we supplement it through the Winter, especially when we live further north. ⬆️
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Vitamin D is actually a steroid hormone (it needs to be activated in the body to become active) – hence it should really be called Hormone D instead.
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It is a fat-soluble, essential nutrient that we will obtain mostly from the ultra-violet rays of the sun but also some from our food.
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There are actually many forms of “Vitamin” D, but two of the most common ones are D2 (ergocalciferol) that we get from plants (not an ideal source) and D3 (cholecalciferol) that we produce in the skin with help of the sun, and some animal-based foods. D3 is the form that is the most ideal, and it is the form that we absorb the easiest. D2 has shown to have a markedly lower potency and shorter duration of action relative to vitamin D3.
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As I mentioned above, “Vitamin” D needs to be converted into an active form (in order for the body to use it), so we have both a storage form (calcidiol, 25(OH)) and an active form (calcitriol, 1,25(OH)). For this activation to take place, there are several factors that matter – and this is something that I will discuss in the following posts in this series.
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The most known action of Hormone D is for healthy bones/teeth due to the fact that it assists in regulating calcium/phosphorus in the blood and that it aids in calcium absorption from the gut.
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But it is also very important for our !mmune function, for reducing inflammation, for cell growth, for neuromuscular function and for cardiovascular health.

But if it is so important, why don’t I recommend supplementing it? And what should we do then if we show low Vitamin D on our blood-tests? And why are we deficient in the first place?

Stay tuned for part 2! Click the 🔔 on top of my profile to be notified.

If our hormones are like the postmen 📮in the body, and enzymes the fuel ⛽️ in the postman’s truck, then minerals are the spark plugs 🔌 under the hood.
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Hormones are what we would call our chemical messengers in the body, and enzymes are what increases the rate of, and facilitates, these chemical reactions.
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➡️ But MINERALS are crucial for many of these reactions to happen and allow essential functions in the body take place, such as digestion, detoxification, energy and hormone production plus many more. 🥳
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Achieving balance can be a tricky and a long journey and through chucking in tonnes of isolated nutrients with supplements, we might actually start creating more imbalances in our body. 🤯
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We cannot start healing and correcting issues, without addressing our mineral balance and I truly believe that we can only achieve this equilibrium through understanding how we can achieve this using real food. 💯
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Relying on isolated supplements will never achieve this.
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‼️ Boosting with real food supplements food AFTER focusing on the real food can THEN be supportive for us.
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Over my next few posts, we will discuss imbalances that man-made, isolated nutrients have shown to cause, what foods I recommend to really improve your nutrient-intake, and real-food supplements that we can then use to nurture. 💁🏼‍♀️
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⁉️ Which supplements are you relying on to boost your health at the moment? ⁉️
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During the current situation, we hear from all different directions about taking Vit Ⓒ, zinc, Vit D, fish oil, multi-vitamins and so on?
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🛑 Little do we know that we might actually harm our health more than “boosting” with all those pills and powders.
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You simply can’t take a MEGA-load of something without considering that it might actually disturb the balance of another nutrient in the body – nutrients in our body simply don’t work isolated and often need co-factors in all shapes and forms to work, get activated etc.
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🔸If we, for example, look at Vitamin D. For us to be able to activate and use Vitamin D in our body, we need magnesium and retinol (2 nutrients we often lack in anyway due to our diet). By taking large doses of Vitamin D, we will simply deplete the body of these two nutrients. To boost our Vitamin D status, we cannot do so without optimising our status of magnesium and retinol first – something very few doctors will tell you about.
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🔸If we instead look at the Vit Ⓒ that you are chucking down your body because hey, we all know this is the best way to boost the !mmune system, right? 9 times out of 10 it is not Vitamin Ⓒ you are paying for – it is ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid never was, never will be, real Vit Ⓒ! The molecule of the vitamin is way more complex than that, ascorbic acid will actually oxidise in the body and has shown to delete Vitamin Ⓒ!
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🔸Zinc will deplete copper; fish oils will turn rancid in our tropical bodies and suppress inflammation rather than “fixing it”, and multivitamins are all over the place with ratios and so on and so forth.
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Supplements simply cannot replace the wonderfulness of real, whole food sources of vitamins and minerals. We simply just need to learn which sources are best for boosting us!

FOLLOW for more suggestions of how to enhance your nutrients going through Winter instead!

Over the next couple of weeks, I will talk more about how we can optimise our nutrients instead of using expensive supplements that won’t benefit us in the long run!

Yes, here is another reason why we don’t want to jump on the diet-wagon in January. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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We need more energy through the Winter months! ❄️
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In the middle of the Winter, we get less sunlight and daylight, right? And you know why the most important reason is to get a sufficient amount of light, apart from “Vitamin D”, (which should really be called hormone-D)?
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It is because light increases our ability to use oxygen for energy production – it actually stimulates our mitochondria to produce more energy. 💥
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Darkness (hello Winter!) has the opposite effect. It causes the mitochondria to shrink and produce less energy. If energy production is lowered and extra food isn’t consumed to compensate, the body demands will be higher than the supply.
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This leads to an increased stress response with more adrenaline and cortisol – hence darkness is actually stressful for our body! 🤯
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So, one way to deal with this is to get as much sunlight and daylight as you possibly can, and also use red light therapy (post on this coming soon).
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But the other way is to increase that energy demand – meaning really focusing on nourishing your body with nutrient dense food, not cutting calories, ok?!!
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This is not the time of the year to deprive yourself of foods and nutrients. Just a little food for thought.
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I help my clients to find a way to follow a nourishing diet and lifestyle, while still being able to focus on body goals (if they so desire). 🥳
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Book YOUR free discovery call today via the LINK IN BIO!
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AND WE ARE OFF...🥳🥳🥳

Our Body Freedom Tribe 5-Day Healthy Habits Challenge has started with a bang!

