Promote Health & Prevent Illness

Are you ready for round 2 of the corona virus, the 2nd wave?
Join Ahuva Gamliel, Acupuncture Physician, as she discusses simple immune system boosters that promote health and wellness and prevent sickness (even despite exposure to covid 19). With these simple tools you can thrive in the face of the virus and go on living your best life!

In Holistic medicine, the prevention and the treatment often involve the same ingredients (in different amounts).  And as they say, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."  This means that it's easier to prevent illness than to treat it once a person already has it.

During these times of uncertainty, it is of utmost importance to manage stress.  Stress can contribute to or trigger a wide range of health and mental health conditions including anxiety and depression and autoimmune and inflammatory conditions.  To prevent becoming overwhelmed and to continue to manage life successfully, it is vital to incorporate methods such as meditation, yoga, prayer, or breathwork to help control the mind and emotions and prevent yourself from potentially spiraling into a preventable condition.

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Coping with the Corona Virus

We are certainly living in interesting times, aren't we?

Let's talk about how to cope with all the things happening today.

Many countries around the world including Italy, China, Peru and others have been on lock down (quarantine) for 2-4 weeks in order to prevent the spread of the Corona Virus and it is likely that we will be next. This practice has been successful in stopping the spread of CV. The only places people are allowed to go during lock down are supermarkets, gas stations, and the pharmacy.

Until then, since most of us are still working and in public places, we must strengthen our immune system. 1,000 mg of Vitamin C taken 3 times per day between meals is great to boost the immune system. Other things to boost the immune system include: zinc 30 mg per day, garlic (1 clove per day), fresh grated ginger, raw onions, mushroom extracts, fresh fruits, berries, nuts and vegetables, bone broth etc. It is important to get good sleep, fresh air, and 15 minutes of direct sunlight without sunscreen for the natural vitamin D synthesis in the skin which had been used to treat other viral epidemics in the past.

In times of crisis we see humanity at its best and at its worse. While some people do things such as looting during a riot, others step up and donate resources, time, and services. Nike and other retailers are giving their employees paid leave to prevent or curtail the spread of the virus. And some NBA players are donating money to pay for arena staff who will be out of work for at least 1 month due to arena closures. These types of stories, where people and businesses are going above and beyond their call of duty, are something to inspire and uplift us amid such uncertain and potentially stressful times.

What to do if you are stuck at home? Use this time as an opportunity for growth, self improvement, and relationship bolstering. Here are some ideas:

1. Share a healthy meal with a family member. Many of us skip meals, eat on the run, or just don't have organized eating habits. This is the time to slow down and eat consciously and deliberately and together. Since grocery stores are still open (perhaps with limited hours), you can still find a lot of the ingredients for various recipes, and if not you can improvise! A delicious breakfast I ate with my daughter who is homeschooling today is an acai bowl. I use a basic recipe and make substitutions such as almond milk instead of apple juice and I add a scoop of plain protein powder to offset all the fructose (natural sugar). This is not something we can usually do on a weekday (it's more of a Sunday treat) so we can cherish the chance to break out of the normal routine and make the morning special with a delicious and nutritious meal. A healthy meal is a great line of defense and spending quality time with a loved one is priceless. Maybe add a gratitude prayer before and/or after the meal. Use the extra time to explore a few new recipes for dishes you haven't made yet but would like to try.

2. Exercise. The gyms might be closed but don't let that stunt your creativity! Get your favorite playlist and have a dance party, dust off that old cardio equipment or workout DVDs that you never use and get your money's worth. There are a plethora of free yoga, qi gong, tai chi, belly dancing and other exercise videos on youtube that you can watch and do in your living room. You can do jumping jacks, burpees, sit ups, plank, squats, lunges, push ups and much more without needing much space at all.

3. Meditation and/or prayer or journaling. This is a great time to introspect. Give another meaning to "going inside." Ask yourself important questions about your goals and dreams and plans and be still and welcome the answers that come to you. There are so many things we put on the back burner because we "don't have time." Guess what, now we have time! What a blessing! Time is the most precious commodity of them all. Let's utilize it positively and create healthy habits to take beyond the lock down! Start a gratitude journal and count all your daily blessings.

4. Household projects. Here is an opportunity to clear your clutter. Organize your closets, shelves, drawers, basement, attic, yard/garden. Our space is important for the way we function. Getting rid of things that we no longer use or need is very liberating on many levels. Looking around at an organized and clean home is a wonderful feeling.

