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So, it’s back-to-school wellness tips time for many of us parents and teachers, and folks that are working with kids and communities of school students. Today, I want to share with you five powerful back-to-school wellness tips that I recommend and utilize myself with my little and hope you find these tips extremely helpful for powering up your kids’ bodies, and to enhance their wellness, their immunity, and enhance their brain health and brain function so they have the best school year this year.
1. Enhance Hydration with Key Minerals
Tip number one is to enhance your child’s hydration by using liquid minerals. I love using Trace Minerals. They’re a little bottle that you can put drops in their water bottle. Or you can use some of those really clean hydration packs, like IV Hydration, or there’s an assortment of kids’ versions. My son actually likes the lemonade version the best, and so I recommend that.
But you want to make sure you’re getting a well-balanced spectrum of minerals in your child’s water source, because let’s face it, whether you’re using your tap water, filtering from your refrigerator, or buying spring water, or even using reverse osmosis, or they’re using those things at school, there’s not enough minerals, and the mineral density in our water is highly lacking. And one of the things that kids need are key nutrients, and minerals being absolutely essential.
2. Support Brain Function with Omega 3s
Now, number two, this really helps support their brain function and enhances their heart health and their skin health, and it is incorporating omega three fish oils. And primarily for kids, we concentrate our omegas. You want, at minimum, 1500 milligrams of fish oil in your child’s daily diet.
And with fish oil, one of things here is not just eating good, healthy fish or seed-oriented omegas. We want to enhance it with supplementation, and my son has these little capsules that he breaks open, squirts the oil in, and downs his juice in the morning, and that’s a very powerful way to enhance your child’s brain function.
There are tons of studies about the assorted nutritional components in omega threes that help our infants, so in utero, and as the baby, infant, child, preteen, and teen brain is growing, it needs omegas for optimal support. Omegas are also anti-inflammatory, so it keeps the inflammatory state–not just in the brain, but in the whole entire body–tamed.
So, omegas are really key, and I really, really encourage folks to look for cleaner omegas. You want to choose omegas that are either individually packaged or might need to be refrigerated, but be mindful of buying online–Amazon is notoriously known for having rancid omegas, so just be mindful. I like cold- pressed omegas. My favorite brand is called Green Pasture, and they’re a Wisconsin-based manufacturer of cold-pressed omegas. Super powerful.
3. Manage Stress
My third tip is to really help enhance your child’s stress-management balancing. Going back to school, getting in the school group, being accountable, and developing responsibilities, and doing homework, and social activities, it’s highly stress-inducing and it produces a lot of anxiety and stress, not just for parents, but kids.
We’re seeing more and more kids presenting with anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and overall stress-enhanced sleep imbalances and hormonal imbalances. So, these tips here in this stress management bucket are really key. If you have a child that might be a little bit more sensitive to their environment or a child that displays anxiety or depression, these can help calm and ease their central nervous system and support their body.
Supplement with Magnesium to Support Sleep & Relaxation
Number one for stress management is incorporating a well-balanced full-spectrum magnesium. This is on top of the mineral density you’re getting in the hydration of their water with minerals, but Mag 7, Magnesium 7, that we have here at Organixx, I break mine open and will add half of the capsule into Gabriel’s Greek yogurt, nut yogurt, smoothies, and even baked goods that I make him on the daily.
So, that’s really important, that children are, at minimum, getting 300 milligrams of magnesium a day. That’s really important for also enhancing their sleep cycle and producing calm. Magnesium relaxes the body, relaxes the vascular channel [1]. That’s to all of the synapses and all parts of the brain as well as the muscles, so that’s really important.
Calm the Mind & Body
The other thing that I recommend and incorporate are things called Bach Flowers. Bach Flower Remedies are great for easing the mind that’s racing or the mind that is thinking. If you have a child that might overthink or be concerned or worried or might be demonstrating behaviors of stress, Bach Flowers can calm that. They have some things like clematis and rock rose that are highly, highly effective for calming their body, calming their mind, and just disconnects the kind of mind anxiousness that kids demonstrate. That also is effective for kids with ADD, ADHD, OCD as well.
