Chronic Inflammation

Time Magazine calls inflammation the “silent killer”. Inflammation comes in 2 forms, acute (think sprained ankle) and chronic (think long term health issues).

When you start regulating blood sugar, focusing on gut health (riding toxins/replenishing good bacteria) and reducing inflammation in your body, you can restore body to a state of balance. Our body sends us signals when it’s not functioning properly, don’t brush them off. Choose prevention.”

Anti-inflammatory diet, detox soaks and Plexus Slim and Ease are a great combination to combating the inflammation we are living with.

Do You Rebound?

Do YOU rebound? This fun and super effective exercise has SO MANY benefits! It is one of my favorite ways to stimulate lymph flow.


But there are SO MANY MORE benefits as well!
Let's go over a few:
💫Just 10 minutes a day is equivalent to 20-30 minutes of jogging
💫EASY on the joints
💫Increases bone density
💫Strengthens pelvic floor
💫Enhances immune function
💫Improves stability and balance
💫Increases respiratory capacity
💫Promotes growth and tissue repair
💫Tones the endocrine system, especially the thyroid, to increase output
💫Circulates more oxygen to tissues
💫Greatly enhances muscular and valvular fluid exchange, lightening the heart’s workload
💫Aids venous blood flow as well as lymph flow (enhancing waste-cleansing)
💫Strengthens heart muscle and other muscles, causing them to work with greater efficiency
💫Stimulates metabolic activity
💫Enhances digestion and elimination
💫If's FUN!!!


Here is a nice beginner rebounding video

There are very few things as SIMPLE and EFFECTIVE for your overall health as rebounding!

Probio5 and VitalBiome

HEALTH AND HAPPINESS…IT IS A SCIENCE!

MOOD & ANXIETY ISSUES??........SEROTONIN & GUT HEALTH are key!

VITALBIOME and PROBIO5 truly work great as a duo!

KEY FACTORS
A whopping 80% of your immune system and about 95% of your body’s serotonin (mood elevating hormone) are in your gut.
The GUT is absolutely one of the most important things we need to take care of. Consuming fermented foods and a diet rich in veggies, healthy fats, and lean proteins are critical to supporting your gut health. However, for many of us, eating such a perfect diet all the time just isn’t that easy, and oftentimes it isn’t enough.

PROBIO5 and VITALBIOME serve 2 different purposes. While Probio5 weeds out the bad organisms from your gut garden, VitalBiome serves as the healthy "seed" you need to plant in your gut. VitalBiome contains 7 clinically-proven strains of probiotics and a beneficial yeast (S. Boulardi) in clinically proven amounts to help improve:
✅feelings of stress, anxiety, and other mood issues
✅digestive issues such as bloating, constipation, diarrhea, gas, acid reflux, and so many other digestive disorders
✅Decreases inflammation in the gut
Both are essential to an ideal, balanced gut ecosystem, but VitalBiome is especially helpful to add to Probio5 if you struggle with one of the above things.

BioCleanse and Probio5 for a sexy gut

I want to share with you what your gut looks like. Sexy, isn't it. We want a Normal gut lining, but honestly, most people are inflamed. As if having an ugly gut lining isn't bad enough, there is also the whole leaky gut thing going on, letting food particles, bacteria and other nasty stuff lose in your body. Yep, that is not a good thing. It's there, the ugly lining has happened, now what? Now you talk to me about getting that thing sexy again. Serious, don't walk around with an ugly gut lining, just don't do it.

These are the EXACT plant bases supplements needed to begin getting your gut sexy. Why these and not store bought? Read your labels and compare. Seriously, there is no comparison. With their use, my digestion, after 30 years of pain and stopping me from doing things I wanted to do, completely changed!

🍃Biocleanse is a magnesium supplement. This nutrient is very important for our body. It is involved with over 300 functions in the body! One extremely important is energy production. It’s also tied to cardiovascular issues when someone struggles with deficiency. Biocleanse is designed to be a gentle daily cleanse. We need to always be working on maintaining our gut health and a gentle daily Biocleanse routine will help.
Another important benefit of Biocleanse is a stronger immune system. Thank you bioflavaboids.

