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✼ Post II of V ✼ It’s safe to say that ☕ i

✼ Post II of V ✼
It’s safe to say that ☕ is not harmless & is not for everyone, at any time. Right?
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❓What determines how well YOU deal with coffee?
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➟ Your GENETICS 🧬 - they determine how well/quickly you metabolise it
➟ How MUCH ☕☕☕ you drink - you may be fine w/ one, but not w/ 3
➟ How STRESSED 🤯 you’re - coffee exacerbates stress & anxiety
➟ WHAT 🥥 you drink coffee with - coffee w/ food/fat = less blood sugar issues
➟ WHEN 🌗 you drink it - some people can only tolerate one in the am
➟ CONCENTRATION - how much caffeine you’re actually taking in
➟ LIVER health & LIFESTYLE - coffee is metabolized via the same pathway estrogen, medications and other toxins go through. Detoxification pathways can get overloaded & *congested*!

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❓How do you know if YOU are affected by coffee? Some signs it’s time for a (short/long) break.
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✘ Feel jittery, super alert after drinking it? Or 2 hours later?
✘ Feel anxious as the day goes on?
✘ Struggle to fall asleep? Or to stay asleep?
✘ Or perhaps you sleep through, but wake up tired?
✘ Need coffee to wake up or go through the afternoon?
✘ Constantly feel hungry?
✘ Crave sugar + carbs?
✘ Have acid reflux?
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❓Another big coffee issue? TOXICITY. ☠ As with anything in mass production & consumption, coffee is a highly sprayed crop. In addition, mold in coffee can be problematic. Buying organic and from brands like @leancaffeinecoffee, which perform regular tests, is ideal.
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❓Relying on INSTANT ☕ for convenience? It is a more processed product and it contains a higher amount of the chemical Acrylamide (a potential carcinogen) than coffee beans. The flavoured versions are naturally even worse. I’d stick to organic beans (+ the taste is miles better!).
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Do you know if ☕ affects you negatively?
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More ☕ insights in the next post! Save + tag your friends. ♥

✼Post I of V✼ If you happen to ♥ coffee, rea

✼Post I of V✼
If you happen to ♥ coffee, read calmly & don’t shoot the messenger. 🙃 Your doctor likely hasn’t shared the below info with you.
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➊ It contains antioxidants
➋ Linked to a reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes
➌ Protective against dementia, Alzheimer’s (in bigger quantities) & stroke
➍ Protective against liver cancer
➎ Enjoyment from the aroma, taste & the whole drinking ritual 😇
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➊ A diuretic - flushes Magnesium & other important nutrients for hormone balance
➋ False energy elevation, followed by a dip in energy & blood sugar
➌ Low blood sugar → your cortisol (stress hormone) will rise and you’ll crave sugar + carbs → rise in insulin and potentially a drop in blood sugar. The high-low sugar - stress - tiredness cycle is never ending
➍ More food & eating more often (esp. simple carbs) will keep your blood sugar fluctuating → terrible news for the adrenal glands
➎ Can contribute to weight gain via the above cycle → constant rises in cortisol, insulin (to deal with the sugar you eat) & eating more + crappier foods
➏ Mood issues via blood sugar & adrenal issues → can leave you feeling foggy, cranky & angry
➐ Can cause acid reflux and can affect the gut lining
➑ Contributes to inflammation
➒ Can affect estrogen metabolism (more in a separate post)
➓ Cross reactive with gluten i.e. you may experience gluten intolerance issues even when if you don’t consume gluten
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That second list ain’t short, complete or pretty. Is coffee good or bad for you? 🤔 It depends!
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More in the next post. 🙂 Do you ♥ coffee? Do you think it benefits you?
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Sources in ⇟ comments.

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What I am currently focusing on (or even more in c

What I am currently focusing on (or even more in certain areas!) to give my body what it’s asking for. (Read the last post on ED).
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⋇ Clean WATER 💧 (by default) - looove my @berkey_filters!
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⋇ No PLASTIC 🥤 around food & water, which I hardly ever use day-to-day anyway.
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⋇ More ORGANIC 🌱 food - to minimise extra toxins. No veggie oil or cheap salt as I’ve not been eating out in the last few weeks.
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⋇ Making SLEEP 😴 more of a priority. My sleep has been disrupted in the last few months (this year, actually), so I am doing everything I can to reset that - less screens in the eve, going to bed early, more sunlight etc.
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⋇ BROCCOLI 🥦 sprouts - fabulous for aiding in liver detoxification overall + they offer protection from harmful estrogens (we see if estrogens have started going down the *bad* pathway, which can do DNA damage on the DUTCH test).
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⋇ LIVER 🥕 love - extra veggie fibre, especially from raw carrots (helps with estrogen detox) + a gentle liver support supplement.
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⋇ YOGA 🧘‍♀️ is back on the menu. Why? It helps me relax. It forces me to do deep belly & alternating nostril breathing etc. End result - the world looks brighter!
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⋇ B VITAMINS 💊 & extra magnesium - both are essential for hormone health & the body’s need increases during times of stress. Stress? This year? I’ve only moved 3 times on top of the world’s blissful events, LOL. B’s have various aspects & don’t work for everyone so don’t go on random supplement sprees!
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⋇ Red RASPBERRY 🌱 leaf tea - excellent for hormone balancing. Takes a bit of time to work.
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⋇ VITEX 🌱 - it can support progesterone (P) production, which can suffer during stressful times. I know Vitex works for me. It can & may be totally wrong for you!
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I’ll review in 2-3 weeks and see if I need to add anything else. ♥ Post any q’s you have below.

What happens when you relax your trusted health ca

What happens when you relax your trusted health care routines. 😟
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Yep, I practice what I teach (no preaching here!) as I know it works for me (and so many women!).
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I was away from my usual environment for 9 wks & some of my health habits slightly slipped. Not quite intentionally yet I am realistic that certain things may and do slip when we're away & the stress is just not worth it. Unless there are severe reactions. Realist, not a perfectionist. 🙋‍♀️
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Result: Hello sore boobs! 😫
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Accompanied by some clots & painful periods. Throw in some PMS symptoms, and yes, I could sense something was up. Pretty early on. 😣
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Estrogen dominance (ED, check the estrogen highlight), that’s what was up! I am prone to ED, but these days by being more careful, I typically have milder symptoms, if at all. I mean, I haven’t wanted to hurl objects at family in a looong time! 😆
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So, what changed? Not much, if you ask me, but my body clearly disagrees. It goes to show that sometimes we don’t need too much of anything for things to go worse.
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💧 My drinking water wasn’t my usual @Berkey_filters clean level
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🥗 I had more meals out. Nothing terrible or inflammatory in them aside from 2 things: more oil + inflammatory, cheap sunflower oil (what you get when you eat out/order take out); more salt + again, likely inflammatory table salt b/c… cheap
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🥤 Some drinks out of plastic. A mix of BPA free + regular bottles. Pretty big in terms of impact as the toxins in plastic add to our estrogens + disturb our natural hormones
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🤯 Oh, and some extra stress. 2020 keeps on giving, am I riiiight? Stress majorly disrupts hormones. For one, progesterone production can drop, which creates an ED dynamic, even with normal/low estrogen levels.
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As you can see not much of perceived *unhealthy* stuff to create issues, yet all these are BAD for hormonal health. They literally mess up our hormones and their receptors by the virtue of increasing inflammation + toxicity. Perfect combo for a hormonal soup badness. 😫
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What I am currently doing to rectify all this in the next post… post any q’s you have below. 🙂 Any of this sounds familiar?

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