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[elixircoffee]

If you’re like most coffee drinkers, you’re always on the lookout for ways to make your coffee drinking experience easier and more convenient. That’s where coffee pods or also known as capsules come in. Coffee capsules are small containers filled with coffee grounds that can be used in special coffee machines, like the Nespresso brand or any Nespresso Compatible machine. In this blog post, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about coffee pods: how they work, what to look for when buying them, and more!

Learn more here: https://www.elixircoffee.com.au/an-introduction-to-coffee-capsules/

[drgyana]

The Role of Hydration in Maintaining Cardiovascular Function

Water is often called the elixir of life, and for good reason. Staying hydrated is essential for overall health, but its impact on cardiovascular function is particularly significant. Proper hydration ensures that your heart and blood vessels work efficiently, supporting the delivery of oxygen and nutrients throughout your body. Let’s explore how hydration affects your cardiovascular system and how you can maintain a heart-friendly hydration routine.

Why Hydration Matters for Your Heart

Your heart works tirelessly to pump blood through your body, and water plays a crucial role in keeping this process smooth. Here are some ways hydration supports cardiovascular health:

Maintains Blood Volume: Water is a major component of blood. Staying hydrated ensures your blood maintains its optimal volume, allowing your heart to pump efficiently. Dehydration can cause blood to thicken, making it harder for the heart to circulate.

Regulates Blood Pressure: Proper hydration helps stabilize blood pressure levels. When dehydrated, the body releases hormones that can constrict blood vessels, potentially leading to elevated blood pressure.

Supports Temperature Regulation: Your cardiovascular system helps regulate body temperature through sweat and blood flow. Staying hydrated prevents your heart from overworking to keep you cool during physical activity or in hot weather.

Reduces Risk of Heart Strain: Dehydration forces the heart to work harder, increasing the risk of strain, especially during exercise or in people with pre-existing conditions.

Signs of Dehydration

It’s important to recognize the early signs of dehydration to prevent any adverse effects on your cardiovascular health. Common symptoms include:

Dry mouth or excessive thirst

Fatigue or dizziness

Dark-colored urine

Rapid heartbeat

If you experience these symptoms frequently, it’s essential to reevaluate your daily water intake and seek guidance from a medical expert. A heart specialist in Bhubaneswar can help assess whether dehydration may be affecting your cardiovascular health.

Tips for Heart-Healthy Hydration

Drink Consistently: Aim to drink water throughout the day rather than waiting until you feel thirsty. Thirst is often a late sign of dehydration.

Monitor Activity Levels: If you engage in exercise or spend time outdoors in the heat, increase your water intake to compensate for fluid loss through sweat.

Incorporate Hydrating Foods: Add water-rich foods like cucumbers, oranges, watermelon, and leafy greens to your diet. These can complement your fluid intake and provide essential nutrients.

Limit Dehydrating Drinks: Reduce the consumption of beverages like coffee, tea, and alcohol, which can dehydrate the body. Balance them with plenty of water if you choose to indulge.

Use a Reusable Bottle: Keeping a water bottle with you serves as a visual reminder to hydrate regularly. It also makes tracking your water intake easier.

Special Considerations for Heart Health

While hydration is vital for everyone, individuals with specific heart conditions may need to adjust their fluid intake. For instance, people with heart failure are often advised to limit fluids to prevent excess strain on the heart. Always consult a healthcare provider to determine the best hydration practices for your unique needs.

A heart specialist in Bhubaneswar can provide personalized advice based on your medical history, ensuring you stay hydrated without compromising your heart health.

Hydration Myths Debunked

Let’s clear up some common misconceptions about hydration and heart health:

Myth: Drinking ice-cold water is bad for your heart. Fact: Cold water is perfectly safe for most people and can even be refreshing after exercise.

Myth: You must drink 8 glasses of water daily. Fact: Fluid needs vary based on age, activity level, and climate. Listen to your body and adjust accordingly.

Myth: Only plain water counts as hydration. Fact: Other fluids like herbal teas, milk, and natural fruit juices also contribute to your daily hydration goals.

The Bigger Picture

Hydration is just one piece of the puzzle when it comes to maintaining cardiovascular health. Pairing proper hydration with a balanced diet, regular exercise, and stress management can help keep your heart in top shape. Regular check-ups and screenings are also essential for monitoring your heart’s condition.

Final Thoughts

Staying hydrated is a simple yet powerful way to support your heart and overall health. By paying attention to your body’s needs and making conscious choices, you can keep your cardiovascular system functioning at its best. Remember, small daily habits can have a significant impact over time. If you have concerns about your heart health or hydration levels, consult a trusted medical professional for guidance. Taking care of your heart starts with simple, consistent steps every day.

[darkficsyouneveraskedfor]

Night Fever

Written for my In the Dark Challenge

I’m Gonna Make You Love Me by The Temptations/The Supremes “And I’m gonna use every trick in the book. I’ll try my best to get you hooked.”

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“I’m just getting started.”

Warnings: non/dubcon sex, sex pollen.

This is dark!Bucky Barnes and explicit. 18+ only.

Summary: You meet your crush’s new date but you’re not the only one lost in yearning.

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You usually looked forward to Tony’s parties. They were a small respite from the usual grind. You never really had holidays or vacations as an intelligence specialist so those hours of glee were the next best occasion. You’d get dressed up, do your make-up, and fantasize about the spread of hors d’oevres to be offered. 

Oh and speaking of fantasies…

Steve Rogers had just arrived. The core of many nocturnal whimsies. You couldn’t say when the crush had implanted itself within you. Had it been when you had spilled coffee on yourself and he had laughed and helped you clean it up, lightly brushing close to your chest with a napkin? Or when he had offered to carry a crate of documents to the archives for you? You really couldn’t say but you knew it was best to keep such infatuation apart from the workplace.

That didn’t ease the sting as he walked in the hall with another on his arm. There had been rumours in the office but you had chalked it up to Sam’s incessant need to talk shit. You hadn’t really believed it. Or maybe hadn’t wanted to. It was easier with her right in front of you; pale blonde hair, soft blue eyes, the figure of a ballerina. You hid your disappointment as you nodded at whatever Natasha had been talking about. The last you had understood a word it was her usual rant about her field gear.

Then he approached you, none so shy about the model at his side. You did your best to smile and remain poised. Why next to this woman, you must have seemed a possum in a skirt. Natasha took the initiative as she always did and you were saved from an awkward and delayed greeting.

“I was wondering if you were ever gonna remember us,” Nat teased, “So, who’s the lady?”

“Oh, well, you’re actually going to laugh at this,” He gave his pristine smile and you locked your knees as you tried not to melt into a puddle. “Um, Natasha,” He gestured to the woman known as the Black Widow before waving to his blonde escort, “This is Natasha.”

Natasha laughed. Loudly. Then offered her hand to the taller, skinnier blonde. You watched, awaiting and dreading your turn to feign acceptance. Enough. It’s just a crush. If anything this would help you get over it.

The new Natasha shook the old Natasha’s hand and then Steve turned to you. “And this the only original of the bunch, Y/N.” He introduced you, “She keeps our whole team from walking headfirst into trouble. Not that we don’t anyways.”

You gave your best fake laugh and shook Natasha’s hand in kind. A nice to meet you and your usual social courtesy. Nothing more.

As the three began to chatter as if it wasn’t all so awkward, you excused yourself to the bathroom and hid in there as you gathered your wits. Stop being a child. You should be happy for him. You sighed at yourself in the mirror and pushed away from the counter. You should get a drink.

You strode back out to the soiree and briskly swiped a champagne flute off a server’s tray. You retreated the wall furthest from Steve and sipped your elixir. This would help you forget about him and your foolish heart. God, you could be so stupid.

You were down to your last mouthful and tossed it back without grace. You covered your mouth as the bubbles threatened to escape and almost let out the hideous belch as a deep voice surprised you.

“I thought you liked these stupid things,” Bucky crossed his arms as he stepped up next to you, the fabric of his jacket strained across his shoulders.. You rarely saw him at these parties. Not that he didn’t attend, only that he made himself scarce.

“I’m tired,” You lied, “Bad timing I guess…been working.”

“Ah,” He replied rather unconvinced of your fib, “Too many strangers.”

“Mm-hmm,” You agreed as a server offered to take your empty glass.

“So you met her?” You glanced over at Bucky’s pointed question but didn’t need to ask who he meant.

“She’s nice,” You looked back to the room of tuxedos and gowns, “Pretty.”

“Needy,” Bucky added, “You know I was with him when he met her. Our usual night out. Just us two. We go to a bar, a couple of drinks, shoot the shit…” He lowered his arms as he stepped closer, his eyes scanning the crowd as he spoke without looking at you. “She came over and introduced herself. Pretended not to know who he was.” He cleared his throat and chuckled darkly, “She’s not a very good actor but Steve’s a bit of a dupe with pretty dames.”

You nodded, unsure of what to say but he seemingly didn’t need encouragement. It was rare that the former Winter Soldier was so talkative. You could smell the whiskey as he stepped closer and his arm pressed to your shoulder.

“Barely see him outside missions these last two months. Whenever we are together, she’s calling him and he’s all too eager to run at her beck and call.” His voice dripped with irritation. “I’d tell him she’s been texting me too but I don’t think he’d believe me.”

You turned to him with wide eyes. Gossip at the lips of the last person you would expect it from. You were stunned as in your mind Natasha had been in the first chapter of her very own once upon a time. You shrugged and swallowed back your envious satisfaction. 

“About what?” You wondered lightly.

“I don’t really pay much attention. Doesn’t say anything interesting.” He rolled his eyes. “I’ll just wait for Steve to get his head out of his ass. I hate being the one to say ‘I told you so’.”

“You’re very valiant,” You scoffed. “Maybe a little bitter too.”

“And what about you?” He said. “Hiding along the wall and drinking…bitter?”

“No,” You answered a bit too quickly. “I don’t care about Steve that way.”

“Sure,” He commented nonchalantly. He let the silence thicken to tension as he eyed you and you tried to ignore him. He finally spoke again. “So what do you say I grab you something a bit stronger than champagne? We can mope together.”

“I’m not moping,” You insisted.

“Okay,” He grinned as he stepped away casually, “You like whiskey?” The question was rhetorical as he strutted to the bar and you huffed at his taunting back. How on earth did you get stuck in the corner with the resident pariah?

He returned, two tumblers in hand. He held one out to you and you stared at it a moment before accepting. You weren’t one too be unkind and he was being unusually so. You weren’t going to enjoy the rare moment with a tolerable Winter Soldier. You took the glass and raised it to your lips. It was strong.

“Jesus, did you get any mixer?” You crinkled your nose.

“Yes, but it’s a double,” He swigged without flinching from his own. “Come on. Maybe you’ll bust out some of your dance moves tonight. It makes these things a little less boring.”

“My dance moves?” You lifted a brow and lowered your glass. His eyes followed your hand before returning to your face.

“You’re usually the life of the party.” He mused.

“I am?” You tilted your head.

“Well, to me, at least,” He replied as he took another drink and you mustered up the courage to do the same. Your throat burned as you gulped the alcohol but there was an unexpected sweetness too. You sipped silently as you wondered at his cryptic remark. How often had he watched you at these parties?

“Why did you never join in?” You asked. “Dancing, I mean.”

“Not much of a dancer anymore. My moves haven’t aged well.” He chuckled.

“Ah,” You nodded and took another drink as you eyes washed over the room. “Afraid to throw out your hip, old man?”

“That too,” He joked and you smiled at the uncharacteristic humor in his tone.

Your lips quickly fell as you spotted Steve and his statuesque amour. You held back a sigh and drank some more. You’d need another glass if you were going to make it through the night.

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You were just about finished your second whiskey thanks to Bucky. With alcohol in your veins and shared resent, you had spent well over an hour with the brooding super soldier. He wasn’t too bad to be around when he wasn’t staring cryptically into the distance.

Your cheeks were hot from the tipsiness setting in, though you could say it was closer to drunkenness. You fanned yourself as the sweat began to build on your forehead and along your neck. 

“You okay?” Bucky asked as you glanced around. You brushed past him and set your empty glass on a tall table. “Y/N?”

You turned back to him. He smirked as he reached past you and set his glass down besides yours. He was unbearably close. The flames licked down your arms and legs. It was unnatural. You had never felt like this. It was like a panic attack but instead of feeling like your chest was filled with rocks, your pussy was alight.

“I gotta-” You choked as you tried to step past him, “I gotta go.”

You pushed past him and the feel of his body against you made you whimper. You clattered on your heels through the crowd and toward the door. You tripped on the skirt of another woman and reached out to catch yourself. A hand closed around your forearm and swung you around swiftly.

“Leaving so soon?” Steve asked as he clung to you. His touch was molten against your skin.

“I–I–” If he didn’t let go you were going to climb him like a spider monkey. Your entire being told you to devour him. You pulled away and panted. “Yeah, I…I forgot I left my stove on.”

You ran out at the flimsy excuse and darted down the hallway. You were jittery, frantic, as the unexplained and overwhelming need overtook you. What was going on? Your head was spinning as you slid to a stop. You hadn’t even been paying attention to where you were going.

You swore and leaned against the wall. It was so nice and cool. You turned and stretched your arms against it as you caught your breath. You stayed like that until the wall began to absorb your body heat.

“Hey,” Bucky scared you again as you parted from the wall. “Where are you off to?”