Now let’s learn more about Probio5...
🍃it’s so much more than a probiotic. It has digestive enzymes! These enzymes are essential for healthy digestion and overall health.
Did you know that digestive enzymes are not found in processed foods; only in fresh foods like fruits and veggies!
After reading about these enzymes you’ll see why Probio5 is such an important supplement for everyone!

🍃Chitosanase is an enzyme with systematic name chitosan N-acetylglucosaminohydrolase. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction Endohydrolysis of beta-(1->4)-linkages between D-glucosamine residues in a partly acetylated chitosan. A whole spectrum of chitosanases are known. This is one of the extremely important digestive enzymes that helps to rebalance the gut.
These hydrolytic enzymes break down glycosidic bonds in chitin.

🍃Another important enzyme is protease. This proteolytic enzyme, peptidase or proteinase is a type of enzyme that functions mainly to help us digest different kinds of proteins. They break down the bonds by a process known as hydrolysis and convert proteins into smaller chains called peptides or even smaller units called amino acids.

🍃Peptizyme-SP®(serrapeptase) is a powerful systemic enzyme that supports the body’s response to inflammation and the respiratory and sinus systems. This unique activity of Peptizyme SP’s enteric-coated serrapeptase supports normal fibrin metabolism, blood viscosity and blood flow. Serrapeptase supports healthy inflammatory response by reducing metabolic inflammation, usually an asymptomatic inflammatory process in response to stress, improper nutrition and other environmental issues. In addition, there is evidence of inhibition of C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation that has been linked to cardiovascular health.

Probio5 has an antioxidant blend that helps strength the immune system with Vitamin C, B and grape seed extract.
There is no other probiotic out there that includes 5 strains of probiotics that are very important for gut health, supports the immune system with the antioxidant blend and helps digestion and breaking down “bad” organisms with the digestive enzyme blend!

Candida Yeast Symptoms

Here are some tips on how to recognize a yeast infection:

Symptoms can be particularly worse in damp, or moldy places or weather that is damp, humid or rainy.

Candida sufferers may appear anti-social or develop “people or relationship allergies”; some may have fewer friends than a healthier person would have as they become increasingly reactive to foods and their environment over time.

May appear anxious and talkative. Some, especially when chronic, are not the easiest of people to get along with.

Commonly have have fever, sinus and asthma.  Anyone who has been using an oral (inhaled) steroid should be considered as having a yeast infection.

May be an extremist perfectionist or addictive in their behavioral, dietary and lifestyle patterns.

Some candida patients only eat at home, or eat out rarely. Chronic candida sufferers have problems eating out and react to foods, preferring to stay at home and eat in.

May feel lousy all over; their quality of life can be poor, even after many different types of treatment.

The cause can’t be established – both by the conventional doctor and by the natural medicine professional, especially if there are digestive problems.

May be taking multiple skin and digestive drugs at the same time.

May  be taking Diazepam, Prozac, Zanax or another drug to treat depression or anxiety. Because the doctor couldn’t find any cause and felt the problem was in the patient’s head rather than in their digestive system. 

Have had a history of multiple rounds of antibiotics. Suspect any antibiotic prescribed patient to have candida, many typically have and especially after they have been treated multiple times. In most all cases, these patients are completely overlooked and develop candida as a consequence. Some sensitive patients have never been well since taking only round of an antibiotic, even if it was prescribed twenty years ago.

Suspect candida in any person who was treated years ago for acne after 6 – 12 months on an antibiotic.

Typically allergic to some of the most common foods such as dairy products (milk in particular), bananas, eggs, breads/gluten, peanuts, oranges, corn, and pineapple.

Candida patients can be the ones who especially buy those “hypo-allergenic’ cleaning aids because they react to all conventional cleaning products. They may also buy special cosmetics or make-up because they have found that their skin reacts to just about everything.

Often intolerant to perfumes, odors, fumes, fabric shop odors, cut grass, cats, dogs or other animals, tobacco smoke, chemicals such as pesticides, herbicides, fly sprays, smog, molds, dust mites, dust, pollen, and potentially any other airborne substances.

Feel unreal or spaced out for absolutely no know medical or psychiatric reason.

