Make Exercise a Fun, Sustainable Part of Your Life!

Balanced, consistent exercise is a large part of the Raw Vitality holisitc health system and cleanse. Exercise is a vital component to healing and preventing health problems, it also helps to increase energy, regulate and balance the body's internal processes and is a key factor in naturally healthy longevity. 

Raw Vitality in Motion is brought to you by Trinity Ground Game. Ground Game combines the disciplines of Parkour, Gymnastics, and Yoga to take your fitness to the next level.  You develop control over your own body, overcome obstacles, and climb to new heights in your fitness!

Raw Vitality in Motion is part of the 30-day and 7-day Raw Vitality programs and includes:

• Fresh Starts 
• 5 Minute Audio Workouts Three Times per Week
• Access to 250 Workout Videos
• Workshop Audios 

Raw Vitality in Motion is included as a bonus for joining the Raw Vitality program. Raw Vitality in Motion will help you make movement and exercise a fun, sustainable and balanced part of your life increasing health, vitality and longevity. 

Daniel Beyer is a fitness professional from Delaware.  Daniel runs his own fitness business, Ground Game, and plays a big part in the community.

He became very inspired when he discovered Parkour in Europe in 2007.  In 2008 he became involved in Brazilian jiu jitsu.  He started competing, and although he had just started and was at the entry level he did very well!

A few years into his martial arts career,  he quickly became certified as a personal trainer and earned his degree in Exercise Science.

With a wide range of expertise and many years experience he has developed a system that combines disciplines of movement with fitness and nutrition.  Raw Vitality and Daniel are proud to team together combining Raw Vitality and Ground Game to create Raw Vitality In Motion!

Raw Vitality in Motion will provide you nutrition tips, workouts each week, motivation for the day, and education to help provide you fitness solutions!

Solutions include:

• Solving Low Back Pain
• Increasing Flexibility
• Learning Portion Control
• Morning Routines to Set Yourself Up for Success

Raw Vitality is excited to work with Daniel.  Get to know him and his successful system of fitness and wellness by listening to his videos.  There are 7 total. Take your time and watch these as you begin working through the Raw Vitality program. We are excited to get moving with you!

Let's put it into practice -- put it into play -- put it "In Motion!"

Learn more about Raw Vitality in Motion at: www.rawvitalitytotalhealth.com/inmotion

Join our October Virtual Group Cleanse Beginning Monday October 13th!

Our Raw Vitality October Group Virtual Cleanse starts on Monday October 13th! This will get you healthy, clean and revitalized before entering the hectic and sometimes not so healthy holiday months! Learn to eat in a natural, fresh and sustainable way, implement healthy stress management practices, create a consistent, fun exercise routine and create healthy green living practices for you and your family! Register at: www.rawvitalitytotalhealth.com

Raw Vitality is a holistic health system and cleanse that provides you with all the tools, education and support you need to prevent and reverse chronic health conditions naturally while achieving the highest levels of health and vitality!

Raw Vitality teaches 

• Natural eating principals
• Healthy stress management practices
• Balanced, consistent, exercise
• Green living strategies 
• Medicinal herbs

We teach and offer everything you need to restore and maintain your health in a natural and balanced way through ongoing group cleanses, holistic health workshops, teaching programs for industry professionals, cooking classes, individual cleanses, natural and organic products, education and support.

Get a free taste of Raw Vitality with 10 Fresh, Fast & Healthy Raw Vitality Recipes at www.rawvitalitytotalhealth.com

The Power of Prevention - 4 Steps to Prevention

Do you know you have almost complete control over whether or not you ever get a disease throughout your lifetime? Do you know you have almost complete control over whether or not you will ever get cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's, arthritis, or any other disease that will eventually take your life? Many of us are still young and do not think about our long term health and whether or not we will be living with a chronic disease 20 years from now. As our health care system begins to crumble, with more people sick then well and fewer and fewer people getting well once sick, we have to turn our attention to the power of prevention and learn the key areas to concentrate on now to prevent sickness from ever entering our life.  