“Trying to get out of here,” You peered down to the other end of the hall behind you. “Did you…follow me?”

“Uh, yeah, you kinda left in a hurry,” He explained, “Kinda concerning when someone runs away like they saw a ghost.”

“I’m fine, I just need to go home.” You touched your stomach and winced as it was a little too close to your pelvis. “I think I drank too much.”

“How about some fresh air?” He ventured, “Might help clear your mind.”

You looked at him warily. You could barely think as the heat stoked once more. Your dress clung to you and your scalp was itchy with sweat. And your pelvis! It hurt so bad. A yearning so deep and carnal it felt as if your bones would snap.

“Sure, sure,” You replied impatiently, “God, I’m hot.”

“This way,” He waved you to the far end of the hall, just to the left and a quick right,“ He directed you from behind. He was few steps back yet it felt like he was almost on top of you. Gosh, that though made your thighs thrum. "Right here.”

You stopped and turned back as he pointed to the small alcove you had just passed. A metal door marked ‘roof’ which he easily pulled open. “The censor on this busted a while back. They still haven’t fixed the alarm.”

“Hmm,” You grumbled as he motioned you ahead of him. “I take it this is you’re usual hiding spot, then.”

“One of them,” He followed closer this time and you could feel your ass at the same height as his eyes as you climbed. “Sometimes I’d rather catch the sunset than Tony’s latest shit-eating toast.”

“As much a cynic as expected,” you opened the door at the top of the stairs and the night air washed over you as you stepped out in the moonlight.

You carefully descended the single step from the door and inhaled deeply. You heard Bucky behind you as the door closed with a clang and he hopped down heavily. It was the highest peak of the tower, the jet pad on the lower crown of Stark Tower. Here there was little but a few exhaust fans and solar panel.

You shook out your arms as the evening chill did nothing to cool you. If anything, it made you feel hotter. You grasped your skirt and squeezed shut your eyes as you tried to will away the persistence. Your chest rose and fell as your heart clamoured.

You felt something against your forehead and opened your eyes to find Bucky’s hand on your forehead. You stepped back in shock and he let his hand fall. “You got a fever or something?” He didn’t sound as concerned as his words would have him seem. “Hot and bothered, are we?” The tone of his voice was deeper; sinister.

His metal hand shot forward and caught yours as you began to back away. “W-what?”

“I hadn’t planned on using it tonight,” He drew you closer as your heels skidded beneath your feet, “I thought maybe I could get it in your coffee or just a hint in that little lip balm you keep in your purse. I had wanted to wait but…some things just align all at once.”

“What are you talking about?” You were in a panic between the mystery of his words and whatever was driving your biology to madness.

“I may have used too much. It’s strong, isn’t it?” He smirked as he brought you flush against him and rested his hands on your ass. You were trembling as you gripped his forearms. You tried to push him away but were too weak as your body told you to grab on tighter. “You’re resisting it quite well but that won’t last.”

“What did you do to me?” You groaned and rubbed your thighs together desperately.

“There are stimulants used in interrogations. Used to cause extreme reactions to elicit answers from captured spies. Some make you terribly itchy to the point of scratching through your skin. Others cause hallucinations to the point that one would claw their eyes out. But this one is often used on missions when one needs to interlope quickly.” He leaned in, his nose tickled your temple and he pressed his lips to your cheekbones. He pushed closer and whispered in your ear. “This one sends ones baser desires into overdrive. Like adrenaline for your hormones.”

“Why?” You gasped, unable to release him. Your body pressed into his without permission and his fingers kneaded your ass hungrily.

“You’re not the only one with a crush,” He slithered as he bent and nuzzled into your neck.

His left hand slipped down your thigh and around to the front. He traced along the fabric of your skirt and cupped your vee. He pressed until you were squirming, bucking against him at the slightest friction. He forced his fingers between your legs and began to roughly stroke you through your dress. He had barely touched you and already you had soaked through your panties.

You could do nothing but cling to him. Your body, despite the whirlwind of your mind, was ravenous for any touch; his touch. His hand moved against you roughly as he held you in place. Your entire figure quaked as he teased you through your dress. You threw your head back wildly as your breath picked up. The flurry of sparks blooming in your loins was too much. It grew to sharp strikes along your flesh. 

Your orgasmed ripped from you as Bucky growled into your throat. You shuddered as his hand slowed and you would’ve toppled over if he wasn’t holding onto you. The edges of your vision were hazy, the stars and distant lights of the city below streaked through the dark like smudged paint.

You planted your feet as your heels threatened to wobble beneath your soles. You reached down to Bucky’s hand and tried to push it away. Despite the release, you still felt an indefatigable hunger. He wove his fingers through yours and held you as if in a dance; his other hand still firmly on your ass.

“I know you’re not done so soon,” He taunted, “Why, you’re still burning up.”

“Ohhhh,” You almost roared as he swayed your body against yours, “Why–It hurts.”

He held you upright as your legs turned to jelly and you were as good as putty in his hands. “I know, I know,” He cooed, “I can help you.” He shushed you as you began to whine.

You shook your head but tightened your grip on his hand. You pushed your body against his as you wiggled, desperate for any sort of friction. He let go of your hand and ran his fingers down your side an to your thigh. He leaned down as he lifted your leg and hooked it around him. You latched onto his shoulder to balance yourself.

“That’s it,” He said, “Just like that.”

He slid your skirt over your knee until it bunched around your pelvis. His metal hand grazed the front of your panties, your juices coated them entirely. He grabbed side of the cotton thong and tore it swiftly. He let the fabric fall beneath you and his fingers probed your folds without delay. You squeaked and shivered at his touch.

He dipped his fingers inside and you bit your lip against the cry. It felt so good and yet not enough. He curled his fingers and pressed his thumb to your clit. The spasm it sent through you almost had you in pieces. You slung your arms around his neck as you pushed yourself closer to him and buried your face against his lapel. Electricity flowed through you and a sudden shock drained all the strength from you. You moaned as another orgasm spiked and your saliva trickled onto his suit as you smushed your lips against him.

“Steve’s white bread,” Bucky said as he removed his hand. His arm stirred between you as he flicked open the button of his fly and you heard the descent of his zipper. “He’d never fuck you like this…” You looked down as he pulled out his cock and you muttered as you tried to fight the urge to grab him yourself. “You do want me to fuck you, don’t you?”

“N-n-n…” You couldn’t get the word out as your leg wrapped around him tighter. “I n-n-need it.” You dropped and arm and snaked your fingers between your bodies until they were at your clit.

“Yeah?” He gave a sultry chuckle and stroked his cock as he bent his knees.

He aligned himself with your entrance before he grabbed your leg and held it around him. He pushed just his head inside and you squirmed. Your head lolled back and forth as gibberish spewed from your lips. 

“Mmmmm–more!” You dug your nails into his shoulders and mewed pathetically. “Please.”

He took it an inch at a time, your knee bent around his hand as you leaned into him. He was big and it seemed to take forever. When he was at his limit you purred, your mouth hanging open as you panted hungrily. He pulled back and you whined, your hand grasping at his hair. He chuckled and pushed back in, thrusting slowly as you trembled helplessly. You rocked your pelvis eagerly, trying to set the pace but he easily kept his motion. Your walls pulsed around his cock but you quivered.

“More?” He asked and you looked up to nod at him frantically. Your eyes bulged as your words scrambled without sense. His other hand slid down your thigh and he lifted you all at once. He let you sink down onto him, moving his hips as he lingered inside. “Shit. So fucking hot.”

His hands slipped down to your ass and he dragged you up the length of his cock. You gripped his shoulders tightly as you squeezed him between your thighs and followed his motion. You bounced up and down on him, no restraint left as you quickly took the reins from him. It wasn’t about him, the night sky, the whiskey, or even you. It was your body. You needed it so bad. It hurt and you couldn’t think straight. All that was in your mind was the way he plunged into you so snugly with each thrust.

The skirt of your dress hung over his hands, the fabric flapping with each rise and fall of your pelvis. You let your head loll back as you rode Bucky eagerly. The ache of your thighs wasn’t enough to stop you as you only went faster and faster. He brought a hand up and tugged on the strap of your gown until it snapped. You didn’t even care as he did the same to your bra and shimmied both past your breast. His thumb teased your nipple as you rutted against him, your flesh squelched against his with your arousal.

“Oh, oh, oh, oh,” You murmured as you moved your pelvis in sharper thrusts. You couldn’t get enough. “Gawwwwwwd,” You sputtered and succumbed to the tide that washed over you. The orgasm added to the heat of your body and piqued with a shower of embers along your flesh. “W-w-w-why?” You asked as you slowed and the twinge remained. “W-w-why w-won’t it s-stop?”

“Oh, we’re not even close to done,” He snarled and lowered you back to your feet. He pulled out of you abruptly and you sobbed. “Turn around.” He directed you as he untangled himself from your arms. “Come on.” He pushed your shoulders so that you were forced to obey. He lifted your skirt and gather it above your ass. “Bend over.”

You were a bit too eager to listen. You almost got head rush as you leaned forward, the air cold on your swollen pussy. You shook and wiggled your ass as you felt his cock against it and he spanked. You exclaimed and hung your head.

This time he impaled you in one stroke. You gasped as he bottomed out and you held onto your knees to keep from falling. He bent over you and his hand cupped your breasts as he pulled you up to stand straight. He kept you flush against him as he began to thrust into you from behind.

“Is this what you wanted him to do to you? Huh?” He grunted in your ear. “You slut.” His motion grew harder with each word. “You wanna be Captain America’s slut?” He tweaked your nipples and the sensation met that in your pelvis and another orgasm tore through you. “I think you like being mine better, don’t you?”

“Mmmpmmm,” You moaned as your eyes rolled back.

The orgasms were starting to rush over you with only seconds between and with each, you only grew more senseless. Your feet were barely on the ground as he fucked you. A doll in his arms to play with. You clawed at the side of his pants as he pounded into you, gripping the fabric as his pace stuttered and he gave several long strokes. You felt the hot river flowing within you as he gave a loud grunt. He slowed and finally stopped, your body twitched and spasmed as he held you up.

You arched your back and clenched around his cock. His metal hand went to your throat as he pushed your head up. He leaned down and his lips brushed along your cheekbone as he spoke. “Don’t you worry,” His voice sent a thrill through you, smothering that within which told you it was wrong, “I’m just getting started.”

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[the-blackbird-roleplays]

Nolan nodded softly as he took the coffee, giving the mug a sip and nodding before he took a light sip of the life-giving elixir.

"I'm Nolan... Nolan Bouchard." He smiled at her, gesturing to the coffee. "Thank you. It's damned good. I'd expect nothing less from the top pop star in Atlas..." His eyes suddenly snapped out the window, his body going completely still.

".... Bedroom. Now. Lock the door. Don't open it for anyone." He stood and moved quickly and efficiently, grabbing the duffle bag he'd brought in with him and opening it, revealing a veritable arsenal. From close range to long range, and even some rather loud noisemakers, Nolan had enough firepower in one bag to probably hold a contingent of Atlas Specialists off for a few hours.

"Take this." He handed her a rather large combat knife before pulling a heavily customized AR-C from the bag. "If the gunfire starts, hide under your bed. If it stops for five minutes and I'm not knocking on your bedroom door, there's a snowmobile I parked behind the shed. Take it and run."

The Popstar (Closed RP w/ @the-blackbird-roleplays)

Euphemia rested at her private cabin deep in the middle of winter. It had been chaotic ever since she had spoken out against Blume, but she meant every word. Her agent had worried about her, but she wouldn't be attacked. Right? She sighed as she sat in the living room, when suddenly she heard a knock at the door, "Who could that be?" She walked over to the door in a simple robe, wondering who could know she was here.

[gethealthy18-blog]

342: How to Use Enzymes to Help Digestion and Autoimmune Issues With Steve Wright

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342: How to Use Enzymes to Help Digestion and Autoimmune Issues With Steve Wright

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Katie: Hello and welcome to the Wellness Mama Podcast. I’m Katie from wellnessmama.com and wellnesse.com. That’s wellness with an E on the end, which is my new line of personal care products like hair care, toothpaste and hand sanitizer that are made with safe and natural ingredients, but as effective as conventional alternatives. This episode was a really fascinating one for me and it’s about a topic that I think is really just in its infancy in emerging that has so much potential for a ton of aspects of health. I’m here with Steven Wright who is a medical engineer, a Kalish Functional Institute graduate, and a gut health specialist. He personally spent close to $400,000 overcoming his own health challenges using everything from Western medicine to shamans. And the reason I wanted to have him on today is to talk about enzymes. And we’re going to go deep on this, both systemic and digestive enzymes. But these were part of the puzzle for me with autoimmune disease and weight loss. We talk about it a little bit in this episode. And the really amazing formulas that are available now were not even available when I was going through that. So, I now use enzymes as part of my daily routine. I noticed a big difference from them. My husband uses them as well. And there’s a lot of potential in the studies right now linking these with help with autoimmune disease, food intolerance, digestive issues, even anti-aging, and a lot more. So, we’re going to go deep on all of that today. I think you’ll find this episode extremely helpful. So, let’s jump right in. Steve, welcome. Thanks for being here.

Steven: Thank you, Katie. I’ve been waiting for this.

Katie: Oh, I’m really excited to chat with you, one, because it’s always really fun to chat with you in person or on Zoom like this, but also because you have such a wide amount of knowledge on this topic. And I think it’s really important for a lot of people listening. So I wanna start broad and then kind of dial down to all of the different areas from there. We’re gonna go deep on enzymes like I mentioned in the intro. So, to start off broad, define for us what enzymes are.

