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Repair, Restore, Rejuvenate An online health magazine supplemented with peer reviewed scientific based articles. Country life file: growing your own food

The foundation of the magazine is centralised around the pharmaceutical properties of foods and their medicinal values. The Pharmacy Corner - deals with plant based foods. Highlighting the mode of action in the body that food has in contributing to healing. We discuss the biologically active chemical compounds in each specific food group and how these nutraceutical compounds help bring about certain chemical reactions in to the body. This is all done in an easy to read, interactive format, so that the audience benefits the most out of the information. Specific features in the magazine include:
1.The Pharmacy: Science based feature articles on special foods/herbs/plants
2 The Diary: Healing Chronic disease naturally
3.The pantry: recipes
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30/11/2025

💡 Most “anaemia” isn’t a lack of iron, but a lack of ceruloplasmin (the copper-dependent protein that makes iron usable).

Piling on more iron (supplements, fortified foods, infusions) only makes the overload worse.

The key is restoring balance with real, whole food nutrients that bring copper, magnesium, and retinol back online.

🌱 When you support your mineral balance, your body can finally handle iron the way nature intended — safely and efficiently.

11/10/2025

"I don't know Chris Williamson personally, but I wanted to comment on the recent video on his health he posted, because it's relevant to all of us today.

Chris Williamson's main issue is not mold toxicity or lyme like he and his doctors think it is...It's something all of us are facing....
And it's overstimulation, overwork and repressed emotions, from living in this modern world that's conditioned us to be everything other than what we are I've been there...loads of health issues, feeling like crap, and wanting to reach for the next biohack, supplement, peptide, etc...when the real problem was right in front of my face.

Chris is running 3 businesses, constantly online, always on his phone, working his ass off...but blaming his issues on some invisible issue, when the challenge is right in front of his face.
A chronically activated nervous system destroys your adrenals, thyroid, gut and energy levels. It opens you up to lyme, parasitic and bacterial infection.

Now throw some mold and other modern toxins on top of that and you have a recipe for disaster. But the problem didn't start with the toxins or "lyme"...it starts with your nervous system, your mind and emotions.

Chris's nervous system, like many others, is stuck in fight or flight, until ultimately it just burns out. And I can empathize because I've felt this way too before. No matter how healthy you eat, how great your circadian rhythm is, how many supplements you take...

You cannot heal without a calm nervous system. And that is the problem many of us in the health world face today.

Because unfortunately it's way harder to calm your nervous system than go to Gary Brecka and get him to filter our blood or prescribe some supplements.

Healing your nervous system takes real work...healing your nervous system requires you to reshape your life...and often it forces you to face things you've buried since childhood.

The real toxicity is our culture. It's a society that tells us we're not enough as we are and then conditions us to fill that internal void with the external our entire life. Now that's a recipe for feeling like sh*t.

So if you don't feel your best, I'd encourage you to of course first get the basics right...but then turn towards the real hard work of facing your mind, your emotions and your lifestyle.

Where are you pushing yourself too hard? What are you running from? What's so bad about "failing" or not succeeding in business? Why do you need so much more than you have? What if you accepted everything right now as it is? Why do you need to be healthier? Why do you need to be stronger? Why do you need to be bigger? Why do you need to be prettier? What is behind this all?

And most importantly, it is critical that you be a silly goose.

But in all actuality...you need to remember that in the grand scheme of things your work isn't that important.

We don't remember anything anybody did from 100 years ago.

Our great grandparents were fighting in trenches.

You're going to be okay.”

27/09/2025

Reduce the stress bucket!

I’ve been diving into what this actually means, and honestly—it’s not about being “perfect” or living up to an aesthetic. It’s about showing up for yourself, creating routines that make you feel good, and living intentionally.

For me, that girl looks like:

🌱 Waking up early & starting my day with movement
💧 Drinking water or opting for decaff
📓 Journaling or writing down 3 things I’m grateful for
🥗 Eating balanced meals that actually fuel me
🧘 Setting aside time for mindfulness, meditation, or just quiet moments
📚 Reading a few pages of a book instead of endless scrolling
🗂️ Staying organised with to-do lists so I feel less scattered

It’s not about having the perfect smoothie bowl or the most aesthetic morning routine—it’s about building habits that make life feel aligned, productive, and peaceful.

