How to Use Nettle Seeds to Make Your Own Wild, Green Superfoods

How to Use Nettle Seeds to Make Your Own Wild, Green Superfoods

by Heather Gardner

Most of us loose our £pounds and our power by relying on things that come in a box or a tin from the store. We health-seeking heroines know that plenty of water, fruits and vegetables are good for us, and that supplementing our diets with superfoods is the buzz of the moment. But what if in these challenging times we can’t afford the latest designer health product and recommendations from ‘experts’? Luckily we have an expert who truly knows what is best for us, she’s been around longer than any others and she isn’t trying to sell us something, she is Mother Nature.

In herbalist Susan Weed’s opinion, eating nettles daily is more strengthening than wheatgrass, Spirulina and other green supplements that we buy in pills and packets and not naturally found in our local outdoor herbal larder. Luckily for us nettles grow abundantly in most areas of human habitation and are free for the foraging.

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Byron Katie Helps Release Your Need to Be Right & Have Other People’s Approval So You Can Love What Is

Byron Katie Helps Release Your Need to Be Right & Have Other People’s Approval So You Can Love What Is

by Tera Warner

If you’ve ever felt too fat, too poor, too tired, too busy, too beaten down, shaken up or tossed inside out, then you know suffering. You may have noticed that when you tried to blame your bank account balance, your ex-boyfriend or the size of your thighs, things didn’t really change much.

And if, in spite of all your kind thoughts and good deeds and the very best of intentions you still find yourself suffering from time to time, then lend an ear, pull out your pen and paper and get ready to do the work.

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Natural Health & Beauty: 6 Stinging Nettle Recipes for Healthy Hair, Skin & Nails

Natural Health & Beauty Recipes: How to Use Stinging Nettles for Healthy Hair, Skin & Nails

- by Heather Gardner

With most things in life, pleasure is partnered with pain and seldom do we have one without the other. Matters of love, life and wild edibles are no different when it comes to pain, and it is no surprise that one of the most nutritious, wild, superfood heroes of the wild world comes fully loaded and ready to sting us into retreat. Luckily, wild wellness warriors will not be defeated in their quest for nutritious morsels to nibble on.

So with scissors, gloves and dock leaves to the ready we brave the briar patch in search of the pleasures of the stinging nettle.

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Gay and Katie Hendricks: Successful Communication Tools for Mastering a Healthy, Loving Relationship

Gay and Katie Hendricks: Successful Communication Tools for Mastering a Healthy, Loving Relationship

by Tera Warner

Gay and Katie Hendricks are a model of an empowered relationship, but it wasn’t always this way, and in this interview that I conducted in 2010 for the WISH Summit, they talk about their journey and the tools they’ve used to help thousands of people around the world build lasting relationships!

If you’ve ever been enchanted by glass slippers and the promise of happily ever after, but found yourself arguing in a pumpkin patch with prince charming instead, then this is the call you’ve been waiting for. Gay and Katie Hendricks share with us what it takes to create your ideal happily ever after:

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The Role of Garlic and Glutathione in Deep Tissue Detoxification

Taking a Look at Deep Tissue Detox: Glutathione, Garlic and Detoxification

- by Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo, MS, DC, CCN, DACBN

Garlic is a useful adjunct to detoxification, because it conserves antioxidant levels, particularly glutathione, protects  against liver damage from acetaminophen, and can increase the intestinal activity levels of  detoxification enzymes (in particular quinine reductase and glutathione transferase) used by the body to eliminate toxins.

Garlic protects your liver and heart from damage, and improves your ability to combat potentially fatal conditions like cancer and heart disease. Garlic may also help protect you from heavy-metal accumulation, smog and air pollution. It appears to be the sulfur compounds in garlic, especially allicin, that are most protective.

Glutathione is one of the most important substances for detoxification.  It supports complex liver detoxification, like the kind we will be experiencing during the upcoming Deep Tissue Detoxification program. Because antioxidants get “used up” in the process of protecting you, exposure to toxic substances lowers glutathione levels.

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