Disease processes take many years, even decades to develop. Many diseases we are learning begin their process early in life, when we are children and teenagers. In the US you have more then a 75% chance of getting, having to live with and eventually dying from a chronic degenerative disease. According to the former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Koop, of the 2.4 million deaths that occur in the United States each year, 75% are the result of avoidable nutritional factor diseases. This means you only have a 25% chance of dying from old age or natural causes, the way most prefer to leave this life. In fact, 7 out of 10 deaths among Americans each year are from chronic diseases. A chronic degenerative disease is a disease that by Western medical terms will never get better, will continue to get worse throughout your lifetime and will eventually kill you. However, it is what your are doing NOW that will determine what your health will be in 20 years. If you are anything like me, disease is not something I want now or at any time throughout my life. I picture my later years of life as beautiful and relaxing, retired, living my life on my own terms, healthy and able to do all I want and desire. However, statistically speaking, unless I take steps NOW this vision of mine will not occur, because I will be limited by the disease/s that continually eat away at my body and will eventually end my life. We often speak of these diseases as effecting us in our later years of life, but we know this is now no longer the case. It used to be you would not encounter a degenerative type disease until retirement age or beyond. However, today we see people in the early 30's, 40's and even some times in their 20's contract the very same diseases that we did not use to see until later on in life. In 2005, 133 million Americans—almost 1 out of every 2 adults—had at least one chronic illness. 

What is the most interesting about these statistics is that these diseases are the result of AVOIDABLE nutrition and lifestyle factors. That is right. The diseases you may most greatly fear are completely avoidable and within your control. You have complete control over your health, and that is good news! These Chronic Diseases are caused by Four Factors you can easily control through Nutrition and Lifestyle changes.

The Four Factors That Determine Sickness & Disease

#1 Tobacco Use

The CDC reports, "Since 1964, an ongoing series of Surgeon General’s reports on smoking and health has concluded that tobacco use is the single most avoidable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United
States." We know smoking is terrible for our health. We mainly think of the effects smoking has on the lungs and respiratory system but we often neglect to think about is how quickly it ages everything on the inside of the body. Looking at a long term smoker you can see the effects on the outside of the body, aged, weathered skin, deep lines and flat oxygen less skin are all easy to see. This same effect occurs on the inside of the body. Smoking brings in an enormous amount of free radicals that attack healthy cells, cause them to age rapidly and eventually break down and degenerate tissues, organs and entire body systems. Smoking can be one of the most difficult addictions to break but it can be done especially when you are motivated and determined. Align Holistic Health & Well Being uses the methods of Ayurveda to restore balance, create a deeper connection between you and your body's signals, wean the body off the addictive substances while at the same detoxifying and restoring gaps in nutrients which makes cravings less severe and helps to repair some of the damage done by smoking.

#2 Poor Food Choices and Over Sized Food Portions

Currently less then 1/4 of the population gets the "recommended" number of servings of fresh plant based foods. The recommended amount is SIGNIFICANTLY lower then the optimal amount. When taking that into consideration it is probably safe to say less then 5-10% of the population is getting enough plant based foods. Why are plant based foods so important? The body needs vitamins and minerals to restore, repair and grow but it also is highly dependent upon enzymes, water, healthy fats, fiber, antioxidants and phytochemicals. 

Phytochemicals are biologically active chemicals,
naturally occurring chemicals, found in plant foods whose various functions are too numerous to completely know at this point. Their actions range from hormone regulation, to cancer prevention, to immune stimulation, to tumor regression. Phytochemicals functions are diverse and plentiful. They are one of the main reasons why food is able to work as medicine inside the body. Plants are abundant in these chemicals. For instance one apple has more then 10,000 active plant chemicals. Plant foods are the only foods that contain phytochemicals.

Enzymes are active living forces commonly termed "The Power of Life." Enzymes contain energy which directly enhances biochemical reactions within the body. It is fresh plant foods that come "pre-packaged" with these living enzymes, which support every process in your body, helping to keep you vibrant, youthful and at your most healthy. Fresh plant foods, are in fact, the ONLY food group that does contain active enzymes. If your nutrition is primarily cooked, boxed, packaged or canned dead foods, you are taking in no enzymes. Over time your body's own reserve is depleted and body processes slow, become less efficient and eventually disease is given fertile ground to grow.

Antioxidants are also only found in plant foods, Their job is to reverse the damage done by toxins in the foods you eat, products you use and environment in which you live. They also help protect you from having any damage done by these toxins. They are what keep you young on the inside and outside!

