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I hope your Thanksgiving day and meal were lovely.

I hope your Thanksgiving day and meal were lovely. Remember, you can't control who is in your family and how they behave, but you CAN control how you treat the only home you'll ever have, your body.⁠
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😂 Happy Thanksgiving! 😜 Your holiday may be

😂 Happy Thanksgiving! 😜 Your holiday may be a bit different this year but you're probably still having turkey.⁠
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Turkey has Tryptophan in it, which is an essential amino acid that creates Niacin or vitamin B3, which is essential in creating the neurotransmitter serotonin.⁠
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Serotonin is associated with getting sleepy or increasing your melatonin levels, but here's the thing, eating carbs makes you far sleepier in reality then eating turkey, even though it has Tryptophan in it. ⁠
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If you feel tired after your Thanksgiving meal, it's likely that you just overate, which makes you tired, or loaded up on carbs like stuffing or pie, which make you tired! Also meat is harder to digest than plants, so eating a lot of it will make you tired as your body works hard to digest it.⁠
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Alas the myth that it's the Tryptophan in turkey that makes you tired after eating a Thanksgiving feast will probably live on...poor scapegoat! Did you have a Thanksgiving feast today? What did you have?! I hope it was fun and delicious! ❤️

Has anyone had this experience? This week on The W

Has anyone had this experience? This week on The WellBe Podcast we are refeaturing our interview with @AlisaVitti of @floliving who has an incredible story of PCOS reversal and has become a wealth of knowledge on women’s hormonal health issues and associated conditions like PCOS, Endometriosis, Amenorrhea, infertility, irregular periods and others. ⁠
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I have friends who are struggling with these conditions and I had amenorrhea myself for two years from age 18-20. Successfully healing that condition with diet change, supplements, homeopathics and herbal medicine when none of the conventional treatments had worked was one of my three biggest motivators for founding WellBe and diving deep into the world of holistic healing and living.⁠
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Seeing my friends struggle has reminded me what a feat it was that Alisa was able to heal her condition and go on to have a beautiful, healthy baby girl. Link in bio and this pic to listen to the podcast episode (or reach/watch it on getwellbe.com) #getwellbe 📷 Inspo: @pcos.weightloss

Each year around Thanksgiving I think about what I

Each year around Thanksgiving I think about what I’m most grateful for from the past year. I hold that gratitude tight throughout the holiday season, and after Christmas begin to shift into planning for and getting excited about the next year. ⁠
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But what a year to reflect back on –nationally, internationally, personally. Would you have believed someone if they told you a year ago what 2020 would bring?! 🙃⁠
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But that is the beauty of gratitude, even in the worst of circumstances, you can find it and feel it. Gratitude will not only make you feel emotionally good, but also it has a variety of other scientifically proven health benefits that make it as worthwhile a practice as meditation, exercise and many other more traditional healthful activities.⁠
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Today I am filled with gratitude for this community, for all the beautiful people I have gotten to know through this account, and through the WellBe newsletter, podcast, my private client work and our programs, and all of the heartfelt messages I have received from you in 2020 and in years past. ⁠
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I am filled with gratitude that I am alive, not suffering and safe when so many others have not been this year. I am grateful for the people I love and support, and those who love and support me, for people who show kindness without expectation, for people who strive to compassionately understand those they are “against”, for nature’s beauty, for home cooked meals and locally grown food, and for the power of optimism and resilience.⁠
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If you think about what you’re grateful for regularly, then you’re familiar with the exercise I just did, but if it’s not something you’ve done in a while, perhaps take a few minutes right now to do it.⁠
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I know Thanksgiving will look pretty different for a lot of us this year as travel plans are canceled and big gatherings discouraged because of Covid-19, but I hope you’ll be filled with the spirit of gratitude that Thanksgiving represents no matter who you’re with and where you’ll be. If you did the exercise, let me know what you're most grateful for below! ❤️ xxx⁠

The concept of toxic burden is essentially that th

The concept of toxic burden is essentially that the human body deals with toxins all day long, think of it like a game of Tetris: If the body deals with a normal amount of toxins and has no trouble dealing with them, the screen fills up with blocks a little more over time but never reaches the top. Symptoms and disease only manifest when it's game over, toxins get to the top. ⁠
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There are a variety of things that are considered toxins but the primary sources are crappy food, man-made chemicals and other pollutants in our products, water, air., vices...and equally important is not doing the thing that flush out those toxins like being well hydrated, eating enough fiber and moving/exercising enough.⁠
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The only things you can really control are what you buy. The air in your city, for example, is much harder to control. When you choose to purchase something, you're saying, you are welcome in my home. So only welcome those things into your home that aren't going to be making you sick over time.⁠
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Link in bio and this pic to check out the WellBe Non-Toxic Product Database if you haven't already for over 2500 vetted, curated, non-toxic products in 20+ categories. Using non-toxic products is one of the easiest, best ways I know of to reduce your toxic burden over time so that you never lose the Tetris game and get to the top. How do you determine which products are clean enough to buy? #getwellbe

I have some crazy news for you guys. I took a COVI

I have some crazy news for you guys. I took a COVID test 9 days ago and it was POSITIVE! The two weeks prior to the positive test, I went to the dentist (no mask obviously worn during the appt!), ridden in an Uber (masked) for an hour, eaten in a restaurant and my husband was in a DMV (masked) for an hour. I'm not quite sure which of those things it could have been but likely one of them! ⁠
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Last Wednesday night I got a headache, chills, a fever and I had no appetite for dinner. ⁠
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I haven't had even sniffles much less a fever in two years so I knew I had to get tested. I put myself to bed early and luckily woke up and all the symptoms were gone. I got tested and it took nearly 3 hours in line to get a test. Since then I've had some congestion but otherwise have felt fine, and luckily did not lose my sense of taste and smell. ⁠
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I feel very lucky that my symptoms have been so mild and the experience has made me double down on what I've been doing the past few months during quarantine and that is EAT WHOLE PLANTS ALL THE TIME.⁠ EVERY MEAL. ⁠
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Sure once in a blue moon we need a can or box of soup or a frozen pizza because we just can't get it together to make ourselves a meal but if you make your "mostly" making soup for yourself, chopping and cooking vegetables that were just on a root, eating fresh, in season fruit as much as possible, nuts without flavoring, seeds, and making your own plant-based sauces, you are going to be in much better shape should you get Covid-19. ⁠
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I have really committed to making at least 19 of 21 meals a week for myself and using organic, whole foods as much as I can. ⁠My fridge doesn't look quite like this, but it's close-ish! I've been quarantining for the past 9 days and have one more tomorrow until I'm no longer at risk of infecting others. Has anyone else gotten Covid? What was your experience like? #getwellbe [📷 @fullyrawkristina]