Steven: Yes. So, at the broadest level, enzymes are a protein that is called like a catalyst. So basically it means it speeds up reactions. And so enzymes were around, like bacteria and viruses, well before us. They’ll be around forever. They’re involved in everything. Without enzyme reactions, we would die immediately. But basically, they are a protein that speeds up any reaction at the most basic level.

Katie: Got it. Okay. And so I’m guessing these are things that exist naturally in the body to some degree, right?

Steven: Correct. Yeah. So, it’s theorized that…if you’re familiar with, like, stem cell theory, that, you know, we’re born with the number of stem cells we have for our whole life or something like that, it’s theorized that we’re born with the amount of pancreatic enzymes, which is probably one of our biggest sources of enzymes that we use. Those are specifically usually used for digestion. But we also have, like, it’s theorized up to, like, 50,000, like, hyper-specific metabolic and systemic enzymes in our bodies that are constantly just doing all these really crazy reactions. So, yeah, we have enzymes almost everywhere. We’ll talk specifically, I think, here about the main systemic enzymes and then the main digestive enzymes, which is, for the most part, really all science even understands at this point and really all you should concern yourself with.

Katie: Gotcha. Okay. So to make sure I’m understanding before we go on. They think that you were born with all the enzymes…a certain enzyme you’re gonna have?

Steven: Yeah. Yeah. So, specifically pancreatic enzymes. It’s theorized that you’re sort of born with this reservoir of them, and you use them as you go through life. You know, if you’re like me and you had a while where you ate a lot of processed food or you go through a lot of stress or you have a lot of digestive conditions or other health conditions, you might use that reservoir up faster, or if you have ways in which your body gets, you know, hurt or ill, you could burn through your systemic enzymes trying to down-regulate inflammation, trying to regulate your immune system. And so there is a little bit of a debate about how many enzymes do we really get in our lifetime. And I don’t think there’s a true answer quite yet.

Katie: Got it. Okay. So then I guess the next question is if enzymes are a thing that we are born with, can you take them exogenously and accomplish the same thing? Because I know with certain things like the ones we make in our body might be different from ones we can consume. How does that work with enzymes?

Steven: Yes. So there’s all those super, hyper-special enzymes that we’re not even aware what they do, like they’re probably part of almost everything, glutathione, liver detoxification. Those, we can’t make exogenously. I don’t even know if we’ve really identified them scientifically. I’ve never seen them in any book, and I own, I think, everything on enzymes at this point. But let’s just talk about the fact that there… We have enzymes in our mouth. We have enzymes in our stomach. We have enzymes in our small intestine, and those are…where pancreatic enzymes and what’s called the brush border enzymes happen. Then we have systemic enzymes. So we’ll just classify them as those five areas. And basically, the systemic and pancreatic enzymes are the ones that could be in jeopardy. You could almost think about it as like CoQ10 for aging. You know, like as we age, there’s just unavoidable things such as our hormones begin to die out and things like that. It’s starting to become potentially clear that this is happening with enzymes as well.

And so when you start to eat a bite of food, because we’ll just talk digestion first, there’s amylase, which is a carbohydrate enzyme in your mouth. And so as you chew, one of the reasons why people tell you to chew a lot and not just swallow your food whole, which I’m totally guilty of a lot, is that amylase starts to work on your food in your mouth and then it works in your stomach. Inside your stomach, you have pepsin, which is a protein enzyme, a proteolytic enzyme, and that starts to work. And so while your food’s in your stomach beginning to basically unfold itself and make itself available for these enzymes, you have amylase and you have pepsin working. Then as the stomach process happens, the food dumps slowly into the small intestine, at which point your pancreatic enzymes basically mesh in. They kind of dump into your small intestine, and those are a fat or lipase carbohydrate. There’s more amylase in there. There’s also more protein enzymes, proteolytic enzymes.

But then also you have your brush border, and your brush border are kind of like…if you could see my hand right now, I’d be wiggling my fingers like spirit fingers. And basically, there’s these little hairs that cover your intestines, and these are called villi. They’re part of the brush border, and these villi are, like, super important for almost everything in your gut. And one of the things that’s really important is they are what secrete your brush border enzymes. And if you’ve heard of lactose intolerance, lactase is the enzyme that you lose or a lot of people lose anyways, and then they have lactose issues. Well, the brush border is where that lactase is made, and so there’s some people who think that potentially not everyone loses lactase and that there’s just some of us whose brush border is inflamed and broken.

In celiac, there’s actually pictures, and this is part of how you diagnose the celiac condition, is your brush border looks like it was chopped off by, like, a road grader or something that’s just all mangled and it’s not really working. And so those brush border enzymes are really specific enzymes. They do a lot of, like, cellulose and they do…so, fiber and vegetables. There’s all these really specific carbohydrates that they break down. And then the last group is the proteolytic enzymes, and those are mostly predominantly proteolytic enzymes inside your blood. However, amylase and lipase do go in the blood as well. They kind of are maybe more, like, 5%, but, like, 95% of the protein sort of enzymes in your blood, they’re able to be absorbed systemically when we take them exogenously, or sometimes we just absorb our own enzymes. And they run around, and they do all these cool blood cleaning and inflammation-reducing and immune-balancing things.

Katie: That is so fascinating. Okay. So there’s so many directions that I wanna go from there. I think especially based on both of our stories, I can see pieces falling in place of how these can be so helpful in a lot of different ways. And you mentioned proteolytic enzymes, which…that rings a bell for me because, in the heat of my own autoimmune disease, that was one of the many things that I took that I seemed to notice a big difference from. And, in fact, I think I actually took too much too fast and made myself feel really not good for a while. Can you go deeper on what those are? You said they’re in the blood. What are they doing specifically, and is there an autoimmune link there?

Steven: Yes. So, proteolytic enzymes basically just means a protein degrading enzyme. So I might have misspoke a little bit. And so what’s the difference between a digestive proteolytic enzyme and a systemic proteolytic enzyme? Well, one just happens to be working on your food to break it down, and one just happens to be inside your blood. And so when we take exogenous enzymes, so when we take a supplement, if you take it with food, the proteolytic enzymes inside of that capsule will be really busy working on your food. If you take it without food, you’ll actually absorb it.

And there’s plenty of studies on all different types of products that show that these types of enzymes are absorbed into the bloodstream and then they begin to go to work. So, I know based on, you know, just listening to your podcast that you’ve done a lot of different shows on a lot of different topics, and you’ve covered kind of like leaky gut and gut inflammation and autoimmunity pretty well. And where enzymes fit into this scenario is when we get leaky gut, so basically where our guts aren’t working properly, and different types of molecules are going into our bloodstream, a lot of times, these are where you get your food intolerances. You get your dairy and your corn, and you get your gluten sometimes and all these different things that impact us. That’s a protein molecule that’s running around the body now, and the immune system can’t have that. And so it tags that protein molecule as like, “Hey, we have to kill this. We have to get rid of it.” And so it basically puts an antigen on it, and it red flags it.

Now, this also happens with viruses, bacteria, anything that gets into the gut or into the blood vessels through the gut that really isn’t supposed to be there. And now almost everything is encoded in a protein casing. So, all those microorganisms. Most everything that causes a blood reaction is a protein-like molecule. So, the immune system just tags these bad guys, right, these foreign invaders, and now this is called a circulating immune complex or CIC. This whole process is pretty normal, although it’s not supposed to happen all that much. And what happens normally is your liver and your spleen are supposed to filter out these CICs, but as you know, we live in a toxic environment. Probably a lot of your listeners, you know, aren’t using a lot of the toxic chemicals anymore, but it’s really hard just to be a capable human of detoxing the life we live.

And so if the liver and the spleen are sluggish, overwhelmed, your immune system is kind of overwhelmed, or your gut’s really messed up, you’re gonna have CICs, like, everywhere. And now CICs, once they’re tagged, they kind of emit these little signals saying like, “Hey, I’m bad. Hey, I’m bad. Come kill me.” And these are called…one name for them is cytokines. That’s kind of big right now in what people are learning about. And till that CIC is killed or detoxified, it is emitting more inflammation. But when your spleen and liver are overwhelmed, your body in its infinite wisdom, because I do think it’s super wise, will grab those CICs and it’ll go store them in your soft tissues to try to make them as inert as possible, right? Because we can’t have our blood clogged up with all this stuff.

And so in the research, we see increased CICs in many autoimmune conditions. So that’s really prevalent in lupus, really prevalent in rheumatoid arthritis. I looked into it for Hashimoto’s just because I know we were having this conversation. It appears the research is less clear there. Studies show anywhere from 20% to 60% of people with Hashimoto’s have elevated CICs. You can actually run a CIC blood test to check for these things. They appear almost elevated in many chronic inflammatory conditions, AIDS, different infection-related conditions. There’s some new research online. And so my theory on what’s happening here is that we have our weak links, our genetic weak links. And you were born with them. I was born with them. You can’t escape them. And when your body’s trying to save you from all these CICs, it grabs the molecules and just kind of stores them in your genetic weak links. And so if you have rheumatoid arthritis, that’s near your joints, and then you end up with joint pain.

Now, the really, really cool thing about systemic and proteolytic enzymes is they go in and they break down the CICs. And they’re able to neutralize them, and they’re also able to even go into the soft tissues and break them down. And so that’s why we have research studies on systemic enzymes showing that after, like, working out, like after, like, really intense workouts, you have less pain if you have systemic enzymes. In other words, the enzymes are removing the inflammation from even just working out. But there’s plenty of usage of these in Germany and plenty of studies on rheumatoid arthritis and lupus where systemic enzyme therapy rivals various types of prescription, non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs, not just your basic aspirins and things like that, but the much more powerful ones. And so they’re really cool. And they also help with clotting. They clean the blood like I mentioned. And so that’s kind of what can happen.

Now, you mentioned…this is really long so I’m gonna stop right after this. But just to finish the question, you mentioned that you took a lot really fast, and you might have had a reaction to them. If you had plenty of these CICs stored up because your body was trying to do its best, you can have what’s called a Herxheimer reaction to using them…you know, a lot of them really quickly. And so, yeah, that definitely could have happened. And then also if people are wondering, “Well, these sound, like, really potent and kind of crazy,” there’s actually a whole line of cancer research that uses high-dose, exogenous, systemic enzyme therapy. It’s Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez. He’s passed away, but there’s doctors who work underneath of his lineage. They use 150 to 180 capsules a day. So I don’t know how many capsules you were using, Katie. But in cancer at least when they try to use this type of therapy, they use mega doses, and I do believe they actually work up to that as well.

Katie: Wow, that is awesome to know, and I’m guessing there’s a lot of people listening putting these pieces together going, “Wow, I wonder if this could help my, you know, fill in the blank.” Because it seems like we’ve got data, at least preliminary data on it being really helpful for a lot of things. And before we go further, I think it’s also, I’d love for you to tell a little bit of your story because you also went on your own health journey and had to find your own health answers and then return to a state of health. So can you talk about the phases of your own health journey?

Steven: Yeah, sure. So I had some birth trauma. I’ve had intestinal issues basically my whole life, and then, you know, after college, I was a consultant at KPMG in Chicago. And I was living the super consultant lifestyle, really high stress, and I really at that point was having cystic acne everywhere. I was having my first panic attacks, I had just come out of my worst depressive episode. Every time I ate, I would have bloating so bad. I would tear up, and I was raised in a culture where boys don’t cry. And so it was really hard for me to be at the office. It was really hard for me to be anywhere and have basically stabbing knife pains. And this is no matter what I ate. I was also overweight. I was probably 230 at that point. My highest was about 245, and I’m only 5-11. I’m pretty athletic but that was still pretty big for me. And so I was eating lettuce and chicken, and I was working out an hour a day. And I was doing my best to suck it up and be a man. I just started having accidents where I was missing dates.

I accidentally, you know, pooed myself on a commuter bus, and then my boss called me into his office and said, “You’re stinking up the office. You have to fix this or, you know, bad things are gonna happen.” And so that’s when I had my final wake-up call that I needed to do something, and that led me down all kinds of awesome, you know, dietary changes that really started to change my world right away. That led me to, for instance, stomach acid, betaine HCl, digestive enzymes. Once I started to get my digestive pain away, I wanted to know why did I have to eat such a restricted diet and why didn’t my acne go away. You know, how come I didn’t feel great every day? And so that just led me naturally just to read a ton of scientific literature. I joined the Kalish Institute and was certified in functional medicine with them.

I just kept, you know, sort of biohacking, keep asking the questions like, “Well, why and, you know, how come?” And that’s led me to, you know, shamans across the world. That’s led me to all kinds of Western stuff, you know, so many supplements and kind of led me to where we are today. One of the weird things about why we’re talking today is even though I had been on a specific carbohydrate diet or an autoimmune Paleo diet for essentially seven years, around year seven, I started to get left big toe pain. And at the time, I was 32. I was a “digestive health expert.” You know, I was trying to be the picture of health, and I was trying to live up to this thing that I was supposed to be. And here I was having a hard time walking.

