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Detailed information on how you can improve your health conditions, including anxiety / stress, auto immune, insomnia, hormonal imbalance, thyroid, weight loss - just to name a few.
When you are dealing with chronic inflammation, management is key to obtaining optimal health and reducing the inflammation. Pharmaceutical anti-inflammatories are commonly used to help relieve pain and inflammation, however many of these carry risks such as stroke and damage to your digestive tract.
Check out what you can do to help you reduce inflammation and pain.
Is poorly managed pain and chronic inflammation slowing you down and impairing your quality of life? The feeling of pain is your body’s way of telling you that there is inflammation present. Inflammation is associated with the classic symptoms of pain, redness, heat and swelling. It frequently accompanies injury and tissue trauma, such as sprains, strains, cuts, bites and stings. However, what you may not realise, is that inflammation can be a contributing factor to many health conditions and is a key component in the joint pain of arthritis, headaches, migraine, back pain and muscular aches, digestive disorders such inflammatory bowel disease, period pain, autoimmune disorders such as Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis and Graves disease and cancers.
Is sleep a luxury for you? Are you waking up feeling refreshed, or are you staring at the celing at 2.30am, unable to sleep? Unfortunately insomnia (difficulties falling asleep or staying asleep) and or waking unrefreshed can be some people's reality.
Sleep is an important part of your daily routine - you spend about one-third of your time doing it. Quality sleep (and getting enough of it at the right times) is as essential to survival as food and water.
Sleep is a necessity. Unfortunately, people seem to think that their body will adapt to little or no sleep and if necessary, they can make up for their sleep loss on the weekends. Sadly this is not the case. As previous mentioned in my Sleep is Not a Luxury article, good sleep is required for many important functions in the body. Lack of sleep can have a negative effect on the body, so now is the time to consider some sleep enhancing tips to help you to a good nights sleep every night.
Goals are like a roadmap to success – they show you where you want to be, help you plan your way there, and show you when you are off track. Before you embark on any weight loss program choose SMART goals. These are goals which are:
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Specific,
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Measurable,
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Attainable,
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Relevant and
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have a Timeframe.
If you are one of the many people who suffer from spring allergies, then it is time to strenghthen your immune defences. Unfortunately, the warmth of spring brings with it an increase in hay fever and allergy symptoms like sneezing, nasal discharge, itchy throat and eyes, sinus or asthma symptoms.
This article will outline ways you can strengthen your immune defences, to help keep your spring allergies at bay.