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The Best Foods To Manage Menopausal Weight Gain

Many women struggle with menopause, including the weight gain that can come along.
Other symptoms of menopause include fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, hot flashes, reduced libido, and brain fog.

If you are having those types of symptoms, I recommend seeing a functional medicine doctor or naturopath and have a dry urine test, comprehensive urine. It’s also known as the Dutch test. This test does a great job of mapping out the levels of your sex and stress hormones.

It may be that you lack estrogen. Many women also have low levels of testosterone, resulting in problems with libido, cognition, mood, and memory. It’s also crucial to have your adrenal function checked. Adrenal function can cause fatigue and trigger cravings for high-fat, high-sugar foods. Hormones have a massive impact on eating habits so be sure to have them checked out.

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When it comes to what to eat to manage menopausal weight gain, I think the better question to ask is what not to eat.

If you are trying to lose weight, stay away from alcohol. One big glass of white wine is equivalent to a double cheeseburger.

Keep track of what you eat as snacks. You may need to look at changing your habits if you’re frequently reaching for sweets.

Make sure that you eat regularly. I’ve noticed that many women tend to skip meals.
The best foods to be eating are the basics: vegetables, fruit, and lean proteins. It’s not rocket science.

You can eat a lot of different foods and maintain a healthy weight provided you use common sense.

The foods you should be avoiding are deep-fried anything, takeout, highly processed foods, and treats full of sugar.

If you find yourself reaching for sweets, consider supplements like the B vitamins and chromium.
Try and catch weight gain early. As you get bigger, it is hard to be motivated to do anything about it, which can lead to a downward spiral.

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Pau D’Arco And The Gut

Taheebo or Pau D’Arco comes from a treat found in various parts of the rain forest in South and Central America.

Some groups of indigenous peoples in South America have been using Pau D’Arco fo hundreds if not thousand-plus years. The inner bark of this tree has been used to treat many different diseases, including cancer. It was also used for snake bites, fever, constipation, dysentery, gut cleansing, skin problems, and vaginal yeast infections.

In order for Pau D’Arco to be effective, it needs to have a lapachol content of between two and four percent.

You may read that Pau D’Arco is toxic. But I don’t believe that. I think the studies that showed toxicity were using megadoses. I do believe that there is a lot of poor quality supplements out there. That’s why you need to do the footwork to find the real deal. It will be difficult, but worth the effort.

Pau D’Arco is a fantastic herb for treating yeast and fungus. Once you make a batch, you can store it for weeks and weeks. It lasts a long time because it’s a natural product that seems impervious to getting bacteria or any other infection.

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The Pau D’Arco should have a nice cinnamony color and a characteristic taste. It’s the inner bark that you want, and it will cost a pretty penny. Once you have acquired good quality Pau D’Arco, put about two or three tablespoons in four cups of plain, filtered, pure water. Don’t use tap water and don’t use an aluminum pan. Use a proper stainless steel, iron, or glass saucepan to heat the mixture. Bring it to a boil and then simmer for about twenty minutes.

Once you’ve finished simmering, top it up with water to bring it back up to its original level. When it’s cool, strain the liquid through a piece of cheesecloth. Store in the refrigerator.

You need about one quarter to one cup per day. For cancer, one cup is indicated. But for digestive problems, a quarter to half a cup per day is fine. If the taste is too strong, feel free to add some water to your daily dose.

Lapacho contains phenolic compounds that have been shown to be very potent against many strains of Candida. It’s also really good for vaginal yeast infections.

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Treating Vaginal Yeast Infections With Pau D’arco

Pau D’arco is very good for vaginal yeast infections and symptoms such as burning or itching.
For those of you who don’t know, Pau D’arco is a supplement that comes from tree bark.

If you’re going to treat vaginal thrush with Pau D’arco, you need to get about 15 to 20 grams and place it in about five to six hundred millimeters of good quality water in a good quality steel saucepan. Don’t use tap water.

Make sure you are using authentic Pau D’arco. You’ll have to do your own online research to source it appropriately. It should be between two and four percent lapachol content. If the Pau d’arco you buy has less lapachol than that, you won’t get the results you want.

