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Let’s talk synergy….the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.  At Organixx we believe in maximizing the strength of our blended supplements by sourcing high quality and clean ingredients. And then we take it to the next level by asking the question…”What ingredients can we blend to produce a combined benefit greater than the sum of their separate benefits?” Frankincense  Frankincense is the resinous extract from the trees of the genus boswellia, have been used for centuries in cultural ceremonies, as a cosmetic agent, as a traditional medicine to treat a variety of ailments, especially inflammatory diseases, which we just talked about, including asthma, arthritis, cerebral edema, chronic pain syndrome, chronic bowel diseases, cancer, and some other illnesses.  Boswellic acids are the active compounds of frankincense.  Some studies have shown that the use of frankincense can also improve the learning, enhance the memory in animals and human beings.    Two ways that you can get frankincense  Essential oil  Ingesting    Myrrh  Myrrh is a reddish-brown dried sap from a thorny tree.  Commiphora myrrha is the actual name for it, but it's native to Northeastern Africa and Southwest Asia.    Myrrh has long been used in traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine.  Scientists are now testing the oil's potential uses, including for pain, infection, and even skin sores.  Myrrh also can help combat pain and swelling, and it's also a very powerful antioxidant, which combats oxidative damage, which we know can be really bad for our health.    Oxidative damage from free radicals contributes to aging and even some diseases.    Turmeric  Turmeric is believed to be one of the most effective nutritional supplements in existence.    Many high-quality studies have shown that it has major benefits for your body and for your brain.    Turmeric is the spice that gives curry its yellow color and has been used in India for thousands of years as a spice and medicinal herb.  Recently, scientists started to back up what Indians have known for a long time.  It has powerful anti-inflammatory effects.  It's a very strong antioxidant.  It is very, very, very powerful when it comes to brain health, when it comes to combatting disease.    Turmeric, in its raw form, it's not very bioavailable, again, which means it's hard for your body to absorb it and really to get the curcumin, which is the real active compound out of turmeric that's the big benefit, and I mean we're talking single digit percentage of curcumin that you absorb out of turmeric.  If you're looking at using turmeric on a daily basis, I think that you can use piperine if your body reacts well to it.    Piperine changes the enzymes in your stomach, which is what helps make it more bioavailable for the turmeric.  That same thing happens if you're on prescription medication.  So, I always warn people, if you're taking prescription meds, kind of stay away from the turmeric supplements that have piperine in them, or black pepper, because it can increase or decrease the efficacy of that prescription med, which also increases and decreases the efficacy of the side effects of it.  When you ferment it, that releases those enzymes so that when you ingest it into your body, now all of the enzymes that your body needs to break down that turmeric and absorb that curcumin is right there in your gut.    It can also support brain health.    It's been proven to improve brain function and lower risk of brain diseases.    It can lower your risk of heart disease.    Putting Them Together  They have a synergistic effect, having all three of these ingredients together.  So strong and so powerful, we actually created a supplement called Magi-Complexx.  What we found out is actually combining all three of these together, that synergistic effect is phenomenal.    Magi-Complexx  Comes in two forms: capsule and essential oil.    * * *    Deeper Dive Resources  Organixx Article on Frankincense  https://organixx.com/frankincense-tree/   Organixx Article on Myrrh  https://organixx.com/health-benefits-of-myrrh/   Organixx Articles on Turmeric  https://organixx.com/?s=turmeric   EYO Podcasts on Turmeric  https://organixx.com/empowering-you-organically/a-superhero-herb-for-body-brain-ksm-66-ashwagandha/  https://organixx.com/empowering-you-organically/paractin-potent-form-of-andrographis-paniculata-for-pain-support/ 

Let’s talk synergy…. the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.  At Organixx we believe in maximizing the strength of our blended supplements by sourcing high quality and clean ingredients. And then we take it to the next level by asking the question…” What ingredients can we blend to produce a combined benefit greater than the sum of their separate benefits?” Tune in to find out the outcome!  Frankincense  Frankincense is the resinous extract from the trees of the genus boswellia, have been used for centuries in cultural ceremonies, as a cosmetic agent, as a traditional medicine to treat a variety of ailments, especially inflammatory diseases, which we just talked about, including asthma, arthritis, cerebral edema, chronic pain syndrome, chronic bowel diseases, cancer, and some other illnesses.  Boswellic acids are the active compounds of frankincense.  Some studies have shown that the use of frankincense can also improve the learning, enhance the memory in animals and human beings.    Two ways that you can get frankincense  Essential oil  Ingesting    Myrrh  Myrrh is a reddish-brown dried sap from a thorny tree.  Commiphora myrrha is the actual name for it, but it's native to Northeastern Africa and Southwest Asia.    Myrrh has long been used in traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine.  Scientists are now testing the oil's potential uses, including for pain, infection, and even skin sores.  Myrrh also can help combat pain and swelling, and it's also a very powerful antioxidant, which combats oxidative damage, which we know can be really bad for our health.    Oxidative damage from free radicals contributes to aging and even some diseases.    Turmeric  Turmeric is believed to be one of the most effective nutritional supplements in existence.    Many high-quality studies have shown that it has major benefits for your body and for your brain.    