There are other problems with our food choices including the two most deadly unhealthy fats and sodium. Sodium destroys cellular balance. In fact, too little potassium (which is plentiful in plant foods) and too much sodium (plentiful in processed foods) is the beginning of all chronic disease.

Why is portion size included in this list? Because of the importance of digestion to your overall health. Your body uses up to 80% of all its energy on the digestive process. When you over tax this system, and more then 80% of your energy is required for digestion, energy is taken away from vital other processes such as healing, cleansing and regenerating. When your body is not able to supply energy for these purposes degeneration begins, immunity decreases and your internal environment becomes fertile ground for disease.

#3 Lack of Exercise

Activity is one of the most important things you can do for your overall health. Exercise and activity help to balance internal processes, cleanse the body regularly and activate important body transmissions. More then 1/3 of all adults do not get enough exercise each day. Physical activity helps control weight, reduce risks for cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancers, strengthen bones and muscles, improve mental health and mood, and improve ability to accomplish your daily activities.

#4 Stress

We often overlook or down play the role stress has in our health and well being. Stress, in fact, is a key factor in determining whether or not you will be plagued by sickness or disease. Biologically stress actually begins to tear apart our body from the inside out. During stressful periods of time, the inside of your body is actually 32 years older then your calendar age! That means if you are 35 years old, your heart, lungs and brain, during stressful periods of time, are close to 70 years old! Stress ages your body rapidly, very rapidly in all ways and in all areas. We know how bad stress if, but what can we do about it? Some stress is inevitable in life, some stress can be down sized and the rest of it must be managed through healthy stress management practices.


By being aware of and controlling these 4 Factors that Determine Sickness & Disease you decrease your risk of getting sick or contracting the most common diseases Americans die from each year. By taking a preventative approach to your health, you ensure your later years of life are filled with happiness and peace and not pain and disease. You also help ensure you are able to accomplish all you want throughout your life and are not limited in any way by your health. What you do NOW determines what your health will be tomorrow, 10, 20 and even 50 years from now. These 4 Factors are not complicated. You can take control of your health. Raw Vitality will teach you the most effective natural healing and health tools to take control of your health and prevent disease throughout your lifetime!

Raw Vitality is a holistic health system and cleanse that provides you with all the tools, education and support you need to prevent and reverse chronic health conditions naturally while achieving the highest levels of health and vitality!

Raw Vitality teaches 

• Natural eating principals
• Healthy stress management practices
• Balanced, consistent, exercise
• Green living strategies 
• Medicinal herbs

We teach and offer everything you need to restore and maintain your health in a natural and balanced way through ongoing group cleanses, holistic health workshops, teaching programs for industry professionals, cooking classes, individual cleanses, natural and organic products, education and support.

Get a free taste of Raw Vitality with 10 Fresh, Fast & Healthy Raw Vitality Recipes at www.rawvitalitytotalhealth.com

5 Health Problems a Holistic Health Cleanse Can Cure

The word cleansing is thrown around alot. Often it means going from long stretches of time without food, only liquids, some powdered processed drink or odd concoction (maple syrup, cayenne and lemon anyone?), and this is supposed to be healthy? If you are looking for natural, long term health, no none of this is healthy. It may benefit you in the short term, ie sudden weight loss, clearing up of minor health symptoms temporarily, but long term you are doing your body more harm then good. A holistic health cleanse is different. There is no deprivation or odd concoctions, just natural straight forward health principals. Holistic means completed so in a holistic health cleanse you target all areas of health at the same time to achieve total health. Raw Vitality is a holistic health cleanse. A holistic health cleanse focuses on whole, natural eating practices or learning how to eat in a way that supports long term health and heals the body of any health problems it is experiencing; balanced, consistent exercise; healthy stress management practices like yoga and meditation; and green living practices to reduce exposure to health harming toxins and chemicals.

Because a holistic health cleanse is complete, and addresses all areas of health at the same time, it is extremely effective at healing the body, bringing the body back into balance and restoring overall health.

Here are 5 Health Problems A Holistic Health Cleanse (Raw Vitality) Can Cure. 