5. Personal Growth. We have access to so many wonderful educational tools. Read books, watch Ted Talks on any subject that interests you, watch (Netflix) documentaries such as What the Health, The Game Changers, Forks over Knives, Super size me, The business of cancer, The business of being born, vaccine-nation, and others. There are audible books, study the bible or review other texts to improve your job performance.

6. Crafts. You may have a special skill that you don't have time to cultivate such as painting, piano, sewing, poetry or creating a photo album book of your favorite digital photos. This is a time to pick up creative projects and perhaps even discover a hidden talent. You can create a vision board, draw, sing, write a short story.

7. Plan ahead. You can do research for a blog article, make changes to your website, come up with a new advertisement or campaign for work. Many events (industrial and social) had to be canceled because of the social distancing recommendations. Start looking into replacement or substitute events, races, and gatherings.

8. Self care. Light a candle and take a hot bath with epsom salts, baking soda and your favorite essential oils. An oatmeal bath can be quite luxurious too (1 cup in pantyhose with a knot) . Cleanse, exfoliate, and moisturize your skin and use your favorite facial mask. Listen to relaxation music, binaural beats, or a guided meditation. Take care of your nails and your hair. Exchange massages with a family member. Enjoy aroma therapy in the form of an essential oil diffuser, incense, or scented candles. Use a Himalayan rock salt lamp for the benefits of the negative ions. Remember self care is not selfish. Self care is self preservation. When we are calm and peaceful we can make better decisions and enjoy life more. It benefits us and those we love.

9. Think positive thoughts. We are bombarded by negative messages in the media so we need to be mindful about what we are ingesting mentally. Positive affirmations such as, "this too shall pass" or "one day at a time" can help us to get through challenging times by staying present and positive and not letting ourselves become overwhelmed by all the potentially anxiety-provoking things happening around us.

10. Stay hydrated. Drink lots of alkaline or spring water or herbal tea. Dehydration makes us susceptible to illness and fatigue. Drinking 8 glasses of 16 ounces will help our bodies to flush out impurities, and keep us healthy. Cold infusions with berries, oranges, lemon, mint, ginger, or cucumbers can be very refreshing and provide added benefits.

11. Play games with family members. Such as xbox/nintendo/PS4/wii, cards, charades, board games, hangman, connect four and more. Or watch a movie/show together. Spending time with family members is a luxury we often miss out on even though we may live under the same roof. Having a game night or special family time can be a nice way to improve relationships.

12. Breathe. One of the best ways to change your mood, attitude, or state of mind is to change your breath. There are many different breath meditations in yoga involving, for example, breathing in one nostril and exhaling out the other one to relax the body and mind and promote wellbeing. There are also various counting breath-work techniques such as the 4-7-8 breathing technique, also known as “relaxing breath.” It involves breathing in for 4 seconds, holding the breath for 7 seconds, and exhaling for 8 seconds. This breathing pattern aims to reduce anxiety or help people get to sleep. Experiment and explore with different breathing meditations and find one that resonates with you. Breath classes can be transformational. Most of us do not realize that we are breathing shallow in our chest due to stress and not fully engaging our diaphragm and expanding our rib-cage with deep abdominal breathing.

13. Laugh. Laughter is the best medicine. There is actually a case of someone who laughed his cancer into remission. Watch some stand up on Amazon Prime, rent a funny movie, don’t take things so seriously. Yes we need to be careful and cautious but we also need to enjoy our lives and have fun!

In summary, we need to get back to the basics in order not only to maintain and preserve our health and sanity, but these same preservational activities and exercises for epidemic crisis survival are also paramount to our ability to thrive in life without any looming threats to our existence. If distancing ourselves from others means getting more in touch with ourselves, maybe it’s not such a bad thing after-all! It is my hope that we step back, reflect, and inject our lives with new found zest and meaning and purpose and energy to do great things. We were created for greatness. Now is our time to stop, look, and remember what we are here for!

Many blessings of complete health, wellness, and vitality.

Yours,

Ahuva Gamliel 

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Homeopathic Rapid Weight Loss

Like many people, I was unhappy about my weight for several years.  I tried eating healthy, exercising regularly, detox/cleansing, thyroid support, vitamins & supplements, diuretic teas and herbal fat burners but nothing worked for me.