Turmeric is the spice that gives curry its yellow color and has been used in India for thousands of years as a spice and medicinal herb.  Recently, scientists started to back up what Indians have known for a long time.  It has powerful anti-inflammatory effects.  It's a very strong antioxidant.  It is very, very, very powerful when it comes to brain health, when it comes to combatting disease.    Turmeric, in its raw form, it's not very bioavailable, again, which means it's hard for your body to absorb it and really to get the curcumin, which is the real active compound out of turmeric that's the big benefit, and I mean we're talking single digit percentage of curcumin that you absorb out of turmeric.  If you're looking at using turmeric on a daily basis, I think that you can use piperine if your body reacts well to it.    Piperine changes the enzymes in your stomach, which is what helps make it more bioavailable for the turmeric.  That same thing happens if you're on prescription medication.  So, I always warn people, if you're taking prescription meds, kind of stay away from the turmeric supplements that have piperine in them, or black pepper, because it can increase or decrease the efficacy of that prescription med, which also increases and decreases the efficacy of the side effects of it.  When you ferment it, that releases those enzymes so that when you ingest it into your body, now all of the enzymes that your body needs to break down that turmeric and absorb that curcumin is right there in your gut.    It can also support brain health.    It's been proven to improve brain function and lower risk of brain diseases.    It can lower your risk of heart disease.    Putting Them Together  They have a synergistic effect, having all three of these ingredients together.  So strong and so powerful, we actually created a supplement called Magi-Complexx.  What we found out is actually combining all three of these together, that synergistic effect is phenomenal.    Magi-Complexx    Comes in two forms: capsule and essential oil.    * * *    Deeper Dive Resources    Organixx Article on Frankincense  https://organixx.com/frankincense-tree/    Organixx Article on Myrrh  https://organixx.com/health-benefits-of-myrrh/     Organixx Articles on Turmeric  https://organixx.com/?s=turmeric    EYO Podcasts on Turmeric  https://organixx.com/empowering-you-organically/a-superhero-herb-for-body-brain-ksm-66-ashwagandha/  https://organixx.com/empowering-you-organically/paractin-potent-form-of-andrographis-paniculata-for-pain-support/ 

The Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Why You Should Care About What That Is Probiotics, along with a host of other microorganisms are so crucial to your health that researchers have compared them to a newly-recognized organ. Your microflora, a term used to describe the bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microbes that make up your microbial inner ecosystem impact far more than your digestive tract. It’s the center of our body in the sense that it impacts our immune system, and our immune system impacts everything that goes on in our body and how healthy we are.   Some of The Areas Where Gut Bacteria Plays A Key Role Behavior - A study published found that mice lacking in gut bacteria behaved differently than normal mice, engaging in what would be referred to as high-risk behavior. This altered behavior was accompanied by neurochemical changes in the mouse brain. Your gut serves as a second brain - It produces more of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which is known to have a positive influence on your mood than your brain does. Emotions are negatively affected by an unbalanced microbiota. Mental illness Gene expression - A probiotic-rich beverage has been shown to influence the activity of hundreds of your genes to help them express in a positive disease-fighting way Epigenetics - you may have certain genes, you may have certain DNA, but the expression of those genes can be highly-influenced by your lifestyle choices. Diabetes - According to a study from Denmark, bacterial population in the gut of diabetics differs from non-diabetics. According to the authors, the results of their study indicate that type 2 diabetes in humans is linked to compositional changes in intestinal microbiota. A healthy diet, which is low in sugar and grains, high in whole, raw foods and fermented foods, allows your beneficial gut bacteria to flourish. Autism - Establishment of a normal gut flora in the first 20 days or so of life is critical in appropriate maturation of your baby’s immune system. Hence, babies with abnormal gut flora have compromised immune systems and are particularly at risk for developing ADHD, learning disabilities, and autism, especially if they are vaccinated before restoring balance to their gut flora. Obesity - Probiotics may help fight obesity. Restoring your gut flora is therefore a crucial consideration if you’re struggling to lose weight. You don’t have to be obese either, or you could be a very thin person who’s extremely unhealthy when it comes to your gut as well.   How to Know If You Should Take A Probiotic You can’t seem to lose weight. You’ve got a lot of belly fat, and no matter what you try, you can’t get rid of it. You may have digestive issues, bloating, cramping, and gas after eating, constipation, diarrhea. Your skin is itchy or broken out. You crave sugar, refined or processed foods. You feel blue or moody. You feel tired during the day and aren’t sleeping soundly at night. You seem to catch every bug going around.   Antibiotics Affects your body’s own ability to fight and get rid of sickness, bugs, disease in your body. If you’re going to take an antibiotic, you should definitely follow it up with a probiotic so that you can get your gut health back in check, because it definitely will throw it off. The antibiotic doesn’t care if it’s a good bacterium or a bad bacterium.   Getting Your Gut Right (TeriAnn) I think getting your gut right takes a lot of work and a lot of effort and a lot of information. There are so many amazing things out there. There’s a test called, I believe it’s Viome, where you can get your gut tested to know what’s optimal for your gut. I had to reset my whole system. I did juice cleanses. I did an elimination diet. I detoxed my body. Juices, detox baths, all those things I slowly started adding supplements back.   “How Should I Take supplements?” You should start by taking one at a time and see how that impacts you. If that’s great, then go to the next one. But if you take two at a time, how do you know how each one is benefiting you?   Fermented Foods One of the most natural and effective ways to get your gut back to a healthy place and continue on that journey of keeping your gut healthy. Kombucha   Benefits of Fermented Foods Some fermented foods are outstanding sources of essential nutrients, such as vitamin K2, which helps prevent arterial plaque buildup and heart disease. Optimizing your immune system - 80 percent of your immune system is actually located in your gut. Detoxification - fermented foods are some of the best chelators available. The beneficial bacteria in these are highly potent detoxifiers capable of drawing out a wide range of toxins and heavy metals. There’s a natural variety of microflora - as long as you vary the fermented and cultured foods you eat; you’ll get a much wider variety of beneficial bacteria than you could ever get from just one supplement. Cost-effectiveness - because it contains so many of the good beneficial bacteria, just adding a little bit into your meal, at every single meal that you have, can have long-term health effects in a positive way on your health, all the different bacteria that you’re exposed to.   How to Know If A Probiotic Supplement Is Good Refrigeration - The challenge is, is the supply chain from where the probiotic is created, and encapsulated, or bottled, staying cool all the way until it hits the health food store or until it hits your front doorstep. The chances of that staying refrigerated from the place of manufacturing until it gets in your hands, it’s slim to none. It contains freeze-dried cultures that are clinically proven to wipe our digestive pain. Freeze-drying is the process of removing all of the water out of the substance. The best probiotics are freeze-dried, which keeps them dormant until they make contact with the water again. As soon as the probiotics get hydrated, they spring back to life. Make sure that they are using high-quality advanced plant-based vegetarian capsules. Old-school probiotic capsules dissolve and release live flora or good bacteria in the wrong place. On average, probiotic capsules take about 5-6 minutes to dissolve, and they release the live flora in your stomach, where most get killed instantly by your stomach acid. So, they never get to your colon where they’re needed. Plant-based capsules help reduce oxidation and keep more bacteria alive. They also have a thicker coating than traditional capsules. This means that a higher percentage of the live probiotics will survive your stomach acid and reach your intestines. Make sure that you have a single-strain probiotic. Many manufacturers combine the wrong strains. They mix together a bunch of strains and never analyze where the strains may compete and work against one another. Probiotixx+ NEW! Improved formula. Freeze-dried. A specific strain, lactobacillus plantarum.   Deeper Dive Resources   Empowering You Organically Podcast on Gut Health https://organixx.com/empowering-you-organically/achieving-optimum-health-by-healing-your-gut-and-microbiome-episode-26/   Organixx Articles on Fermented Foods https://organixx.com/?s=fermented+foods   Organixx Articles on Probiotics https://organixx.com/?s=probiotics   Organixx ProBiotixx+ https://shop.organixx.com/collections/digestive-gut-health/products/probiotixx   Probiotics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probiotic   Gastrointestinal Microbiota https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_gastrointestinal_microbiota   Research on Probiotics https://nccih.nih.gov/health/probiotics/introduction.htm   The Gut-Brain Connection https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/the-brain-gut-connection   Study on Mice and Gut Bacteria and Behavior https://www.pnas.org/content/108/7/3047.long   Serotonin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin   Gene Expression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_expression   Epigenetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics   Intestinal Bacteria and Diabetes Study https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-intestinal-bacteria-diabetes.html   Pesticides/Herbicides and Gut Bacteria https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5972442/   Newborns and The Development of Gut Microbiota https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1323893017301119   Gut Bacteria and Obesity https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=gut+bacteria+and+obesity&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart   Kombucha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombucha   Fermented Foods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermentation_in_food_processing   Detoxification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detoxification

What is the center of your health? The gut. Tune in to learn the quiet signals your body sends to let you know something is off in your microbiome. We also dive into why probiotics are helpful and how to get them naturally and with supplementation. And be sure to listen for our simple, yet solid, tips you should use while shopping for a probiotic supplement. The Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Why You Should Care About What That Is Probiotics, along with a host of other microorganisms are so crucial to your health that researchers have compared them to a newly-recognized organ. Your microflora, a term used to describe the bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microbes that make up your microbial inner ecosystem impact far more than your digestive tract. It’s the center of our body in the sense that it impacts our immune system, and our immune system impacts everything that goes on in our body and how healthy we are.   