Today, our yoga teacher gave us an awesome yoga session, working on cleansing, rinsing and releasing.

Tomorrow, our nutritionist will go live and chat about how habits work and some techniques on how to set some better ones in place.

There is still plenty of time to join! Just follow the LINK BELOW to get hold of all the awesome content and join us for week of LETTING GO OF SOME OLD HABITS and to CULTIVATE SOME NEW HEALTHY ONES.

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See you there!! 🥳🥳🥳

Protein-boosting dessert, anyone??? 😊️ (Swipe for recipe)
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This Swedish dessert is a staple dessert in many households, and is actually a pretty protein-packed one, made with dairy such as cottage cheese and cream.
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While I don’t believe in over-consuming and relying on nut butters and nut milks (too high in PUFAs and too low in bio-available nutrients), I do think that including a little bit of whole-food nuts can be part of metabolic supportive diets.
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Preferably soak your nuts beforehand to reduce the anti-nutrients - at least 6 hours with a sprinkle of sea salt.
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It can easily be kept gluten-free through experimenting with gluten-free flours. I use spelt as we can often handle it better than regular wheat flour (though it still contains gluten so if you are gluten-allergic stay clear!).
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Upping your protein is a brilliant way to support our body’s natural detoxing process - a big subject for the month coming for many of us!
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Want something different for breakfast (or a nourishing snack) this Xmas??? 👍🏼
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One of the traditions for us Swedes is to make a type of rice puddings called “tomtegröt”, aka “Santa’s porridge”. 🎅🏼
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When americans put out cookies and milk for santa, Swedes put out porridge. A tradition that belongs from the Nordic folk-belief that on every farm, a magic elf lived to look after the farm and the animals.
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To thank him for his work (because you didn’t want to upset this little man, the tale says that if he didn’t got butter in his porridge, he would kill one of the 🐄 ), the farmer put out a bowl of porridge.
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We still eat a lot of this porridge during Christmas-time, and some of us still put out a bowl for our magic little helper, or for Santa.
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Rice pudding can be a very nourishing breakfast or snack, especially when it’s made with some high-quality diary (which is full of protein, healing fats and fat-soluble vitamins). You can also mix in an egg yolk just before you eat it, or simply have some boiled eggs on the side to protein-boost it! 🍳💪🏼
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Pair this with some Christmas ham and my homemade mustard on some sourdough toast and you are a winner-winner!! 🤩
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Looking for some more nourishing ideas for the Xmas spread?? Here you are ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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🧀 Swap your traditional cheeses for some raw ones: Raw cheese can be easier to handle for people that normally struggle with dairy as it contains enzymes that help to digest the fats and proteins.
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👩🏼‍🍳 Have a go at making your own cranberry sauce: The shop-bought ones often contain glucose syrup, gelling agents and citric acids – things that we do best to keep out of our diet.
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🧈 Opt for the real butter: Stay away from the packaged spread to stay clear of the inflammatory oils and gut-irritating additives.
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🦃 Choose local, trustworthy farmers: While it won’t maybe matter this once for your health how the meat is raised that you are eating, it does matter for the animals. Source the best you are able to, and can afford, and choose with your heart. The animals shouldn’t have to suffer just because we want to indulge.
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🦪 Treat yourself and your family to some oysters: Often a great time to snap up some more affordable fresh oysters. You, and your body, (and possibly your partner 😝) will be getting a pre-dinner boost!
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🍫 Spread the love with chocolate: Christmas is often a time when we might stuff our faces with our favourite types of chocolate, and please, go ahead! But if the stuffing goes on all up to NYE, then maybe choose some better-quality choc at some point as well.
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🐄 Make that liver pâté: Need not to say any more. Find the recipe in feed and get to it!
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🍖 Save those bones: Save the bones, chuck them in a large pot with some veg, herbs, and spices and let it simmer away until Boxing Day night. By adding some leftover meat and veg, you got yourself a very nourishing soup to give you some gut support after all the indulgence.

💛 Mellow Yellow Mustard, anyone?? 💛
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Amongst the easiest thing you will make this Xmas, and BOY, does it taste good! 👅
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As a Swede, Christmas would not be Christmas without “julskinka” (THE ham) and julskinka would not be julskinka without a really good, hot, sweet mustard! 💥
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This is really, really easy to make, and will be worth all the effort. Just swipe to see that recipe and the how to. ➡️
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Iiiihhhh, I’m so excited!! 😝😝😝 Xmas is coming! 🤤🤤🤤
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What’s THE food that you can’t go without during Xmas?
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Mine must be the ham, or maybe the potato gratin, or maybe the “Santa porridge” (recipe coming this week) or maybe...🤰🏼🤰🏼🤰🏼
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