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This episode is also available as a blog post: http://health-of-it.com/2020/04/24/how-to-have-metabolic-flexibility/

Metabolic flexibility refers to how efficiently your body can switch between using carbs or fats for fuel. Simply put, are you a fat burner or a sugar burner? Being metabolically flexible has been shown to improve overall health and wellness by boosting insulin sensitivity, reducing the risk of disease, and training your body to adapt to the different metabolic demands you put on it every meal.

Metabolic inflexibility is the limited ability to switch from one fuel source to the other.

If you are metabolically inflexible generally you feel pretty poor: fatigue, weight gain, brain fog, poor sleep, low mood or depression, poor cognitive function, and shortness of breath. Over 90 million people are pre-diabetic.

Do you find it hard to finish the tasks at hand? Do you take frequent coffee breaks for caffeine-induced energy? Do you get frustrated easily? Do you have trouble sleeping?  Are you always hungry? Do you have a lot of cravings? If so then you may have an inflexible metabolism.

Fasted Cardio, Intermittent Fasting, and eating to keep insulin levels low.

All food you eat regardless can spark the release of insulin.

Insulin is a factor in deciding which fuel source your body uses. When insulin levels are low, your body likes to burn fat. When insulin levels are high, your body likes to burn carbs and store fat.

I follow the M.A.D.E. diet. The MADE diet is a lifestyle plan that incorporates moderate protein, adequate fat, and decreased carbs.

Fasted Cardio means cardiovascular exercise with little to no glycogen stored. Meaning doing cardio when you have not had calories for at least 10-12 hours.

Intermittent Fasting is simply don’t eat first thing in the morning and stopping eating 3 hours before you go to bed. So the longer the fasting period, the more your body has to tap into its fat reserves. Start with 12/12 Eat 12 hours fast 12 hours. Do that for one week then go to 14/10 for one week and then 16/8.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://health-of-it.com/2020/10/15/hypnosis-is-not-about-being-asleep/

People often mistakenly think that being hypnotized means being asleep and that one can be made to do things while they are sleeping.

This is false. Think of it more like the sleep of the nervous system.

Hypnosis takes place in the Alpha and Theta brain wave state which are described in order below.

1) Beta (14-40Hz) – This is the Waking Consciousness and Reasoning Brain Wave

Beta brain waves are associated with normal waking consciousness and a heightened state of alertness, logic, and critical reasoning. This is the state we are in while we work, and have conversations and interactions in our daily lives. Beta brain waves are important for effective functioning throughout the day, they also can also translate into stress, anxiety, and restlessness.

If Beta had a voice it would be described as the voice in our head or our constant stream of thought. This is the time when you have a full-on conversation with yourself in your head.

2) Alpha (7.5-14Hz) – Now we are in the Deep Relaxation Brain Wave

Alpha brain waves are present in deep relaxation and usually when the eyes are closed when you’re slipping into a lovely daydream or during light meditation. This is the optimal time to program your mind for success and it also heightens your imagination, visualization, memory, learning, and concentration.

It is the gateway to your subconscious mind and lies at the base of your conscious awareness.

This is an optimal state for hypnotherapy. is 7.5 and it is here that the voice of Alpha your intuition becomes clearer and more profound. This is a time when all the noise of the Beta state decreases to a large degree and the subconscious mind is open to suggestion.

3) Theta (4-7.5Hz) – This is the Deep Meditation And Light Sleeping Brain Wave

Theta brain waves are present during deep meditation and light sleep, including the all-important REM dream state. Your mind’s most deep-seated programs are at Theta and it is where you can experience vivid visualizations, get great inspiration, have profound creativity, and gain exceptional insight.

The optimal range for visualization and hypnosis or reprogramming of your mind begins at the Alpha-Theta border, from 7Hz to 8Hz.

This is the mental state in which you consciously create your reality.

You are conscious of your surroundings however your body is in deep relaxation. This is the description of what hypnosis is. It isn’t sleep, it isn’t a magic trick, it’s simply a relaxed brain wave state.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://health-of-it.com/2020/08/19/your-stinking-thinking/

Stop your stinking thinking and start getting the results you want in life, in your relationships, and in your career. The words that you say and the pictures you create in your mind and the mind of those around you will determine whether you live a happy, peaceful, prosperous, and fulfilling life.