Some of The Areas Where Gut Bacteria Plays A Key Role Behavior - A study published found that mice lacking in gut bacteria behaved differently than normal mice, engaging in what would be referred to as high-risk behavior. This altered behavior was accompanied by neurochemical changes in the mouse brain. Your gut serves as a second brain - It produces more of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which is known to have a positive influence on your mood than your brain does. Emotions are negatively affected by an unbalanced microbiota. Mental illness Gene expression - A probiotic-rich beverage has been shown to influence the activity of hundreds of your genes to help them express in a positive disease-fighting way Epigenetics - you may have certain genes, you may have certain DNA, but the expression of those genes can be highly-influenced by your lifestyle choices. Diabetes - According to a study from Denmark, bacterial population in the gut of diabetics differs from non-diabetics. According to the authors, the results of their study indicate that type 2 diabetes in humans is linked to compositional changes in intestinal microbiota. A healthy diet, which is low in sugar and grains, high in whole, raw foods and fermented foods, allows your beneficial gut bacteria to flourish. Autism - Establishment of a normal gut flora in the first 20 days or so of life is critical in appropriate maturation of your baby’s immune system. Hence, babies with abnormal gut flora have compromised immune systems and are particularly at risk for developing ADHD, learning disabilities, and autism, especially if they are vaccinated before restoring balance to their gut flora. Obesity - Probiotics may help fight obesity. Restoring your gut flora is therefore a crucial consideration if you’re struggling to lose weight. You don’t have to be obese either, or you could be a very thin person who’s extremely unhealthy when it comes to your gut as well.   How to Know If You Should Take A Probiotic You can’t seem to lose weight. You’ve got a lot of belly fat, and no matter what you try, you can’t get rid of it. You may have digestive issues, bloating, cramping, and gas after eating, constipation, diarrhea. Your skin is itchy or broken out. You crave sugar, refined or processed foods. You feel blue or moody. You feel tired during the day and aren’t sleeping soundly at night. You seem to catch every bug going around.   Antibiotics Affects your body’s own ability to fight and get rid of sickness, bugs, disease in your body. If you’re going to take an antibiotic, you should definitely follow it up with a probiotic so that you can get your gut health back in check, because it definitely will throw it off. The antibiotic doesn’t care if it’s a good bacterium or a bad bacterium.   Getting Your Gut Right (TeriAnn) I think getting your gut right takes a lot of work and a lot of effort and a lot of information. There are so many amazing things out there. There’s a test called, I believe it’s Viome, where you can get your gut tested to know what’s optimal for your gut. I had to reset my whole system. I did juice cleanses. I did an elimination diet. I detoxed my body. Juices, detox baths, all those things I slowly started adding supplements back.   “How Should I Take supplements?” You should start by taking one at a time and see how that impacts you. If that’s great, then go to the next one. But if you take two at a time, how do you know how each one is benefiting you?   Fermented Foods One of the most natural and effective ways to get your gut back to a healthy place and continue on that journey of keeping your gut healthy. Kombucha   Benefits of Fermented Foods Some fermented foods are outstanding sources of essential nutrients, such as vitamin K2, which helps prevent arterial plaque buildup and heart disease. Optimizing your immune system - 80 percent of your immune system is actually located in your gut. Detoxification - fermented foods are some of the best chelators available. The beneficial bacteria in these are highly potent detoxifiers capable of drawing out a wide range of toxins and heavy metals. There’s a natural variety of microflora - as long as you vary the fermented and cultured foods you eat; you’ll get a much wider variety of beneficial bacteria than you could ever get from just one supplement. Cost-effectiveness - because it contains so many of the good beneficial bacteria, just adding a little bit into your meal, at every single meal that you have, can have long-term health effects in a positive way on your health, all the different bacteria that you’re exposed to.   How to Know If A Probiotic Supplement Is Good Refrigeration - The challenge is, is the supply chain from where the probiotic is created, and encapsulated, or bottled, staying cool all the way until it hits the health food store or until it hits your front doorstep. The chances of that staying refrigerated from the place of manufacturing until it gets in your hands, it’s slim to none. It contains freeze-dried cultures that are clinically proven to wipe our digestive pain. Freeze-drying is the process of removing all of the water out of the substance. The best probiotics are freeze-dried, which keeps them dormant until they make contact with the water again. As soon as the probiotics get hydrated, they spring back to life. Make sure that they are using high-quality advanced plant-based vegetarian capsules. Old-school probiotic capsules dissolve and release live flora or good bacteria in the wrong place. On average, probiotic capsules take about 5-6 minutes to dissolve, and they release the live flora in your stomach, where most get killed instantly by your stomach acid. So, they never get to your colon where they’re needed. Plant-based capsules help reduce oxidation and keep more bacteria alive. They also have a thicker coating than traditional capsules. This means that a higher percentage of the live probiotics will survive your stomach acid and reach your intestines. Make sure that you have a single-strain probiotic. Many manufacturers combine the wrong strains. They mix together a bunch of strains and never analyze where the strains may compete and work against one another. Probiotixx+ NEW! Improved formula. Freeze-dried. A specific strain, lactobacillus plantarum.   