At first, I chalked it up to injuries. I tried stem cells. I tried shamanism. I tried all kinds of intense manual therapies, Eastern and Western, X-rays, all kinds of things. After I basically had done everything, even though there was something that in the back of my mind said, “Hey, that’s really common for what is seen in gout,” there’s no way I have it. I don’t fit the profile. How would I have that thing? I had a stigma around gout. And finally, one of my doctor buddies was like, “Man, we have really done everything with you.” And he’s the one that gave me the stem cells. He’s like, “I think you really need to take this, you know, high uric acid idea seriously. There’s really nothing else that would explain this.”

I did, you know, because that…I was previously a backcountry hunter, and just hunting, I’d have to be on anti-inflammatory drugs. Like, I couldn’t do my activities anymore. And so I started doing cherry juicing and all kinds of, you know, natural remedies for lowering uric acid and trying to support-gout related things. And nothing was working, and so I was back to like, “Man, I’m gonna have to take a prescription drug for the rest of my life that might have…it has decent side-effect profile. This isn’t okay with me.” And right about that time is when I was deep into enzymes because I have been just frustrated with the lack of consistency when I recommend to even you, you know, all my friends. People ask me for recommendations, and I was like, “I don’t know the right brand, but I’m gonna figure it out.”

And so in the middle of trying basically every brand on the market, I ran into a Ph.D. researcher who talked about systemic enzymes. He talked about a very specific thing about how they need to be activated, and when they’re activated, they do miraculous things. One of the case studies he rattled off was that his form of enzymes, his form of digestive systemic enzymes, actually were very successful in some pilot clinical trials supporting high uric acid and supporting gout pain. And I was like, “Okay. Now I’m sold. I’ll buy your stuff. Let me try it.” You know, that’s what I always do. Sure enough, 14 days into dosing them at a little bit higher dose than normal but not that high, just 6 pills, literally, this pain that I’d had for 3 years was gone. So it stayed gone. And it’s been amazing. I’ve been able to get back to a lot of my activities. I don’t rely on pain relievers anymore.

And so I can’t claim that, you know, our supplement does anything else. Just my experience is one-off. You know, results are not typical. There are research studies that we’ve done on this. We hope to do much bigger, you know, 60, 80, 100-person trials. They’ve only been 10-person trials, but it’s really, really encouraging. And it really opened my eyes like, “Oh, wow, maybe this is a really overlooked area of health that could help me and a lot of others.”

Katie: Yeah. It’s so fascinating. And I feel like this is just now really starting to be talked about, and I know you’ve done so much research on it. That’s why I was so excited to have you on today to talk about this. Having researched my own way through an autoimmune disease and now being in remission with Hashimoto’s, I keep always coming back to the inflammation piece because I think if anything, the last couple of years have really just emphasized for me how personalized health is and how at the end of the day, I found what works for me. And that definitely does not mean it’s gonna work even for someone else who has Hashimoto’s, I think there are pieces of that that do. But it does seem to all go back to inflammation, and I think that’s a common link with a lot of types of chronic disease. And so it sounds like when we’re talking about these enzymes, that’s one of the mechanisms that they’re acting on is to reduce inflammation in the body in various ways essentially, right?

Steven: Yeah. Correct. And I think everybody should be super skeptical, and I don’t think, you know, everything works for everybody. So I’m glad you brought that up. But there are these certain pathways that do appear to be universal almost. One of these is inflammation. And the cool thing about if you have, like, a properly working digestive tract is you’ll be breaking down your foods, right? You won’t have these big protein molecules busting through your gut lining, overwhelming your immune system, you know, antagonizing it. You won’t have dysbiosis, which is the microbiome getting dysregulated. All of these things are related to food. My analogy is, you know, like if you had given your kids, Katie, like a scoop of peanut butter, almond butter, and just throw it on the sidewalk and let them watch what happens, by the end of the day, there’s gonna be, like, all kinds of bugs. And maybe a bird will check it out, and probably a dog will find it and lick it. And like, you know, life just blooms whenever there’s food.

And so if we’re not digesting and breaking down the food that we eat, we’re literally causing a bloom of just whatever is gonna go for it in our guts. And that increases inflammation. So one of the biggest things is just properly digesting your food can help lower inflammation. And then, yes, these enzymes are amazing once you’re past that and you’re trying to get into the body anywhere from, you know, just cleaning the blood out, any sort of stored CICs balancing the immune system. There’s research on, like, plaque formation and, you know, heart disease, some of the risk factors for heart disease. It’s just really quite amazing, their capacity to help regulate the immune system and high inflammation.

Katie: Got it. Okay. That makes complete sense. And I know, like you’ve mentioned food intolerances a couple times and explained kind of that gut reaction and why these enzymes might be so helpful. And I know that’s a big buzzword for a lot of people listening. I’ve certainly been through that on my own when I first was in the thick of autoimmune disease. That was part of the key for me of figuring out how to reduce inflammation in the beginning as I had to be pretty strict with my diet and to deal with certain food intolerances.

So in the beginning, for me, I had dairy, gluten, coconut, eggs, and some others. And now I’m able to eat essentially everything except eggs without any kind of reaction. And I think for anyone who has their own food intolerances or certainly for a parent who has a child with food intolerances, that can be both really scary and really frustrating. And so I think that the fact that this can potentially offer hope for food intolerance is really exciting. I’d love to go a little bit deeper on that. Like is there a specific protocol that we’re seeing that seems to help with food intolerance? And when it comes to that, can kids do this as well, or do we know yet?

Steven: You know, food intolerances are like autoimmune diseases in that they’re just a complex topic, and so we can’t say someone’s…like, I had a dairy issue as well. I still have a gluten-type issue. I don’t seem to have any others, but there is some sort of interplay between your immune system and your immune system sort of reacting to proteins. Again, remember, most people don’t really know this, but when your immune system has a reaction, most of the time, like 99% of the time, it’s a protein that it’s reacting to.

And so while lactose intolerance is a totally real thing, and there’s a lot of people that have it, my personal belief is that a lot of people are actually reacting to the proteins whey and casein that are in dairy. And one of the reasons why and how we believe food intolerances happen is your immune system wouldn’t react to something or learn to react to something if it wasn’t getting exposed to it and think it was bad. And so how would that happen? Well, it would happen if your gut was leaky or if your gut wasn’t working properly. The belief is that we eat our foods. Let’s say it’s dairy or let’s make it even easier, like corn is a less…not as many people have that, but there’s a protein in corn that’s kind of like gluten. It’s called zein, and it’s just this hard-to-break-down protein basically.

And so if your proteolytic enzymes don’t break it down and if your gut is a little leaky, that protein or any other corn proteins could pass into the blood. And the immune system will be like, “Whoa, that’s bad guy. You know, we gotta get rid of that.” And so it has this whole reaction. And so that’s believed to be how food intolerances happen. How to get rid of them? You have those sort of several pieces, right? We need the immune system to kind of sort of relax but we need it to make sure it stops being exposed to it. In order to do that, we have to digest the food and make sure it doesn’t go into the blood. And so unraveling that is…I don’t think it’s as easy as just taking digestive enzymes.

But if we think about how that process unfolds, the number one thing we could do is make sure the food is properly digested and it’s never, you know, sort of in that bigger molecule. And so we do see a lot of people who are able to take the enzymes and then over time as long as they’re also healing their gut…remember the gut wall has to close up and the gut inflammation has to heal up. If those two things happen, that’s how I believe a lot of food intolerances are overcome. Of course, you know, there’s straight-up food allergies. Those are different. That’s usually something that’s inherent to you. Those are usually anaphylactic in nature.

So, I’m not talking about those at all. That’s a totally separate conversation, a totally different medical topic. But in this intolerance thing where it’s sort of being annoyed by these foods, it does appear that if you can heal the gut lining and break the food down better, your intolerances and your diet can really expand because they seem to go away. And so the cool thing is with enzymes, you can open them up. You know, because a lot of kids don’t like to swallow pills. I’m sure you know that. But you can open them up. You can put them on their food. There’s no issue as far as doing that kind of thing. In the various different areas where children have issues with their guts, enzymes are pretty much used universally in the various disorders. So, yeah, they’re amazing for that.

Katie: That’s so exciting to me because I know when I first was trying to figure this out on my own years ago, the story I got from mainstream medicine was that, kind of like, once an autoimmune disease, always an autoimmune disease. And we don’t even really fully understand what causes them, but we don’t think you can get rid of them. And once there’s this level of inflammation in the body, you just kind of have to mitigate. And thankfully, that’s definitely not what I found to be true in my own health journey or in my research. But that’s been very top of mind for me is like, you know, I had to get really sick as an adult before I started paying attention to these things.

So I’m very cognizant of “What can I be doing with my kids now that gives them the best, you know, digestive start, that gives them the best immune start that hopefully they never have to face the level of problems that I faced?” and that I know you’ve faced as well. I know that we’re both, probably can be grateful for that because that was part of our journey and that allows us to now help other people. But it’s really exciting to me when pieces like this fall into place, and we have what seems like extremely tangible evidence of the mechanism that these things work and especially when we’re talking about kids.

I asked you this before we started, but I wanna ask it on the record as well. I’m a big proponent of various types of fasting. So I do time-restricted eating a lot of days, and I also am currently in the middle of a water fast just because I know I feel best when I do those relatively regularly. And certainly a lot of things you wouldn’t take while fasting. A lot of supplements aren’t best taken without food. Walk us through enzymes and how they can be used differently with food and without food.

Steven: Yeah. So, you know, I actually kind of do…when I fast, I actually up my enzyme dosage because I’m kind of of this idea that…you know, I’ve already had a lot of my own health changes, right? Like the idea of me being, you know, an NFL or a NBA, like an Olympic-style health athlete is just out the door. That ship has sailed. So, I need to do a lot of proactive things throughout my life to really feel and be the best. And so when I fast, I actually take more of enzymes, more systemic enzymes because I believe they’re helping to sort of cleanse the blood as you’re…you know, when you’re fasting, you’re totally changing the state of your body, and you’re, you know, potentially dumping extra toxins or certain molecules into the blood that wouldn’t normally be there. You’re also not digesting, and so there’s no real focus on digestion. And there’s a lot of focus around immune and cellular health. And so part of that whole process of autophagy and everything is protein destruction and protein degradation and protein recycling. I actually up my enzyme usage during fasts in order to try to just basically have as much of a cleanse as I can.

Yeah. The big thing is basically like are you taking the enzymes with food or without food? Like what’s in the enzyme, and so the actual enzyme products. So, as I mentioned earlier, for a digestive enzyme, you really wanna be taking a product that includes both pancreatic enzymes and brush border enzymes. If you’re not taking one with both, and you’re experiencing any health issues or any gut upset at all, and you’re like, “Man, I don’t know if this product’s working,” like, there’s really no way…there’s no tests that I’m aware of for you to know if you’re having a brush border enzyme problem or a pancreatic enzyme problem or both. And so my belief is you should take a product that has both of them covered so that, you know, whatever your body’s, you know, hiccup is or issue, you got yourself covered. Now, you also want that product to be higher in protease, and you want it to be basically, like, 100% pH coverage, and you want it to be activated. If those things happen, then it can be used systemically as well. And so what does that mean?

So basically, pancreatic enzymes work in a very small window of pH, and pH’s, like, acid-base balance. The stomach is very acid. The intestines are actually more basic or a less higher pH. Excuse me. And so animal enzymes like pancreatin, nothing wrong with them. You have to understand their limitations. And so pancreatin only works in a very narrow pH, and so if your stomach acid is off, if it’s low, if you’re stressed, if you have, like, H. pylori or these other infections, the chances of your pH being perfect so that your enzymes turn on and that work is just kind of, again, you’re sort of leaving yourself open there for products to not really work and get you the intended benefits. And so I really like more fungal-based enzymes because they have 100% pH coverage. So they work from 2 to 11. Like, ours work from 1.7 to 11.6 or something. So it’s basically your whole body’s range. You really wanna get a product that’s activated.

Now, of course, I’m biased. You know, our product has a patented activation system. I literally tried 28 different products from almost every brand last year, trying to figure this out for myself. And I wouldn’t have settled on this and I wouldn’t have worked and licensed this from the Ph.D. guy if I didn’t fully understand enzymes now and how they work. And so basically, enzymes need energy to do their work, and so they need what’s called a cofactor. And for enzymes, that’s a mineral. And so basically, minerals donate energy to turn on enzymes. And so if you take a product that doesn’t have a mineral activation blend, you’re gonna have to steal nutrients from your food, or you’re gonna have to rely on stealing nutrients from your body to turn them on.

I finally realized that was the thing. Why did some days the enzyme work and other days the enzyme didn’t work? And why did some brands work with some people but other brands didn’t work with that same or with…like other people like them? I really believe it comes down to this thing of the quality of the enzyme and then, is it activated? Because if it’s not activated, it’s sort of, like, inert almost like, you know, you just need it to be turned on to work. Otherwise, you’re taking the chance that it might bump into something in your food and turn on. And so that’s why I’m such a big proponent of holozymes and this AES absorption system.

The Ph.D. guy had to do six pilot trials because the patent board was like, “Yeah. Okay, man, you know, this is sort of unprecedented science. Like it sounds cool, but we don’t believe you.” So he actually had to do these pilot trials to prove that this enzyme product works both for fat, carbohydrate, and protein and that it’s absorbed systemically and it begins to help with a clotting factor. That’s all been done in those pilot trials. Of course, we need much more research on it. But as far as enzyme product goes, I’m actually not aware of any other enzyme products except for Wobenzym that have done this kind of research. And so Wobenzym is kind of like the systemic enzyme of choice if you’re just gonna use a systemic enzyme, but it doesn’t have any of the digestive stuff. Ours has both your pancreatic, your brush border, and your systemic nature.

