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thehealthymelissa

B.Sci DN, M.Sci FM
🍊Functional Medicine Nutritionist 👩🏻‍⚕️ since 2011
🥦Teaching You How To Heal Yourself🥬
🍎Everyone Has A Unique Experience🍏
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The power in the way you breathe! ❤️ Authors f The power in the way you breathe! ❤️ Authors found that belly breathing reduced esophageal acid 2 hours after a meal. 🗣 Belly breathing was demonstrated to increase LES pressure and decrease the frequency of postprandial reflux, decrease belching. 🗣 Conclusion: Belly breathing should be considered as an adjunct to medical therapy in patients with postprandial GERD symptoms, especially regurgitation and belching. Its value is likely limited in patients with “severe GERD” with nocturnal symptoms; Much like recommendations for eating small meals, eating slowly, and not eating before bedtime, 👉🏼Belly breathing requires a lifestyle change without guarantee of success. The patient needs instruction in and commitment to learn the technique—an intervention that appears simple but requires time and practice.👈🏼 🗣
HOMOCYSTEINE & HEART ATTACK ☠️ Today I spoke t HOMOCYSTEINE & HEART ATTACK ☠️ Today I spoke to a person who had been a see saw patient for the last 6 years. . They would do bloodwork, take supplements for a little while, not really change their diet, or make modifications within their work/stress/life and then after a while go back to their old habits and stop taking their supplements. . And October 1st I saw the trend in this person‘s blood work over the last six years - they were virtually the same and had made no real changes. . This persons Homocysteine level creeped up from 13 to 15 to 23 all the way up to 25. There were other imbalances that compounded the issue. This person told me they had a heart attack 10 days ago and had to put a stent in. . As homocysteine increases, so does cardiovascular disease risk. It’s linked to heart attack, stroke and Alzheimer’s. Simple fix: you need folate (B9), B12, B6 to recycle it out of the body. . Homocysteine builds up like a toxin and damages the arterial wall over time. When this happens, fatty substances can accumulate to plug up the area. Arteries become blocked & you have some problems. . It doesn’t happen overnight, it takes years and that’s all about what preventative medicine is aiming to target. The things that you can modify NOW so you have more quality years as you age. . YOUR HEALTH is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. Doctors are here to point things out to you and guide you, help you along the way. You have to be committed to yourself and your healing 🙏🏼 . #homocysteine #cardiology #heartattack #functionamedicine #inflammation #thehealthymelissa
This ones for you nappers out there! How many of y This ones for you nappers out there! How many of you hated taking naps as a kid? Well it looks like your mom was right after all 😂 The Journal of Neurology, 2020 - found that 90 minutes of day time napping significantly restores hippocampal function and improves learning. The hippocampus plays a critical role in the formation, organization, and storage of new memories as well as connecting certain sensations and emotions to these memories. This area in the brain is often the target of damage with dementia, & Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease results in progressive loss of tissue throughout the brain. In particular, the hippocampus tends to show the most rapid loss of tissue earliest in the disease course. The progressive shrinkage of the hippocampus is responsible for the short-term memory loss that is the hallmark symptom of Alzheimer’s. Tag a power Napper 😝😴 Photo: @sheetsgiggles for their wildly soft and eco friendly eucalyptus sheets . #sheetsgiggles #sheetsandgiggles #thehealthymelissa #napping #naps #sleep #neurology #hippocampus #brainhealth #memory #alzheimersawareness #alzheimers
When you hold the belief in your nervous system th When you hold the belief in your nervous system that says there is something wrong with you or that you’re defective in someway, or even everything is always your fault. You will attract people into your life who serve as proof that that program is true. If you hold this belief in your nervous system you’ll attract people who are critical, & judgemental. when you get into this dynamic, you’re going to want to prove to this person that you are good enough and you’re worthy enough. That you’re significant enough. these dynamics are not your fault, these are dynamics that were developed when you were very young because of how you were programmed by a caregiver early on in life. Many are wounded from our caregivers own emotional programs or wounds. These programs are not us. They are programs that were put in place by us to make sure that we got love and felt safe. And these programs worked when were young - but a lot of times we don’t even realize that these are programs! We think this is just our feelings or how we react when a specific circumstance happens. We don’t realize that these programs are not serving us anymore. These programs just stay too long and get too big, cause too many of the same repeating problems. you were always worthy of love, significant because you exist. Not because someone loves you or because you’re attractive or smart. Those things all feel nice, but they’re not the true source of significance and love. here’s to 2020 breaking away all patterns, programs and things that no longer serve our greatest expansion