Deeper Dive Resources   Empowering You Organically Podcast on Gut Health https://organixx.com/empowering-you-organically/achieving-optimum-health-by-healing-your-gut-and-microbiome-episode-26/   Organixx Articles on Fermented Foods https://organixx.com/?s=fermented+foods   Organixx Articles on Probiotics https://organixx.com/?s=probiotics   Organixx ProBiotixx+ https://shop.organixx.com/collections/digestive-gut-health/products/probiotixx   Probiotics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probiotic   Gastrointestinal Microbiota https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_gastrointestinal_microbiota   Research on Probiotics https://nccih.nih.gov/health/probiotics/introduction.htm   The Gut-Brain Connection https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/the-brain-gut-connection   Study on Mice and Gut Bacteria and Behavior https://www.pnas.org/content/108/7/3047.long   Serotonin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin   Gene Expression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_expression   Epigenetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics   Intestinal Bacteria and Diabetes Study https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-intestinal-bacteria-diabetes.html   Pesticides/Herbicides and Gut Bacteria https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5972442/   Newborns and The Development of Gut Microbiota https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1323893017301119   Gut Bacteria and Obesity https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=gut+bacteria+and+obesity&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart   Kombucha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombucha   Fermented Foods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermentation_in_food_processing   Detoxification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detoxification     Subscribe to Empowering You Organically 
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What is the center of your health? The gut. Tune in to learn the quiet signals your body sends to let you know something is off in your microbiome. We also dive into why probiotics are helpful and how to get them naturally and with supplementation. And be sure to listen for our simple, yet solid, tips you should use while shopping for a probiotic supplement.   * * *   The Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Why You Should Care About What That Is Probiotics, along with a host of other microorganisms are so crucial to your health that researchers have compared them to a newly-recognized organ. Your microflora, a term used to describe the bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microbes that make up your microbial inner ecosystem impact far more than your digestive tract. It’s the center of our body in the sense that it impacts our immune system, and our immune system impacts everything that goes on in our body and how healthy we are.   Some of The Areas Where Gut Bacteria Plays A Key Role Behavior - A study published found that mice lacking in gut bacteria behaved differently than normal mice, engaging in what would be referred to as high-risk behavior. This altered behavior was accompanied by neurochemical changes in the mouse brain. Your gut serves as a second brain - It produces more of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which is known to have a positive influence on your mood than your brain does. Emotions are negatively affected by an unbalanced microbiota. Mental illness Gene expression - A probiotic-rich beverage has been shown to influence the activity of hundreds of your genes to help them express in a positive disease-fighting way Epigenetics - you may have certain genes, you may have certain DNA, but the expression of those genes can be highly-influenced by your lifestyle choices. Diabetes - According to a study from Denmark, bacterial population in the gut of diabetics differs from non-diabetics. According to the authors, the results of their study indicate that type 2 diabetes in humans is linked to compositional changes in intestinal microbiota. A healthy diet, which is low in sugar and grains, high in whole, raw foods and fermented foods, allows your beneficial gut bacteria to flourish. Autism - Establishment of a normal gut flora in the first 20 days or so of life is critical in appropriate maturation of your baby’s immune system. Hence, babies with abnormal gut flora have compromised immune systems and are particularly at risk for developing ADHD, learning disabilities, and autism, especially if they are vaccinated before restoring balance to their gut flora. Obesity - Probiotics may help fight obesity. Restoring your gut flora is therefore a crucial consideration if you’re struggling to lose weight. You don’t have to be obese either, or you could be a very thin person who’s extremely unhealthy when it comes to your gut as well.   How to Know If You Should Take A Probiotic You can’t seem to lose weight. You’ve got a lot of belly fat, and no matter what you try, you can’t get rid of it. You may have digestive issues, bloating, cramping, and gas after eating, constipation, diarrhea. Your skin is itchy or broken out. You crave sugar, refined or processed foods. You feel blue or moody. You feel tired during the day and aren’t sleeping soundly at night. You seem to catch every bug going around.   Antibiotics Affects your body’s own ability to fight and get rid of sickness, bugs, disease in your body. If you’re going to take an antibiotic, you should definitely follow it up with a probiotic so that you can get your gut health back in check, because it definitely will throw it off. The antibiotic doesn’t care if it’s a good bacterium or a bad bacterium.   Getting Your Gut Right (TeriAnn) I think getting your gut right takes a lot of work and a lot of effort and a lot of information. There are so many amazing things out there. There’s a test called, I believe it’s Viome, where you can get your gut tested to know what’s optimal for your gut. I had to reset my whole system. I did juice cleanses. I did an elimination diet. I detoxed my body. Juices, detox baths, all those things I slowly started adding supplements back.   “How Should I Take Supplements?” You should start by taking one at a time and see how that impacts you. If that’s great, then go to the next one. But if you take two at a time, how do you know how each one is benefiting you?   Fermented Foods One of the most natural and effective ways to get your gut back to a healthy place and continue on that journey of keeping your gut healthy. Kombucha   Benefits of Fermented Foods Some fermented foods are outstanding sources of essential nutrients, such as vitamin K2, which helps prevent arterial plaque buildup and heart disease. Optimizing your immune system - 80 percent of your immune system is actually located in your gut. Detoxification - fermented foods are some of the best chelators available. The beneficial bacteria in these are highly potent detoxifiers capable of drawing out a wide range of toxins and heavy metals. There’s a natural variety of microflora - as long as you vary the fermented and cultured foods you eat; you’ll get a much wider variety of beneficial bacteria than you could ever get from just one supplement. Cost-effectiveness - because it contains so many of the good beneficial bacteria, just adding a little bit into your meal, at every single meal that you have, can have long-term health effects in a positive way on your health, all the different bacteria that you’re exposed to.   