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Month: October 2020

5 Ways You Can Detox Everyday

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Detoxifying your body daily will give your organs and microbiome the boost they need to work optimally every day. By turning our favourite daily detox tips into habits, your body will feel noticeably lighter, brighter and ready for anything.

1. Eat natural anti-inflammatory foods

If your body is inflamed – whether due to injury, stress or inflammatory health conditions – it could definitely benefit from a detox.

Incorporating more natural anti-inflammatory foods into your diet will help to reduce the inflammation levels in your body. Foods that fight inflammation include tomatoes, spinach, avocado, blueberries, almonds and turmeric.

Having studied the health benefits of turmeric, we understand the power that this golden spice contains. That’s why it’s the key ingredient in our Turmeric Blend, a health supplement specifically formulated with natural ingredients to reduce inflammation within the body.

2. Take prebiotic supplements for gut health

Digestion and detoxing go hand-in-hand. Giving your gut the tools it needs to efficiently digest and remove harmful toxins from the body means packing it full of prebiotics.

Prebiotics feed the probiotics in your gut, an abundance of which helps to maintain a healthy and balanced microbiome. Eating prebiotic-rich foods like chicory root and green bananas will help to keep your gut healthy, cleansed and ready to digest.

If you don’t have any prebiotic-rich foods on hand, taking prebiotic supplements regularly – like our Prebiotic Blend – will give you the nutrients your gut and body need to detox and thrive.

3. Give your body a liver cleanse

As the body’s filtration system, the liver has a huge job to do in separating out toxins from nutrients and removing them from the body. In order to detox every day, you need to eat foods that support detoxification and give your body a liver cleanse.

Beetroot is a powerful source of nutrients that help to cleanse your liver by speeding up the body’s waste excretion process. We use beetroot powder in our Dailly Detox blend to target liver function and improve the organ’s filtration rate.

4. Drink water

We need water to survive. By staying hydrated, our body has a much easier time performing its natural functions and processes.

Drinking water regularly aids digestion, promotes smooth joint movement, regulates body temperature and removes waste and harmful toxins from the body – which makes it quite the detoxifying drink!

5. Sweat it out

Sweating helps to remove heavy metals and harmful toxins from the body – a process aided by water, so make sure you’re drinking lots of it.

There are many different ways you can sweat the toxins out, so simply choose your favourite. Try doing some intensive exercise, taking a hot yoga class or relaxing in a sauna. The choice is yours!

Get your detox on

Detoxifying your body reaps a myriad of rewards. By detoxing every day, you will have more energy, improved digestion, easier movement and a more upbeat attitude. Sounds like a detoxifying dream come true!

Everyday Foods That Will Boost Your Mood

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Feeling down in the dumps could have more to do with your diet than you might think. Research is showing that eating healthy foods may help to improve your mood and make you feel happier.

If eating an unbalanced diet has the power to make you feel blue, just imagine what eating nutritious meals could do for your wellbeing. Here are just a few of our favourite mood-boosting foods.

Beetroot

Beets are already one of our go-to veggies for a liver cleanse, but they can actually make for a pretty powerful mood-booster, too. These purple liver-lovers are packed with betaine and tryptophan, both of which have been found to improve your mood.

Tryptophan can make you sleepy but we’re okay with it because of the significant role the amino acid plays in producing serotonin, the feel-good hormone that floods our body when we’re in a good mood.

We’ve embraced the power of beets by making beetroot powder the key ingredient in our Daily Detox blend, which targets liver health. Taken regularly, it may even help to improve your mood.

Green tea

Green tea has been a popular drink in China, where it originated, for thousands of years. Since it’s discovery, it has grown in popularity across the rest of the world.

For centuries, green tea has been used to improve mental clarity and cognitive function, and further research into the drink has proven this to be true.

Green tea is packed with phytochemicals that work together to improve your mood, including L-theanine, an amino acid that helps you to feel relaxed. It also contains enough caffeine to keep you alert without feeling jittery.

