If you have a nut allergy you can stop reading now.
Otherwise…
You may be interested to know eating a handful of nuts each day can be great for your brain health.
This was recently discovered by a team of researchers from Loma Linda University in California.
After studying the brain waves of participants before and after eating handfuls of nuts, the researchers saw a “sequence of enhancing sensory awareness tasks ranging from cognition of past experience, visualization, olfaction, and taste.”
In other words, the participants had clearer, more precise memories than before.
Why are nuts so healthy for the brain?
It’s because nuts are packed with…
Antioxidants called “flavonoids”.
And these flavonoids act as a clean up crew, mopping up toxins and free radicals.
Yet, what’s more remarkable is that different types of nuts offer different brain benefits.
This was another groundbreaking discovery by the Loma Linda University researchers. They found the brain waves of participants changed depending on the huts that ate.
Would you like ot know which nuts they found to be the best for brain performance?
#1 was Walnuts.
Walnuts were followed by pecans and cashews.
So the next time you feel like snacking, munch on a few walnuts. Your brain will thank you for it.
Ever heard the saying “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”?
Well, all I can say is that phrase was coined long before the era of processed food
Because you see, even after a hearty breakfast, many people will grab a mid morning snack… followed by feasting on a carb heavy lunch… a packet of potato chips in the afternoon… and ALL before emptying a full dinner plate.
All this snacking and feasting means our body is constantly digesting food. It NEVER gets a break.
At best, it gets a tiny window to process a meal before more gets shoved down the chute.
The good news is there’s an easy fix.
Intermittent fasting, or IF for short, for has exploded in popularity as a way of losing weight, relieving indigestion, and triggering all sorts of health benefits.
IF isn’t a diet.
IF is an eating pattern.
The way it works is that a couple of days a week you skip breakfast.
This gives your gut a breather, so it can digest more of the food already in your stomach. It can also burn off some of the fat stored in your cells.
It sounds so simple.
Yet a study in the journal Cell Metabolism showed IF may decrease risk factors for all sorts of diseases. This includes diabetes, cardiovascular disease and even cancer.
IF may boost the brain too.
The reason IF is great for your brain is because it increases levels of the BDNF. BDNF is a protein your brain needs to make new neurons.
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I used to hate exercise. But then I found out I’d been doing it wrong all along…
Turns out “exercise” doesn’t have to mean sweating buckets on a treadmill.
It can be as simple as a 30 minute walk around your block. That’s all it takes to trigger amazing health benefits for your brain.
There two reasons why walks are so healthy:
1) It increases the flow of nutrient rich blood to your brain.
2) It rockets levels of BDNF
What’s BDNF?
BDNF stands for “brain-derived neurotrophic factor”.
BDNF is a protein your brain needs to grow and sustain new neurons.
Think of it as like fertilizer for growing new brain cells. Or as Harvard psychiatrist John Ratey calls it “Miracle-Gro”.
A lot of brain scientists, including Keri Martinowich, Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins medicine and Gary C. Sieck, Ph.D, from the Mayo Clinic, have hailed BDNF’s discovery as a breakthrough in brain health.
In fact, a study by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, found people who go for 20 minute daily walks have a 48% lower risk of severe memory loss.
While the National Institute on Aging verified that BDNF can “increase the production of proteins that enhance neuronal plasticity and resistance to oxidative and metabolic insults”.
Go for Walks and Socialise
One way to boost BDNF is with 30 minute walks.
Another way of boosting BDNF is interacting with other people.
Research by the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rome Italy, found that nurturing close relationships led to increased levels of BDNF in the brain.
It’s one of the reasons why the 678 nuns in the famous “Nun Study of Aging” sustained such healthy minds. Because the amount of social interaction in their day kept their BDNF levels topped up.
So you see, interacting with people doesn’t just make you happier. Social interaction helps keep your mind strong too.
On the flipside, when you don’t socialise enough it’s toxic for your mind.
In fact, a study of 12,000 people by Florida State University found people who feel lonely have a 40% higher risk of dementia.
So if you find yourself spending too much time alone, consider meeting friends for coffee, joining a local book club, or taking up a new social hobbies.
After comparing their levels of visceral fat and composition of microbes, they concluded that it’s the TYPE of microbes people have in their gut that influences how much visceral fat they carry.
Not how MUCH they eat.
