Vitamin G…also known as the ultimate antioxidant.

The “g” in vitamin G stands for “grounding”, and you get it from walking around outside barefoot—also known as “earthing”. You don’t get it from eating fruits and vegetables in fact it does not come from any food at all. It is not a supplement it is simply earthing.

The earth is electrical in nature and provides us with an unlimited supply of health-promoting and grounding negatively-charged electrons. These electrons act as antioxidants.

You know that amazing feeling you get when you walk outside after a thunderstorm? Or after a simple rain storm when the sun comes out? Or the amazing feeling you get when the bad weather has end and the sun comes out? That soothing feeling comes from an increase of negative ions in the air from the electrical storm.

Human beings are electrically positive and our earth is electrically negative, put the two together and you create a harmoniously balanced circuit. Because remember opposites attract, the earth is negative and as humans we are positive so we perfectly create an emotional balance.

Because most of us work indoors, wear shoes, and sleep on mattresses raised up above the ground we rarely come into direct contact with the earth.

Even if you spend time outdoors on the weekends hiking or bike riding, you likely have a thick sole between you and earth’s surface.

Add to this the amount of time we spend on screens and other electronic devices (all of which radiate a positive charge), and you can see why everyone living on-the-grid will benefit from the skin-on-ground time.

Health Benefits

Helps decrease insomnia

This is HUGE. The CDC reports over 70 million American suffer from sleep or wakefulness disorders with over 30% of adults banking less than 6 hours a night.

Insomnia, and other sleep issues, are one of the main causal factors behind chronic disease that I see in my practice. And sleep medications, with all their scary side-effects, are hardly a long-term solution to insomnia.

Reduces risk of cardiovascular diseases

This study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, concluded that grounding/earthing increased the surface charge of red blood cells, thereby reducing their viscosity and clumping.

The authors of that study stated that earthing appears to be one of the simplest yet most profound ways to help reduce cardiovascular disease. I would tend to agree.

This is just one study of many correlating the cardiovascular benefits of getting grounded on a regular basis.

 

So…how can we get more vitamin G?

The best, cheapest, and easiest way to get your daily dose of Vitamin G is to walk around barefoot in the grass, dirt, mud, or even concrete, for 20-40 minutes a day.

If that seems like a lot, try breaking it up throughout your day. Kick off your shoes before walking to the mailbox, while you’re gardening, or playing with your kids in the backyard.

If you live near the ocean, you can get grounded by swimming in the sea or walking on the beach.

 

 

“NO” can save our emotional health

This week, I want to focus on emotional health. Most people try only focus on their physical health because we live in a society that values outside appearance, next they focus on their mental health because not having a good mental health can drive someone crazy. But rarely do we focus on our emotional health and stability.

Your emotional health can range from being extremely happy to being extremely angry, but most of all it can affect the people around you.

The Help Guide (2016) states that emotionally healthy people are those who can control their emotions and behaviour, who show resilience in troubling situations and can build strong, lasting relationships (The Help Guide, 2016). Emotional health is not merely the dearth of mental health. Just as the absence of depression does not mean that someone is happy or emotionally healthy.

Growing up, my emotional health often suffered because I have the tendency to overexert myself. I often made promises to people about things that I knew I could not complete. I always had a busy schedule without time to waste, I never took a-lot of “me” time. Suddenly I became overwhelmed, the people around me were very upset because I constantly broke promises, I often would miss out on big events such as my friends birthday parties because of other obligations. Balancing everything became extremely difficult. I started to receive hatred from the people around me and it caused me to break down, I was always unhappy because I felt as though I could never be enough for anyone.

 

According to Everyday Health, the best way to relieve emotional health instability is to “Learn how to say no and refrain from overexerting yourself.” They also state that If you try to do more than you can handle, you will only end up frustrated and stressed out. If someone asks you to do something you absolutely can’t do, say no. At the very least, ask for help. And if you can’t do it, explain why kindly but firmly. Nurturing your mind is as important as nurturing your body, and it will make you better able to handle whatever life throws at you.

This was my biggest flaw, I didn’t have it in me to say no because I thought I could handle everything and I was extremely independent, so the thought of asking for help scared me. I took on too many task and I realized it was time for change, I couldn’t handle everyone depending on me so I learned how to say no. Saying no was the best thing that I could do for myself and the people around me, I felt relieved even though it was hard I knew I was protecting them. Saying no taught me that I had to learn to do what was best for me. Its easy for us to sacrifice our sanity for the people around us, but we have to realize that we too matter, and once I realized this….my whole life changed.

Vitamin E

Vitamin E  can be used for treating and preventing diseases of the heart and blood vessels including hardening of the arteries, heart attack, chest pain, leg pain due to blocked arteries, and high blood pressure.

Vitamin E is beneficial because it is easy to access, not only is it found in food but there is an abundant amount of supplements as well as oils that can provide Vitamin E. With the diseases it prevent being very common, the Vitamin E is very important. 

Although there are many supplements, it is always more enriching to get Vitamin E from actual food sources. Foods that are high in Vitamin E are: vegetable oils, cereals, meat, poultry, eggs, fruits, vegetables, and wheat germ oil. It dissolves when it is in fats. 

Vitamin E is commonly used for physical appearance, Some people apply vitamin E to their skin to keep it from aging and to protect against the skin effects of chemicals used for cancer therapy (chemotherapy).

Vitamin E became a useful supplement for me because I had dark spots on my face. I used it to lighten up the dark spots because the sun often damaged my skin and made my dark spots darker because I was not using sun screen. Vitamin E helped me to alleviate my dark spots.

Vitamin E can also be used for hair. It can moisturize hair as well as allow your hair to grow faster, this was useful because I instantly saw a change in my hair growth.

Vitamin F (Linoleic Acid)

Believe it or not, majority of the people on this earth do not know that Vitamin F even exists! When I asked around the in Hub Robeson Center, no one had heard of it. It is a vitamin that actually does not fit the standard definition of a traditional vitamin. In fact, it is better classified as a fat – a fat that is absolutely essential to our biological process, but which our bodies do not synthesize. When we hear that it is fat we typically think that it is something negative but in the case it is something essential. 

It is vitamin F. Perhaps better known as linoleic acid, an omega-6 essential fatty acid (EFA). It plays a crucial role – in tandem with omega-3 EFAs – in brain function, normal growth, skin and hair regeneration, bone health, and metabolic function.
In the world of aesthetics, vitamin F is typically found in skin-nourishing formulations as linoleic acid.

When I think of Omega-3 the first thing I think about are fish such as salmon, eating food enriched in omega-3s could substitute for your Vitamin F intake and it would be more beneficial than a supplement since your getting it from an actual food. 

Vitamin F is actually most common in nuts and has the highest abundance supply in nuts. This can be a problem for me particularly because I am not a fan of nuts. I never have been and im sure I lack them completely in my diet unless they are covered in chocolate and wrapped in a yellow m&m bag. YUM! Other than that I do not eat them, so it is very important that I increase my vitamin F intake by eating more nuts.