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Next, bring the bark and water to a rolling boil and simmer for about twenty minutes. Cool the mixture down. When it is tepid, soak a tampon in the liquid. Insert the tampon and leave it in overnight. You can do that for several nights if comfortable.

This treatment has helped a lot of women tremendously, particularly if they were getting thrush premenstrually. Pau d’Arco offers an alternative to other treatments for vaginal thrush.

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How To Treat Toenail Fungus Using CanXida Remove

Will CanXida Remove get rid of toenail fungus?

There are several remedies people use for toenail fungus. I’ve seen people use bleach soaks, vinegar soaks, Listerine soaks, oil of oregano, and emu oil.

If you have toenail fungus, the first thing to do is cut the nail back. You want to expose as much of the nail as you can safely. You can then file the top of the nail. The goal is to make the nail more porous for topical treatments.

The best results for toenail fungus come from doing both internal and external treatment. You want to attack the fungus from various angles for maximum effectiveness. It’s similar to why CanXida Remove is so useful – it attacks the problem from different angles.

If you have an issue in the periphery (e.g., toenail fungus) that is not responding to topical treatment, then you need to look at other factors that need to be changed. It could be your sleep, your lifestyle, your sleep, or your stress that needs to be addressed. It doesn’t make sense to do the same thing over and over if it isn’t working. Repeating vinegar soaks time and time again is not suddenly going to solve your fungus problem.

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If you’ve opted for a trial of tea tree oil, then I recommend using the brand Thursday Plantation. Every morning put one drop on the nail bed after the nail has been cut back and filed. Do the same before bed. This is the external treatment.

For the internal treatment, CanXida Remove should be taken three times a day for about three months.

Expose the foot to sunlight and fresh air. Don’t wear stockings that make the feet hot and sweaty. Yeast infections hate sun and light and love moisture and darkness. The number one thing you can do to prevent toenail issues is to not cover your feet all the time with socks and shoes.

If you live near the seaside, put your foot in a bucket of seawater every day for ten to fifteen minutes, and the fungus should be gone within three months.

In addition to CanXida Remove, I suggest adding CanXida Rebuild and Restore to your treatment regime. Take Restore twice a day and Rebuild once a day.

If you follow these recommendations, the toenail fungus should clear up within three to six months. I’ve never seen a toenail problem that can’t be fixed, but I’ve seen attitudes that can’t be fixed, and that gets in the way of taking a holistic approach.

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The Number One Way To Lose Belly Fat

I want to share with you the best exercise for losing stubborn belly fat.

Now you’re probably reading this thinking, “Oh man, here we go. This guy’s a scammer. They’re all scammers. All of these people who say you can lose belly fat instantly and you can lose the weight and all that sort of stuff and Mr. Bakker is just another one of these deluded fools who’s going to show us some kind of trick and some kind of BS.”

Well, I can tell you this isn’t marketing or hype. I know from years working with clients that the absolute best exercise for losing belly weight is to push your plate away. Yes, that’s it.

The best exercise for weight loss isn’t spending hours on the treadmill, it’s pushing your plate away, so you eat less food. Of course, walking every day helps, but it’s eating less which is the deal-breaker.

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When it comes to exercise, sitting in front of the computer is the last thing you need to do. Less than 25% of North Americans get sufficient exercise.

When I go to restaurants, it’s unbelievable how much people will eat at a single sitting.
It can be hard to get used to eating less, but you know what else is hard? Living with diabetes and heart disease.

Learn to push the plate away at breakfast, lunch, and supper. Of course, eat sufficient amounts of healthy food, but you don’t need to lick your plate clean every time you eat.

Your brain likes the dopamine that is released in response to eating tasty food. But don’t let that lead you to years of overeating. I have maintained the same weight throughout my adult life, give or take a few pounds in the winter.

If you let your weight creep up a few pounds a year, then by the time you’re sixty, you’ll be courting obesity.

The obesity crisis is out of control. Take control of your own life. Not your doctor, not your husband, not your wife, nor your son or daughter. You need to manage your belly fat, and the best way to do that is by cutting back on how much you eat. It’s so simple; it’s almost laughable. I’ll leave you with it.

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