Katie: That’s super helpful to understand. And I will say just as a plug for you guys as well. I very rarely notice an immediate difference from supplements and I’ve added this to my routine, and I do notice, like my digestion, and I notice a difference from taking it, like a noticeable difference. You know, it wasn’t available when I was in the height of my autoimmune disease. Although I wish now that it had been. It’s so exciting to me that we have tools like this. Are there any risks or contraindications people need to know about when it comes to taking enzymes? And if not, what does good dosing look like, especially if we’re talking about yours specifically?

Steven: Yeah. There’s no massive risk. Of course, you know, always check with your doctor. For instance, Wobenzym has the most systemic…the most, like, research in the world on it, and it actually is even used in infertility trials. There was, like, a study of 141 people in Germany who are women who are infertile, and they used systemic enzymes to help them get pregnant and much better than the control group and stay for the whole pregnancy term. So, they’ve been studied in kids. Our brand hasn’t been, but enzymes, in general, have been studied in kids. They’ve been studied in pregnancy.

The only real big thing is there’s an enzyme called nattokinase and it’s a really cool Japanese systemic enzyme that’s specifically cardiac function. It rivals some specific, you know, cardio-related drugs as far as efficacy for blood pressure, for clotting, things like that. And so it does appear that, like, if you megadose that, there’s some concerns around if you’re already on a blood thinner. But just general usage of regular products like Wobenzym or holozymes or something like that, there shouldn’t be any, but, of course, check with your doctor.

So, dosing. Dosing is really kind of up to you. So like I said, the upper limit of dosing that I’m aware of is like…would be, like, 150 to 180 pills a day. That’s a lot, and that’s for very specific cancer-related protocols that Dr. Gonzalez does and his lineage does. What I’ve seen is that most people use two to six capsules specifically of holozymes per meal and then on an empty stomach. And they can see, like, really amazing results. Why the range? Well, it just depends, like how…do we know your pancreatic function? How long have you been sick? You know, what kind of food are you feeding yourself? How stressed are you? How’s your stomach acid? All these things make a difference in your capacity to break down food and how much digestive enzymes might you need.

And then, again, on the systemic side like before bed or in the morning, you know, what are you looking to do? Are you just taking this as an anti-aging supplement to keep your blood clean, to keep everything flowing well, to keep inflammation levels low? Then all the studies that the Ph.D. guy did were only two pills before bed. But if you’re specifically trying to get better athletic performance, if you’re specifically trying to work on some sort of health condition that you think might be helped by this, then I would recommend doing four to six on an empty stomach for at least a month just to see what happens. You can always go down, or you can go up.

We do have some people who end up going really, like, more on the 10 to 14 range per meal, but these are people with known gastro issues like gastroparesis where their stomach doesn’t actually dump very well or at all into the intestines. And so these should be really guided by somebody who knows what’s going on or if you have… Another way that it’s working is it is for people to, you know, help with their occasional heartburn or occasional acid reflux or something like that if they’re looking for an alternative, which, again, I can’t say that this is an alternative. I can just tell you that, you know, some people who buy our product are using it in those dosages for those conditions.

Katie: Gotcha. Yeah. And I think you highlighted a really important point, which is at the end of the day, like this can be used for so many different things like a lot of these tools can. It really does come down to each of us taking the initiative to experiment and try things and try them for a long enough time to see if they have an effect. And this is one that I’m really excited about right now, like you mentioned, just for the anti-aging side and for keeping any potential future autoimmune things at bay because I know, like once you’ve had any kind of inflammatory condition, your chances of having them in the future is higher. And so I’m very cognizant of that and still try to keep my inflammation low, even though I now am much more relaxed with my diet and my lifestyle than I had to be in the very beginning.

But I think the anti-aging part is also really exciting to a lot of people listening as well. And I think we’re probably gonna keep seeing more and more on this. But it’s a pretty easy thing that seems like we can add in and try without a lot of risks, which is really, really exciting.

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And real quick, I know I have a link right here. I’ll put in the show notes as well. It’s healthygut.com/wm. And I know you guys are giving a discount on any order. But just talk about the products by name and a little bit more specifically. Because, like I said, these are ones that are now part of my routine, and I wanted to make sure I could share them with the audience today.

Steven: Yeah. Yes. The enzyme product that I’ve been talking about is called HoloZyme, and it’s the world’s most activated enzyme formula. So it is patented. We also have our, you know, dual-strain, four-times concentrated active blend. Our enzymes are made in the U.S. They’re pharmaceutical grade, 100% clean, no fillers, no additives. And so, yeah, we’re giving $10 off to try it. I mean, I think whenever you’re trying something new, I think it’s always great to save a little money when you don’t know if it’s gonna work for you. But we also, you know, just being somebody who’s been sick and consumes a lot of supplements hoping for results, you know, kind of being like, “Oh, maybe this one, or, oh, maybe this one.”

We’re also offering a 180-day refund on all of our products at any point in time for any reason. And I just know that because not everything works for everybody. And if you don’t notice the difference, I mean, maybe you’ll buy into the research to use these systemically for anti-aging or just with digestion. But I would just wanna make sure that there’s no risk, and if anybody has any issues with the product, we always just, you know, go ahead and give the money back because I know that if you’re listening to this podcast, if you’re following me or Katie, you’re trying really hard to have, you know, a really healthy life, really healthy lifestyle. So, I’m super into, like, just encouraging that and encouraging great use of your money when it comes to those things. Yeah. And then we also have HCL Guard. Are you using that, Katie?

Katie: I am. But to clarify, that one is to be used only with food, correct? You wouldn’t wanna use that while fasting?

Steven: Correct. Correct. So HCL Guard is our, also a new product, never been done before. It’s a stomach acid supporting product. It’s for people with low stomach acid. And it’s correct. There’s literally acid powder in the capsule. So, you never open the capsule. Only take it with food. It’s not as universal, but for people who are over 50, you have about a 50% chance of having low stomach acid. Sadly, stomach acid’s really related to aging and hormone health. And so as we age, stomach acid declines is what the studies show. And so if you’re having any gas, burping, constipation, diarrhea are occasional, those things are all occasional. Again, HCL Guard does not treat any medical conditions. HoloZyme does not treat any medical conditions. But if you’re having struggles in those departments, they can offer support. And, yes, so it’s pretty cool.

It’s the only stomach acid formula on the market that includes organic ginger, which is a prokinetic. And many people might have drank ginger tea when they’ve been having an upset stomach. And so the ginger is anti-inflammatory. It helps support the healing of the stomach, but it also helps the food start moving through your body. And then we also include intrinsic factor, which is kind of like the bouncer for B12. It turns out B12 is a really fragile compound, and it needs support to get into the bloodstream. And intrinsic factor is part of stomach acid naturally, but if you’re not making enough, then you’re not gonna have enough to get your B12. And so we’re the first company to bring that to market. So, I’m really excited about them mostly because I’ve been using everybody else’s brands for 10 years, and I just got fed up with not getting the consistency that I wanted. And so I’m glad that you’re using them, and I hope, you know, people check them out. And I just hope it supports them, honestly.

Katie: Yeah. And I’ll say the cool thing about HCl. This was a big part of my husband’s recovery. He had his appendix rupture and then had a secondary infection and tons of antibiotics, and this was years ago. But we spent years kind of undoing that damage in his gut, and HCl was a big key for him for a long time. And he’s been able to taper down now, and I’ve also just recently ramped up my protein intake a lot because I started lifting weights again after losing a whole lot of weight. And so that’s been helpful for me is I’ve added in a lot of protein, and I know HCl can help with protein digestion as well. Can you explain the idea of an HCl challenge and how people can use that to figure out how much they need to take if they need to take it?

Steven: Yeah. Yes. So you might be asking a question like, “How would I know if I have low stomach acid?” Well, you can go and get a test if you have, like, a super-advanced doctor. There’s not many of them in the entire world left. But there’s something called a Heidelberg test. There’s also a gastro capsule test. Normally, these are like $300 to $600 out-of-pocket, and you have to find a specialty provider to do them. So, I’m just gonna go ahead and assume you don’t have time or money to spend on that because you can just spend a little bit of money and try an HCl supplement and do this HCl challenge, which is the best way to figure out if you have low stomach acid.

And then you might be wondering like, “Well, what are my chances?” So, Dr. Jonathan Wright is one of the physicians who does stomach acid testing. In his clinic, he said there’s probably 90% of people he tests with IBS-like symptoms have low stomach acid. The other 10%, they have all the same symptoms, but 10% have regular acid or high acid. Dr. Steven Sandberg-Lewis, he’s a professor of naturopathic gastroenterology. He’s written some books. He’s out of Portland. He does the same tests, and he says it’s about 80/20.

And so your chances if you have digestive upset are kind of high for this. The fastest and cheapest way is to buy an HCl product, ours or somebody else’s, and you basically do this HCl challenge. So you have a meal that has some protein. It could be vegetable protein. It could be animal protein. It doesn’t matter. It’s better if it’s not, like, just a protein shake, right. Because a protein shake or a smoothie is essentially already pre-broken-down food for you. So you don’t need much acid or enzymes or anything to do much with that, but just a normal meal. You take one capsule. Most people don’t notice anything. And if you don’t notice anything, that’s pretty much a sign that you have low stomach acid, right? Because you just took a pill that had acid in it, and you didn’t notice anything.

And so how the HCl challenge works is you just keep adding one pill per relatively normal meal for you, and at some point, you’re gonna feel some sort of hotness, maybe some sort of burning in your mid-chest. Maybe you’re gonna notice a change in your stools, like maybe your stools get better, but then they go more loose or diarrhea-like, anything like that. And I would pay attention more to your gas, bloating, your stools, the toilet, what’s going on there than I would the heat sensation because getting to a heat sensation is not really always needed.

What we’re trying to do is just get you a perfect poop. And if you’ve never heard of the Bristol Stool Chart, you can google that. You’re trying to get to a four or five on the Bristol Stool Chart every single day. And so HCL Guard is…and other HCl products are a great way to make sure that happens. So, anyways, with the HCl challenge, you’ll reach a number. Like, I don’t know about you, Katie, but I actually was part of the people who don’t get the burn. So, I one time did, like, 15 pills back when I was really sick, and I was like, “I don’t notice anything.” And then I had, like, a lot of loose stools, and I was like, “Oh, okay, I think that was too much.”

So, anyways, I took about eight or nine capsules once I realized that you could just do this based on how you’re feeling and you didn’t have to find the “burn.” Yeah. I took around eight or nine, and then I was slowly, like your husband Seth, I was slowly able to back down as I healed until I was off HCl for three years, and then I’m back on it now just because of the stress in the world and just everything that’s happening in my life. Stress is crazy high, and so I just realized, “Yeah. I’m not making stomach acid anymore.”

Katie: That’s another key point, I think, that you just brought up is not only is health very personalized and individualized and we each need to take ownership for our own health and figuring out what’s gonna work best for us through experimentation, but it’s also constantly changing. I feel like figuring out what works for my health right now is great for right now, and then by next month, it’s often totally…you know, like where it’s always an evolving concept. Like we talked about earlier, I think, in general, there are some things that seem almost universally beneficial, and that’s why I’m excited about enzymes is it seems there’s so many different uses, and I think we’re, like you said, just gonna keep finding out more and more. So I’m really excited that you’re pioneering this and making these available right now. Like I said, I’m a big fan. So, I appreciate you being here to educate today and explain. And to switch gears a little bit, a couple things I love to ask at the end of interviews, just first being, are there any books or podcasts or sources of inspiration that you’re loving right now?

Steven: Right now. You know, my favorite book and something that I always return to is “Man’s Search for Meaning.” You know, if you’re not familiar with it, it’s a first-hand account of a psychiatrist going through the concentration camps in the Holocaust. And it’s just so humbling. I try to read it twice a year every year to realize that, you know, what we’re going through right now as a society is unprecedented in our lifetimes. It’s intense. It’s scary. It’s so many things. And yet there was lots of other times in human history where, like, much worse happened. And then also, like, how did those humans deal with that intensity? And how can I apply that till now?

Katie: I’m also a huge fan of that book, and I think, like you said, it’s very timely right now. People have been through much worse, but it’s a great opportunity if we look at it this way to find that deeper meaning and to go reflect and to pause. So, I love that. I think that’s perfect for right now. And what are you excited about in the future? Obviously, enzymes but anything else that’s exciting to you right now?

Steven: I’m really excited about where the field of gut health is going. You know, in general, I think we’re gonna learn so much in the coming years about the gut-brain access. I’m really excited about, like, gut trauma, gut trauma brain, those types of things. I think there’s just so much that’s gonna come out around how potentially even the pharmaceuticals that we use for the brain are actually working in the gut. And I think we’re gonna learn so much more about leaky gut syndrome, zonulin. There’s a bunch of new papers that just came out in the last two weeks about this, about substances called short-chain fatty acids. These are super cool. They come from a lot of your fibers and your prebiotics, but you can also supplement with butyrate. And it’s got some really cool upcoming research. So, you know me. I’m super into the brain stuff right now. I’m very into, like, the gut, you know, meets all these other conditions and how is that happening.