1. Cardiovascular Problems

The number one cause of death in the US is heart disease. Heat disease is not a health problem that appears over night, but takes a lifetime to develop. We are now learning that chronic health problems begin even in childhood. How you are eating, exercising and managing your stress today will determine if and when you will experience heart disease. Heart disease is caused by poor dietary practices, including a high proportion of animal products and fats, fried foods, processed foods, not enough fiber, not enough plant based foods and not enough nutrients. The Eating for Raw Vitality principals fixes all these dietary problems helping to heal cardiovascular problems and prevent them from occurring long term. Heart disease also is created through poorly managed stress and not enough physical movement. Through meditation, yoga and balanced consistent exercise, like found in the 30 day Raw Vitality program, the stress impact on the body is reduced and reversed and a consistent sustainable exercise program is developed and implemented. 

2. Cancer

If you live in a Western culture chances are you, someone you know or love has been effected by one of the most deadly diseases of our time, cancer in it's many forms. Cancer research dollars continue to poor in but a "cure" is still no closer to being found. That is because the best way to get rid of cancer is to prevent it from occurring and in the US no attention is placed on preventing cancer. Only 5–10% of all cancer cases can be attributed to genetic defects, whereas the remaining 90–95% have their roots in the environment and lifestyle. (1) The lifestyle factors include cigarette smoking, diet (fried foods, red meat), environmental pollutants, stress, obesity, and physical inactivity. If you knew you could prevent 90-95% of your chance of getting cancer just by changing your diet, how you manage stress and balanced, consistent exercise would you want to learn exactly what you need to do? Raw Vitality teaches you all of these principals so you can effectively prevent cancer from occurring or reoccurring in your life. 

3. Diabetes

We know diabetes type 2 or the type you get later in life, is related directly to obesity and lack of physical exercise. Specifically type 2 diabetes is caused by the types of foods one is eating (high amount of sugars, processed foods and animal products) and not eating (not enough fresh, plant based foods). Beyond that we are now learning that type 1 diabetes is being classified as an autoimmune disease, meaning the body begins to attack its own healthy tissue damaging it to a point of complete break down. Autoimmunity is caused often by chemical pollutants, stress, food choices and overall imbalance in the body. Raw Vitality brings the body back into total balance, addresses the dietary problems that cause diabetes and lead to the increase of its symptoms and implements a long term sustainable exercise program. 

4. Weight Imbalance

If you have tried to loose weight all your life, struggle with yo yo diets or can't seem to loose weight no matter what you do, you are not alone. The Western diet and lifestyle sets the stage for most all people to struggle with weight problems. The types of foods we eat change our metabolism, pollute our bodies causing higher amounts of fat to stay in the body and change our hormones in a way that weight loss becomes very difficult. Add in high amounts of stress, high amounts of exposure to toxins and chemicals and low levels of exercise and you have the perfect storm for weight gain and weight imbalance. Raw Vitality addresses all the key areas of health that contribute to finding and staying at your naturally balanced weight without a lot of rules or systems, just natural ways of eating and living. One of the areas we get the most feedback in is how much weight people loose. It is not unheard of to hear of people loosing 20 pounds in 30 days, everyone is different. What we do know is the Raw Vitality principals teach you the tools you need to bring your body back into balance and sustainable lifestyle and eating practices so you can remain at your naturally balanced weight forever. 

5. Allergies 

The incidence of allergies is increasing on the population. Allergies are simply a sign of an over reactive immune system. Allergies tell us the immune system of the body is overburdened, not functioning optimally and is now reacting to anything and everything. 80% of the immune system resides and is created within the gut. The most important influence right now on the increase in allergy symptoms is our food supply. Contaminated with toxic chemicals, GMO organisms and franken-stein type food products like wheat and soy in it's present form, the gut the body is constantly under assault. Food chemicals and GMO's damage and kill off important cells of the immune system and cause confusion within the body and immune system itself. Foreign objects, such as man made chemicals and genetically modified organisms, would normally be processed by the body, made inactive and disposed of, but because of the large amount we are now consuming the immune system is being overwhelmed and destroyed. Because we overwhelm our immune system daily with these contaminants the immune system goes on high alert, looking for anything and everything that may cause the body harm. At the same time it is functioning less effectively and efficiently because of how damaged and over run it has become. Through the Eating for Raw Vitality principals, balancing the body and digestive system reset, green living principals and healthy stress management practices allergies begin to reduce and over time can be completely eliminated. 