Incorporate Functional Mushrooms to Help Balance Hormones
Another stress management tool is to incorporate functional mushrooms. Functional mushrooms, we have a whole cascade of options here, with reishi and shiitake and maitake being really core foundational mushrooms, but also incorporating chaga and even incorporating turkey tail are really, really powerful at calming your child’s stress response mechanism. Functional mushrooms, especially ones like chaga, are adaptogenic and chaga is great for so many different things, but with the brain, so powerful at helping ease and calm the brain and calms also hormones.
So, if you have a preteen or a tweener that’s hormonally imbalanced, functional mushrooms are great for them as well. And you can use our 7 Mushrooms. I always open up the capsules. If your child cannot or does not swallow capsules yet, sometimes kids even up to 12 and 13 still are not swallowing capsules, you can break them open and sprinkle them into the foods that you’re preparing. And you can get really creative. I will sprinkle the supplements into our hot foods as well, so you can use this very liberally in your daily diet.
4. Test Vitamin D3 Levels & Supplement Appropriately
Another option, my fourth recommendation here, is to make sure that you are annually testing your child’s vitamin D3 levels [2], and you can test by a blood spot so you don’t have to go through a serum draw. A lot of children are not going to be up for that, but you do a little blood spot prick test and test their vitamin D. Find out where are their vitamin D levels because vitamin D deficiency is a chronic problem, not just with adults. We talk a lot about it with adults, but kids can show deficiencies in vitamin D3. And if your child is deficient, test, don’t guess, but then supplement to the level that we want to optimize for your child. So, vitamin D3 can be the difference between them feeling malaise, low energy, mental acuity, or lack of focus, so ADD, ADHD, OCD, spectrum kids can really benefit from getting their D3 tested.
And also, D3 helps to balance the stress cycle and can calm the imbalance that stress causes in their sleep patterns, so it helps to offset cortisol imbalances that might be limiting melatonin production in their body. So, very, very powerful. Vitamin D3 is something that, unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of pediatricians talking about routinely in the annual visits that we have with our kids.
5. Ensure Daily Diet Contains Ample Greens
Last and final is a new addition here at Organixx that I rolled out with our family, and it is the OrganiGreens where you can incorporate all the green goodness that I know, if your child’s like mine and he is saying no to broccoli or any greens in his daily life, use powdered greens that we have here at OrganiGreens to enhance and offset maybe the lack of powerful veggies that your child is refusing to eat. You can sneak that in and incorporate it in baked goods. You can powder it in and use it in smoothies. I have even used powdered greens before in our ice cream. Shocking, right? But you can be very creative with use, especially when they’re very powerful.
And our OrganiGreens not only give your child the nutritional components we need on a daily basis for minerals and vitamins, but you also get enzymes. There’s the fermentation process that even opens up greater bioavailability. You get really good, powerful probiotics, just it’s so powerful.
And green powders for kids are probably what I consider one of the most underrated nutritional additives that we can add to our child’s diet that we will see powerful brain-enhancing in enhancements in their schoolwork and their focus.
The Right Nutrition Can Support Optimal Wellness
So, if you want to power up your child, you want to make sure you’re getting them all the right nutrition, these five tips will be very helpful in helping you support your child for optimal back-to-school wellness. If you have any kids’ health questions, feel free to comment in the Ask the Dr. Melissa section. I’m happy to answer them in future videos.
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Today, I’m going to share with you one of the most powerful functional mushrooms that can help reduce your risk of heart disease, and heart attack, and stroke. This is not as well advertised, but definitely, we have a lot of research regarding this functional mushroom, and it is chaga and you’re going to find chaga in our 7 Mushrooms [formerly 7M+]. I love it. I love it. I love it. Chaga is a powerful Siberian mushroom that has powerful blood pressure-lowering and lipid-reducing influences on your cardiovascular health.
And this is really quite interesting. In the span of our talk already, there have been four or five heart attacks. Every 40 seconds, an individual suffers from a heart attack. One in five individuals are at risk of a heart attack.
That is a crazy, crazy statistic, but I’m going to share with you how you can use chaga to reduce unhealthy LDL levels that tend to be the leading factor, the underlying current, that causes clogging of your arteries and even is an underlying factor with cardiovascular impairment like arterial sclerosis. Also, chaga can, overall, reduce your inflammatory levels, which is a huge factor in terms of supporting your heart health.