1)Over- Generalising– saying things like You Always….. or You Never….. are bossy or judgmental. You sometimes…. or you often…. will be more accurate and less confrontational.

2)Over-Emotional Reasoning– Relies on your feelings to determine your actions and decisions. Ask yourself what is the thought that is leading you to this feeling and is it justified? Think about how you react when you are mad, upset, or hurt, do you make good decisions? Now think about how you react when you are calm, coming from a place of peace. Look at how are they different. Which one will give you the results you desire?

3)Making Demands– Words like “Must”, “Should”, and “Ought to” are demanding. Instead, use words like “Wish”, “Prefer”, and “Want” to reflect your feelings and desires.

4)Catastrophes/Future Telling– Predicting the future in a dark and gloomy way. You can not predict the future you can only predict the way you will react to the future. If the “worst” did happen how can you react in a constructive way instead of a destructive way?

5)Mind Reader-  You assume what others think about you and they are purposely doing certain things. Instead, just ask the person if they are thinking about what you think they are thinking. Are they purposefully trying to hurt you?

6)Noticing and Remembering only the Negative– You pay little attention to the positive aspects of your situations. For every negative aspect, focus on 5 positive aspects.

7)Excessive Self Criticism- Putting yourself down and only seeing the bad qualities. Remember you are Perfectly Imperfect. STOP BULLYING YOURSELF. YOU ARE ENOUGH!

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://health-of-it.com/2020/11/10/learning-about-yoni-eggs/

Nephrite Jade is the Goddess of all crystals and is the material used in the original Yoni egg dating back thousands of years ago. This yoni egg helps to assist in the soothing of negative energies, this is done by releasing fear of hardship and change and replenishing a positive outlook on your future. By connecting with your heart and mind is believed to help clear blocked chakras. This is a perfect yoni egg to start your yoni egg journey.

Crown Chakra  

Opalite improved communication on all levels, especially spiritually. It has been known to remove energy blockages of the chakras and meridians. Emotionally, Opalite helps by assisting during transitions of all kinds. It engenders persistence and gives us strength in verbalizing our hidden feelings. These small yet powerful eggs are said to cause emotional, physical, and spiritual transformation and healing.

Throat Chakra -

Blue Aventurine - Do you feel so many thoughts and feelings but have trouble communicating them? Blue Aventurine may be the perfect crystal for you! By corresponding to the third eye and throat chakra, this crystal will help you improve your communication skills while attracting abundance and prosperity. This will increase your chances of a positive outcome for any situation.

This crystal will help enhance your discipline and willpower, giving you a nice balance of your emotions with logic.

Heart Chakra

Rose Quartz is associated with the planet Venus, and the signs Libra and Taurus, and the elements water and earth. The healing properties it possesses are promoting love for yourself, calmness, and healing relationships. It helps bring positivity back into your life and helps encourage forgiveness, trust, and acceptance.

This stone helps when it comes to comfort those who are grieving.

This crystal works with your heart chakra to help unblock negative energies and open your heart up to love, whether it's love for yourself, family love, friendship love, love for humanity, or a love interest. When working with Rose Quartz you will feel a flush of happiness, peace, compassion, and forgiveness. This will assist you with taking hold and releasing negative emotions and thoughts.

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This episode is also available as a blog post: https://health-of-it.com/strong-immune-system/

Your immune system has a job to do and it constantly defends and protects you from the outside world by identifying the infectious agent and other disease-causing agents.

Infectious agents can enter your body in many different ways like the mouth, nose, bites, or wounds.

From bacteria to fungi to parasites that live off human bodies, understanding how these agents attack our bodies is the first step in developing treatments and cures for the infections they cause.

You can not fix what you do not know is broken.

I live by this.

I study and research every day to help myself and others to have an understanding of how their body works do they can have a strong immune system and live a life they love.

Bacteria are microscopic, single-celled organisms that can live almost anywhere; responsible for diseases such as UTIs, STIs, pneumonia, staph infections, strep throat, sinus, and ear infections.

VIRUSES are nonliving strands of DNA or RNA that multiply in a living host. Think of the common cold, chickenpox,
influenza, herpes, measles, and SARS-CoV-2. They can only multiply only in living cells of plants, animals and believe it or not bacteria(Bacteriophages)

FUNGI are a class of organisms that includes yeasts and molds that are responsible for athlete’s foot, jock itch, ringworm, and yeast infections. When harmful fungi invade the body, they can be difficult to kill. It survives in the environment and can easily re-infect the person who is trying to get better.

