Shell Massage Avalon

15/01/2026

🩵Enjoying Massage activates many of our wellbeing & feel-good hormones✨

14/01/2026

PLEASE WATCH & TIA-Take Immediate Action: TIA/Stroke = Transient Ischemic Attack. Warning SIGNS of a TIA:
1•Sudden Weakness, Numbness or Heaviness;
2•Difficulty Speaking or Understanding Speech;
3•Blurry or Dim Vision;
4•Dizziness or Clumsiness;
5•Severe Headache or Migraine.
=> TIA : Take IMMEDIATE Action
✴️Call 000 / Get Taken to Hospital✴️

14/01/2026

That feeling: Massage drifts you into a sense of enjoyment & deepest calm✨

05/01/2026

Doesnt EVERYONE LOVE a Great Massage: some spots available this week✨

05/01/2026

German sauerkraut bacteria eliminated anxiety disorders on 6 weeks: Probiotic-rich fermented foods like sauerkraut are potent tools for reducing anxiety.

How does it work?

By strengthening the gut-brain connection.

Emerging research into the gut-brain axis suggests that the bacteria found in fermented staples like German sauerkraut play a vital role in mental health. Specific probiotic strains, including Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium longum, act as miniature chemical factories within the digestive tract.

These microbes produce neuroactive compounds such as GABA, a calming neurotransmitter, and serotonin, a key mood regulator. By signaling the brain through the nervous system, these bacteria help mitigate the physiological and psychological symptoms of stress and anxiety from the inside out.

Clinical trials indicate that consistent consumption of these beneficial bacteria can lead to measurable improvements in mood within a four-to-eight-week window. However, while the impact of these psychobiotics is significant, medical professionals stress that they are a supportive dietary measure rather than a standalone replacement for traditional therapy or medication. Integrating probiotic-rich foods into a balanced lifestyle offers a proactive way to support cognitive health, providing a natural boost to the body's ability to manage complex emotional states.

source: Wallace, C. J., & Milev, R. The effects of probiotics on depressive symptoms in humans: a systematic review. Annals of General Psychiatry.

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Probiotic-rich fermented foods like sauerkraut are potent tools for reducing anxiety.

How does it work?

By strengthening the gut-brain connection.

Emerging research into the gut-brain axis suggests that the bacteria found in fermented staples like German sauerkraut play a vital role in mental health. Specific probiotic strains, including Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium longum, act as miniature chemical factories within the digestive tract.

These microbes produce neuroactive compounds such as GABA, a calming neurotransmitter, and serotonin, a key mood regulator. By signaling the brain through the nervous system, these bacteria help mitigate the physiological and psychological symptoms of stress and anxiety from the inside out.

Clinical trials indicate that consistent consumption of these beneficial bacteria can lead to measurable improvements in mood within a four-to-eight-week window. However, while the impact of these psychobiotics is significant, medical professionals stress that they are a supportive dietary measure rather than a standalone replacement for traditional therapy or medication. Integrating probiotic-rich foods into a balanced lifestyle offers a proactive way to support cognitive health, providing a natural boost to the body's ability to manage complex emotional states.

source: Wallace, C. J., & Milev, R. The effects of probiotics on depressive symptoms in humans: a systematic review. Annals of General Psychiatry.

29/12/2025

‘The Masseur's hands ... Those hands that feel, those hands that advance assured & firm, calming the pain, relaxing a muscle, leaving the joint flexible. The hands that vibrate, serene & strong, with a soft palpating magnetism, healing a tissue, awakening a nerve, easing a sprain, rubbing a tendon. Hands that slide, knead, press, with the mastery of someone who has a gift. They make bearable: … spasms & anguish, insomnia and tension. Hands that sense where it hurts, & know how to touch with anointing grace... Here they stop, there they lavish focused attention, with a sedative rhythm... They give off an effluvia of benevolent light, and leave their marks as messages of love ... They cradle and radiate the art of Hippocrates, the light of Avicenna, the magic of the Sun. If anyone discovers the hands I say, always bless them deeply…. Because they transfigure wounded flesh, & sometimes heal even the heart ...’
~ Rogelio Garrido Montana

✨Shell is Massaging right across this holiday period, with spots still available✨

27/12/2025

The importance of variety & POLYPHENOLS🌿🌿🌿

🧠 Dietary polyphenols interact with multiple hallmarks of aging, not just one, and that distinction matters.

This figure summarizes current evidence showing how dietary polyphenols, bioactive compounds found in plant foods, interact with the hallmarks of aging. These hallmarks represent the core biological processes that drive cellular and tissue decline over time.

Unlike single-target interventions, polyphenols exert systems-level effects. Research shows they influence multiple aging pathways simultaneously, including genomic stability, epigenetic regulation, proteostasis, mitochondrial function, chronic inflammation, autophagy, cellular senescence, stem cell function, and gut microbial balance.

📌 Practical takeaway: aging is not driven by one pathway, so interventions that act broadly across systems may be more relevant than those targeting a single mechanism.

Polyphenols do not function primarily as direct antioxidants. Instead, they act as mild physiological stress signals that activate conserved cellular defense pathways such as AMPK, Nrf2, SIRT1, FOXO3, and autophagy-related systems, while helping downregulate pro-aging signaling like excessive mTOR activity and chronic NF-κB driven inflammation.

📌 Practical takeaway: the benefit comes from repeated low-level exposure that trains cellular resilience, not from high-dose, short-term supplementation.

These mechanisms closely mirror patterns observed in long-lived populations. Diets associated with extended healthspan are consistently rich in polyphenol-containing foods, including extra virgin olive oil, vegetables, legumes, fruits, tea, coffee, herbs, and spices.

📌 Practical takeaway: dietary pattern and diversity matter more than any single compound.
Importantly, no individual polyphenol is responsible for these effects. The evidence supports a model where compound diversity, food matrix effects, gut metabolism, and lifelong exposure collectively shape biological aging trajectories.

📌 Practical takeaway: rotate plant foods regularly and avoid relying on one “hero” ingredient.

🔬 aging is a network problem. Compounds capable of modulating multiple hallmarks simultaneously are uniquely positioned to influence how biological systems adapt or decline over time.

📖 Source: Davinelli et al., Ageing Research Reviews
“Dietary polyphenols as geroprotective compounds: From Blue Zones to hallmarks of ageing”

24/12/2025

🦌🎄Merry Christmas Everyone: ‘Go & Love someone exactly as they are, & then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
When one feels seen & appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.’ ~ Wes Angelozzi

(on-shared with thanks via Patricia Esplin of Country Harmony Massage and Natural Therapies Guyra Clinic)

22/12/2025

✨Massage BLISS: The Ultimate Treat✨

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19/12/2025

Some say to grow stronger, you must push constantly.
Others preach rest as the ultimate healer.

The truth? Neither alone is enough.
Strength, resilience, and vitality live in the balance
in the rhythm between stress and recovery,
demand and repair,
challenge and compassion.

Muscles tear to grow.
The heart strains to strengthen.
The mind struggles to sharpen.

Too much push without pauses? You break.
Too much rest without challenge? You shrink.

If you are not oscillating between effort and care,
you are either cheating your potential…
or accelerating decline.

Life and the body were built for this tension.
Movement is medicine.
Challenge is growth.
Compassion is the pause that allows you to rise stronger.