“We confirmed that gut microbiota composition and diet are both associated with VFM accumulation and that these two factors are closely linked,” the scientists concluded.
So how can you improve the composition of microbes in your gut, and reduce how much fat is accumulated as a result?
Eating a nutrient, fiber rich diet.
This was the second discovery by the team of scientists. That diet has a direct impact on the TYPE of microbes in people’s guts.
What they discovered is eating junk foods high in processed sugars and carbs causes the gut to be infested with fat spreading microbes.
Whereas…
Eating nutrient dense foods rich in vegetable fiber causes an increase in the lean type of microbes.
Even better, these lean microbes were found to improve insulin sensitivity and the pace of fat burning metabolism.
So, as I’ve often said, the gut is the CORE of all health in the body. And the foods you eat directly impact how healthy that core is.
The good news is you don’t need expensive probiotics to feed your gut with health enriching bacteria.
My free eBook ‘Eat Your Way to a Healthy Gut’ is packed with nutrient dense, get enriching recipes. You also get 2 meal plans for making the transtion to healthy eating a success.
After a long day, I love to indulge my taste buds with a few of Lindt’s dark squares.
But when experts said dark chocolate is healthy, I don’t think they meant to eat the whole bar!
Sadly, I’m not alone in struggling with overpowering cravings for foods that give me comfort amidst the daily grind.
According to the American Psychological Association, 38% of US adults admit to bingeing on unhealthy foods to relieve stress.(1)
Of those, over half say the joy of biting into a juicy burger or sweet release of a slice of cake leaves them feeling ashamedafterwards. While 1 in 3 say filling up on unhealthy foods leaves them feeling sluggish and drained.
So cravings don’t just ruin clean eating attempts and stretch people’s waistlines. They harm people’s self confidence too.
That’s the bad news.
The good news is a team of scientists from Louisiana State University (LSU) has found cravings for unhealthy foods can be reduced or even stopped altogether.(2) Even better, the method they discovered doesn’t involve willpower, overpriced supplements, or diet pills.
As John Apolzan, director of Pennington Biomedical Clinical Nutrition, who led the research, says cravings are “a conditioned response that you can unlearn.“
Changing Habits is Key To Reduce Emotional Eating
After examining 28 peer-reviewed studies, the team from LSU concluded that cravings for unhealthy foods often don’t occur due to hunger. Instead, cravings occur due to deeply entrenched behavioral triggers.
Surprisingly, these are habits and behaviors many people think are healthy yet studies now show may make cravings worse.
The goods news is the team at LSU also discovered that changing these behaviorsis all it can take to reduce cravings for junk food and make it easier to stick to clean eating habits.
As Candice Myers, PhD, who was also involved in the research, said “Cravings influences what people eat and their body weight, but there are some components of our behavior and diet that we do have control over.”
So what are these craving inducing behaviors and how can you reduce emotional eating habits? Read on to find out:
Eating junk foods in moderation can help make clean eating habits easier to stick to the long run
1. Restricting Favorite Foods
Whether it’s eliminating sugar, carbs, or lectins, restrictive diets are promoted as a magic bullet for slimming down.
Sure, going cold turkey on pasta, soda, and white bread can work wonders for your waistline for a while.
But living without the comfort of favorite food can quickly make people feel deprived. Then all it takes is a stressful day at work to trigger an eating binge of epic proportions.
So what’s the solution to reduce emotional eating habits?
Simple: Reduce the intake of unhealthy foods GRADUALLY.
Making dietary changes gradually gives the taste buds and brain time to adjust. The result is clean eating feels less like punishment and easier to sustain for the long haul.
“Bingeing is triggered by deprivation, which leads to a vicious cycle,” says best selling health author and popular health blogger Jessica Sepel. “Instead of depriving your body of food, it’s time to start nourishing yourself and healing your relationship with nutrition.” (15)
Restricting calories can trigger the body’s survival mechanism, making cravings for unhealthy foods worse
2. Calorie Counting
Whether it’s keto, paleo, or the carnivore diet, most diets involve calorie counting of some sort.
While cutting calories can result in rapid weight loss, it typically only works for a short while. Because it doesn’t take long before the body’s hormones can trigger rebound weight with a vengeance.