How to Know If A Probiotic Supplement Is Good Refrigeration - The challenge is, is the supply chain from where the probiotic is created, and encapsulated, or bottled, staying cool all the way until it hits the health food store or until it hits your front doorstep. The chances of that staying refrigerated from the place of manufacturing until it gets in your hands, it’s slim to none. It contains freeze-dried cultures that are clinically proven to wipe our digestive pain. Freeze-drying is the process of removing all of the water out of the substance. The best probiotics are freeze-dried, which keeps them dormant until they make contact with the water again. As soon as the probiotics get hydrated, they spring back to life. Make sure that they are using high-quality advanced plant-based vegetarian capsules. Old-school probiotic capsules dissolve and release live flora or good bacteria in the wrong place. On average, probiotic capsules take about 5-6 minutes to dissolve, and they release the live flora in your stomach, where most get killed instantly by your stomach acid. So, they never get to your colon where they’re needed. Plant-based capsules help reduce oxidation and keep more bacteria alive. They also have a thicker coating than traditional capsules. This means that a higher percentage of the live probiotics will survive your stomach acid and reach your intestines. Make sure that you have a single-strain probiotic. Many manufacturers combine the wrong strains. They mix together a bunch of strains and never analyze where the strains may compete and work against one another.   Probiotixx+ NEW! Improved formula. Freeze-dried. A specific strain, lactobacillus plantarum.     Deeper Dive Resources   Empowering You Organically Podcast on Gut Health https://organixx.com/empowering-you-organically/achieving-optimum-health-by-healing-your-gut-and-microbiome-episode-26/   Organixx Articles on Fermented Foods https://organixx.com/?s=fermented+foods   Organixx Articles on Probiotics https://organixx.com/?s=probiotics   Organixx ProBiotixx+ https://shop.organixx.com/collections/digestive-gut-health/products/probiotixx   Probiotics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probiotic   Gastrointestinal Microbiota https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_gastrointestinal_microbiota   Research on Probiotics https://nccih.nih.gov/health/probiotics/introduction.htm   The Gut-Brain Connection https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/the-brain-gut-connection   Study on Mice and Gut Bacteria and Behavior https://www.pnas.org/content/108/7/3047.long   Serotonin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin   Gene Expression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_expression   Epigenetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics   Intestinal Bacteria and Diabetes Study https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-intestinal-bacteria-diabetes.html   Pesticides/Herbicides and Gut Bacteria https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5972442/   Newborns and The Development of Gut Microbiota https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1323893017301119   Gut Bacteria and Obesity https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=gut+bacteria+and+obesity&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart   Kombucha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombucha   Fermented Foods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermentation_in_food_processing   Detoxification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detoxification

What is the center of your health? The gut. Tune in to learn the quiet signals your body sends to let you know something is off in your microbiome. We also dive into why probiotics are helpful and how to get them naturally and with supplementation. And be sure to listen for our simple, yet solid, tips you should use while shopping for a probiotic supplement.   * * *   The Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Why You Should Care About What That Is Probiotics, along with a host of other microorganisms are so crucial to your health that researchers have compared them to a newly-recognized organ. Your microflora, a term used to describe the bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microbes that make up your microbial inner ecosystem impact far more than your digestive tract. It’s the center of our body in the sense that it impacts our immune system, and our immune system impacts everything that goes on in our body and how healthy we are.   Some of The Areas Where Gut Bacteria Plays A Key Role Behavior - A study published found that mice lacking in gut bacteria behaved differently than normal mice, engaging in what would be referred to as high-risk behavior. This altered behavior was accompanied by neurochemical changes in the mouse brain. Your gut serves as a second brain - It produces more of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which is known to have a positive influence on your mood than your brain does. Emotions are negatively affected by an unbalanced microbiota. Mental illness Gene expression - A probiotic-rich beverage has been shown to influence the activity of hundreds of your genes to help them express in a positive disease-fighting way Epigenetics - you may have certain genes, you may have certain DNA, but the expression of those genes can be highly-influenced by your lifestyle choices. Diabetes - According to a study from Denmark, bacterial population in the gut of diabetics differs from non-diabetics. According to the authors, the results of their study indicate that type 2 diabetes in humans is linked to compositional changes in intestinal microbiota. A healthy diet, which is low in sugar and grains, high in whole, raw foods and fermented foods, allows your beneficial gut bacteria to flourish. Autism - Establishment of a normal gut flora in the first 20 days or so of life is critical in appropriate maturation of your baby’s immune system. Hence, babies with abnormal gut flora have compromised immune systems and are particularly at risk for developing ADHD, learning disabilities, and autism, especially if they are vaccinated before restoring balance to their gut flora. Obesity - Probiotics may help fight obesity. Restoring your gut flora is therefore a crucial consideration if you’re struggling to lose weight. You don’t have to be obese either, or you could be a very thin person who’s extremely unhealthy when it comes to your gut as well.   