If you are tired of living with health problems and want to learn the most effective natural healing tools to reverse, heal and prevent health problems, join the Raw Vitality group cleanse beginning MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH! Our Before You Begin Call will take place THIS Thursday 9/4 at 7pm MTN so get registered for the cleanse today. Register here: http://www.rawvitalitytotalhealth.com/

Raw Vitality is a holistic health system and cleanse that provides you with all the tools, education and support you need to prevent and reverse chronic health conditions naturally while achieving the highest levels of health and vitality!

Raw Vitality teaches 

• Natural eating principals
• Healthy stress management practices
• Balanced, consistent, exercise
• Green living strategies 
• Medicinal herbs

We teach and offer everything you need to restore and maintain your health in a natural and balanced way through ongoing group cleanses, holistic health workshops, teaching programs for industry professionals, cooking classes, individual cleanses, natural and organic products, education and support.

Get a free taste of Raw Vitality with 10 Fresh, Fast & Healthy Raw Vitality Recipes at www.rawvitalitytotalhealth.com

Reference:

(1) Cancer is a Preventable Disease that Requires Major Lifestyle Changes

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2515569/

Raw Vitality 20 Tips for Optimum Natural Health

Looking for a go-to list to keep handy and reference frequently to keep your health naturally on track and moving forward?! Here is the Raw Vitality 20 tips for Optimum Natural Health!

1. Rise and sleep with natural sunlight hours - Get up when the sun comes up, start winding down and getting ready to sleep as the sun goes down. It's as easy as that! ☼

2. Don't eat late at night or until fully away, 1-2 hours after rising.

3. Make lunch your biggest meal, right in the middle of your day.

4. Eat when you are hungry. Learn to listen to your body. It knows what's best for you!

5. Eat a mainly plant based, organic diet

6. Eat foods as closest to their natural state as possible.

7. Avoid all synthetic chemicals in foods and products.

8. Drink plenty of water. Chances are you are not getting enough, so drink more!

9. Minimize your intake of dairy, wheat, refined grains and in-organic soy.

10. Move and exercise in a balanced way each and every day. 20 minutes of outdoor walking each day is a great place to start!

11. Get out in the sunlight each and every day without sunscreen.

12. Eat a varied diet. Keep it fresh and mix it up.

13. Avoid medical drugs unless absolutely necessary. Seek natural remedies to heal your body once and for all.

14. Avoid wrapping your foods in soft plastics.

15. Don't rely on pain killers or antibiotics, find the underlying root cause and treat it naturally.

16. Reduce animal protein in your diet, choose lean, free range organic meats and limit to 3 servings/week.

17. Eat organic, eat organic, eat organic!

18. Banish fast and fried foods once and for all.

19. Engage in 5 minutes of deep breathing each day.

20. Find healthy outlets for your stress like through a daily meditative practice and yoga.

Join our next group cleanse coming in September 2014! Details found on our web site at: www.rawvitalitytotalhealth.com/Events

Raw Vitality is a holistic health system and cleanse that provides you with all the tools, education and support you need to prevent and reverse chronic health conditions naturally while achieving the highest levels of health and vitality!

Raw Vitality teaches 

• Natural eating principals
• Healthy stress management practices
• Balanced, consistent, exercise
• Green living strategies 
• Medicinal herbs

We teach and offer everything you need to restore and maintain your health in a natural and balanced way through ongoing group cleanses, holistic health workshops, teaching programs for industry professionals, cooking classes, individual cleanses, natural and organic products, education and support.

Get a free taste of Raw Vitality with 10 Fresh, Fast & Healthy Raw Vitality Recipes at www.rawvitalitytotalhealth.com

Allergies - 6 Ways to Get Rid of Them for Good

Allergy season has begun again. Coughing, sneezing, itchy eyes, mucus, tiredness...ugg what about allergies IS good? Nothing. As I have observed our clients over over the last couple years, I have noticed one thing, allergies are getting worse, not better. More people have allergies and the severity of symptoms seems to be ever increasing. What is causing this phenomenon and is there anything we can do to alleviate allergies form happening in the first place? The one thing I love about holistic medicine is that the answer to, is there anything I can do to get rid of these damn allergies, is always YES! No you don't have to live with them. No you don't have to go through your day drowsy and miserable from over the counter medicines. There is a reason allergies are increasing in severity and there are many things you can do to get rid of allergies for good.

What Causes Allergies?

