Let’s Reduce Inflammation Now! Getting Started and a @steembasicincome Giveaway
This is one of the first posters I ever made when I got on this kick to help other people get healthy after I finally did.
This is the "before" picture of when you are inflamed and feeling sick and not helping yourself. Study this and see if anything resonates with you. This is how I used to feel all the time.
This Inflammation Reduction Project has two goals:
- Get rid of 10% of your incoming toxin load
- Add 10% “Better Stuff” to your life.
And then after that?
- Continue
- Persist
That’s it! 10% by 10% - we are going to get there – to a healthier place for you and your family.
Go easy on yourself, but go! Start making any small changes you can and see how it works for you.
I gave you a list of places to look for toxins in my last post – you should read it again to get centered about what we are doing here and to refresh your resolve to improve. This is not hard as we move through it.
Here are some ways to get started down the path of inflammation reduction.
Take “before” photos of you and your family this week.
- Full frontal
- Full side view
- Close up face
- Facial profile.
You cannot see it now, but in a few weeks you will dramatically see the improvement in progress pics. Plan to take some again in a month – and every month!
I belong to some groups for natural ideas and they often suggest this photo idea. This will be very motivating as we going through time and you watch the improvement happen.
Talk to your family
- Are they on board with this idea?
- What do they think could change easily?
Start a simple journal
- List bad stuff you think should go
- List good stuff you think should come in
No pressure! Just think about it. The bad stuff might not be as bad as you think and there might be easy substitutes. Please tell me what you've got in the comments below.
Look at what you have on hand
- Food
- Beauty
- Cleaning
- Household
- Hobbies
Review and see what you can easily improve. What's going to be harder?
A good, quick, easy way to judge!
Look at the ingredients on the label of anything. Are the words there words you know? Or are the words chemical formulas you have never heard of? Hmm...
Your goal over time is to reduce the stuff that inflames you. Some things inflame everyone and some things only bother sensitive people.
So do these little check ups and let me know how it’s going in the comments. I’m going to be posting about this frequently for the next weeks and months as I really need to improve for myself. You are coming along for the ride I hope!
Another post in this series:
Is Baking Soda Anti-Inflammatory?
Some places to look for healthy food.
My son @bxlphabet has been posting about healthy food choices and if you get and start eating a few of these things – you will feel better!
Dulse Seaweed
Nutritional Yeast Flakes
Hemp Oil and Hemp Seeds
Raw Cacao
Turmeric
Spirulina dailyfoodphotography
Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce
Black Seed Oil Cumin for Health My Experience dailyfoodphotography
Vegan Milk for Health My Experience dailyfoodphotography
Some healthy ingredients including Miso
Organic Dates for Health My Experience dailyfoodphotography
Produce to Cook into Vegan Curry colourfulphotography
Not food but excellent for everyone!
Magnesium Oil
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We are exposed to a lot of chemicals in our own homes. Choose natural things whenever you can. Use essential oils as an air freshener. Use Dr Bronner's Castile Soap. Bicarbonate of soda is a great cleaning product.
Try going gluten free.
To help get the bad stuff out I recommend activated charcoal and chlorella.
I tried magnesium oil, but I didn't like the feel of it on my skin. I take magnesium chloride with water before going to bed (very relaxing) and add magnesium flakes to baths.
Thanks for your recommendations :)
We are on the same page for sure. I know what you mean about the oil - it can get messy!
The list of posts about healthy food is like it is written in a foreign language. Will have to take a look.
From Kryptonia
It's very distressing for me to know this too! It is a wide gap between me and the rest of the world. I will have simpler ideas coming up.
Both yourself and your son have given great ideas on healthy eating.
Local fresh seasonal fruit, raw vegetables, my number one on shopping list. Avoid processed wherever possible you never know what additives are going into vegetables, dried fruits or meat.
Eat fish and white meat more often than red, spices available to add to daily recommended quantities.
Have never seen Magnesium Oil, tablets are what I have found.
Water, 2 to 3 liters per day, no additives, tea and coffee do not count, it must be fresh not bottled. Buy a good filter system for water or build one if necessary, best investment you will ever make.
You are so right about the water! Mine is not the best now and I feel bad for it. I'm not surprised that you are already living this way. Look in the health care area of your health food store and they might have mg oil. My son and I cannot be without it. Lugol's iodine as well - but you get fish - so good on you.
This might be helpful to someone, i know it works for me. Going barefoot as much as possible and sleeping on an earthing ground sheet. I don't work for them or get a kickback! Haha. Check the info on their website if you like. It's too much for me to explain about but one of the first things it does is relieve inflammation : )
Another suggestion i hesitate to mention is using the tools of Access Consciousness.
I have heard about grounding and the sheets for your bed. I think this is a good strategy but have not researched it at all. We are bombarded by wifi and I do not think that can be good. People in some of my chronic pain groups are into this and I will pay more attention.
I have not heard of Access Consciousness, but will certainly look into it now.
Thank you for those tips. I'm trying everything I can these days since my inflammation is off the charts!
Once again i'm regretting not taking a typing class! Typing with 2 fingers is really slow haha.
I love the sheets because it works with my body while i'm in bed sleeping. Think about that for a moment. It works while i'm asleep! I feel much better now in the morning than i did before getting a sheet. I like the fitted bottom sheet the best. It ends up being one of the easiest and least expensive most effective things i've ever done for my health. They have mats you can sit on and put under your hands while your at your computer that are really great too. I wouldn't give mine up for anything!
Access Consciousness was started by Gary Douglas and Dr Dain Heer and it's an enormous body of work that i have no idea where to tell anyone to start with. It's changed my life in ways i can't even begin to describe. Might not be everyone's cup of tea to say the least :) Hmmm... i will say this. People who have had little luck or change with other "modalities" often find what has been missing for them - things they knew were possible but couldn't get to - now are possible. Oh boy i'm not a great writer! It's my hope that i might be a contribution to people, even if it's just one person on the planet :)
this is awesome. I'm trying to live healthy. the first thing I do is a nice breakfast, lunch without bread, healthy snacks in the evening, dinner with vegetables, yada just yogurt ..
three days a week I mix three spoons of oil-free yogurt with a mixture of ginger, turmeric and cinnamon (a spoon ). I drink plenty of water to sleep. helping the metabolism work. I am doing sports at least four days a week. it is going well for now .. I follow your advice on :)
You have got a very healthy routine going on! Good for you. How to you get your spices where you live?
I live in Turkey. there are spice makers here. black pepper
, red pepper-like spices. ginger, turmeric and cinnamon are dry. they are powdered and selling them. It's called spice in Turkey
I bet it is good quality there. You are lucky!
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