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Are multivitamins worth the cash?
Yes, and no.
With vitamins and minerals not just critical but essential towards good health, reaching optimum balance makes sense.
A failure to hold a healthy vitamin and mineral balance will likely lead to sub-optimal health and likely illness. From immune strength to energy production, make no mistake, a shortfall could prove a health disaster.
Whole fresh food supplies all the critical vitamins and minerals you need, as nature intended.
OTC vitamin & minerals supplements are said to 'complete' a balanced diet. A gap filler.
Experts will say that in extraordinary situations, supplementation can offer help.
Extraordinary situations could be;
🗹 Extreme athleticism,
🗹 Chronic illness,
🗹 Real food inaccessibility.
If you tick any of these cases, it could draw value from the $25 a month supplementation.
Manufactures claim there are no known obvious side-effects, making them safe after consulting your Physician.
With a reported 10%, only, absorption rate, they appear well safe for most people.
First, I would exhaust a conventional time-honoured approach via a whole food bespoke food plan. Then, with expert advice, perhaps supplementation would work for you.
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Do sleeping masks work?
I probably don't sleep as efficiently as a did in my younger years.
Occasionally I'll find it difficult falling to sleep, and at least once a week I'll wake, and fail to return to deeper sleep.
It's as if waking fires up the brain locking the ON switching.
Enter: Musicosy Sleeping Mask.
At $22.99 from Amazon (CLICK), it's worth a crack.
What do they do?
🗹 Block all light with eye comfy support.
🗹 mp3 player using ultra soft (flat) headphones - interwoven into the mask.
🗹 A soft and comfortable velcro tightening system.
Test ride!
Certainly, the blocking of all light is a winner. Preventing eye light when mid-sleep waking reduced my brain spark.
The ear wrapping doesn't prevent sound, but it's certainly comfortable, and practical on a plane.
I used the App, Aura, and the sleep soundscapes which undoubtedly aided undisturbed sleep.
Verdict
Like a fairway wood, you won't need to use it often, but, it could well be the tool to get you out of a bad place.
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Bologna, Italy.
Population: 400,000
8kgs over HAMWI ideal weight (10-90yrs): 5%
Culture: food and nourishment is time-honoured, unchanged, prioritized, and strictly organically regulated.
Temperature: hot
Facts: Home of Lamborghini, Woman's high-end footwear.
Dietary staples
◦ Saturated animal fat
◦ Complex (grainy) carbohydrates
◦ Variety of full-fat cheese
◦ Raw sugar, including honey, fruits
◦ Vegetables (fresh)
◦ Salt, full butter & garlic
◦ Coffee – short and strong
◦ Daily alcohol (red wine & lager beer)
Nourishing Culture
🇮🇹 Eat whole fulfilling smaller meals (av. 2500 cals per day) at a scheduled (family) time with open conversation, often heated.
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Brisbane, Australia.
Population: 2.4 m
8kgs over HAMWI ideal weight (10-90yrs): 42%
Culture: Fried-food & soft drinks, while still well present, are now taxed, with low-cal nutritionally re-organized food more relevant.
Temperature: hot
Facts: Datsun 200B manufacturing, The beer thong.
Dietary staples
◦ Low fat animal protein
◦ Low carb gluten free carbohydrates
◦ Skim diary products
◦ Low-cal sugar-free drinks
◦ Vitamin & mineral enhanced food choices
◦ Lite sauces & dressings
◦ Coffee – large and milky
◦ National ‘dry’ periods
Nourishing Culture
🇦🇺 Eat pre-prepared nutritionally 'improved' low-cal meals (av. 3500 cals per day) while engaged with a screen.
