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💜 With each positive affirmation, you are reinforcing a vision of what you know can be true.

💜Choose one personal affirmation that speaks to you as a woman.
Then list the changes you want to make in your self-perceptions and personal goals.

🔸️I respect my body's needs and treat it with the kindness that it deserves.
🔸️I am patient with my body when it needs rest, healing, and recovery.
🔸️I am responsible for what happens to my body, so I treat it with love, respect, and care.
🔸️I love living in my unique female body. It has features that are distinctive and make me who I am.
🔸️I embrace my best self today. I live in a way that brings tranquility, joy, and pleasure to myself and others.

💞 The more you nourish and fuel your inner self, the more empowered and motivated you will feel.

🌿Day 20 Sugar Detox Challenge
SUGAR & INFLAMMATION

🌿The inflammatory response is a normal activity for our immune system.
When injured or infected our immune system activates defense, bringing chemical messengers that act as a repair team, killing off pathogens causing infection and clearing out damaged tissue - this is the inflammatory response.

☝️When protein or fat combine with sugar in our blood, it results in harmful compounds called Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs). Too many of these lead to inflammation.

☝️Our defense become dysfunctional and act inappropriately, leading to damage and disease of the body: •Autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis
•Respiratory diseases, such as asthma
•Cardiovascular diseases
• Inflammatory bowel disease
•Mood and mental disorders
•Allergic disorder
•Cancers

🌿Fresh, unprocessed foods—like leafy greens & herbs, berries, extra virgin coconut & olive oils, wild fish, raw nuts & seed —can help our body stave off chronic inflammation.

💚 For today Challenge:
Share with us what you can cut out of your life with added sugar in any forms.

🌿 Clinical research connect hormonal imbalance with our modern day lifestyles:
processed food, caffeine, alcohol, ni****ne, poor sleep and lack of exercise, plus toxic exposures—from our foods, personal care products and environment, and chronic stress.

☝️There's common symptoms of hormonal imbalance for women:
Weight-gain/inability to lose weight
PMS
Thyroid imbalances
Low libido
Thinning hair
Fatigue & anxiety
Mood swings
Belly fat and loss of muscle mass
Digestive issues

🌿How to Balance Your Hormones Naturally:
Eat plenty of organic fruit and vegetables
Choose good quality protein like lean poultry and meat, oily fish, beans and pulses
Include healthy fats like olive oil, avocado, flaxseed oil and coconut butter
Keep your diet low in sugar and processed foods

🌿Superfoods for Hormone Balance:
1. Healthy Fats - they provide the building blocks for proper hormone production, metabolism and balance -
omega-3 fatty acids such as:
Fish oil, Chia seeds, Flaxseeds,
Extra virgin olive oil, Walnuts and walnut oil, Avocados and avocado oil,
Coconut Oil.

2. Leafy greens and colorful vegetables - they contain specific nutrients, antioxidants, enzymes, and other substances that help your liver metabolize excess hormones like estrogen.

3. Magnesium-rich foods - Magnesium is one of the most powerful minerals for improving a variety of hormonal imbalances and symptoms, it helps regulate cortisol and quell adrenal issue, plays a key role in the production of thyroid hormones.

4. Chaste berry (Vitex Agnus Castus) - helps to balance the ratio of progesterone to oestrogen, supporting both the pituitary and thyroid gland which control the release of various hormones.
Chasteberry also stimulates the secretion of melatonin, a hormone that regulates the circadian rhythm (sleeping patterns).

5. Maca Root - contains plant sterols which help to balance our endocrine system and can be particularly helpful to balance stress hormones, as well as boosting libido and alleviating menopausal symptoms.

💜 Learn more about natural hormonal balancing foods and supplements with our Holistic Women Nutrition Program:
https://www.reform247.net/holistick-women-nutrition