Happy Thanksgiving

 Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-

                Well, the weekend was a little taste of winter but today is pretty nice. It looks like this week, including Thanksgiving Day, should be pretty nice and enjoyable. I hope that you can get together with you and yours and have an enjoyable time giving thanks for all the things we have and all the great people that we know. With these holidays that are here now and coming up in the future, time sure seems to go quickly. Were already noticing some patients with stress issues due to the holidays. I think we sometimes wind ourselves up into expecting too much during these holidays. Hopefully we can all chill out and just enjoy them, however they turn out to be. It’s always good to see our friends and family and catch up on all the news, especially if you haven’t seen them for quite a long time. Try not to eat a lot of sugary foods so that your immune system stays strong and you’re not sick for Christmas-ha.

                Our health shops this month are looking at “Getting Ready for Winter”. This week were talking about “Why Do I Get Sick?”. Right along with the first paragraph, when we eat foods that are processed our bodies have to “rob Peter to pay Paul” to utilize these processed foods as all the good nutrients have been processed out of them. That’s why we try to get people to stay with meats and vegetables as these are not as processed and have more nutrition in them to absorb. All the pastries and pies and things are very processed and the sugars remove a lot of the good nutrition from the body that it would normally use on other systems, like the immune system. This is why people many times have colds and flu after a holiday when you get together with others and share bugs. It’s not really the bugs fall, but the person’s immune system that is weakened due to their bad food choices.

                The article that I’m sending along this week looks at the problem with too much sleep increasing your odds for a stroke. Moderation is the key for most things, even sleep. What I would look at for the Natural Health point of view, is that these people who are sleeping all these hours, are not getting good sleep and are then more tired. If the body has enough good B vitamins, the parasympathetic nervous system is activated and people can get good deep sleep that helps with healing. People are just tired from over activity and poor diets, they may sleep a lot but are not getting the healing sleep that a deep sleep can get them. At Natural Health, we work towards getting the body systems to work correctly so the person gets around 7 to 8 hours of sleep and then wake up refreshed and ready to go for the whole day. Another very simple thing that keeps people from having thick blood that may lead to a stroke, is just good hydration, drinking half of their body weight in ounces of water per day and using sea salt and mineral salt as electrolytes so that the kidneys can keep fluid levels healthy in the body. Hydration is something that people don’t think much about but is very, very important for good health to be obtained.

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                From all of us here at Natural Health, please have a very Happy Thanksgiving and don’t eat too much (always a nice thought!). 

Get Healthy, Stay Healthy, and Live Well

Dr. Mark