Candida cases are those GI or digestive system cases that just can’t seem to get right, in spite of everything tried.  Tried the FODMAP diet, paleo diet, Blood-Type diet, Atkins diet, Keto diet, South Beach diet, GAPS diet, or any one of fifty different kinds of diets.   Within weeks things started to go downhill again. Suspect this person to have a chronic candida yeast infection, dysbiosis, parasites, etc.

May have several different products to solve digestive problems, this could range from just a pro-biotic and a few parasite, liver or stomach products right up to three dozen or more products targeted at many different symptoms they will have be experiencing over the months or years.

Have gone through stages of feeling reasonably fine, thinking  their health is finally turning the corner, only to discover that within days or weeks they begin to feel terrible all over again. Suspect candida if there are constant relapses.

Strong carbohydrate craving, or even a “subconscious preference” for a food like chocolate, biscuits, sweets/candy, ice cream, pastry or cakes, etc. Suspect candida.

Strong sugar cravings, especially after the evening meal. This can be a real red flag for you, and in some cases can point you straight towards the cause – a yeast infection.

Received chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy for cancer many years ago and has never been well since.

A woman who has a long history of taking the birth control pill or has had multiple pregnancies.

A person with a long history of taking a steroid medication like cortisone, prednisone, hydrocortisone or other anti-inflammatory or immune-suppressive steroidal treatments.

A female patient who is frequently troubled by abdominal pain (undiagnosable), vaginal infections, premenstrual tension, menstrual irregularities, menstrual pains, pain or discomfort during sex, a loss of interest in sex.

A male patient who is troubled with jock itch, prostatitis or impotence.

Persistently troubled by athlete’s foot or a fungal infection of the toenails (thickening, discoloration or splitting).

Heartburn, arthritis, hemorrhoids bronchitis, asthmatic, sinus, ear/nose or throat.


Do not be fooled, all probiotics are NOT created equally!  Stay tuned for a blog post coming soon about this very topic.

Poop Facts

Here are some fun poop facts for you



Did you know that 80% of Americans struggle with constipation at some point?

The average American only has between 2-4 bowel movements per WEEK and is 70,000 bowel movements short in their lifetime.

America now has the highest rate of bowel disease in the World


Did you know you that you should go after every meal or AT LEAST once a day! How many of you can say you do that?

Did you know that one of the reasons weight loss/diets fail is because toxins remain in the body?
 Your body tries to protect itself because of all the toxins in your body and won't let go of any fat.

Did you know that 75% of your poop is water? DRINK YOUR WATER PEOPLE! The remaining 25%...1/3 is from fibers our body find indigestible. 1/3 is composed of dead bacteria. 1/3 is a mixture of fats, inorganic salts, mucus, dead cells, and live bacteria.

Just ONE cubic inch of USDA Grade-A beef contains over 1000 parasites. These parasites typically don't harm you if you are having 2-3 bowel movements every day, but if you're not, their larvae can hatch, latch on to your intestinal walls and live inside you, wreaking havoc on your digestive system. Uh- Gross!

Up to 80% of your immune function stems from gut health. EIGHTY PERCENT. Hippocrates said
"All disease begins in the gut." If it starts there, it could END there.

The longest poop record was 26 feet 

The average person spends 10 months of their life on the toilet

If you are not eliminating 2-3 times every single day, I have a possible solution for you that comes with a 60-day money back guarantee, no matter how you buy. Private message me, text me, email me...you get the idea.

What goes in MUST come out!

Research the Keto Diet

This keto diet is appropriately controversial because there are DEFINITELY pros and cons. It’s the cons that worry me. And this article does a good job of covering most of them. That said, you also need to know that ketosis over a long period of time is extremely hard on your kidney and liver. If you are considering this diet or currently doing it read this piece.

https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/Pros-Cons-Keto-Diet-44104824

I am not completely knocking the Keto Diet, I only ask then if this is something you intend to do, please seek the advice of a nutritionist to help oversee you.  Also, do your own research and don't just follow a variation of this diet because you saw it on the internet or your friend said to do it this way...but they do not have a nutritional background.

Natural Detox Bath

I love to soak in the tub.  Soft music, candlelight, glass of water and me alone with my thoughts to relax.   A great way to either begin or end the day.

