Purely Nourished

It’s all about pre­ven­tion; con­tin­u­ally mak­ing it a point to take care of you and your body in effort to stay resilient to the exter­nal fac­tors in your envi­ron­ment. There are two ways to ward off ill­ness: take pre­cau­tions to pre­vent or begin treat­ment once symp­toms have surfaced.

Eat­ing health­fully, get­ting the rest you need, stay­ing hydrated, and think­ing pos­i­tively are the top four ways to uphold well­ness. They sound sim­ple but then again so is health. Live by these four strate­gies and you will find that health is both attain­able and easy to maintain.

Food is your fuel. It’s the energy you put into your body to main­tain your radi­ance. If you eat a bal­anced diet, full of fruits and veg­eta­bles and pass the sim­ple sug­ars and pack­aged food, your immune sys­tem will thank you. When the sea­sons change your body is forced to antic­i­pate change and main­tain bal­ance. If you feed your body meals that nour­ish rather than deplete, your body can grace­fully pre­pare for the new sea­sons with­out going into over­drive. Fill­ing your body with sug­ars and options that dehy­drate cause block­ages — in affect leav­ing your body help­less in flush­ing tox­ins that lead to ill­ness. Drink­ing water through­out your day, auto­mat­i­cally flushes those for­eign invaders. Water also hydrates your skin and ener­gizes the bod­ies cells.

Rest is equally impor­tant to health. Sleep allows your body to reju­ve­nate and replen­ish. When you burn the can­dle at both ends, your body doesn’t get appro­pri­ate time to regen­er­ate. The body ends up spend­ing more energy on keep­ing you awake then restor­ing your body from a hard day. It’s like clean­ing up the kitchen after a big meal. If you clean it up right away, the next time you decide to pre­pare an involved meal, you can focus on the new meal rather than wast­ing time remov­ing the mess from the pre­vi­ous one.

Pos­i­tive thoughts are the icing on the cake. Your mind is a pow­er­ful thing; You are in charge of your per­cep­tions. Allow your­self to find mean­ing in every sit­u­a­tion and real­ize that every moment could be your last. Live live to the fullest and know that some things just don’t mat­ter. Let go and breathe in accep­tance for the things you can­not change.

So you fell off the band­wagon? Have an cough or sore throat? There are sim­ple pre­cau­tions you can take to make sure you don’t get any worse:

1. Drink water — lot’s of it.

2. Stay away from cof­fee and sugar.

3. Rest when your body tells you it’s tired.

4. The power of thought can also do you some good. You cre­ate your own real­ity so by think­ing your­self healthy and remind­ing your­self that your immune sys­tem is strong, you can and will fight this.

Besides breath, water is the sec­ond most essen­tial need a human requires to sur­vive. Water is a life force and makes up 75% of the body. Unlike with food, a per­son can only go few days with­out it. Hydra­tion is key for a healthy mind, body, and soul. Not only is it nec­es­sary for hydra­tion, it is nec­es­sary for appro­pri­ate kid­ney and liver func­tion, and  allows for smooth facil­i­ta­tion of metab­o­lism. Water is also impor­tant for nor­mal body processes, such as keep­ing the skin, hair, and nails hydrated and is known for revers­ing  headaches, stress, and ten­sion. A per­son who is hydrated is less likely to get sick, suf­fer headaches, develop skin acne, and crave sweets. Crav­ings for sweet foods can be a sure sign of dehy­dra­tion.  When a per­son is sick, stay­ing hydrated is the num­ber one way to reverse symp­toms and get the immune sys­tem back in tip top form.

So how much does one need to drink? Well that depends on you, your body, cli­mate, and phys­i­cal activ­ity. When you are thirsty , it means you are already dehy­drated. My rec­om­men­da­tion is to keep a water bot­tle around so its eas­ily acces­si­ble. Just hav­ing a bot­tle of water around will usu­ally force you to drink it. You should notice a major dif­fer­ence. Peo­ple who tend to drink water on a reg­u­lar basis tend to get sick less and feel more ener­gized through­out the day. They also tend to have fewer food crav­ings and weigh less.

Drink water and you will notice the dif­fer­ence imme­di­ately. Don’t live your life dehy­drated, suf­fer­ing from low energy, crav­ings, and symp­toms. Incor­po­rate more water in your diet and I promise you’ll relieve symp­toms you didn’t even know you had.