Research Shows Chaga Reduces Inflammation & LDL Levels
What we know … Chaga has been studied [1], so there’s been several different scientific research pieces that have identified that when patients take chaga, their LDL levels are reduced.
Now there’s a direct correlation to this. LDL tends to be billed as like, “the bad cholesterol” and not all cholesterol is bad. HDL kind of they’ll label it like, “the helping HDL,” “the helper cholesterol.” You want more HDL than you want LDL, and a lot of times people are flip-flopped or they’re really low on HDL and moderate on LDL, but you want the ratio to be more prominent in HDL.
Free Radicals Damage the Vascular System
The reason being here is that when we have free radical damage, we have single cells that are roaming through our vascular system, they burn the lining of our cardiovascular channel, the walls of our vessels, our blood vessels, the walls of our arteries, and even impair our heart health. And that damage requires a band-aid.
The Liver Produces a Band-Aid Mechanism to Combat Free Radical Damage
So, I’m just breaking down how I describe, for my patients, what LDL and HDL, the function is. When we have a little burn in our vascular channel from a single free radical – which is not good. We don’t want a lot of free radicals. We want to reduce those. Free radicals are the sign of high inflammatory levels, so an elevation in inflammation. The free radicals damage the lining of the vascular channel, they burn it.
Well, the body has a band-aid mechanism and that mechanism is produced in the liver, and it is called LDL. So, LDL is going to go and, basically, it’s a fat that functions as like a “fat band-aid,” and it allows that wall behind that burn spot to heal. And then when it’s done, HDL, the helper HDL, comes and removes it. So, you want more things removing, you want more HDL removing the LDL, so that’s why we want that quantity of HDL to be higher.
There are two factors here that are influential. Number one, if you are constipated your LDL won’t necessarily be an accurate value when you’re doing labs because there’s this recycling of LDL in the bowels that gets absorbed up through the hepatic vein. The other thing that is influential is inflammation is the source of free radicals, so if we can lower your inflammation, we lower free radical damage. We reduce the need for a “band-aid LDL” to be present.
So, at the end of the day if you can have a supplement, or a functional mushroom in the case of chaga, do two things: reduce your inflammation levels, which is the source of the burn that requires the LDL, and you can have it reduce the LDL, so it helps metabolize it lower, it’s a lipid-lowering type of supplementation, it’s a win-win and that’s what chaga does.
Chaga Lowers Blood Pressure & Balances Cortisol
Chaga also can lower blood pressure levels. It’s very, very powerful as an adaptogenic herb, which is good for lowering stress. And when I say stress, this is internal, physiological, biochemical, neuroendocrine stress, hormonal stress. And the stress hormone is called cortisol. Cortisol is an inflammatory hormone. It serves a function when we’re fighting and flighting, and in a chronic state, it causes a lot of free radical damage. So, chaga addresses stress, it’s adaptogenic, it helps your body adapt to everyday stressors; physiological, and mental, and emotional, and helps to balance out cortisol levels and it has a direct impact on lowering those lipid levels.
So, I love to recommend our 7 Mushrooms [formerly 7M+] that has chaga in it. It’s very chaga-forward, which means it’s a prominent part of the cascade of ingredients, and it’s powerful. And I find that individuals in my practice that are taking chaga, and deploying practices where they’re lowering their stress levels by meditating or taking yoga and exercising, that they really can have a significant impact in lowering that overall LDL level.
Try Chaga Instead of a Statin
And it’s better to do that than to take a statin, because a statin … One, long term, it has not been necessarily researched as a lifelong supplement or a medical resource. It’s supposed to be temporary, shorter-term in its function. But at the end of the day, a statin masks the problem, and what we need to do is we need to go deeper and look at that inflammation, the stress, and the reason why you are elevating, or having elevations in lipid levels.
So, I hope you will try chaga or add that to your regimen if you are looking at lowering your cholesterol, lowering your blood pressure levels, and helping support lowered inflammatory levels across the board within your body. It’s so wonderful and the research is definitely in support of using chaga for heart health.
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If you are looking to prevent heart disease, I’m going to share with you five easy ways to maximize your cardiovascular health.
