Knock, knock. How are you feeling lately? Have you made time for yourself recently? The reason I am asking this is that most days we experience complexity, urgency, and an overload of tasks and goals we want to reach. The guiding mantra behind this way of working and living is: “We need to perform at a constant rate and always give our best regardless of anything”. We hear in many different corridors, in the metro at rush hour or at coworking spaces, that in order to become a successful person we need to work our hardest and always give our best without even taking time to recover from achieving one…
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Veggie-Bowl
Legumes, vegetables, and grains are very versatile and give you the option to experiment with different kind of veggie-bowls. Preparation time: 35 minutes (after soaking the lentils) Ingredients: 1 cup of lentils/chickpeas/beans soaked overnight 3 garlic cloves, crushed ½ leek, diced 1 cube of vegetable broth 1 cup of quinoa or Basmati rice 1 cube of grass-fed beef broth 1 cube of vegetable broth 2-3 medium-sized avocados 2tbsp. fresh lemon juice Add pepper to taste 1 small broccoli or cauliflower 3 tomatoes, diced 1 bunch of kale, minced 4 handfuls spinach, minced 1 big red pepper, diced 200 gr. fresh mixed salad greens ½ cup of well-rinsed black or green…
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Finding the trigger. Food rotation
The heat brought back some memories. How often do you experience these recollections of the past through your senses? I had mine some weeks ago and it made me experience a vivid memory of an event that took place 11 years ago. 11 years! It was in the middle of June, a very hot Berlin summer, when I experienced for the first time in my life a cold sensation in some of my extremities. My hands and feet suddenly went numb and I could feel a shivering cold invading my body to the point where I lost all sense of feeling. A very awkward sensation. On that exact day, I…
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4 Fundamental Points of Any Nutrition Session
The basics are the core parameters for having a solid base which we can lean on when pursuing things in life. We establish them so that we have something to support us when we need to reinforce our resoluteness or review the reasons why we began a particular journey. We rely on them as guidelines for our challenges and failures, which are essential aspects that are part of the process of working towards our goals. In short, the basics are our solid foundation. The basics structure our plan by providing us with step-by-step methods that help us make important connections to what is going on in our lives so that…
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Exercise and Hormones
Hormones are chemical messengers that facilitate communication between the multitude of biological systems and glands within our body. They are part of the endocrine system, which is a series of glands that produce and secrete hormones that the body uses to control cellular functions. Hormones are delivered through blood vessels to cells in the body and regulate a number of physiological reactions in the body including growth, weight, development, hydration levels, mood, reproduction, tissue function, sexual function, energy metabolism, menstrual cycle, immunological behavior, sleep, homeostasis, synthesis and degradation of muscle protein, among others. These are regulated by feedback through stimulation from the nervous system, chemical receptors in the blood, and…