Katie: Very cool. I have a feeling we’ll have to do another round, you know, at some point in the future as things continue to develop, but for any of you guys who want to try all the stuff we talked about, again, check out the show notes at wellnessmama.fm or healthygut.com/wm to get the discount. Yeah. Steve, it’s always a pleasure to chat with you. I love the work that you’re doing, and I’m very grateful for these products and happy to share them today. So thanks for being here.

Steven: Yeah. Thanks, Katie. Thanks for letting me educate people about enzymes. I’m very excited about them. I’m glad they’re helping you, and thanks for all the hard work you do.

Katie: And as always, thanks to all of you for listening and sharing your time with us today. We’re so grateful that you did, and I hope that you will join me again on the next episode of “The Wellness Mama Podcast.”

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Everyone’s Resolution Is to Drink More Water in 2020

Water is pretty boring, as far as beverages go. It doesn’t have a catchy jingle, a secret family recipe or even a taste, really. Yet people can’t seem to get enough of it.“I get people in my office every day, every week, saying something like, ‘I’m concerned I’m not hydrated,’” said Lauren Antonucci, a nutritionist in New York City.Their concerns may be based on conventional wisdom. One well-known recommendation suggests drinking eight glasses of water a day; another warns that if you feel thirsty, you’re already dehydrated.But anxiety about water consumption could also stem from a different, more philosophical source: Hydration is now marketed as a cure for nearly all of life’s woes.

The Answer to Everything

Water, in recent years, has been imbued with the powers of a mysterious elixir. The latest “it” celebrity’s skin care secret? Oh, just water. Feeling sluggish? You probably need more water. Uninspired and utterly hopeless about your career and romantic prospects? Well, have you had any water today?People hydrate as if their reputations depend on it. They dutifully carry water bottles with them wherever they go, draining and refilling them with gusto. Some go so far as to track their consumption in a journal, or with a mobile app. (There’s one that uses a plant as a metaphor for the user’s well-being. Depending on the volume of water one has consumed, it may appear to be thriving or wilting.) Hydration is the mark of a well-adjusted, successful person. On Jan. 1, Twitter flooded with resolutions to drink more water, including from Twitter’s brand account.But will more conscious hydration really make for a more productive 2020?“There’s no evidence that a little bit of dehydration really impacts anybody’s performance,” said Dr. Mitchell Rosner, a kidney specialist at the University of Virginia who studies overhydration in athletes, in a phone interview. He said that most recommendations for hydration come from studies of athletes, who lose fluid rapidly during workouts or competitions, and are at a much higher risk for dehydration than the average person. For those of us who spend all day at a desk, Dr. Rosner said, it’s best to drink only when we feel thirsty.Overhydrating, he said, isn’t helping anyone. At best, Dr. Rosner said, “You pee it out.” At worst, it can cause the sodium and electrolyte levels in your body to drop to dangerously low levels. The condition, hyponatremia, can result in hospitalization and death. (This doesn’t happen often, but … good to know.)If hydration is the goal, it’s also worth considering that water may not be the most hydrating beverage out there. A study published in 2015, of 72 male subjects, found that full-fat milk, skim milk and orange juice kept people more hydrated than still water did. So, could America be ready for a dairy revolution? Unlikely. That’s because water isn’t just a beverage preference that needs to be toppled. It’s a virtue.

How Did We Get Here?

In 2017, bottled water surpassed soft drinks as the top beverage in the United States by volume, with sales up 7 percent over the previous year, according to the Beverage Marketing Corporation, a beverage consulting firm. Since then, sales have continued to rise.“It’s no accident that it’s No. 1,” said Michael Bellas, the chairman of the Beverage Marketing Corporation. “If you had to put together a perfect scenario and plan how to build a category this would have been it.”In the 1970s, ad campaigns by Evian and Perrier introduced the concept of bottled water as a high-end refreshment beverage, Mr. Bellas said. Before that, bottled water was sold as a tap water replacement.These new campaigns helped enable bottled water to compete with other grocery store beverages, like juice, coffee, soda and beer.By the early aughts, Mr. Bellas said, people weren’t just drinking bottled water while sitting down for a meal. They were drinking it all day. While consumers may have begun to curb their intake of caffeinated or sugary beverages, they had no reason to put a limit on zero-calorie, thirst-quenching water. And they were carrying it around with them, on the go. “It changed the way beverages were consumed,” Mr. Bellas said. If people were drinking water everywhere, it could be sold anywhere. And it was. Bottled water’s indefinite shelf life and readily available product made its expansion seamless.As single-use plastic water bottles proliferated, an environmentally conscious response emerged: reusable water bottles. Nalgene, which began as a plastic laboratory pipette maker before outdoorsy scientists realized they were perfect for camping, became an accessory for college students in the early aughts. They could pick a Nalgene color that reflected their personality and then plaster it with stickers for whatever they cared about: the college radio station, student government, the Dave Matthews Band.The rise of Nalgene coincided with Mr. Bellas’s observation that carrying bottled water took on a symbolic meaning during the early aughts. “It was cool to carry a water bottle around,” he said. “And it was healthy. It made a statement.” Reusable water bottles made the same statement with an environmental twist.In recent years, ever-growing environmental and health concerns have turned them into a gift-guide-worthy statement item. For the consumers with big budgets, there’s Yeti. For VSCO girls, there’s the Hydro Flask. Aesthetically discerning buyers may gravitate toward design-forward companies like Bkr or Hay. Any of them make for a gift that says, “I love you, and I want you to be hydrated.”

What About All Those Health Claims?

Water is a go-to remedy for a variety of ailments: exhaustion, headaches, digestive problems, inflammation, dry skin, acne.“It’s a popular idea among patients and a popular idea in consumer media that hydration equals healthy skin,” said Dr. Joshua Zeigler, a dermatologist at Mount Sinai in New York City. But that’s not exactly how it works. “It’s a complete myth that eight glasses of water are necessary to maintain hydrated skin,” he said. Still, many consumers treat water like an anti-aging potion.We think of water as so good for us that the bottled water industry doesn’t need to spend much money on convincing us to buy it, compared with marketing budgets for other beverages.Advertising expenditures in 2018 were $109 million for the bottled water industry, while the beer industry spent more than $1.5 billion, and the soft drink industry came close to $1 billion, according to data from Kantar Media. The truth is that for the most part, consumers don’t care what brand of bottled water they buy; the best-selling brand of bottled water, according to the online statistics portal Statista, is “private label,” which is another term for “generic brand.” Consumers don’t even know who manufactured it, or where.Water appears immune to claims that its benefits are overblown — we need it to survive, after all. Its benefits have even become a meme. There are social media accounts dedicated to berating their followers for not drinking enough water. But if you haven’t quite hit your quota today, don’t worry: Your 2020 isn’t already ruined. The tasty beverages you thought of as dehydrating, like coffee, tea and beer, are actually hydrating.“Coffee is a hydrating beverage,” said Ms. Antonucci, the nutritionist. “If you’re drinking it, let go of the guilt. Enjoy it.” Read the full article

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Global  Mushroom Market research Poised to Expand at a Robust Pace Over    2019-2029

In terms of value, the global mushroom market is expected to reach a market value of US$ 58,109.9 Mn by the end of 2027, with an expected CAGR of 9.1% over the forecast period. The key factors responsible for the growth of mushroom market include increasing demand for processed food, health benefits associated with the consumption of mushroom, ease of usability of mushroom via innovative packaging solutions, the expanding HoReCa (hotels, restaurants, and cafes) culture, and rising demand for mushroom-based products.

The escalating urbanization and growing westernization are paving the path for the already thriving HoReCa sector, playing a vital role in introducing several multinational cuisines and flavors to the consumers – thus generating substantial demand for mushroom and mushroom-based products.

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Thriving Processed Food Demand Pushing Consumption of Mushroom as Key Ingredient

There is increasing demand for ready-to-eat food and meals among the consumers, and this is attributed to the busy lifestyles, demanding work cultures, and hectic schedules. The consumers have started preferring processed and ready-to-eat food over the conventional options available in the market, to cater to their hunger needs.

However, the consumers are nowadays becoming more conscious about the food products they consume, and thus are seeking healthier options in the processed food category. Mushroom is widely used in processed foods and is itself available in several formats including dried, canned, and frozen formats, to satisfy the changing consumers need for more significant convenience processed food without compromising the health of consumers.

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Mushroom’s Rich Nutritional Profile Fostering Sales

Increasing consumer inclination towards maintaining a healthy lifestyle has led to higher consumption of food and food ingredients with potential health benefits. Recently, consumers in both developed as well as developing economies are becoming more conscious about their dietary intake and are getting more inclined towards consumption of healthy foods and products, which fulfill the nutritional need of their body.

Mushroom-based processed food products are rich in vitamins, minerals, dietary fibers, proteins, etc. and thus provides necessary nutrients to consumers that they do not receive from other food products. Hence, growing health and wellness consciousness is anticipated to be one of the primary drivers for the growth of the mushroom market.

Advanced Packaging Technologies Contributing to Prolonged Shelf Life of Mushroom

The manufactures operating in the mushroom market are using advanced technologies and innovative packaging solutions to extend the shelf life of the mushroom, to provide long-lasting mushroom products to the consumers. The manufacturers of mushrooms are using active packaging technology to inhibit the growth of microorganisms responsible for the spoilage and degradation of the fresh mushroom, along with minimizing food lost, simplifying packaging, and reducing the use of preservatives. Owing to these advancements in packaging technologies, manufacturers are now able to offer a variety of mushrooms at supermarkets, hypermarkets, departmental stores, etc.

Increasing Demand for Mushroom-based Products

Demand for mushroom is increasing globally, owing to health benefits associated with the consumption of mushroom and its products. Manufacturers are focusing on offering new innovative mushroom products through intensive R&D capabilities. The mushroom growers are collaborating with the end use industries to deliver innovative and unique end products to the consumers. Several manufactures have launched mushroom-based products such as health drinks and beverages, packaging materials, and several other state-of-the-art, sustainable products.

For instance, Ecovative Design LLC, a biomaterials company, is offering various mushroom-based packaging products such as GIY Packaging kit and other biodegradable products to cater the growing needs of end users for environment friendly products.

Manufacturers such as Sayan Health, Four Sigmatic, and NordicNordic are offering various mushroom-based drinks such as mushroom coffee mix, mushroom elixir mix, Chaga mushroom exilir mix, and similar products to cater to the growing demand of consumers for healthy beverages.

Partnerships and Acquisitions Between Key Players Shaping Competition

The manufactures of mushroom are focusing on up scaling their production capabilities to meet the growing demand of mushrooms. To update their inventories with more mushroom products, the key players are entering into partnerships/agreements and are focusing on acquisitions of small mushroom producers.

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Besides, leading players are enhancing and strengthening their distribution network in both developing and developed economies, to expand their business footprint in the global market. The active participation of big players is again anticipated to drive the growth of mushroom over the forecast years.

For instance, in 2016, Greenyard Foods acquired percentage of shares of Lutece Holding B.V., which is a producer and distributor of fresh mushrooms and mushroom products. This acquisition aided the company to strengthen its position in the preserved mushroom segment.

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The Weekly Roundup: Your Go-To Guide For Everything You May Have Missed This Week & More! 8/25 – 8/31

Welcome to Ben Greenfield’s Weekly Roundup and Cool New Discoveries!

Ben Greenfield’s discoveries from the latest news from the fronts of fitness, nutrition, health, wellness, biohacking and anti-aging research. I also recap my upcoming events and special announcements so you can keep up with giveaways, discounts, and more!

New Discoveries Of The Week: Cool New Things I’m Trying, Books I’m Reading, And More!

– Book I’m Intrigued With: Bioregulatory Medicine

As a pre-med student who wanted to be a doctor, spent hundreds of hours in college in physician’s clinics, hospitals and surgical wards “shadowing” docs and eventually wound up getting accepted to six medical schools (but opted to instead dive into the fitness industry), I’m still pretty enthralled with medicine. As a matter of fact, up until launching Kion a couple years ago, I still had thoughts of going back to school for a degree in natural or alternative medicine! So any book on advanced alternative medicine tactics or retreats like this that I’m leading in the Swiss Alps next year definitely pique my interest. This latest read of mine, a book called “Bioregulatory Medicine“, doesn’t come out until November, but you can pre-order it now on Amazon and it’s a wonderful, wonderful treatise of a host of medical tactics I was previously unfamiliar with. It introduces a model that has proven effective for decades in other more forward-thinking developed countries, including Switzerland and Germany – a model based on the fact that our bodies have many bioregulating systems, including the cardiovascular, digestive, neurological, respiratory, endocrine, etc. and that use of natural healing methods to support and restore the body’s intrinsic self-regulating and self-healing mechanisms (as opposed to simply treating symptoms with integrative therapies) can provide disease prevention and early intervention of illness through noninvasive diagnostics and treatments. The book incorporates the use of over 100 different non-toxic diagnostics and treatments from around the world, and forward-thinking patients and integrative practitioners alike will dig this one, I think. Grab it here from Amazon.

