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  • isn't it great to actually SEE your progress when you start doing all the right things to reduce inflammation in your body? 🤯 Improving her diet, losing weight, getting off pain killers, no more underwire bras, chemical deodorants, drinking more pure water, were just a few of the things this person did for 3 months, before returning for her follow-up. ❤️ She took control and didn't allow inflammation to cause further damage. Inflammation is where disease starts. Unless you address the root cause of inflammation, cutting away body parts is not always the answer, and inflammation will spread and affect everything. 🔥 #thermography #successstories #functionalmedicine #prevention #thehealthymelissa
  • let’s make waffles! Leggo waffles don't have ingredients I would personally consume or give my child. There are other frozen healthier options out there, but it's always better and seriously easy to make yourself! Plus you know exactly what you're eating. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 Here's how I made mine this morning: 1 cup cassava flour 1 Tbsp organic coconut sugar 2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp Himalayan salt 1 egg (or substitute) 1 cup nut milk 1 very ripe banana (optional) 2 tbsp melted butter or coconut oil If you use a different flour, you may have to adjust the quantity, such as with coconut or almond flour. You'll have to play around with it. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 Mix everything together and pour into your waffle press.. I bought this press for under $10 and makes the perfect size waffle. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 Serve with organic maple syrup or raw honey, fresh blueberries or strawberries, or whatever fruit you like! . #waffles #healthieralternatives #glutenfree #breakfast #thehealthymelissa
  • The fetal consciousness begins to develop around six months in utero. Everything that the mother feels and thinks, the baby senses. If you know someone who is pregnant or has children, please tag them! 🙏🏼 Kids who show sensitivity to making mistakes or doing things “wrong” in adolescence, may have a higher risk for internalizing disorders (such as anxiety and depression) in adulthood. During infancy, temperament serves as the foundation of later personality. One specific type of temperament, called behavioral inhibition (BI), is characterized by cautious, fearful, and avoidant behavior toward unfamiliar people, objects, and situations. 🌼 BI has been found to be stable across toddlerhood and childhood, and children with BI have been found to be at greater risk for developing social withdrawal and anxiety disorders than children without BI. The researchers assessed the infants for BI at 14 months of age. The participants returned at age 26 for assessments of psychopathology, personality, social functioning, and education and employment outcomes. 🌼 The researchers found that BI at 14 months of age-predicted, at age 26, a more reserved personality, fewer romantic relationships in the past 10 years, and lower social functioning with friends and family. BI at 14 months also predicted higher levels of internalizing psychopathology in adulthood. 🙏🏼 How can you mitigate this? Meditation & prenatal meditation. 🌼 In this article you will find excellent resources for meditations and mindfulness practices, body scans given to me by one of my awesome professors trained in these practices. 🌼 ThehealthyMelissa.com/infants
  • #Repost @thehealthymelissa (with @report.for.insta) ... While the ketogenic diet does have benefits for weight loss, the microbiome certainly takes a hit. . Your gut flora feeds on plant fibers (prebiotics) and certain carbohydrates. The gut flora then produces short chain fatty acids: butyrate, acetate and propionate. . These fatty acids help protect against colon cancer, constipation, provide oxygen to the colon, protect against all neurodegenerative diseases, helps protect against diabetes by having good blood sugar metabolism, wards off depression. . This person had below detectable levels of clostridium and low faecalibacterium (MAJOR butyrate producing bacteria.) They do not have normal and beneficial amounts of bacteria or short chain fatty acid’s! . If somebody chooses to do a keto diet I highly suggest they take a probiotic every day, and if you can find one that has prebiotics in it with the probiotics, that would be even better. It may also be beneficial to take butyrate in supplement form. . Click the link in our bio to learn more about the GI-MAP? Have questions? Comment ⬇️ below! . #GIMAP #thehealthymelissa #keto #microbiome #ketodiet #gut #guthealth #gutmicrobiome #testdontguess #stooltest #ketodiet #functionalmedicinedoctor #naturopathicmedicine #healthygut #personalizedmedicine #beststooltest
  • While the ketogenic diet does have benefits for weight loss, the micro biome certainly takes a hit. . Your gut flora feeds on plant fibers (prebiotics) and certain carbohydrates. The gut flora then produces short chain fatty acids: butyrate, acetate and propionate. . These fatty acids help protect against colon cancer, constipation, provide oxygen to the colon, protect against all neurodegenerative diseases, helps protect against diabetes by having good blood sugar metabolism, wards off depression. . This person had below detectable levels of clostridium and low faecalibacterium (MAJOR butyrate producing bacteria.) They do not have normal and beneficial amounts of bacteria or short chain fatty acid’s! . If somebody chooses to do a keto diet I highly suggest they take a probiotic every day, and if you can find one that has pre-biotics in with the probiotics that would be even better. It may also be beneficial to take butyrate in supplement form. . If you’d like to have a GI MAPS stool test done please read the article (link in bio) : thehealthymelissa.com/GIMAPS . #thehealthymelissa #keto #ketoguido #ketodiet #gut #guthealth #gutmicrobiome #gimaps #stooltest
  • Broccoli wouldn’t hurt either🥦💕❤️🌈🧁🥦 #positivepost #thehealthymelissa #love #
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