How to Know If You Should Take A Probiotic You can’t seem to lose weight. You’ve got a lot of belly fat, and no matter what you try, you can’t get rid of it. You may have digestive issues, bloating, cramping, and gas after eating, constipation, diarrhea. Your skin is itchy or broken out. You crave sugar, refined or processed foods. You feel blue or moody. You feel tired during the day and aren’t sleeping soundly at night. You seem to catch every bug going around.   Antibiotics Affects your body’s own ability to fight and get rid of sickness, bugs, disease in your body. If you’re going to take an antibiotic, you should definitely follow it up with a probiotic so that you can get your gut health back in check, because it definitely will throw it off. The antibiotic doesn’t care if it’s a good bacterium or a bad bacterium.   Getting Your Gut Right (TeriAnn) I think getting your gut right takes a lot of work and a lot of effort and a lot of information. There are so many amazing things out there. There’s a test called, I believe it’s Viome, where you can get your gut tested to know what’s optimal for your gut. I had to reset my whole system. I did juice cleanses. I did an elimination diet. I detoxed my body. Juices, detox baths, all those things I slowly started adding supplements back.   “How Should I Take Supplements?” You should start by taking one at a time and see how that impacts you. If that’s great, then go to the next one. But if you take two at a time, how do you know how each one is benefiting you?   Fermented Foods One of the most natural and effective ways to get your gut back to a healthy place and continue on that journey of keeping your gut healthy. Kombucha   Benefits of Fermented Foods Some fermented foods are outstanding sources of essential nutrients, such as vitamin K2, which helps prevent arterial plaque buildup and heart disease. Optimizing your immune system - 80 percent of your immune system is actually located in your gut. Detoxification - fermented foods are some of the best chelators available. The beneficial bacteria in these are highly potent detoxifiers capable of drawing out a wide range of toxins and heavy metals. There’s a natural variety of microflora - as long as you vary the fermented and cultured foods you eat; you’ll get a much wider variety of beneficial bacteria than you could ever get from just one supplement. Cost-effectiveness - because it contains so many of the good beneficial bacteria, just adding a little bit into your meal, at every single meal that you have, can have long-term health effects in a positive way on your health, all the different bacteria that you’re exposed to.   How to Know If A Probiotic Supplement Is Good Refrigeration - The challenge is, is the supply chain from where the probiotic is created, and encapsulated, or bottled, staying cool all the way until it hits the health food store or until it hits your front doorstep. The chances of that staying refrigerated from the place of manufacturing until it gets in your hands, it’s slim to none. It contains freeze-dried cultures that are clinically proven to wipe our digestive pain. Freeze-drying is the process of removing all of the water out of the substance. The best probiotics are freeze-dried, which keeps them dormant until they make contact with the water again. As soon as the probiotics get hydrated, they spring back to life. Make sure that they are using high-quality advanced plant-based vegetarian capsules. Old-school probiotic capsules dissolve and release live flora or good bacteria in the wrong place. On average, probiotic capsules take about 5-6 minutes to dissolve, and they release the live flora in your stomach, where most get killed instantly by your stomach acid. So, they never get to your colon where they’re needed. Plant-based capsules help reduce oxidation and keep more bacteria alive. They also have a thicker coating than traditional capsules. This means that a higher percentage of the live probiotics will survive your stomach acid and reach your intestines. Make sure that you have a single-strain probiotic. Many manufacturers combine the wrong strains. They mix together a bunch of strains and never analyze where the strains may compete and work against one another.   Probiotixx+ NEW! Improved formula. Freeze-dried. A specific strain, lactobacillus plantarum.     Deeper Dive Resources   Empowering You Organically Podcast on Gut Health https://organixx.com/empowering-you-organically/achieving-optimum-health-by-healing-your-gut-and-microbiome-episode-26/   Organixx Articles on Fermented Foods https://organixx.com/?s=fermented+foods   Organixx Articles on Probiotics https://organixx.com/?s=probiotics   Organixx ProBiotixx+ https://shop.organixx.com/collections/digestive-gut-health/products/probiotixx   Probiotics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probiotic   Gastrointestinal Microbiota https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_gastrointestinal_microbiota   Research on Probiotics https://nccih.nih.gov/health/probiotics/introduction.htm   The Gut-Brain Connection https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/the-brain-gut-connection   Study on Mice and Gut Bacteria and Behavior https://www.pnas.org/content/108/7/3047.long   Serotonin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin   Gene Expression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_expression   Epigenetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics   Intestinal Bacteria and Diabetes Study https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-intestinal-bacteria-diabetes.html   Pesticides/Herbicides and Gut Bacteria https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5972442/   Newborns and The Development of Gut Microbiota https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1323893017301119   Gut Bacteria and Obesity https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=gut+bacteria+and+obesity&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart   Kombucha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombucha   Fermented Foods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermentation_in_food_processing   Detoxification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detoxification