25/09/2025

Diet plays a crucial role in recovery. I recommend nutrient dense foods:

Cottage cheese
Slow cooked stews
Bone broth
Steak and Eggs
Pumpernickel bread
Beef Liver
Watermelon salad
Seaweed
Vegetable Juices

Cut out empty calories such as:
Processed carbohydrates
Sugars
Caffeine

Indulge in well deserved treats like:
Dark chocolate

16/08/2025

The stress bucket is a metaphor used in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help individuals understand and manage their stress levels. It represents the idea that each person has an internal "bucket" that collects stress from various sources throughout life. When the bucket overflows, it can lead to negative consequences like burnout, anxiety, or irritability.

02/07/2025

12 guidelines for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome recovery and/or Life pursuits.

1. Start with where you are at. Don’t look at the mountain top and get overwhelmed with anxiety. Focus on the step in front of you. Not the 1000 steps to get to where you want to be. (You will get there eventually) Little by little becomes a lot.
2. Take practical action towards your recovery, even if you have doubt and fear (it’s part of it).
3. Stop expecting your doctor or health coach to fix you. They won’t.
4. Stop thinking pills or supplements is going to cure your problems. They won’t. They may be helpful (which is great) but they won’t rid all of your problems.
5. Realise recovery is a process. It’s like rehabilitating a physical injury. However you are rehabilitating your entire being. Physically, emotionally, mentally. When you realise this. It makes the recovery process simpler.
6. Stop listening to the negative folks leaving nasty comments projecting their reality onto you. Hurt people, hurt people. Stop taking their words as truth. Projection is just their perception.
7. Stop over complicating recovery. (Easier said than done) But necessary.
8. Stop thinking recovery is just one thing. It never is. In over 16 years of helping people with chronic fatigue syndrome, not one success story ever said… “Toby it was just this one thing that got me better.” Recovery requires a multi faceted health focused approach.
9. Stop seeking to be understood by people who will never fully understand. Focus your attention and energy on you and where you want to go.
10. Our reality is often limited by our thinking. Putting limited blocks on our potential. Seek and find people who are doing what you want and learn from there, be inspired by them and start taking the necessary actions to create a similar reality.
11. Have some fun along the way. A wise man once said to me… The secret to life that we often forget is to simply stop and smell the roses.
12. Play the long game. Nothing great happens over night. Anything great requires commitment, consistency and courage.

05/06/2025

Keep showing up—especially on the days you don’t feel like it. That’s when it matters most!

18/05/2025

Why Your Brain Never Quits – And What to Do About It

If your mind constantly jumps from one thought to the next…
If you lie awake replaying worst-case scenarios…
If your brain feels like it’s torturing you with overthinking…

You’re not broken — you’re stuck. Stuck in “fight or flight”.

When we look at the brains of individuals with anxiety and dysregulated nervous systems, we often see them locked in a high beta brainwave state. This is what creates “popcorn brain” — a mind that never slows down, always scanning for danger, always bracing for what might go wrong.

But here’s what most people don’t realize: This isn’t a mental problem. It’s a physiological state. Chronic stress puts your body in survival mode. And when your body is stuck in survival, your brain will be too. The mind can only calm down when the nervous system feels safe.

This is why anxiety, overthinking, and a mind that won’t quit have more to do with working on the body than the mind. It’s the state of the body that creates your state of mind.

So, when your mind feels chaotic, don’t fight the thoughts. Don’t try to think your way out. Get into your body.

Here are 5 body-based practices that calm the nervous system and quiet the popcorn brain:

1. Shaking or Rebounding
Animals shake to release stress — and so can you. Let your body tremble and move. It tells your system the threat is over. If you have a rebounder (mini trampoline), gentle bouncing has a similar effect and helps drain off residual stress hormones.

2. The Butterfly Hug
Cross your arms over your chest, resting your hands on your shoulders like a self-hug. Begin lightly tapping one shoulder, then the other. Left, right, left, right. This bilateral stimulation helps integrate overwhelm and sends signals of safety to your brain.

3. Vagus Nerve Stimulation
The vagus nerve plays a major role in regulating your nervous system. Try slow humming, long exhales, gargling, or even placing a warm compress on your chest or neck. These simple actions stimulate the vagus nerve and help shift your body into a parasympathetic (rest-and-digest) state.