Cut The Sugar
So number one, this is the least discussed topic with many cardiologists and their patients, but it is at the core root of heart disease. And that is – cutting out sugar. Sugar is actually the number one leading cause of heart disease because sugar causes metabolic syndrome. It increases our insulin levels, it can increase our blood sugar, and it has a direct relation to the increases patients see with their blood pressure levels. When individuals curb the sugar intake in their diets, research shows it decreases the risk for heart disease.
Eat More Fats and Less Carbs
Number two is reach for more fats and less carbs. And this is piggybacking on keto diet focus, where individuals are utilizing more fats for energy than they are carbs. So, a lot of people don’t realize that carbohydrates – even more complex carbohydrates – ultimately end up turning into sugar in the body. And that leads to, again, an increase in insulin, increase in your blood sugar levels. And ultimately, carbs and sugar-dense diets create a situation where individuals present with insulin resistance and glucose intolerance.
The reason why we recommend eating more fat is, fat is an energy. So, consuming healthy fats like coconut oil, and ghee, and even flaxseed oil are going to be healthier than consuming carbs. And carbs actually are the… I’m going to take that back. Carbs can lead to subcutaneous fat increases as well, as visceral fat increases – that’s fat around your organ matter. So, it’s really critical that you look at making some subtle switches and adding healthier fat to your diet. The other thing that adding fat does to support your body is it will help balance out hormone levels. And we often see healthy fats will actually increase your HDL levels.
Increase Antioxidant Levels
Number three is increasing your antioxidant levels. Antioxidants are really important for lowering free radical damage and offsetting oxidative stress. We find that individuals who have heart disease or an assortment of cardiovascular impairments, when we test them, they have low antioxidant levels and high inflammatory markers. So antioxidants and inflammation go hand in hand – we have low antioxidants, we’ll have high inflammatory markers. So, the best way to address inflammation is to level up your antioxidants.
I’m going to share with you some amazing resources that we have here at Organixx. My favorite antioxidant blend is our Turmeric 3D. This is so wonderful because turmeric is a very powerful antioxidant, and this is in a fermented form that makes it way more bioavailable, so you’re getting the max dose of antioxidants in this supplement.
The other thing that we find is that functional mushrooms can also deliver antioxidants. One of my favorite mushrooms is chaga. And the 7 Mushrooms, this is listed as an antioxidant support because of chaga and some of the other mushrooms in the supplement. Chaga is the most naturally occurring antioxidant on what we call the org scale. It is the number-one natural organism on the antioxidant scale.
And so, adding Turmeric 3D and 7 Mushrooms to your diet is a really good way to power up your antioxidant. And another recommendation I have is to add CoQ10. That’s a powerful antioxidant. And if you follow along here this month, because it’s heart disease month, I’ll be talking a little bit more in-depth about CoQ10. So look for that email.
Consume More Magnesium
Now, my fourth recommendation is to consume more magnesium. And I like to recommend a complete magnesium blend, a comprehensive assortment of magnesium forms. And here at Organixx, we have Magnesium 7. This is so fantastic because magnesium is an amazing mineral that directly impacts our heart health.
And in fact, a lot of studies showcase that individuals with heart disease, or folks that have heart arrhythmias, heart attacks, or vascular impairment; they have lower magnesium levels. And my recommendation, if you are dealing with any diagnosed heart disease, is to take Magnesium 7 two times daily. And that would give you a good, broad, continuous level of magnesium supplementation. And make sure you ask your doctors to test your magnesium because unfortunately, that is not considered or evaluated in our normal chem panels, so it’s important to evaluate those levels. And I’ll be talking more about magnesium as well in future content here this month.
Manage Stress Levels
And last and final, number five is to manage your stress levels. Stress can cause heart disease. Stress is the root of a lot of inflammatory disorders and it can stress our cardiovascular system. So, there are some recommendations here:
Exercising obviously is a good one for reducing stress, but exercising 30 minutes or less is really ideal. The other thing I recommend is to meditate or reach for some sort of breathing, lowering-of-your-stress-level activity. It can be transcendental meditation, it can be Kundalini yoga, but incorporating breathing and stress management are very powerful at reducing and preventing heart disease. And then the last and final in stress management is to reach for adaptogens, which you’re going to find in the 7 Mushrooms here. This mushroom blend is rich in adaptogens that help your body adapt to and manage stress every day.
So, those are my five tips for preventing heart disease daily. I’m so excited for you to try these out in your lives.
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