However, I also enjoy a good hot detox bath as well.  It is hot, I sweat, I drink a lot of water and I rid my body of all kinds of yucky stuff that makes me unhealthy.  It can be used as a preventative to illness or a way to shorten the life of the illness.  There is so much sickness going around right now, anything we can do to help ourselves naturally is a step in the right direction. 

A detox bath is also very beneficial after working out as it calms the body and helps reduce inflammation, making less discomfort in the joints and muscles.

My detox is:

1-2 Cups Epsom salt

1-2 Cups Baking soda  (Aluminum free!!)

Make the water as hot as you can deal with.  Pour ingredients in and stir well.  Drink plenty of water before, during and after the soak to help from becoming dehydrated as well as helping to remove toxins.  Pull the shower curtain closed to keep the heat in...you want to sweat!   Soak for 30 minutes.  Rinse in a cooler shower afterwards.

The reason water as hot as can be tolerated is typically used is because this initially draws toxins to the surface of the skin.  Then, as the water gradually cools down, the toxins are pulled into the water via the principle of osmosis – the weak energy from the cooling water draws from the strong energy from the body heated up initially by the very hot water. 

Using an exfoliating  cloth will also help to remove the toxins from the skin after soaking.

*A detox bath can leave you very relaxed and maybe even sleepy* 

Epsom salt is actually a naturally occurring pure mineral compound of magnesium and sulfate.

Studies have shown that magnesium and sulfate are both readily absorbed through the skin, making Epsom salt baths an easy and ideal way to enjoy the amazing health benefits.

According to the Epsom Salt Industry Council, a simple soak is beneficial to heart and circulatory health, can lower blood pressure, helps ease muscle pain and eliminates harmful substances from the body. It also improves nerve function by encouraging proper regulation of electrolytes.

Baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, provides a naturally alkaline substance with a reputation for helping to remove toxins.  Yep, this is the same stuff you use in baking and to freshen your refrigerator.

The baking soda helps to detoxify and alkalize your body.  You should also notice a softness of your skin.

Another way to detox is with Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV). 
Add 1-2 cups to a very warm bath and soak for 30 minutes.   It is very important that you do not mix the ACV with the epsom salt and baking soda.  One bath is alkaline and the ACV bath is acidic.  The two will fight against each other.

 - Fungus fighter

ACV helps clear up quite a few pesky skin conditions, including fungus and bacteria that like to settle on your skin. Your regular soap or body wash won’t always kill these unwanted guests.

- Sunburn soother 
 Not only will it soothe the painful sunburn, but it may also help you heal faster so you can continue to enjoy sunny afternoons.

- Body odor
Admit it, we all occasionally suffer from the stinky and sometimes embarrassing stench of body odor. Slathering on more deodorant is not the answer. In a promising environment that is warm and slightly moist, bacteria tends to mix with your natural sweat.
This combination doesn’t bode well for those of us who like to smell our best. Over time, bacteria buildup in places with these criteria, such as your armpits, start letting off that odiferous smell. Bathing in AVC can help get rid of this bacteria backup and ward off against stink, by creating a less hospitable home for future odor.

- Healthy hair
ACV works wonders as a hair detox. The acid in the vinegar helps strip off the oily residue that builds up on your hair, restoring its natural shine.  It also keeps your hair soft, supple and even prevents split ends and reduces dandruff.

-  Friend to your feet
Feet can be gross. They stink, sweat and sometimes grow strange things on them. Our feet are often abused and neglected.  Not only does this amazing vinegar help reduce that unseemly odor, but it can also even eliminate warts and athlete’s foot!

- Joint pain relief
You stand up, your back hurts, kneel to pick something off the ground, and your knees creak and groan. If you suffer from joint pain, ACV may help.

An ACV bath draws excess uric acid out of the body. Uric acid is created when the body breaks down substances called purines in certain foods and drinks. Most uric acid is eliminated via the kidneys in the urine, but some folks such as those with gout can have issues with excess levels. 

I would recommend a detox bath at least twice a week and an ACV bath once a week.  I cannot stress how important it is to drink lots of water before/during/after this process and avoid alcohol and caffeine.