So when we think about nutrition, so often people only think about the food that we eat, which is fair enough. And that’s a really important thing. And I don’t want to minimize that.

And so often people coming to me and see me at the clinic and I ask them about their diet and they’re just like, I just have to eat better.

And I’m always sort of, I challenge people to go.

What does that actually mean for you? Because so often people have these ideas about what they’re doing badly that can be bad about the food that they’re putting in their mouth.

And, you know, I believe I’m not the only person that believes is that if you feel bad about what it is that you’re putting into your mouth,chances are, you’re probably not going to get as much nourishment from that food.

Whereas if we can take the time to feel grateful and consider how this food is feeding our internal body, then maybe this is actually going to have a little bit more of a positive impact.

Physical and Emotional Responses to Food

Now, also, too, if you hold this food in your hands and you look at it and you think, gosh, this probably really isn’t feeding me.

So if it’s really heavily processed, for example, it’s like, is this really serving me right now?

Is this nourishing me right now?

And if the answer is no, if you maybe just take that step for just a moment, maybe you’ll choose not to eat it. And maybe you would feel good about that.

Pause and Consciousness

So having a bit of a consciousness around what we eat is helpful. And just having that pause, does this serve me?

Does this make me feel good now? You know, during this COVID time, I just fair to say that my chocolate intake has probably gone up a little bit.

We even have a bit of an emergency stash of chocolate in the clinic.

I just don’t tell anybody that’s just between you and me.

But you know, sometimes, you know, you can have that bit of chocolate and be like, that’s really serving me good things right now.

So I’m not going to feel guilty about that.

You can just have a piece and you can feel good.

And then maybe it can just give you a little, pick me up and then you can keep going on with your day.

Food Storage and Location can affect nutrition

Now there’s other types of nutrition and things to think about. And some of that can be how our food is stored.

Where does it come from? Where was it grown? And that certainly if I can think of one thing to be grateful for, with the pandemic that comes to me right now is that generally pollution has gone down.

And so air quality is going to change. Now that’s another type of nutrition. The air that we breathe, water quality, hopefully we’ll be able to change.

Hopefully that might improve a bit.

And so that too is going to affect the nourishment, the of the food that we consume, but also too, for eating more local food.

If it is grown in our regular environment, then that potentially has the capacity to nourish ourselves more as well.

One great example of this is having local honey.

Now, if you want to improve your hay fever, for example, getting that micro amount of pollen in locally produced, honey is one way that’s been shown to help, to minimize probably not going to make it completely go away, but we are coming into hayfever season.

So that might be where you can minimize your potential hay fever, triggers, or response.

Oxygen is nutrition for our cells

Now, another way that we might be able to bring the outside in and improve our internal air quality, like I said, air is nutrition and feeds our cells.

Now, you will notice that we’ve got a few more indoor plants at the clinic recently, and that’s because we really wanted to bring the outside in. We hope you like them.

Supercharge your nutrition with light

And you know, the other way that we can get nutrition, but you know what these beautiful things need is light.

We often don’t think of light as nutrition, but many of you will know that we need light on our skin in order to produce vitamin D in our body, which is so important for so many of our physical, metabolic processes in our bodies.

So light is also really important. Now some of you might actually have more time to get a little bit of sunlight during your day.

If you are working from home at the moment.

It might be an opportunity to go sit outside on your lunch break. There are ways that you can increase your sun exposure during the day.

And particularly in winter, we are more inclined to get a little bit low on vitamin D and this can affect our mood. This can affect our metabolism.

It can affect our bone health, other digestive processes. It affects everybody in so (many ways), musculoskeletal pain, you know, so if we can just get a little more light into our day, preferably sunlight, as opposed to downlights, which we’ve got here.

This can be a great way to enhance your internal nutrition.

So I hope I’ve given you a couple of different things that you can potentially focus on.

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