PARASITES are multiple-celled organisms that require a host to survive. Meaning you are their food and their home. Some live in the body some live on the body. They are usually contracted through what you eat (tapeworms), drink (giardia), and even animals and insects (malaria).

Other causes are, for example, toxins, genetic disorders, and the host’s own immune system.

TOXINS are the harmful chemicals created by living cells such as bacteria; toxins are responsible for botulism, diphtheria, and tetanus.

Now you know who the invaders are you can better prepare for any attacks.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://health-of-it.com/2021/07/13/what-are-the-different-types-of-eater/

Finding out what is causing the weight gain will be the key to understanding why every diet you try fails. Just to help you understand that this is not a “you” problem, 95% of all diets fail.

Most individuals try to lose weight by doing an action like the newest diet, the best supplement to take, or joining a workout program. Doing these actions will get you some results but they are hard and take a long time and they usually fail.

Instead, find out the thoughts behind the actions. You can do that by sitting and meditating and waiting for the universe to guide you, this will usually take months maybe years it all depends on how quiet you allow your mind to go or you can book a session with me and in 2 hours you will have the answer and a plan to get what you want.

Using RTT® we have the ability to access the subconscious mind allowing us to uncover, reprogram and upgrade limiting beliefs and find the root cause of any mental or physical issue, pattern, or behavior providing complete freedom and healing.

What you need to understand is it is often not just overeating or lack of exercise, it is often an emotional issue.

Let’s look at the different types of eaters and discover some clues to help you reach your goals.

Emotional/Mood Eaters

When you feel tired, stressed, or angry do you put food in your mouth? What you are doing is pushing those feelings down. You are eating your feelings. Let’s look at some habits of emotional eaters: Eating when you’re not hungry. Eating as a self-soothing practice. Using food as a reward. Eating until you feel stuffed. Do you find it hard to control the amount of food you intake?

Addictive Eaters

Are you addicted to highly palatable foods like sugar, fat, and salt? Do you need more of the same food? You can become addicted to food very quickly. Do you know that sugar has the same effect on the body/brain as crack cocaine? Like addictive drugs, highly palatable foods trigger feel-good brain chemicals such as dopamine. Once you experience pleasure associated with increased dopamine transmission in the brain’s reward pathway from eating certain foods, you quickly feel the need to eat again. The reward signals from highly palatable foods may override other signals of fullness and satisfaction. This is when you eat even when you are not hungry.

Angry Eaters

Are you someone who eats when you are stressed? You have stress receptors on the side of the mouth and if you eat potato chips, crunchy French bread, crackers, chewy toffee,- it actually starts to release feel-good feelings. One of the main problems is the more you can hear yourself eat the more you eat. So the crunchy foods to turn to would be celery, carrots, apples, bell peppers, and salads.

Ignorant Eaters 

People who really believe a salad from a fast food restaurant must be slimming because it is a salad. Or anything that says low-fat healthy. Eating fat makes you fat. If I don’t eat breakfast and eat every two hours then my metabolism will slow down. An ignorant eater is brainwashed to believe that these foods are healthy. Frank-n-Foods are the ignorant eater’s best friend. If it is processed in a plant you should limit it, or the best advice is to just avoid it.

Destructive Eaters 

Were you abused or hurt, or lusted after when you were small? You have an unconscious need to sabotage any efforts of being lean. You unconsciously do not want the attention. You actually destroy any attempt to be slim because you do not like being attractive and you feel very vulnerable and very scared. 

Rapid Transformational Therapy can help you to understand the role, function, and purpose the weight plays in your life.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://health-of-it.com/vagal-nerve/

I knew a little bit but then I stumbled on this video and the information below and now I have decided to add these two training methods to my weekly practice.

I can’t wait to teach my clients this amazing technique.

When I started researching the best way to decrease stress I found that breathwork plays an important part.

As I read through several different descriptions of just how to do Vagal Breathing I found the best one so I quoted it below.

This breathwork is said to help increase the feeling of peace and calm.

Click here if you like peace and calm.