4. Sensory Grounding
Get curious about what you feel in your body. Warmth in your hands? Tension in your chest? Tingling in your spine? This shifts awareness out of racing thoughts and into embodied presence — a key to nervous system regulation.

5. Gentle Pressure or Touch
Weighted blankets, gentle squeezing of the arms, or even placing a hand over your heart can create a sense of containment and safety — telling your body it’s okay to calm down now.

Healing happens when the body feels safe. And when your body feels safe, your mind stops trying to protect you with constant thinking. A regulated nervous system is the foundation of a peaceful mind, a healthy body, and a fulfilling life.

27/10/2024

The word "stress" is so misunderstood - there are various triggers that lead to flare-ups and symptoms.

Stress can be:
- an Hormonal imbalance
- Gut problems
- Nervous System dysregulation

Thats why a multifactorial approach is required.

People always think that stress is a negative mental experience, but clearly going for a nice walk, being happy and relaxed out in the son isn't mentally stressful! Yet it's just such experience that cause post-exertional malaise for many of us.

23/10/2024

Adrenal fatigue or the “21st century stress syndrome” occurs when the adrenal glands have become overtaxed by excess cortisol release, and they can no longer produce the levels of cortisol (and other hormones) necessary to maintain optimal health.

The adrenal glands produce over fifty hormones (cortisol, DHEA, etc.), including roughly 40-50% of women’s progesterone + estrogen.

SYMPTOMS
Common symptoms of adrenal fatigue include: * fatigue, particularly upon waking, with intermittent “crashes” throughout the day (afternoon slump) * poor stress response and inability to regulate mood (feelings of overwhelm) * cognitive issues/trouble thinking and/or “brain fog” * increased energy levels in the evenings (night owls/catching a “second wind”) * cravings for salty and/or sweet foods * overuse of caffeine and other stimulants * compromised immune system (feeling rundown) * trouble sleeping * decreased libido * depression * anxiety

TREATMENT MODALITIES
Some of the most common treatments for adrenal fatigue include; replacing depleted hormones, cutting back on exercise and energy output, prioritizing sleep, balancing blood sugar, more sunlight, supplementing with adaptogens and supportive nutrients, increasing healthy fat intake, decreasing sugar intake, and incorporating breathing, meditation, and yoga, etc. Less than one year ago, I would’ve told you that all of the above would rid you of your adrenal fatigue.

ROOT CAUSE
Today, I would argue that it probably wouldn’t. Why? The root cause of adrenal fatigue is not a deficiency in adaptogenic herbs or yoga classes, rather a pattern (typically formed at a young age) of self-neglect and depletion.

THE TRUTH
This pattern looks different on everybody. So, we can absolutely support the physical body, but if we don’t address the deep-rooted beliefs and patterns that cause the physical depletion and self-neglect (not liking or valuing yourself enough), we will never uncover the root of our chronic depletion = adrenal fatigue. In order to overcome adrenal fatigue, and address the cause, it is crucial that you understand and address patterns of self-neglect. It is crucial that you understand that your physical body is simply reflecting how you really feel. In other words, if you feel constantly stressed out, overwhelmed, and rundown, the physical body (your labs) will reflect the truth! Meaning, you cannot "trick" your adrenal glands. They know how you're really doing, how you're feeling about life, and they are constantly reflecting it! If you have poor boundaries and are constantly overextending yourself, and meeting everybody else's needs but your own, your body will reflect this. If you feel like life is ‘too much’, your body will reflect this! The bottom line: the root cause of your adrenal fatigue has so much more to do with your mental and emotional state than it does the other things listed above. When we have healthy boundaries, know how to meet our own needs, value ourselves, take care of ourselves both mentally and physically, feel like the world is a safe place, and adopt a positive mindset, the adrenals will follow suit and heal! No amount of supplementation is going to dig you out of the adrenal fatigue hole! It takes doing "the work".

The mental + emotional work. ❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜

02/10/2024

When you're building muscle and losing fat at the same time, it won't necessarily show on the scale right away. Eat more protein to help you stay fuller longer, it really makes a difference. Trust me. I just started my journey 3 weeks ago! I have noticed inches lost but the scale actually went up.

Don't get discouraged!

18/04/2024

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