The reason this happens is because when calories are cut too fast the body sees this as a threat and goes into survival mode. It then releases hormones to force the body to take in more calories.(3)
Chief among the hormones released is the ‘hunger hormone’ ghrelin.(4)
Whereas the hormone leptin decreases appetite, ghrelin INCREASES it. And the fewer calories people eat the more ghrelin the body produces. The result is people feel hungrier the less they try to eat.
In fact, research by Fitchburg State University found that ghrelin levels nearly double within six months of going on a calorie restrictive diet.(5)
So how can you reduce calorie intake without triggering the hunger hormone?
As before, the key is to reduce emotional eating is to lower calorie intake gradual. This makes the transition smoother and reduces the risk of putting the body into survival mode.
Making exercise fun and manageable is the key to sticking with it long-term
3. Exercising Too Much
For decades we’ve been told that sweating buckets on the treadmill, bootcamp workouts, and pushing our bodies to the max is great for our bodies and minds.
Sure, exercise is a key component of a healthy life. But some experts say doing it too much can make cravings WORSE.
This includes endurance trainer Matt Fitzgerald, author of Diet Cults and Racing Weight. He says cravings can increase after exercise due to the “reward psychology at play.”(6)
Fitzgerald says it’s a common problem for “beginners who aren’t intrinsically motivated to exercise; they simply don’t love it.”
In other words, if a workout is too gruelling people then want to reward themselves. And for many people this means bingeing on the sugary foods that made them overweight in the first place.
So, yet again, the key to reduce emotional eating is to adopt a new exercise regimen is to do it gradually. Start with exercise that feels manageable then build the intensity over time.
4. Too Much Cortisol
Whether it’s hitting a deadline at work or the kids causing havoc at home, stress is part of daily life. It’s also one of the most common causes of emotional eating.
When we feel stressed it causes the ‘stress hormone’ cortisol to rocket.
Cortisol then sends blood and nutrients rushing to the brain and muscles. It alsoincreases the body’s desire to take on board fuel. And the fuel our bodies crave the most is GLUCOSE.
Glucose is metabolised in the body from carbs and sugars. Which is why people crave soda and carb loaded pizza when stressed.(7) It’s the body telling them to take on board fuel.
“When we’re stressed, our bodies are flooded in cortisol,” said author and clinical psychologist Susan Albers. “That makes us crave sugary, fatty, salty foods.”(11)
So how can the chain reaction of stress leading to cravings for junk food be avoided?
The key to reduce emotional eating due to stress is to find healthy ways of relieving stress, rather than raiding the fridge.
Finding hobbies that offer fulfilment and reward can fill the void people otherwise fill with food
5. Lack of Fulfilment
People often struggle to reduce emotional eating due to boredom or due to a void in their lives.
As Sarah Allen, a psychologist specializing in mood and eating disorders, notes, “eating gives us something to do. It fills our time, gives us a way to procrastinate.”(11)
The reason we eat when bored is because it releases the ‘reward hormone’ dopamine in the brain.
Karen R. Koenig, a licensed clinical social worker and eating psychology expert, says that due to the release of dopamine “the meaning of eating is, ‘I’m going to be happy. I’m not going to be in emotional discomfort. I’ll have this wonderful experience.”(11)
Sadly, the foods that trigger the biggest dopamine dump are those loaded with SUGAR.(11)
So if sugary foods make us feel so great due to dopamine, how can we stop eating them?
The solution is to pursue new interests and hobbies that provide a sense of fulfilment and reward.
A good place to start is to write a bucket list of things to try. Pursuing those things can then fill the void otherwise filled with food.
6. Too Much Processed ‘Frankenfoods‘
A key reason why 2 in 3 Americans are now classed overweight or obese is because of the low nutrition in processed ‘frankenfoods’.(12)
The human body craves nutrients. And it won’t stop feeling hungry until it gets enough.
This is why people can eat pasta, potato chips, and cookies until the cows come home without feeling full. It’s because these foods are criminally low in nutrition.(13)
Luckily, the solution is simple: Eat nutrient dense foods instead.
Nutrient dense foods include eggs, avocado, nuts, green leafy vegetables, and oily fish.(14)
Eating these foods helps fill up the body quicker and keep it feeling full for longer, reducing the risk of snacking mid-afternoon.
Escaping Emotional Eating Offers a Path to Physical Health, Fulfilment and a Happier Mind
Reducing emotional eating habits involves skills that can improve life in many other ways
As these six behaviors demonstrate, there’s no magic bullet or wonder pill that can reduce emotional eating and cravings for good.
