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  3 Tips for Correcting Fatigue and Exhaustion
  
• Recipe Corner: Warm and Immune Boosting Vegetable Soup
  

Raw Business Profits Tele-Summit

Top 10 Hormone Balancing Foods for Energy, Fitness and Fun!

Once a month, you can join us LIVE in Austin, Texas for a local raw food potluck where you can:

• Meet like-minded people and make new friends.
• Learn new and exciting recipes.
• Gather valuable health and nutrition information.
• Feel supported on your health quest.

Upcoming Dates 2013
(the last Saturday of every month unless noted otherwise):

October 26th, 6:30 p.m. CDT

November 30th, 6:30 p.m. CDT

December

Click HERE to learn more about Dr. Ritamarie’s Living Foods Meetup!

Find out all the details on what to bring and what to expect.

Your Brain on Gluten: It’s not a Pretty Picture!

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3 Tips for Correcting Fatigue and Exhaustion

You are going to encounter people suffering from adrenal fatigue ever day in your practice  They won’t necessarily come to you saying I have adrenal fatigue, although many sophisticated health seekers may.

The issues they will present with are fatigue, mid afternoon energy slump, brain fog, memory loss, hair loss and thinning, loss of libido and difficulty falling asleep. They won’t necessarily present with all of these, but usually several.

Your job as a holistic practitioner is to ask the right questions and make a correct assessment. Once you do, it’s a matter of coaching them about the diet, herbal, supplemental and lifestyle approaches that will rebuild their adrenals and restore their energy.

There are lots of herbs and nutrients that will help rebuild weakened adrenals.  The cornerstone is appropriate diet and lifestyle management.  Many practitioners simply prescribe adrenal herbal formulas without looking at the underlying cause of the adrenal burnout.

My top 3 strategies for restoring adrenal function include:

1. Identifying and correcting the underlying stress, whether its physical, emotional or related to tier diet . This needs to include an effective system of stress transforming, such as Hearth Math (www.heartmath.org).

2. Identifying and correcting blood sugar imbalance is an important step in restoring adrenal health.  I suggest you have your clients purchase an inexpensive blood sugar meter and test their sugars.  Cortisol, the stress hormone, raises blood sugar by breaking down muscles and lean body mass.  My B4 Be Gone program is the perfect solution for blood sugar imbalance, and my Insulin Resistance Practitioner Program teaches you as a health professional how to coach your clients to balanced sugar levels.

3. Removing dietary stressors, especially gluten, sugar and processed fats.  These disrupt digestion, cause inflammation and impair the absorption of key nutrients.

These are just a few of the strategies I share in my Correcting Adrenal Fatigue and Exhaustion (CAFE) program.  We just graduated our first 450 students from that program and it’s almost ready to be offered as a self-study.

 Warm and Immune Boosting Vegetable Soup

A filling and delicious soup combining raw and lightly cooked vegetables, rich in warming and immune enhancing herbs and omega 3 rich seeds. Just what we need with the changing of the seasons and cooler temperatures around the corner.

Ingredients:

• 1 head broccoli
• 1/2 cup green beans
• 1/3 head of green cabbage
• 2 cups baby arugula
• 2 stalks celery
• 1 cup arame sea vegetable
• 1 teaspoon powdered kelp
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1/2 yellow onion
• 1 tablespoon hemp seeds
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds, ground
• 1 tablespoon flax oil
• 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt

Directions:

1. Process cut cabbage into thin strips, chop onion finely, and break broccoli into small florets. Cut celery into 1 inch pieces and mince in food processor.
2. Put celery into a large bowl with arugula.
3. Sprinkle salt over arugula and celery and massage until wilted.
4. Put water in pot and steam broccoli, onion, green beans and cabbage until just tender. Add steamed vegetables to bowl with aragula and celery.
5. Pour steam water over vegetables.
6. Add arame, kelp, garlic, Italian seasoning, sesame and hemp seed and flax oil and stir well.
7. Add extra salt or seasonings if desired. Stir and enjoy!
8. Add a pinch of cayenne (optional).

This recipe is from Dr. Ritamarie’s upcoming program B4 Be Gone starting on October 3, 2013.