Monday 16 December 2013

Mind-Body-Poop connection!

It would make sense that if you wished to study 'health', by studying healthy populations and learning from healthy people you'd undoubtedly be on the right track.
The same can be said for when one wishes to 'seek' health, taking 'health' advice off someone sicker-or just as sick as you would be like asking a marathon runner for body building tips, they may have read about it, but clearly can't or haven't ever applied it themselves.

This post is actually inspired by working with numerous individuals and seeing how common "normal" everyday pleasures are not being experienced, and at times for several days (9 days is the longest i've come across).
And yes, as cliche as this may sound 'its that time of year' when civilised animals conger up every excuse under the burning hydrogen ball so they can indulge in all types of foods and "food like stuffs", whilst simultaneously finding more time than ever to move less and sit more.

Christmas is very individual, some like the family scene, some enjoy the t.v scene, some love the 'let me be on my own scene' and others embrace the new cultural scenes, and thats all good- what ever works for you right?  But what ever 'scene' you are, the more you participate in the over indulgence, boozy cruises, late nights, dehydration, 'working out' when tired and stressing about stressing about nothing, then the likely hood of you experiencing acute and chronic holiday constipation or evacuation disorder...has just hit sky high my friend.

SO, heres a few little tips that can be applied that i've learn't (good and bad) and experienced when working with 'humans' (not lab mice) and from personal experience experimenting with any array of protocols and listening to ones symptoms.


Emotional Constipation- Are you really in danger? Chances are you've got everything you need, especially around christmas when most overcompensate in all departments. Every time you tell yourself somethings "not right" or I'm "worried" about him/her, you unconsciously stimulate your sympathetic branch of the nervous system, which as designed will acutely stop the flow of blood and nervous energy to the elimination department (small intestine/colon) in order to save your life....so, 'are you really in danger'? Try quiet meditation over unnecessary procrastination and stop worrying and start pooping!
Beets-carrots-ginger-apples juiced, always stimulates
my mate peri (stalsis)...
   
Regeneration is key: Whilst the late night poison flows, (oopps I meant alcoholic beverages) your likely to be more inclined to to want to participate with friends and fam, and when the late night christmas movies (home alone?) are being repeated for the 21st year of your existence you will still likely stay up and watch that...again. But like I mentioned above, your systems will react to anything deemed unnatural and or potentially harming, now we may not consider a "few bevys" that disastrous or a young Macauley Culkin past 10pm to be constipating, but with every time past your natural carcadium rhythm you spend emerged in front of flickering lights or overwhelmed by 'tescos finest liquor', the less energy is spent on effective digestion and physical/metal replenishment. If you stay up late...have a lie in, but consistency in this case is not recommended. 

Live in the NOW: Most people are living in their shadow of a regrettable past or are always looking to make that change 'tomorrow', when in reality their missing out on whats happening now and the potential opportunities they have to make that decision to enjoy breathing, moving with ease, laughing out load, loving themselves and often enjoying that early rising poop! Anxiety and depressive thoughts are exactly that, 'thoughts', you cannot touch them and they cannot touch or hurt you..of course unless you let them. Surround yourself with the 5 people you love the most and i guarantee you'll have a great christmas morning.  
   
Dilution is the solution: 9/10 humans are cellularly dehydrated all year round, they may be drinking bottles/galsses of water all day, but if that waters not being absorbed in the cell (dead water) then their just pissing through frelee. Look to consume the highest quality water you can find, drink anywhere between 250-1000ml of clean water 20-30mins before main meals, this will prep the system for whats to come and ultimately optimise digestive health! If you pissing like free willy, then add some high quality salt (just a pinch) to your H20 beverages. 

Food combining nightmare: Starter-Main-Pudding, thats usually how it goes right..? Well despite that being 'common', it certainly ain't NORMAL, especially for our homo-sapien digestion-elimination tracts. Fruit digests at a million miles an hour, if you consume melon or berries their going to pass through within 30-45mins depending on your status and typically animal products especially muscle meats, can take anywhere from 3-6 hours to digest-metabilse-assimilate and eliminate (individual specific). So wouldn't it make sense, in order to give ourselves a fighting chance of experiencing a comfortable 'passing' the next morning, eat your desert first! 

Get outside, breath and move that ass: Gyms are ok despite the fake air and plateau's, but nature is so clever it put laxatives in the air. When one is constantly inside, windows closed, distraction on (t.v) and curtains shut, they rarely are exposed to calming vibrations from 'outside' air. Wherever you are in the world the chances of the air inside a building being less polluted than outside is slim. Especially in most developing countries, who's modern architecture is constructed with constant leaching materials (take note next time you enter a 'newly' constructed home/office etc..). So why not get outside and move as much as possible this christmas, move in the morning, move before meals, move after meals, breath through your nose and let nature take its "course" ;)  

Beatle.