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Perhaps you would like to optimize your overall health towards vitality, longevity, performance, better mood, or maybe chronic, nagging, even symptoms that interfere with your daily life sound familiar to you, and you have tried several things and yet nutrition is a piece that wasn’t fully explored in your case.
That’s where Holistic Nutrition comes in, together we can explore the underlying imbalances contributing to your or loved one’s symptoms from a nutritional and holistic perspective. We address interconnections and body systems that have gone potentially awry, in what ways, and how to get you back in balance.

Meet your RHN Angelica: Graduated as registered holistic nutritionist from CSNN Toronto campus, before that did Health Info Management at GBC in TO, and Clinical Epidemiology in Newfoundland where she landed after practicing a few years as general practitioner in South America where she was born.

Her shift to this area of nutrition happened after becoming a late firt-time mom, seeing herself experiencing several chronic conditions, navigating between various specialists, and yet not finding a way back to function and vitality, other than awaiting for an alleviating surgery. By first hand she can tell you that you are not alone and that one’s nutrition can be the missing link to better health or as coadjutant to medical approach. Being proactive toward our health is a key piece toward quality of life and living our lives to its fullest.
Common things she sees, but not limited are unexplained inflammation, skin, digestive/gut issues, body pain, hormone imbalances, infertility, fatigue, weight gain, mood issues, prepping to pregnancy, peri-menopause. Through an individualized nutrition approach, Angelica is committed to helping you optimize/regain that piece of health to you so you can enjoy fully your life!

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Managing our weight is not about calories!

There are many reasons why after you have been dieting and putting lots of efforts on managing you weight, things does not seem to fall into place. You are following a meal plan, you exercise, tried this and that, and even though the same thing seems to be working well for others, you see no results on yourself, why?.

Certainly several factors are involved, sometimes it is an indication that something is off in your body, that there is an underlying condition that maybe you haven’t put attention as yet. 

Maybe it is our bodies’ own way of saying “listen to me”, “ listen to me well”. An indication that there is something else that you have to address first before attempting to see results on the weight scale. You can’t ask your body to do something if does not have the right terrain to do so.

Let’s start with chronic stress is something likely to be  put on our shoulders by modern life. As a reaction, our body has its own physiological responses: Cortisol is released as a natural response, we all know that. It is not bad, however when the stimulus  is not resolved, not very good things come next: high levels of blood sugar, and since the body interpret the situation as of survival, it says “we got to store fat, we need more quick energy to keep the fight-flight mode on” “give me more sugar”, those sugar cravings, right?.

And there you are, your body trying to adapt, time passes on, and then you may find yourself spiraling you down into the exhaustion phase.

So exhausted all the time, you see your arm reaching to places, looking for all those sweet goodies stored away in your pantry or the bottom drawer of your desk. So, the body is in “storing fat mode (especially around the abdomen) and asking you for more sugar.

“I am stressed out because I see no results despite the efforts” you might say. Exactly, you got to do something about your coping strategies when it comes to stress.

Mind over matter” have you ever heard about it?, sure you did, change your thoughts and emotions around it may change (mindfulness and eating). Consciousness over matter!, exactly, you read my mind, spirituality may help you deal with stress and change the way our body reacts to stimuli or unresolved conflicts. Skeptical yet?, what about installing a new belief system on us, one that frees us from all the conditioning that our ego is imposed to. And then, free of all that conditioning, we can choose….love, compassion and healing.

Bottomline, let’s cultivate our spirits to have better bodies! I know you reached the same conclusion, being separated from you inner beings brings anything but health.

Okay, besides chronic stress, pollution, toxins among others translates into oxidative stress which is associated to disease, and state of physiological un-easy-ness, where you just feel unwell, not healthy.

If you are wondering about supplements to tackle the oxidative stress to reduce the damage produced by free radicals on our cells, I can suggest one. I use one that reduces 30 to 40 % of it by the third month or so, and the inversion is just like a latte or cup of coffee you pay for at Starbucks. I use it, put on them to my mom and hubby, next one will be my dad. Phytoquemicals for you.

Lastly, as we said above, weight management is not about calories, but nutrition density and quality. You already heard about  clean diet as meaning eliminating processed food. You want to know why it is important in fat metabolism? Everything that the body is unsure about turns into fat deposits, yes, it goes down to the digestive tract, but then because is not a whole food, the body interprets it as “unclassified or alien food” abd says “ let’s turn it into fat just in case”. Whole foods are the best choosing. Have you watch those ads on the tv that says “if you can not even pronounce it, don’t eat”?, sort of right, if you choose quinoa, look at the ingredients list, it has to say only “quinoa”, if it has 10 weird ingredients, then probably it is anything but quinoa, sorry for the redundance.

Bottomline, there is more to it when you want to manage your weight, it is the value you attach to it. I know you want more just than reducing inches, you want a functional body, full of vitality that allow you to live to your best potential. Want a whole body? Treat it as such, honor its WHOLENESS, and you will be blessed by your body.

Cheers to your health!

Disclaimer: I am no dietitian or health care practitioner. Visit your family doctor for health concerns.

Follow the checklist:

👉You get enough sunlight exposure (does your office at least have a window? Or, just a light bulb?
👉Your circadian rhythm is tunned (looking at pc, phone’s screen disrupts it, for example)🛌
👉You drink from a good source of water.
👉You manage your stress in a resilient way (like you only get the amount of stress you can manage, no more than that?)
👉You exercise in a regular basis.💃🏃‍♂️🏊‍♂️ Don’t forget our brain needs fitness too (meditation will do).
👉You limit your exposure to radiofrequency radiation from cellphones and microwave, for instance. I just got a small pot to heat up my kid’s soup instead of using microwave, this latter is becomes a ornament in my apt).
👉 You follow a whole food plan. Like whole grains, as opposed to whole grain cheerios or bread. Time to clean up our cupboards. Bye bye processed foods and fake sugars.
👉Your veggies and fruits intake includes a variety of colors, enough for your to get all the phytonutrients that are essential for our body functions.
👉You eat healthy fats (medium chain fats). For instance canola oils, yikes!😶it is artificially engineered, nothing natural about it)
👉Your nervous system is not dysregulated (what does it even mean? We will talk about this in another post). Chronic stress does get you a bill in the mail if the stressor is not resolved (which lets your nervous system in a fight-flight-freeze mode).
👉You breath 🙂…..as opposed to holding your breath or hyperventilating (is it possible we have forgotten how to breath to up-regulate our parasympathetic nervous system?).

Do you climb trees?🙈 Never mind, however exposure to nature makes us more resilient to stress. (you might find me trying to climb a tree in a attempt to reconnect to nature though).

♦️If you have checked “yes” to all the above, congrats!! then “NO need for anything else”, right? 🙂🙂🙂
♦️Otherwise, there is a couple of things that have been helping me greatly and to many people as well, you can TAKE ACTION too:
❤Mindfulness meditation!!! 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️ Aaah, how many times have you already heard this?🤔 A practice to be implemented in our routines just as much you set a time apart to brush and floss your teeth. Technology like the muse headband works wonders as a biofeedback tool if you are up to.🤗
❤Nrf1 and Nrf2 activator! Yes, these two WORK (backed up by meaningful research).
Feel your body has gotten the hits of modern life?? (let’s put it that way, remember the checklist above?🖕). 
It is all natural 🙂unlike the many medications we might be already on. You can get them on the link below, highly recommended the dual synergizer (Nrf1 and Nrf2). If you think you might not need it right now, would you consider it when your health gets poor or poorer?

Yours in hustle, health and fitness,
Angelica😃