Then a colleague of mine posted this video on Facebook live.  I was skeptical thinking that it would not work for me because I only needed to lose 10-15 lbs and we all know that, "the last 10 lbs are the hardest to lose."

I didn't expect it to work but was thrilled with the results:

I lost 14 lbs in 14 days!

*Results may vary from person to person

This is how I did it (other forms of protein are allowed):

                                     

This is what I ate (fruit, protein, vegetables):

My fresh fish was purchased here.  Tell Tomer Dr Ahuva Gamliel referred you.

When I started this diet I just did it for myself, not expecting any results but my friends and family who saw my posts on social media started asking me to help them lose weight so I added it as a service which I am now offering at my office:

21 Day Program Includes:

• Nutrition consultation & meal planning
• Measurements: Weight, Percent Body Fat, Body Mass Index, Waist & Hips circumference, Blood Pressure and Heart Rate
• Herbal ear seed placement for weight loss
• 1 Vitamin B12 shot
• 3 week supply of Homeopathic drops
• Daily email support for 3 weeks (weekly progress check-ins)
• Guided meditation for weight loss
• 3 week Follow up measurements and maintenance program consultation
• Remote sessions via phone and email are also possible
• Some PPO insurances may cover the consultation but not the supplement

I highly recommend these containers for easy meal planning as well as these drops to add to your electrolyte, alkaline, spring or mineral water (no distilled water). You will need 1 gallon per day so stock up!  Another tool that I like is this TENS Unit.  Bruce Lee used to use them to help with muscle tone.  And finally, if you don't have a kitchen food scale, you will need one unless you have a butcher who will cut you the allotted measures of meat, chicken, or fish.  Additional optional things to try include wearing hot pants while exercising to lose more inches.  If there is a lot of abdominal fat that you wish to focus on then a waist trimmer may help, it also helps with posture.  In case you are wondering, I do not have stock in Amazon and I am not getting paid to endorse any of these products.  I am simply sharing what's worked for me and what may be beneficial to you. The plan itself will work without any of these additional items.  

Smooth Move Tea by Traditional Medicinals is also helpful to have on supply to drink to avoid constipation. Drink it at night before bed to have a bowel movement in the morning. You can find it at Whole Foods and many other super markets in the tea section.

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Benefits of Corporate Wellness

According to a recent article published in the Sun Sentinel, 51% of Floridians are unhappy with their jobs!  In an article published on CNN’s website, the top 4 factors that contribute to their dissatisfaction include: 

1. few opportunities for advancement, 
2. company culture, 
3. being underpaid and 
4. loathsome managers and coworkers.  

Additional factors why employees were unhappy include 

• feeling unimportant and 
• they didn’t like their company’s health plans.

These factors contribute to high employee turnover and that costs the company valuable time and resources in an endless cycle of rehire, retrain, and repeat.  In addition, current labor market conditions, namely, historic levels of job openings, combined with low un-employment, appear to be driving an unprecedented job-hopping trend.  Many people are so confident that they are even quitting their jobs prior to finding new ones and they are getting hired within 12 months, the survey said.

Implementing a Corporate Wellness Health Plan can substantially improve employee job satisfaction by creating a company culture that is supportive, nurturing and facilitates a sense of importance and wellbeing among the employees.  In addition, implementing short 20-30 minute holistic stress-reducing services such as breath-work, meditation, and acupuncture can help employees be calm, cool, and collected despite upcoming deadlines and other pressures both inside and outside of work.  When the employees receive regular mind-body-spirit health care, while the external stressful factors remain the same, the individual is able to respond to them without irritability, frustration, short temper, and anxiety.  Thus the “loathsome coworkers” factor can virtually be eliminated.  The person who is irritated will no longer be on edge so it will be much harder to irritate him/her and the person doing the irritation will also be less stressed so they are less likely to transfer their stress to someone else.  

The Corporate Wellness Program is a win-win for all parties involved.  

Some of the benefits include:

*Decrease Health Care Costs 

*Improve Company's Bottom Line

*Reduce Absenteeism

*Increased Productivity 

*Increased Employee Morale 

*Improved Retention of High Achieving Employees 

*Enhanced Ability to Recruit Top Talent 

*Increased Job Satisfaction 

*Improved Overall Health & Well-being

*Improved Nutrition

*Increased Physical Activity 

*Reduced Stress & Anxiety 

*Increased Energy & Vitality 

*Quicker Return From Disability Leave 

*Prevent and Reduce On the Job Injuries

Many Insurances Accepted.  Our Verification Form is here.  