Instead, it involves changing our relationship with food...
Finding other ways of relieving stress than biting into a juicy burger…
Pursuing fulfilling activities that release feelings of joy…
and to gradually adopt clean eating and exercise habits in harmony with the body’s hormones.
Making these changes involves self reflection, personal growth, and persistence. It also requires skills in mindfulness, body confidence, positive thinking, and goal setting.
The good news is that these skills aren’t just beneficial for reducing emotional eating habits. They can transform life in many other areas too.
For anyone interested in developing these skills so they can reduce emotional eating habits and gain inner peace, physical health, and a happier mindset, we’ve developed a 7 step program that can help.
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Food companies use all sorts of tricks to convince us their foods are healthy
Are breakfast cereals “super foods”?
You’d think so based on the number of health claims on the box. Such as being a great source of energy and iron, when the truth is that a lot of cereals contain more sugar than soda.
I often wondered why food companies are able to get away with such misleading labelling.
And I was shocked when I discovered the reason.
Because you see, these labels aren’t a legal requirement at all.
They’re enforced by the food companies!
This was just one of the alarming things I heard on the Genius Life podcast, on which Max Lugrave interviewed Marion Nestle PhD., author of “How the Food Industry Corrupts Science” .
She describes how the health claims on food labeling are the diabolical creation of an industry that will use any tactic to convince us their processed ‘Frankenfoods’ are healthy.
When anyone with a basic understanding of human biology knows they’re not.
The fact is that anything that comes in a can, box, or packet is going to contained processed ingredients that wreck havoc to our digestive system, hormones, cravings, weight, and all round health.
Instead, the best foods are those without any labels at all.
The foods direct from mother nature.
Here’s another interview on YouTube, in which Marion Nestle drops more knowledge bombs on how the food companies manipulate science to push up their profits:
Luckily, I’m old enough to have skipped the ‘energy drink’ phase. But I know youngsters drink them like they’re lemonade.
And I hear all that sugar and caffeine hitting their bloodstream at once makes them hard to control in classrooms.
Here in the UK, there was even talk of an energy drinks ban for young people. And based on studies I’ve been reading, they should ban them for adults too!
Because it turns out that energy drinks may be the most lethal ‘health foods’ ever invented, as they.
In the study, 44 participants, aged in their 20s, drank a 24 ounce can. Then almost immediately the width of their blood vessels shrank by half.
Why is this so dangerous?
Imagine your blood vessel is a hose pipe. When you twist the hose pipe it restricts how much water can flow through.
Your heart and other vital organs are reliant on steady flow of oxygenated blood and nutrients.
So when this gets restricted they can struggle to work properly. Or stop working altogether, as happens with a stroke or heart attack.
This explains why a review of all the studies on energy drinks found worrying links between energy drinks and increased seizures, heart problems and kidney or liver damage.
Energy Drink Blamed for Heart Attack at 35,000 Feet
One man who knows about the dangers of energy drinks only too well is 55 year old Dan Krahn.
He was on a plane on his way to a vacation in Europe when he suffered a violent heart attack triggered by an energy drink.
Luckily for Dan, he survived after the plane made a forced landing in Germany.
Yet even luckier for Dan, at the hospital he met a naturopath called Dr. Ralf Heinrich.
Dr. Heinrich isn’t widely known outside Germany.
Yet in his native country, Dr. Heinrick has won multiple awards for unconventional techniques that have saved countless lives.
One of these techniques he taught to Dan.
It’s a daily ritual that takes just two minutes… doesn’t involve going hell for leather on an exercise bike… gimmicky supplements… or some magical pill only found in Germany…
Yet led to Dan losing 39 lbs in record time, along with clearing out his arteries… lowering his blood pressure… and pulling him back from the brink of type 2 diabetes.
If you’d like to know what this two minute ritual is and whether it can help you slim down and lower your risk of a heart attack or stroke, check out Bruce’s video while it’s up:
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As the car smashed into a wall, Tara screamed. She thought she was about to die. And it took a lot to make Tara scream.
Tara was a cop.
She’d only been on patrol a few minutes when she’d got caught up in a high speed car chase.
She’d done her best to chase down the speeding criminal while avoiding other cars and pedestrians.
But when Tara took a corner too fast… the car skidded… and its nose went head first into a wall.