– Dessert I’m Obsessed With: HaloTop

If eating an entire pint of dairy-free, vegan ice cream only costs me about 300 calories and brings me extreme enjoyment at the end of the day, I’m all in. Sure, everything in moderation, but considering it’s been over a decade since I’ve bought ice cream from the frozen foods section of the grocery store, I was overjoyed (and admittedly felt stupid being so slow on the uptake) to find HaloTop ice cream on a hot day in Florida a couple weeks ago. My wife and I destroyed a pint while lying in bed watching a dodgeball competition on the hotel TV (not joking), and I’ve mowed through four additional pints/flavors since then. My favorite flavor thus far is “Peanut Butter Cup”, which contains: coconut milk, prebiotic fiber, organic cane sugar, erythritol, peanut butter, rice protein, vegetable glycerin, pea protein, natural flavor, organic carob gum, organic guar gum, high fat cocoa, sea salt, organic sunflower lecithin, organic stevia leaf. Not too shabby. And I must say, when topped with a frozen Kion bar chopped or broken into chunks, it is an absolute culinary nirvana. Bon appetit. Order HaloTop from Amazon here or find at your local grocery store frozen foods section. May I also recommend “Cinnamon Roll” and “Oatmeal Cookie Dough” as additional mind-blowing flavors.

Podcasts I Recorded This Week:

Every month, Ben Greenfield releases never-before-seen videos, audios and PDFs inside the BenGreenfieldFitness “Premium” channel (just $10/year to access!). You can click here to go Premium and access an entire vault of protected content!

–How To Find Your Purpose In Life In 40 Days Or Less: Dissolve the Hidden Blocks That Keep You Stuck & Finally Thrive Based On Your Life’s Unique Purpose

–389: Is A Low Carb Diet Bad For You? Coconut Oil Controversy, Inulin In Energy Bars, Reversing The Damage of EMF & Much More!

Articles I Published This Week:

– Sunlight Makes You Skinny & Blue Light Makes You Fat: 11 Ways To Biohack Light To Optimize Your Body & Brain.

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Articles & Podcasts Ben Greenfield Was Featured In This Week:

– Nutrashatives: Ask an Expert Series – Ben Greenfield on His Eclectic Interests, Career Path, Family and More!

– 10 Celebrity Five Minute Journalers

– Here’s What Happened At A-Fest Sardinia 2018

– Ben Greenfield Interviews Dr. Amy Killan About Stem Cells, PRP, Exosomes & P-Shot

Special Announcements:

::: Kion Labor Day Sale! Save 20% On Your Order with Code LABORDAY20 :::

My company, Kion, is having a Labor Day Weekend Sale. Save 20% on your order from our website with code LABORDAY20 at checkout. Some exclusions apply…Don’t forget free shipping is available on domestic U.S. orders $100 and up…offer expires Monday night Sep. 3, at 11:59PM MST. Try Kion Aminos, Kion Coffee, or the all-new Kion Clean Energy Bar! Shop now.

Upcoming Events:

– October 14 – 16, 2018: SPARK BioHacking Conference, Toronto, Ontario. The 2018 SPARK Bio-Hack Conference features a series of talks by leaders across a range of fields with an eye on optimizing human performance, recovery, and longevity. Researchers, medical specialists and other biohacking experts will share provocative, informative, and inspiring presentations meant to amplify your life. Registration is now open, secure your spot here.

– October 11 – 14, 2018: 2018 RUNGA California Immersion Retreat, Napa, California. Runga is going to Napa! Join me, my wife, Jessa, Joe DiStefano and a small, intimate group of like-minded individuals for a weekend-long getaway. We’ve rented a beautiful mansion located in one of the most iconic countrysides in America– Napa Valley. We’ve thought of everything that you could possibly need to gently “press the reboot button” on your body and completely tune in to your heart, mind, body, strength, and spirit. Join the waitlist!

– November 1 – 4, 2018: Live It To Lead It Health Centers of the Future Seminar, Las Vegas, Nevada. Create the life you want, the marriage you want, the family you want—all fueled by a practice that radically changes the lives of your patients. this three-day event, you’ll learn the latest medical discoveries in cellular health, get a marketing plan for scaling your practice and find ways to build residual passive income. Join me!

– December 2-8, 2018: RUNGA Retreat, Dominican Republic. You’re invited to join me at RUNGA in December 2018. Join me in the Dominican Republic, one of the most beautiful places in the Caribbean, for this retreat. In all RUNGA activities, RUNGA invites you to come home to yourself. To see everything you’ll be getting into, just click here. Use code BEN when you register so you get your gift when you arrive! I’ll be there, too. Join the waitlist here.

– December 13-15, 2018: World Congress 2018 Hosted by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. If you attend any conference this year, make it the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine’s 26th Annual World Congress. The fact is, in an era of andropause, low drive and deteriorating men’s health, it’s shocking that both practitioners and the public aren’t aware of ancestral wisdom and modern scientific and medical tactics that can be used to optimize male physiology. It’s time that changed, and I’ll be teaching exactly how to make men, men again. Join me!

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Probably the best sleep tips ever (see #24 especially): https://t.co/XjXGgbENjq

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Here Are 11 Ways To Biohack Light To Optimize Your Body & Brain—-Chris Masterjohn, PhDLighting Science…

Posted by Ben Greenfield Fitness on Tuesday, August 28, 2018

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This week on Snapchat I showed you how I combine HVMN ketone esters with Kion Aminos for a satiating, energizing, very low calorie elixir that keeps me going for hours. Holy moly! Add me here on Snapchat for more unique tidbits!

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Featured Product:

I created the *NEW* Kion Clean Energy Bar because, unfortunately, most energy bars are HORRIBLE: full of sugar and starch, which can cause dreaded sugar crashes. Or, if the sugar is removed, it’s often replaced with nasty artificial sweeteners that kill gut bacteria and cause neurotoxicity.

Each and every tasty bite of the Kion Clean Energy Bar gives you the guilt-free confidence and guarantee that you’re biting into:

a clean-burning bar that will “hold up” under rigorous conditions of people living hard-charging, high-achieving lives…

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a bar that is low in lectins and free of gluten, saponins and other notorious gut assailants…

a bar that has plenty of minerals and electrolytes along with perfect amounts of fiber to keep you from getting the notorious “energy bar constipation…”

a bar that supports recovery with sufficient levels of all essential amino acids and antioxidants, without excess protein that can result in gut issues…

a bar that contains just enough carbohydrate for liver and muscle glycogen restoration and appetite satiety, without sugar crashes…

In short, Kion Bar will give you all the nutrients, minerals, deliciousness and appetite satisfaction that you desire in a bar, with none of the harmful ingredients. Try Kion Clean Energy Bar today.

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Need Help Fully Optimizing Your Brain & Body? 

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The Week Ahead 5/5-5/11

If your Cinco de Derby weekend was as eventful as ours, then you’re all aboard the Monday struggle bus, wishing you had had one less margarita or mint julep. Now, it’s time to detox and prep for Mother’s Day. Yes, it’s this weekend! Have you bought mom something yet? In the case that you forgot, we have some amazing spa days, brunches, and the like to make you the favorite child, plus some green and fitness-friendly goodies so you can burn off a weekend of fried chicken, tacos, bourbon, and tequila...

$25 Gel Mani, $35 Regular Mani & Pedi, $39 Full Spa Pedicure, Midtown

Nestled within the iconic 90-year-old Roosevelt Hotel, Élévatione Spa Boutique is ready and waiting to transform your (or mom’s!) nails into flawless works of art in their modern space designed to take you on a journey of restoration and glamour. The $25 pulse (a $50 value) gives you a long-lasting Gel Manicure so you can boast sparkling digits for upwards of 3 weeks! Or go for the $35 pulse (a $75 value) for a Regular Manicure & Pedicure using premium polishes in a myriad of fun, demure, or ravishing colors to fit your look.

Learn How to Optimize Your Sleep w Free Meditation, Refreshments, & More 

Join Sleep Number for a night of conversation and personalized sleep advice. Hear from Sleep Number's VP of sleep science and innovation, Pete Bils, as well as Equinox's national manager of innovations, Matt Delaney and meditation instructor and Equinox yoga teacher, Bee Bosnak. All attendees will have a chance to learn about pre-bed meditation and how to optimize their own sleep habits. Plus, enjoy light refreshments, customized pillow cases, tea and essential oil blends.

$45 For A Bottomless Brunch For Two, Meatpacking District

Acclaimed by The New York Times and Eater for its throwback vibes & delicious eats, The Woodstock is an ambitious, pioneering brunch haven that transports diners to groovier times in the heart of the Meatpacking District. Get your weekend fix thanks to this $45 pulse (a $90 value) for a Bottomless Brunch for Two, leveled up with 90 Minutes of Unlimited Mimosas & Bellinis. Your mom will appreciate the #throwback atmosphere and the delicious eats. 

Mother's Day Special: Mejuri x Caudalie

On May 7, drop by the Mejuri showroom for a special Mother's Day treat in partnership with their friends from Caudalie. The only thing better than fine jewelry? Fine jewelry and free facials. Chat with a Caudalie specialist on site and get hand massages too. Light snacks and gift with purchase will also be available.

$99 For 10 Hot Yoga Classes, LES 

A gorgeously appointed sanctuary in slate-gray tiles and bracing views over the Lower East Side, Fierce Grace NYC is the first stateside outpost of a UK-born hot yoga phenomenon by Michelle Pernetta. This $99 pulse (a $185 value) gives you access to 10 Classes so you can start sweating your way to your most fierce and graceful self ever. Based on the principles of classical Hatha, Bikram, and Ashtanga yoga, Fierce Grace aims to integrate male and female forces to effect vibrant health, emotional balance, and mental clarity.

NYC Design Week Pop-Up Tea Room

For NY Design Week, Uhuru is opening its showroom and bringing to life a tea room experience created by Tea Party. Tea Party is a pop-up tea room in beautiful spaces to help you find your stillness. They will provide an alternative to the always-on coffee and bar culture offering zero-proof drinks and elixir bar by Kin Euphorics alongside a curated tea list. Check their website for a list of music and meditation events.

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This method to mind/body/spirit is therefore unique! I truly feel recovery of the body system is your process to a cured lifestyle, recovered connection with loan, with your company. When you have health and wellness you have all of it! When you have funds without health ... you possess nothing. Allow me tell you about the best ways to combine physical detoxification along with a metaphysical detoxification! anti aging eye cream with retinol need to go on a measure through measure clearing for your detoxing quest. Starting with the physical body system, moving up to your electricity facility as well as where you shed energy, at that point raising up to where you carry out certainly not communicate your truth, and assisting you to find your magnificent objective, and intuitive understanding finally our team lead you to a religious waking up as you connect as well as remove your 7th chakra. So as you specify your goal for a detox you not just crystal clear the foods items away from your unit like glucose, booze, coffee, carbohydrates as well as soya. You very clear damaging reasoning, bad emotional states, as well as spiritual blocks when you set out to explore a mind body and also physical cleansing. Right here are some traits you learn when you pointer out into the world of detoxing! ~ You will definitely Find out ~. • The 3 effortless cleansing techniques to launching food yearnings for good. • The best ways to lose weight with spiritually uplifting your lifestyle. • Find out exactly how to detox for a full week with the proper superfoods, elixirs, doing yoga, meditation, special visualizations, and also the magical green juices. • The best ways to stay in this over refined, contaminated, hectic, strongly worried world in your center from wellness and also stamina whatever lifestyle throws at you. • Do not hesitate, uplifted and also completely transformed through my highly effective sizzling meditations led by specialist panel. • Exactly how your notions bad assuming develops stress and pain in your life and what you could perform regarding all of them. ~ So inquire on your own the adhering to inquiries to view if you would profit from a Detoxing ... do you ever before experience:. • Worried or even overwhelmed and also not able to dedicate to your health course with constant unsatisfying end results? • Possess trouble sleeping, feel anxious, can not burn fat or regularly catch the flu.

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The god principle. Never before had I encountered such strange phenomena. All of my consciousness, absorbed and transported through a single space in my sense perception field, like a wormhole, transmitting my awareness into a vast and infinite expanse of stored information.

The psyche can be a fragile place. Up and out of the trans-personal depths of human visceral potentiality came forth an archetypal prurience yet to be beheld by the vast majority of homo spaiens. As though a strong gust had blew out the foundations on which all of my presuppositions and intrinsic benchmarks of reflection were stripped away, cataclysmically and in a fraction of a moment.  My nervous system had produced an experience unintelligible to peers, alienating me in mind and body, placing me with in a fractional percent of the population who had either lost their minds completely or had gone on to alter components of their greater realities in the most idiosyncratic of ways.

Yetzerharah. An evening spent in deep concentration and light but purposeful effort. Brought forth from what little I had done was opportunity previous left dormant, imperceptible or incapable of accessing due to a sense of fatigue jumbled and created by unclear cognition. Forwarding my inspiration towards an event or endeavor that yielded promise was become a forte of my young mind. Never before had I began to understand at a level once understood as unconscious, but is now better being mapped by swarms of cognitive psychologists, neurologists; who collaborating with and drawing upon the wisdom entrenched in antiquated philosophy extract a cornucopia of mental hygiene once mapped by the customs of various traditions. 

Holographic displays of cyclical impressions once drove me to the brink of physical collapse. Normally I have an acute sense of my physiological needs, aware of how my body responseds to certain stimulus and the slight variations it displays on a daily (state to state, station to station, the body takes it own particular path, but never yields to the infinite on going, state to state, transfiguarting wow). But now, an understanding of physical abnormality had just escaped my foresight, an ill condition boastfully embraced and precieved as willful and righteous, the making me meager not a indication of mental instability but the acts of a valiant man bent on nothing other than the gratification of desire and satisfying expectations of those both frequented and imaginary. 