If you think the answer to this question is pollen, you are in fact WRONG. Nothing outside of the body causes any health symptom. This includes colds, flus and allergies. The fact is if your body is healthy and strong on the inside even if germs or in this case pollen is placed directly into your body your body is intelligent enough and designed to take care of the problem. In one famous study that proves this point, cold germs were taken and physically placed inside of the nasal tissue of the study participants. With active cold germs placed inside of the body you would then think all of the study participants came down with the cold virus. This turned out to be not the case, in fact more then half of the participants did not ever come down with the cold virus. Why? In the famous words of Louis Pasteur's, "The germ is nothing, the soil is everything." 

Allergies are simply a sign of an over reactive immune system. Allergies tell us the immune system of the body is overburdened, not functioning optimally and is now reacting to anything and everything. 80% of the immune system resides and is created within the gut. The most important influence right now on the increase in allergy symptoms is our food supply. Contaminated with toxic chemicals, GMO organisms and franken-stein type food products like wheat and soy in it's present form, the gut the body is constantly under assault. Food chemicals and GMO's damage and kill off important cells of the immune system and cause confusion within the body and immune system itself. Foreign objects, such as man made chemicals and genetically modified organisms, would normally be processed by the body, made inactive and disposed of, but because of the large amount we are now consuming the immune system is being overwhelmed and destroyed. Because we overwhelm our immune system daily with these contaminants the immune system goes on high alert, looking for anything and everything that may cause the body harm. At the same time it is functioning less effectively and efficiently because of how damaged and over run it has become.

One recent study showed that those exposed to certain types of pesticides had a higher rate of allergies. The chemicals are called dichlorophenols (DCPs). They are created by the breakdown of common pesticides, including chlorinated chemicals used to purify drinking water. They also turn up in moth balls, air fresheners, deodorizer cakes in urinals, and certain herbicides sprayed on crops. “They’re quite common,” says researcher Elina Jerschow, MD, an allergist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y. (1)

Is it any wonder then that a small amount of spring or fall pollen causes the immune system to over react? As this cycle continues throughout someone's lifetime allergy, as well as other health symptoms, begin to increase. This is one of the main reasons children these days have such a higher rate of allergies. They are bombarded with processed, sugar filled, chemically laden GMO foods. 

6 Ways to Get Rid of Allergies For Good

1. Eliminate All Food Allergens - This includes all genetically modified foods (buy organic foods only), foods filled with chemicals (again buy only organic foods or make your own from organic grown foods), wheat (see our article on To Be or Not to Be Gluten Free http://rawvitalitytotalhealth.blogspot.com/2014/05/to-be-or-not-to-be-gluten-free.html), soy, corn and peanuts. These foods are not inherently bad but because of how these foods are now grown they have been morphed from what they originally where into a food that causes reactions within the body. When you are trying to calm down the immune system, steer clear of foods known to over stimulate the immune system. 

2. Eat Fresh Fruits & Vegetables - During the allergic response, oxidants in your system team up with histamines to attack the body, causing an allergic response. Carotenoids, a phytopigment (chemically active color) in plants defend against those oxidants. Food sources of carotenoids include carrots, sweet potatoes, spinach, kale, collard greens, papaya, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Fresh fruits and vegetables also help to flush the build up of toxins in the body. Choose organic produce to reduce your exposure to additional body harming toxins. 

3. Antioxidants - Antioxidants help to defend against oxidants which can trigger the allergic response as previous mentioned, but other specific antioxidants have been found to help eliminate or reduce seasonal allergy symptoms. Recent studies have shown that supplementing with antioxidants can actually do more harm to the body then good, a better approach is to increase the body's own antioxidant production. You do this by eating foods and herbs that activate something called Nrf2 in the body and eating fresh foods high in antioxidants. To learn more about Nrf2 and the harm supplementing with antioxidants is doing to your body watch this short discussion by Dr. Shawn Talbott (http://kdvr.com/2014/08/07/are-we-taking-too-many-vitamins/) We sell a natural Nrf2 activator in the Raw Vitality products store that we have seen help with reducing allergy symptoms www.rawvitalitytotalhealth.com

4. Probiotics - Probiotics are friendly bacteria in the gut and are intrinsically related to a healthy immune system. Probiotics are killed and naturally depleted in most bodies because of the high amount of antibiotics and toxic food additives circulating in our food system, all of which kill this friendly bacteria. A high quality probiotic supplement and eating only organic foods can help to replenish friendly bacteria and naturally strengthen the immune system. 

