Health
Chronic Stress Impacts Your Health: How to Recognize & Manage Symptoms
You’ve probably heard of the adrenal glands and their correlation to stress. Your adrenal glands are two tiny glands that sit on top of the kidneys. They are part of the overall endocrine system that produces hormones to regulate the body. The adrenal glands produce three very important hormones: adrenaline, cortisol and aldosterone.
Dutch Oven Chicken Thighs with Lemon and Sage Butter Sauce Recipe
There is nothing worse than dry, flavorless chicken and this recipe is anything but that! Perfectly browned and moist, this chicken dish is bursting with bright lemon, earth sage, and rich butter flavors.
Cauliflower Fried Rice Recipe
This Chinese-style cauliflower fried rice is a healthy, low-carb dish. Food is medicine and this recipe is a perfect combination of easy ingredients that can help balance digestion. Cauliflower, peas, and carrots strengthen the spleen and promote digestion. Scallions are antiviral and antibacterial. Mushrooms detoxify, resolve phlegm, and are anti-tumor. Water chestnuts help to clear heat. Egg nourishes yin and tonifies the blood. Garlic is antiviral and antifungal. Ginger is antitoxin and benefits the lungs and stomach. Peanuts strengthen the spleen and regulate blood.
Feel free to be creative and create your own variation of this dish with other ingredients that you enjoy.
KETO FRIENDLY AND GLUTEN FREE ALMOND COOKIES RECIPE
These crunchy keto, gluten free cookies are incredibly quick and simple to bake.
I love baking these cookies for friends and family. The sweetness helps to feed the Spleen system, which represents Earth and the Mother of the body. The almonds support the Lung system, while the eggs and butter nourish Yin.
Moderation in all things is the Middle Way, which is the way of the Tao.
What is HRV?
As popular as the metaphor may be, a healthy heart doesn’t beat as regularly as a metronome — in fact, it changes its rhythm with each beat. This constant variation in milliseconds between your heartbeats is known as your heart rate variability, or HRV.
Some situations result in an increase in variation (high HRV), while others cause the intervals between beats to stay more constant (low HRV).
You may be unaware of these subtle variations, but they reflect your heart’s ability to respond to different situations. HRV can react to stress and/or illness before resting heart rate (RHR), which makes it one of your body’s most powerful signals—providing useful insights into your stress levels, recovery status, and general well-being.