Having discussed my disparaging insights with a confidant, a woman at a local drug store who would never fear exchanging a friendly and salacious glance, not afraid to look at me in a way both endearing and sexually stimulating simultaneously. As I went on and on and on and on and on about what it was that was bringing me to an uncertain and imperceptible understanding of a future previewed to be understood intellectually but fleeting and unable of being represented internally. She looked at me and laughed. As she was as acute to my shifting condition as I was, (though her uninterrupted and unspoken flirtation never ceased), she had suggested I take particular measures that would guarantee not only my reinvigoration but the sanctity of my well being; my manhood for lack of a better term, and that I was to ingratiate her; to meet with her promptly at a later time in which she would reveal that all elusive something that would put my life back on track.

Stunned by the suggestion, I began to not take notice of my shifting surroundings, almost walking into an obviously illuminated item in a nearby corridor as I pasted it swiftly and with nonchalant unfocused and unawarene dreamlike gaze. Had it not been for the insight and prompt action of a highly attuned and proactive bystander I would have been maybe too demoralized to muster the courage to, later that night, message the women I understood to be taking me for the strangest of rides. I located her phone number through a list of  gross associations, and mutual friends so far removed that I felt the highest levels of embarrassment to speak with one on the phone and ask for the social media contact of the woman who just would not have me think otherwise of her.

I made the call, unaware as to whether or not I was intentionally diverted from her attention by an otherwise aware and self-seemingly caring distant friend that would wonder why it was I had not directly ascertained her phone number through more direct means. But she answered, recognized my shy voice immediately, and then jokingly made a remark about how I now, after the months in which we have interacted, began to show prolonged signs of timidness and poor thinking. She loved it. We talked, in my case absentmindedly, for about 12 or so minutes before she had arranged a rendez-vous. We were to meet a friend of hers, an unlicensed specialist that she vowed would be the secret elixir to illuminating my once vivacious and daring inner body. Tuesday it was, and I hung up the phone with equal amounts hope and fear.

My sleep was light. I woke  up transfixed by the thin rays of morning light peering through and reflecting upon the gaps of space between my open blinds and the window shield. This illuminated my bedroom in the most dreadful of was, giving the inability to sleep in, on weekends when I needed it the most, and further contributed to the degradation and noticeable decline in my cognitive faculties. My sense perception also shifted, it was their were infinite layers of information in which, due to some sort of hemorrhaged function or cycles or modalities of thought unable to be interpreted by a brain so fatigued and so ‘out of it’. In my usual daze, it was 10:00am, I made my way to the meeting place, a local coffee shop with a lovely patio on the corner of a bustling yet residential neighborhood, just far enough away from the heart of downtown so that it would be appropriate to be so expansive and so inviting to long casual conversation. 

Lisa sat down adjacent to me, in a way in which her feet ran perpendicular to mine, so close as to clash the tips of her toes into the sides of my shins as she tucked her chair closer to meet her stomach onto the table and get a lot closer to me. Her friend arrived almost as she sat down, a long tall, thin and beautiful Eastern European man, with long dark hair and dark features. He sat down and remained very still, his breath was very full and his gaze was both piercing and inviting. He took a strong interest in me, but once that was shown preconcieved insofar as he brought up Lisa’s deep interest and non-stop loquacious blabbering about how he and I, his name was Stark, would be good friends, and even better business associates. Just as my faced resembled a slight hint of distrust, he reassured me, letting me know that  he would be demanding little to no money of me, just thirty minutes of undivided and earnest effort and concentration, and that, with little effort and great ease, I would begin to recognize the extremely fortunate and beautiful situation I was finding myself in. Stark went on, inviting me to speak, going into anecdotal drift as we, in our own loquacious manners, began to speak in long and uninterrupted stanzas, remarking notable and relate-able experiences and having a laugh all the while. 

But now,after a heart warming time, it was time to move our attention and intention towards the given endeavor, the meat and potatoes as to why it was we were meeting this evening.

Stark was a practitioner of an ancient yogic system, one so buried into antiquity that it could only be referenced in its native sanskrit (so niche that no one would be willing to take on the arduous task of transcribing its 6000 page central text, an almost scientific understanding of the modalities and niche experiences of consciousness, one of the earlier maps of the inner world). He promised not to bore me with the details, and then asked, in a way that made my decision seem to be one that I had to think about deeply but come up with an answer, he quickly asked whether or not I would be willing to engage with a short-term apprenticeship in the system as he understood it, that it would take a total of no more than 8 hours of my time (he alerted me to how that was like... watching 3 movies or something), and that out of our practice, not only will I gain my old mental faculties, but that they would return in a heightened and supercharged fashion. 

Lisa looked on all the while in silence. She was either genuinely transfixed by the charisma of Stark, or intentionally and most brilliantly pretending so, insofar as the ‘On-Looker’ effect would happen every time my gaze slipped in her direction, forcefully creating a vortex around Stark and making him ever the more irresistible of a speaker.

I , although initially reluctantly, took Stark on for the challenge (for a challenge was the manner in which I must have anticipated an affair, very conscious of how things usually either benefit me or waste my conscious efforts; a challenge was always a way to stretch cognitive faculties on build some of those colloquial traits like GRIT or SPIRIT.  Stark, in his, ...and now as I recollect, masterful way, reciprocated my new found frame of understood experience, and began to let me know how much it would bring forth not only peak experience, but unlock dormant and physiologically available energy sources that would change my beliefs about what it was I was capable of and what it was I was not.

Our redez-vous was cut short. I still had more than half of my Iced Americano left, but pulling into the curb of the intersection, parking parallel to the patio, was a friend of my friends. He waved them down in a conspicuous manner, and even caused quite the scene, when from the compartment of his Honda Civic, in the loudest of voices, started communicating with the lot of us. He did so with absolutely no shame, Lisa and Stark starting to get into quite the lengthy back in forth with him. The man (who I now knew to be named Shane), focused his attention on me, and began a direct line of questioning, that, out of shyness, I began to try to deflect, but his inflection and warm but loud voice demanded reciprocation, and in my soft spoken manner, I did my best to carry on this distance speech. He appreciated my efforts with a warm smile and a light-hearted joke, and then had Lisa and Stark come join him. They left quickly, said goodbyes, but did it purposefully, and quickly paid for everyone's drink (I think it was Lisa who did it, she ahd the most incentive too), hopping into Shane’s ride. I received a text from Lisa only a couple minutes after the left.

She invited me to meet again in the evening, to meet at a yet to be disclosed location later that night. 

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268: Tildet Varon on Positive Parenting & Effective Family Communication

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268: Tildet Varon on Positive Parenting & Effective Family Communication

268: Tildet Varon on Positive Parenting & Effective Family Communication

Can you say you are blessed with stress? No? I’m not sure I could either, but my guest today makes it her motto! Tildet Varon is a talented speaker and inner mastery specialist. She teaches individuals and companies all over the world to achieve success and maximize their potential.

Today, Tildet shares her personal story and the techniques she learned along the way to master stress from the inside out. We also touch on effective communication within families and proactive ways to resolve conflict in our households. She’s been through the teenage years with her kids, so I’ll be sure to ask her all my burning questions!

Episode Highlights With Tildet Varon

What made Tildet realize once and for all she had to find a way to thrive under stress

Why the experience of stress is so individual and how we all develop different thresholds

Reasons our culture is in the midst of a stress epidemic

Simple everyday practices to increase our capacity to handle stress

Practical strategies for effective communication with our kids

Effective ways to facilitate a strong family culture

How to listen with CARE

Why words are only 7% of communication and what the other 93% is

Why the opposite of addiction is connection

And more!

Resources We Mention

More From Wellness Mama

Do you feel stressed on a daily basis? What have you found that helps? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

A Big Thanks to Today’s Sponsors

This episode is sponsored by Genexa, a line of organic and non-GMO products I always keep in my house. Their patented formulas are free of dyes, common allergens, and harmful preservatives. One favorite I suggest you try is Calm Keeper for kids. A homeopathic formula that helps with symptoms associated with stress, including irritability, restlessness, sleeplessness oversensitivity and nervousness. In our house it is the go-to for the pain associated with minor boo-boos that don’t need medical attention and it helps calm them down so they can recover. To shop their full line of organic and non-GMO medicines, go to Genexa.com/WellnessMama and use code WELLNESS for 20% off your order.

This podcast is brought to you by Four Sigmatic, a Finnish company bringing the everyday magic of mushrooms to our daily lives. If you visited my home, you’d notice my homemade coffee/tea bar in my kitchen. Above it hangs 8 wooden cups, called kuksas… one for each member of my family. These have become part of our family tradition as we often sip mushroom coffee or superfood elixirs from them at breakfast or after dinner during family time. Wooden cup or not, I highly recommend all of the Four Sigmatic products and you’d also find every single one of them in my kitchen! Here’s how I incorporate them into my day: in the morning I will drink one of their mushroom coffee blends, the matcha, the coffee latte or mushroom mocha with chaga. Throughout the day I sip their chaga, cordyceps or lion’s mane elixirs on their own since these are all caffeine-free but have a host of benefits due including a major boost of antioxidants. Nighttime means their calming turmeric tea or reishi elixir with a splash of macadamia milk. Mom tip: I also always keep their activated charcoal lemonade on hand for the first sign for a stomach bug… my kids love it and charcoal always seems to help. As a listener of this podcast, you can save 15% with the code WELLNESSMAMA at foursigmatic.com/wellnessmama

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Global  Mushroom Market    Expand at the Fastest CAGR of 9.1%  During the Forecast Period  2019-2027

In terms of value, the global mushroom market is expected to reach a market value of US$ 58,109.9 Mn by the end of 2027, with an expected CAGR of 9.1% over the forecast period. The key factors responsible for the growth of mushroom market include increasing demand for processed food, health benefits associated with the consumption of mushroom, ease of usability of mushroom via innovative packaging solutions, the expanding HoReCa (hotels, restaurants, and cafes) culture, and rising demand for mushroom-based products.

The escalating urbanization and growing westernization are paving the path for the already thriving HoReCa sector, playing a vital role in introducing several multinational cuisines and flavors to the consumers – thus generating substantial demand for mushroom and mushroom-based products.

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Thriving Processed Food Demand Pushing Consumption of Mushroom as Key Ingredient

There is increasing demand for ready-to-eat food and meals among the consumers, and this is attributed to the busy lifestyles, demanding work cultures, and hectic schedules. The consumers have started preferring processed and ready-to-eat food over the conventional options available in the market, to cater to their hunger needs.

However, the consumers are nowadays becoming more conscious about the food products they consume, and thus are seeking healthier options in the processed food category. Mushroom is widely used in processed foods and is itself available in several formats including dried, canned, and frozen formats, to satisfy the changing consumers need for more significant convenience processed food without compromising the health of consumers.

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Mushroom’s Rich Nutritional Profile Fostering Sales

Increasing consumer inclination towards maintaining a healthy lifestyle has led to higher consumption of food and food ingredients with potential health benefits. Recently, consumers in both developed as well as developing economies are becoming more conscious about their dietary intake and are getting more inclined towards consumption of healthy foods and products, which fulfill the nutritional need of their body.

Mushroom-based processed food products are rich in vitamins, minerals, dietary fibers, proteins, etc. and thus provides necessary nutrients to consumers that they do not receive from other food products. Hence, growing health and wellness consciousness is anticipated to be one of the primary drivers for the growth of the mushroom market.

Advanced Packaging Technologies Contributing to Prolonged Shelf Life of Mushroom

The manufactures operating in the mushroom market are using advanced technologies and innovative packaging solutions to extend the shelf life of the mushroom, to provide long-lasting mushroom products to the consumers. The manufacturers of mushrooms are using active packaging technology to inhibit the growth of microorganisms responsible for the spoilage and degradation of the fresh mushroom, along with minimizing food lost, simplifying packaging, and reducing the use of preservatives. Owing to these advancements in packaging technologies, manufacturers are now able to offer a variety of mushrooms at supermarkets, hypermarkets, departmental stores, etc.

Increasing Demand for Mushroom-based Products

Demand for mushroom is increasing globally, owing to health benefits associated with the consumption of mushroom and its products. Manufacturers are focusing on offering new innovative mushroom products through intensive R&D capabilities. The mushroom growers are collaborating with the end use industries to deliver innovative and unique end products to the consumers. Several manufactures have launched mushroom-based products such as health drinks and beverages, packaging materials, and several other state-of-the-art, sustainable products.

For instance, Ecovative Design LLC, a biomaterials company, is offering various mushroom-based packaging products such as GIY Packaging kit and other biodegradable products to cater the growing needs of end users for environment friendly products.

Manufacturers such as Sayan Health, Four Sigmatic, and NordicNordic are offering various mushroom-based drinks such as mushroom coffee mix, mushroom elixir mix, Chaga mushroom exilir mix, and similar products to cater to the growing demand of consumers for healthy beverages.

Partnerships and Acquisitions Between Key Players Shaping Competition

The manufactures of mushroom are focusing on up scaling their production capabilities to meet the growing demand of mushrooms. To update their inventories with more mushroom products, the key players are entering into partnerships/agreements and are focusing on acquisitions of small mushroom producers.

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Besides, leading players are enhancing and strengthening their distribution network in both developing and developed economies, to expand their business footprint in the global market. The active participation of big players is again anticipated to drive the growth of mushroom over the forecast years.

For instance, in 2016, Greenyard Foods acquired percentage of shares of Lutece Holding B.V., which is a producer and distributor of fresh mushrooms and mushroom products. This acquisition aided the company to strengthen its position in the preserved mushroom segment.

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