Tag a Dentist: . Soooo, a new study came out that Tag a Dentist: . Soooo, a new study came out that definitely calls for change in the dental composite materials that are currently used. 85% of Dental composites contain Bisphenol A, a brain and endocrine disrupting chemical. This is also found in plastic ware. Also associated with fibroid development and estrogen dominance. Not good! 👄 194 children receiving dental treatment with Bis-GMA–based materials, a statistically significant 86% increase in urinary BPA (uBPA) concentrations between pretreatment and 2-day post treatment was observed. 🦷 The uBPA concentrations remained slightly elevated at 1 week post treatment and returned to pretreatment levels by 4 weeks. 👄 BPA leaches from Bis-GMA–based dental materials at detectable levels, and it is an endocrine-disrupting chemical that can affect brain and reproductive development. 🦷 Overall, 85% of composites use BPA derivatives, and Bis-GMA is an ingredient in two-thirds of dental sealants, with sealants accounting for as much as 17% of BPA exposure in children. 👄 Minimizing BPA exposure would be prudent, as recommended by the World Dental Federation, given that it likely affects child health. The authors concluded that post-treatment uBPA concentrations were 86% higher * 2 days *after dental treatment and returned to baseline levels at 4 weeks post treatment. 🦷 Approaches to minimizing BPA exposure during dental treatment should be explored, and, given that BPA exposure increases after each treatment visit, reducing the number of visits where BPA materials are used may also reduce BPA exposure. 👄 @askthedentist if you have any wisdom as to a better & safer composite material that could be used, we’d appreciate the input 😀 . Otherwise perhaps it’s necessary to take detoxification supporting herbs to help your liver and body remove the BPA quicker. #bpa #dentist #dentalhygienist #dentist #biologicaldentist #functionalmedicine #thehealthymelissa
Are human beings just trillions of bacteria that h Are human beings just trillions of bacteria that have formed the appearance of what we look like? 🌱 When these bacteria are disturbed or imbalanced, the effect is felt systemically and manifests in health or disease. These bacteria need to eat fibers to produce their metabolites (short chain fatty acids) which further benefit the human being. 🌱 When the human being (who is entirely made of bacteria) doesn’t eat the right foods to nourish these bacteria, the human being starts to break down. Symptoms are expressed and the human feels bad, anxiety, sleep issues, heart diseases, hypertension, depression. 🌱 And the human goes to all these different doctors that look at all the organs or the hormones, to figure out why there is the problem. But the organs, the hormones, the systems, the cells are all made up of bacteria. And the doctor doesn’t think about this. 🌱 The bacteria is disturbed which disturbs the function of the organ systems, which disturbs the feelings of the organism. Is all disease just a symptom of an imbalanced microbiome? 🌱 I’m starting a movement: Bacterial Existentialism 🤣 (just kidding)
In October 2020 the Journal of Human Genetics foun In October 2020 the Journal of Human Genetics found Apigenin to dampen neuronal inflammation & microglial cell inflammation (cells of the central nervous system). This study was conducted in a mouse model of Down Syndrome (DS), but scientists stated it could offer benefit to humans with DS. ❤️ The plant compound apigenin improved the cognitive and memory deficits usually seen in a mouse model of Down syndrome, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. 👉🏼Apigenin is found in chamomile flowers, parsley, celery, peppermint and citrus fruits.👈🏼 🌱 The researchers fed the compound to pregnant mice carrying fetuses with DS characteristics and then to the animals after they were born and as they matured. 👇🏽 The findings raise the possibility that a treatment to lessen the cognitive deficits seen in DS could one day be offered to pregnant women whose fetuses have been diagnosed with DS through prenatal testing. ❤️ DS is a set of symptoms resulting from an extra copy or piece of chromosome 21. The intellectual and developmental disabilities accompanying the condition are believed to result from decreased brain growth caused by increased inflammation in the fetal brain. Apigenin is not known to have any toxic effects, and previous studies have indicated that it is an antioxidant that reduces inflammation. 🌱 Unlike many compounds, it is absorbed through the placenta and the blood brain barrier, the cellular layer that prevents potentially harmful substances from entering the brain. 👉🏼Compared to mice with Down symptoms whose mothers were not fed apigenin, those exposed to the compound showed improvements in tests of developmental milestones and had improvements in spatial and olfactory memory.👈🏼Tests of gene activity and protein levels showed the apigenin-treated mice had less inflammation and increased blood vessel and nervous system growth. 🌱 Apigenin is one of the main ingredients in NeuroFlam, a supplement from Apex Energetics that dampens glial cell and brain inflammation. 🌱 I will go a step further and say that these foods/compound would be beneficial for all types of neurological disorders.
Significance . What makes you feel significant? Is Significance . What makes you feel significant? Is it your job, is it Helping people? Is it that your partner loves you? is it your financial status? Is it your physical appearance or attractiveness? . What if something happened and you couldn’t do those things anymore? Or you didn’t look like that anymore because you age? What if you lost all the money you had? And what if that relationship ended? Would you be less significant? Would that make you unworthy? . No it wouldn’t. Those are not things that make you worthy or significant in your life. Those things feel very good, and they bring you pleasure & happy feelings. But those are not your eternal ultimate source of significance. . When you remember your true core is the same as nature, it is consciousness, it is bliss, it is your power....who do you need to tell you that you’re significant? . I am worthy and significant because at my core I am that. I am pure consciousness and you are infinite and incredible. 🙏🏼 . Have a spectacular day 💘 #thehealthyMelissa (Edit: this is not me, I’m not about to show my arse on here 😂)
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