If insurance does not cover our services, we can work with a nominal co-payment fee.

Corporate Wellness is what transforms companies from surviving to thriving!  

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Corporate Wellness Flyer

How would you like to have FREE Corporate Wellness Services at your office such as meditation, nutrition, stress reduction, meditation, breathwork, vitamin B12 shots, and acupuncture that you could enjoy on company time?  Print this flyer and take it to your CEO or HR Manager and let's find out if your insurance policy* covers acupuncture!  If the policy does not cover our services, we can give them to you at co-pay costs!  

* Please see insurance verification form in hyperlink above

We look forward to bringing our health and wellness services t

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Quality VS Quantity

There are so many weight loss myths out there. I shared an uber with a personal trainer not long ago and I told her that I want to lose 10 lbs. She said I needed to eat MORE and she is RIGHT! When I did the body building competition I had to eat every 3 hours. I was consuming more calories and I was leaner. This is counter-intuitive: eat more*, weigh less. How is this possible? Because the calorie counting model that nutritionists teach is outdated and wrong. It's not about calories, it's about boosting metabolism (the rate your body BURNS calories). Also, not all calories are created equally. Refined white sugar carbs won't get rid of stubborn fat but a diet rich in green vegetable carbs and lean protein can. If you eat lean, clean and green, without skipping meals, drink plenty of water and exercise 5 days per week for an hour, you should be in good shape. If not, you need to research your body type (and maybe even blood type) and do some fine tuning according to your genetic constitution. Taking emotional inventory is also important to make sure food consumption is not being used as an emotional crutch.

*According to data from the Harvard Health Newsletter, after walking two 15-minute miles and weightlifting for 30 minutes, a 125-pound person burns only 210 calories and a 185-pound person burns 333 calories. So as you can see the calorie counting method just doesn't add up mathematically to the results that they claim are true.

If weight loss equaled calories consumed minus calories burned then all people eating 4,000+ calories per day should be morbidly obese (it's impossible to burn that much in a day with exercise*). But they are not necessarily, some have a very low body fat percentage. The movie star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, in order to maintain his legendary physique, eats more than 5,000 calories a day. The calories, spread over seven meals, include roughly 2.3 pounds of cod, a fish particularly rich in protein.

Case and Point: If I posted the visual aid above without the words and asked you which man ate 2,000 calories per day more than the other man, most people would guess that Patient X had the higher calorie consumption because he looks over-weight.

The truth is that it's not calories that count, it's metabolism. How do you boost metabolism? Small frequent meals and exercise. I am quite certain that WHAT they eat is also very different. The Standard American Diet is full of unhealthy fats, processed foods, additives, preservatives, food coloring and refined carbohydrates. THAT plus a sedentary lifestyle is why Patient X is Morbidly Obese while The Rock is, well... A beast & A LEGEND! You can eat more and weigh less. It's what you eat and how you eat it that matter too, not just numbers!!!

So stop counting your calories (unless you are in a body building competition) and start eating lean, clean, and green and GET MOVING! There is no magic pill for success, you put in the effort and time will do the rest.

Lastly, don't be fooled by appearances. Some people may look skinny on the outside but they could have a lot of fat around their organs on the inside and can actually be in bad cardiovascular shape. I remember in high school a very skinny girl (genetically vata ectomorph banana small frame) had 3% more body fat than I did (pitta mesomorph pear medium frame) and I was physically bigger than her. So looks can be deceiving.

The bottom line is that if you are not getting the results that you want then it may be time to modify your nutrition and fitness routine. 2019 is a great opportunity to do that. Wishing everyone a happy and healthy New Year.

If you don't believe eating clean works, here's my personal testimonial. When I was in graduate school I did the allergy elimination diet to try to find the source of my sinusitis. I ate only organic fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, gluten free grains including white rice, lamb, lentils, beans, and olive oil. I am 5'5" and I started off at 125 lbs. 6 weeks later I was down to 118 lbs. I went to my naturopathic clinic at school because I didn't like that I became so thin. My legs looked like I was riding a horse. I was eating PLENTY of calories but I could not keep the weight on. They advised me to eat more nut butters. The take home message is that your body will shed whatever it doesn't need when you give it what it does need! Our bodies need clean protein and vitamins and minerals from nutritious food. Eat good, feel good, look good. Good?

So when it comes to quality vs quantity, quality wins by a landslide!