Luckily, Tara survived with just a few cuts and bruises.
But the back pain and mental scars she suffered didn’t heal so easily.
Her back pain was so bad she had to swap chasing down hoodlums to shuffling papers behind a desk. Her evenings spent on the couch instead of being on the beat.
As the weeks passed, her slim, athletic figure started to waste away.
When the physical demands of her job stopped, her body went into fat storage mode.
Soon she was carrying around 23 pounds of excess fat. What’s worse, she was carrying despair, depression, and self loathing to go with it.
Inevitably, Tara’s pain started to impact her marriage.
They started making love less often, and spending time apart rather than laughing like they used to. And Tara often woke in the night screaming as the accident replayed in her nightmares.
Sadly, things for Tara just got worse.
When she visited her doctor for a routine checkup, he told her that unless she lost some weight she risked developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
At that moment Tara felt she was at rock bottom. But luckily, her husband Todd wasn’t about to give up.
He made it his mission to save his darling wife.
Tara had already tried low carb, low fat, Paleo, Keto, calorie counting, Weight Watchers, and every fad diet you can think of.
The cycle was always the same: Drastic weight loss followed by feelings of starvation and misery resulting in eating binges and rebound weight with a vengeance.
But then, the strangest thing happened.
One day Todd was leading a SWAT team to take down a violent thug.
The thug was on the top floor of a 20 story building.
Parasailing through a window wasn’t an option.
So they had no choice but to make a high risk entry through the door.
Leading from the front, Todd kicked the door open and threw a pepper spray grenade to disable the criminal before they could fire a shot.
But then a freak accident occurred.
All the room’s windows were wide open.
And a strong gust of window sent the grenade’s pepper spray blowing straight back into Todd’s face.
The moment Todd breathed in the fumes his eyes became engulfed in tears, while his body felt like it was on fire.
But the good news is that…
The sensation of cooking on the inside led to Todd making a remarkable discovery.
A discovery that would save his wife!
Because the experience led to Todd embarking on a series of bizarre experiments to try and recreate what happened when he breathed in the pepper spray.
But rather than fiddle around with SWAT grenades, he tried infusing tea with pepper to replicate the burning sensation he’d felt in his body.
Yet this story gets even stranger…
Because the drink Todd developed led to his wife losing 23 lbs of lethal belly fat in just 21 days. Saving her from the risk of type 2 diabetes!
Not only that, Todd’s drink also helped one of his relatives lose 84 pounds of fat from their arms, legs, and all over their body.
In fact, the way Todd’s drink work is based on proven research by the Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, in Japan.
While the respected Healthline website confirms multiple studies have linked pepper to increased fat burning metabolism, reduction in pain related inflammation, and a reduction in cravings.
And now Todd is sharing his recipe with anyone who wants to try it.
In the video Todd reveals how his drink helps to elevate your levels of “The Master Fat Burning Hormone” by 1,300% if you’re a women and 2,000% if you’re a man.
So if you’re fed up of restrictive diets and overpriced diet pills, check out Todd’s video on his remarkable discovery
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Fed up with calorie counting, food restrictions, and dieting misery? None of it is necessary for losing weight, finds a study published in the JAMA journal.
I’ve always said calorie counting isn’t a smart way to lose weight.
All it does is send your body into ‘fat storage’ mode and increase levels of the ‘hunger hormone’ ghrelin. So that the less you try to eat the hungrier you become.
Instead I think the focus should be on WHAT you eat rather than HOW MUCH.
This huge study, led by Dr. Chris Gardner at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, involved 600 participants and cost $8m to do.
Dr. Gardner and his team wanted to prove once and for all if calorie counting helped with weight loss or if it just primed the body to go into starvation mode and trigger rebound weight with a vengeance.
Well, based on what I said at the start of this article, you can probably guess the result…
The participants were allowed to eat as much food as they liked. All that matters was that they didn’t eat processed junk but instead only whole foods, like meat, vegetables, nuts, and fruit.
A year later all 600 participants had their health checked.
The first surprise was that ALL of them had lost weight. In fact, average weight loss was 12.35 pounds.
Yet what was more surprising was that, along with slimmer waists, they had lower blood sugar and their blood pressure had dropped.
In other words, this $8 million study PROVED that how much you eat doesn’t matter.
It’s WHAT you eat that does.
And WHAT you eat directly impacts your blood sugar, cholesterol, and all round health.
As Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian notes, this study provides “the road map to reducing the obesity epidemic in the United States. It’s time for U.S. and other national policies to stop focusing on calories and calorie counting.”
Eating Healthy is Easier Said than Done
You probably knew that you should be eating whole foods instead of processed junk already.
And you may have already tried eating clean, but found it impossible to stop the cravings for your favorite foods. Am I right?
The good news is there are strategies you can use for keeping cravings under control.
Chief among them is taking a long break between meals a couple of times a week.
Because when you do, it gives your body time to digest and burn off some of the sugars and carbs in your system before you eat more of them.
Take Bigger Breaks Between Meals a Few Times a Week
When it comes to timing your meals, there are few better people to learn from than Brad Pillon.
Brad isn’t a doctor or nutrition expert.
But that hasn’t stopped Brad becoming a bit of an internet celebrity due to the success of his ‘Eat Stop Eat’ system.
It’s a system that mirrors the eating habits of our ancestors.
A system that enables you to stay below your ‘personal calorie threshold’ so you can lose weight without relying on willpower alone.
His system has helped over 54,000 people to adopt a natural cycle of eating to gain slim, toned bodies without dieting misery.
So if you’ve struggled to make the transition to curbing your cravings and eating clean, Brad’s ‘Eat Stop Eat’ system is worth checking out:
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Rooibos is claimed to help reduce cravings and to be rich in anti-oxidants
Mid-afternoon I love to relax with a small pot of Earl Gray. But I could be persuaded to give rooibos tea a try if the claims about its health benefits are true.
If you hadn’t heard, rooibos tea is the latest health craze spreading through healthy eating blogs and social media.
Rooibos tea originates in South Africa. In its native country it’s a popular drink for relieving cravings and reducing hunger.
Yet it’s popularity has since spread around the world because it contains zero calories, zero fat, zero sugar, and it has almost no caffeine.
In other words, it’s the ideal replacement for coffee or soda if you want to lose weight and improve your health.
And it gets better. Because Dr. Josh Axe says that rooibos also “contains highly effective antioxidants that fight a large range of diseases. In fact, there is almost no part of your body that doesn’t benefit from rooibos.”
In its native South Africa, a lot of research has been done on the health benefits of rooibos tea.
This includes research at the Medical Research Council of South Africa.
Senior scientist Jeanine Marnewick says that their research revealed, “Rooibos showed protective effects against DNA damage when tested in an in vitro assay as well as in an in vivo (dissection) animal system.” This finding has been backed by a team of Japanese scientists from the Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo. They concluded that “Rooibos tea may prevent DNA damage and inflammation by its anti-oxidative activity in vivo.”
With all these science backed health benefits, it’s now wonder rooibos has become so popular with Western dieters.
In fact, you can now find it being sold in Starbucks and on the shelves of many large food stores.
So if you’re a tea drinker and eager to lose some weight, while reducing your cravings and increasing your levels of antioxidants, rooibos tea is certainly worth trying.
But before you rush off to get a box of this refreshing weight loss tea, there’s a rooibos red tea recipe some say offers even more health benefits than off-the-shelf brands.
Rooibos Helps One Woman While Recovering from Postnatal Depression
Liz Swann Miller first discovered rooibos while on safari in Kenya to try and recover from her post-natal depression.
Like many new mothers, Liz had struggled with low moods and feeling unattractive from the pregnancy weight she’d found impossible to lose.
So when Liz was given a cup of rooibos tea by a local villager and she experienced how her cravings seemed to fade and she felt suddenly more revitalised, she knew this tea contained something special.
She asked the villager for the recipe.
But they refused to give it to her, saying she’d have to speak to the village’s elder if she wanted to know how they made their tea. Because this was no ordinary rooibos tea.
Long story short, Liz was able to get hold of the recipe and did extensive research into its ingredients. She discovered its able to:
Force fat cells to open up and release harmful toxins
Reduce stress hormones like cortisol
Release fat to be burned for energy and muscle growth
Reduce hunger and sugar cravings
After finding this out, Liz knew she couldn’t keep the recipe a secret. And created a video to share what’s in the recipe so anyone who wants to can try it.
Since creating the video, Liz says as many as 14,800 people have now successfully lowered their belly fat, balanced their hormones, and revitalised their immunity thanks to this obscure rooibos red tea recipe.
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