Spinach

Being iron-deficient has shown to significantly decrease your energy levels and make you feel constantly fatigued, which can negatively impact your mood. By incorporating iron-rich foods like spinach into your diet, you’ll be able to keep your energy and your mood up.

Spinach also contains magnesium, a mineral which helps with serotonin production in the body. Eating this leafy green regularly will increase your happy hormones and ensure that you stay energised throughout the day.

Bananas

Like beetroot, bananas contain tryptophan, which means that eating them helps to boost your serotonin levels and improve your mood. Eating a banana can satisfy your sweet craving and give you an energy boost at the same time.

Green bananas are a wonderful source of prebiotic fibre that your gut will love – and a happy gut makes for a happier, healthier you.

Turn your frown upside down with mood-boosting foods

The foods you consume can impact your body and mind in so many ways, and it’s important to eat only the things that make you feel good. Stick to mood-boosting foods on a daily basis and you may just find that your mood stays lifted for longer.

Natural Remedies for a Better Night’s Sleep

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A good night’s sleep gives your body time to rest and recuperate in preparation for the coming day. But when your sleep cycle is out of whack, it can throw everything else out of balance, too.

If you’re having trouble sleeping, there are a number of things you can do to help improve your sleep and fall back into a natural rhythm. We’ve listed our favourite natural remedies for improving your sleep below.

Drink turmeric tea before bed

With all of the health benefits of turmeric packed into our Turmeric Blend, we already know the power of this enticing spice.

Not only is turmeric a powerful natural anti-inflammatory, but it also helps to aid digestion. This is crucial to your sleeping pattern because if there’s food in your stomach, your body will delay melatonin production (more on this soon) and it will take you longer to get to sleep.

Speed up your digestion and counteract your body’s natural response with a cup of turmeric tea before bed. The turmeric will help to get things moving along, prevent you from having to go to bed on a full belly, and ensure that your melatonin production happens on time.

Get your sunshine hours in

Melatonin is a hormone that makes you feel relaxed and sleepy, and it’s pumped through your body at night to help you sleep. Healthy melatonin production is easy – all you need to do is get your daylight hours in.

The production of melatonin is intrinsically linked to your body’s natural cycle of waking and sleeping.

In order for your body to know when it’s time to wake and time to sleep, you need to absorb as much natural light as possible during the day. That way, your body will know when to release larger amounts of melatonin throughout your system (at night) to help you sleep.

Change your diet

The food you put into your body has a huge impact on how your body functions. When it’s loaded with unhealthy food, it can’t work at optimal capacity. Instead, you can expect to see poorer digestion, decreased mood, ongoing fatigue and bad sleep patterns.

Transitioning over to a natural anti-inflammatory diet that consists of nutritious, balanced meals and healthy snacks will help to keep your body functioning optimally and improve your sleep – as well as other physical and psychological aspects of your life.

The team at Flourish are passionate about our plant-based diet because of how positively it has impacted our own – and especially our co-founder, Chris Ashton’s – lives.

Get moving

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: exercise is beneficial for your health in so many ways. Not only does regular exercise make you stronger and fitter, but it also helps to improve your mood, aid digestion, increase your energy levels and promote better sleep.

Aim to get moving – whether it’s for a walk, run, cycle, strength training or other type of fitness – for at least 20 minutes a day.

Due to pre-existing injuries, health conditions or general preference, you may find that high-impact exercise is not for you. If this is the case, opt for some low-impact alternatives.

Yoga is a calming, low-impact exercise that has been shown to improve sleep quality with regular practice.

Get a better night’s sleep

Whether it makes you feel irritable, tired, unable to focus or hungrier than usual, a poor night’s sleep can impair your waking existence in many ways. We recommend trying out these natural remedies to improve your sleep quality and feel more energised and tranquil during the day.