5. Get More Sunlight -  Sunlight is important to a healthy body and healthy immune system. Without it, our bodies lack vitamin D which is needed to regulate hormones and also for a strong immune system. Know your body and skin type and never allow your skin to burn, but do get some Sun exposure on bare skin each and every day. Increasing your sun exposure will increase your levels of Vitamin D increasing the health of your immune system. 

6. Living Juices - Living juices, juices that have not been processed, refined, or heated, remove toxins stored in tissues and cells, deeply hydrate the tissues and infuse the internal environment with the highest levels of Vitaimin C, antioxidants, oxygen, enzymes and vitamins and minerals. Juices specifically remove toxins from the insulating sheath that surrounds the nervous system, helping to calm and restore balance to an overly active nervous system. 

These are some essential tips to helping end the cycle of seasonal allergies and heal the underlying root cause. For an individualized approach to reversing seasonal allergies for good, talk with our knowledgeable holistic health practitioner and make this the last season you suffer needlessly!

Join our next group cleanse coming in September 2014! Details found on our web site at: www.rawvitalitytotalhealth.com/Events

Raw Vitality is a holistic health system and cleanse that provides you with all the tools, education and support you need to prevent and reverse chronic health conditions naturally while achieving the highest levels of health and vitality!

Raw Vitality teaches 

• Natural eating principals
• Healthy stress management practices
• Balanced, consistent, exercise
• Green living strategies 
• Medicinal herbs

We teach and offer everything you need to restore and maintain your health in a natural and balanced way through ongoing group cleanses, holistic health workshops, teaching programs for industry professionals, cooking classes, individual cleanses, natural and organic products, education and support.

Get a free taste of Raw Vitality with 10 Fresh, Fast & Healthy Raw Vitality Recipes at www.rawvitalitytotalhealth.com

1. http://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20121203/food-allergies-pesticides

5-Minute Deep Breathing Exercise For Increased Vitality

Bringing oxygen into your body is so important to overall health. We get rid of up to 80% of toxins and wastes through breathing, but most of us have grown accustomed to shallow breathing because we are busy and stressed. When we breathe shallow this increases the amount of toxins that stay in our body instead and instead of being released they stay in our tissues. Low oxygen levels also create an acidic environment inside your body, reducing energy and causing health problems long term. In yoga breath, or prana, is seen as our life force. It is a way the energy from the Universe comes into our body. Prana moves through our body energizing and revitalizing us. It also becomes a way to check in with our body,. As we follow our breath through our body we can see where we may have resistance, blocks or pains.

Deep breathing can also help calm and relax your body while at the same time invigorating and refreshing you. It is a great tool to use in times of stress or when you reach a point of total frustration or other strong emotion. Taking just a few minutes to practice deep breathing each day can help calm, center and revitalize you.  

This simple 5 minute deep breathing exercise will help your body to release toxins, calm your mind and regulate and balance your internal body processes. Use this deep breathing exercise as a regular practice or in times when you encounter strong emotions or stress. This deep breathing exercise is part of our Raw Vitality Total Health Transformation & Cleanse 30-day program.

Deep Breathing Exercise

Find a quiet, relaxing place and make yourself comfortable.

Set a timer for 5 minutes so you do not have to be continuously checking your clock.

Begin breathing in and out.

You may close your eyes or keep them open, this is a personal preference.

Inhale through your nose, feeling the air travel down your spine, expanding your belly, and

then filling your chest.

Count to 5 while you are inhaling.

Hold the breath in and count to 3.

Exhale fully from a slightly parted mouth and feel the air travel the same circle from your

chest, through your belly, up through your spine.

Feel all your cells releasing waste and emptying all the old stale energy with each exhale.

Focus on your breath.

In-Hold-Out; In-Hold-Out.

Watch your thoughts come and go like floating clouds. When thoughts arise, simply return

your attention to your breath.

You can also accompany your in and out breaths with a mantra such as So-Hum, or other

mantra that has personal meaning.

The point is to focus on your breath, not your thoughts.

As your mind drifts from your breath to your thoughts, simply return to your breath, In-Hold-

Out.

Continue deep breathing until your timer notifies you that your time is up.

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