Latest research shows that Vagal stimulation has a positive response with Rheumatoid Arthritis, all digestive disorders including Crohn’s, IBS, and diverticulitis, autoimmune disorders including M.S., fibromyalgia, Lupus, Chronic Fatigue, PTSD, Epilepsy, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, anxiety attacks and heart arrhythmia.

Vagal Breathing enhances vagal tone, just 5 minutes a day can make a huge difference. 11 mins a day will balance the endocrine system.25 mins a day will balance blood pressure.

Sit comfortably in a warm room or cover yourself with a blanket.

Pick a hand position that feels right

Close your eyes and observe your natural breath.

Allow your lower belly to expand on the inhale and let your lower belly sink back towards your spine on the exhale. (Continue with this step until it feels easy and natural)

Gently and lightly inhaling through the nose, belly expanding, exhaling through the mouth belly relaxing.

As you inhale through the nose create ujjayi breath or ocean breath by drawing the breath to the back of the sinus cavity.

Exhaling through the mouth with a soft “haaa” sound like you are misting your glasses to clean them.

Creating sound stimulates the Vagal system as does listening to the sound you are making.

Keep the length of the inhale the same and allow the exhale to become longer than the inhale. (this is the key and the short version that can be done during other activities)

At the top of the gentle inhale pause your inhalation for about three seconds. (Breath retention stimulates the Vagal system)

then slowly exhale the breath out through the mouth allowing the exhalation to lengthen as you relax. When you get to the bottom of the exhale coast for a few seconds or as long as it is comfortable. (This time will increase as you relax)

Gently open your eyes 1/10th and focus on a point in front of you on the floor. Try to keep your eyes still.

Continue with the breath pattern.

Close your eyes and return to natural breathing. (This allows the vagal system to reset)

Wait a few minutes before opening your eyes. Notice any changes internally and externally.

With regular Vagal Breathing practice, people report being calmer, more focused, healthier, happier, lighter, and pain-free. This technique can also be done by reclining or propped up on pillows. The reclining version will help people to fall asleep and is particularly effective to fall back asleep after waking during the night.https://bodymindcentre.com/news-2/vagal-breathing-technique/

Which method are you going to try?

The exercises, the wave watching, or the breathwork?

They all will work to help you feel happier and calmer. Give it a try now.

Vagal Breathing Technique

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://health-of-it.com/l-carnitine-weight-loss/

L-carnitine is a naturally occurring amino acid that is synthesized in the liver and kidneys from the amino acids lysine and methionine. It plays a crucial role in the transportation of fatty acids into the mitochondria, which are the energy-producing powerhouses of our cells.

When we consume food, the body converts the carbohydrates into glucose, which is then used as energy. If there is an excess of glucose, it gets stored in the body as fat. L-carnitine helps to transport these fatty acids into the mitochondria, where they can be burned for energy, rather than being stored as fat.

Furthermore, L-carnitine also helps to improve exercise performance by reducing the accumulation of lactic acid in the muscles, which can lead to fatigue and decreased performance. It also helps to reduce muscle damage and soreness, leading to faster recovery times.

When you feel an emotion rising up in you, is it coming from an outside source or from your own thoughts?

One thing I tell myself and those I counsel is to truly feel the feeling that you are feeling, for only 90 seconds.

Truly feel joy, happiness, anger, sadness, whatever emotion shows up “FEEL IT”. After 90 seconds, you are no longer feeling the feeling because of an emotional response, you are now creating that feeling from your thoughts and beliefs.

Stop!!!

Don’t stay caught up in the emotional loop.

That is how you find yourself living in the known past or the predictable future.

Live in the now.

Feel the emotion of “NOW”!

Not what has happened or what could happen.

The only true reality is the present moment.

The present moment is the reality that we need to base our emotional well-being on.

1)Identify the Emotional Response:

How does it feel?

Does it have a color, shape, or size?

Where in your body do you feel this response?

2) Label/ Name the Emotion

Emotions are Intense: Joy, Fear, Anger, Enthusiasm, and Attraction. Simple terms to ask yourself do I feel mad, sad, glad, afraid, or ashamed?

3) Feel the Feeling

Feelings like happiness, worry, contentment, bitterness, and love, are all side effects of the more intense emotion of joy, fear, anger, enthusiasm, and attraction.

Allow the emotion to happen without judgment for 90 seconds. Feel the feeling fully for 90 seconds then release it.

Let it Go!