Sweet slumber! Sleep is something we all do. More importantly, sleep is something we all need for vibrant health. Listen in this week as we discuss theories of sleep, stages of sleep, and the science of why we sleep. You’ll want to listen to the end! We wrap up by giving you 10 Tips for Improving Your Sleep Hygiene.   * * *   Notes on Sleep Different levels of sleep are different for different people. It’s recommended that you get 7-8 hours of sleep a night. Sleep is really important physiologically, and the biologically, it’s a necessity in our body. You cannot get your sleep back. You cannot correct for missing sleep.   Theories on Sleep Inactivity Theory One of the earliest theories of sleep, sometimes called the adaptive or evolutionary theory. Suggests inactivity at night is an adaptation that served a survival function by keeping organisms out of harm’s way at times when they would be particularly vulnerable. Energy Conservation Theory Research has shown that energy metabolism is significantly reduced during sleep by as much as 10 percent in humans, and even more in other species. For example, both body temperature and caloric demand decrease during sleep, as compared to wakefulness. Many scientists consider this theory to be related to and part of the inactivity theory. Restorative Theory Sleep provides an opportunity for the body to repair and rejuvenate itself. Science shows animals deprived entirely of sleep lose all immune function and die in just a matter of weeks. This is further supported by findings that many of the major restorative functions in the body, like muscle growth, tissue repair, protein synthesis, and growth hormone release, occur mostly, or in some cases, only during sleep. Other rejuvenating aspects of sleep are specific to the brain and cognitive function. For example, while we are awake, neurons in the brain produce adenosine, a byproduct of the cell’s activities. The buildup of adenosine in the brain is thought to be one factor that leads to our perception of being tired. Scientists think that this buildup of adenosine during wakefulness may promote the drive to sleep. As long as we are awake, adenosine accumulates and remains high. During sleep, the body has a chance to clear adenosine from the system, and as a result, we feel more alert when we’re awake. Brain Plasticity Theory One of the most recent and compelling explanations for why we sleep is based on findings that sleep is correlated to changes in the structure and organization of the brain. This phenomenon, known as brain plasticity, is not entirely understood, but its connection to sleep has several critical implications. It’s becoming clear, for example, that sleep plays a critical role in brain development in infants and young children. Infants spend about 13-14 hours per day sleeping, and about half of that time is spent in REM sleep, the stage in which most dreams occur. A link between sleep and brain plasticity is becoming clear in adults as well. This is seen in the effect that sleep and sleep deprivation have on people’s ability to learn and perform a variety of tasks.   Stages of Sleep Stage 1 – Non-REM sleep. The changeover from wakefulness to sleep. During this short period of relatively light sleep, your heartbeat, breathing, and eye movements slow, and your muscles relax, with occasional twitches. Stage 2 – Non-REM sleep. A period of light sleep before you enter deep sleep. Your heartbeat and breathing slow, and muscles relax even further. Your body temperature drops, and eye movement stops. Stage 3 – Non-REM sleep. The period of deep sleep that you need to feel refreshed in the morning. It occurs in longer periods during the first half of the night. Your heartbeat and breathing slow to their lowest levels during sleep. Your muscles are relaxed, and it may be difficult to awaken. REM Sleep First occurs about 90 minutes after falling asleep. Your eyes move more rapidly, mixed-frequency brainwave activity becomes closer to that seen in wakefulness, your breathing becomes faster and irregular, and your heart rate and blood pressure increase to near waking levels. Most of your dreaming occurs during REM sleep, although some can also occur in non-REM sleep. As you age, you sleep less of your time in REM sleep.   Why We Sleep Matthew Walker, an expert in sleep at UC Berkley, and author of the bestselling book, Why We Sleep, said, “The decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic impact on our health, our wellness, even the safety and education of our children. It’s a silent sleep loss epidemic. It’s fast becoming one of the greatest challenges we face in the 21st Century.” “It makes you dumber.” Cognitive function. More forgetful. Unable to learn new things. More vulnerable to dementia. More likely to die of a heart attack. Less able to fend off sickness with a strong immune system. More likely to get cancer. Makes your body literally hurt more. Lack of sleep distorts your genes and increases your risk of death generally, disrupts the creation of sex hormones, like estrogen and testosterone, and leads to premature aging.   10 Tips for Improving Your Sleep Hygiene Try to keep the same sleep schedule on weeknights and weekends. Limit the difference to no more than about an hour. Staying up late and sleeping in late on weekends can disrupt your body’s clock and sleep-wake rhythm, which is going to impact your pattern of being able to fall asleep. For children, have a set bedtime and a bedtime routine. Don’t use the child’s bedroom for time-outs of punishments. Create a quiet, comfortable sleep environment. Set your bedroom thermostat at a comfortable temperature, turn off the TV and other things that may disrupt sleep. If your pet wakes you up, keep them outside the bedroom. Your bedroom should be dark. Turn off bright lights and have a comfortable mattress. Essentia mattress Light-blocking film White noise machine Keeping your room cool An hour before bedtime, dim the lights and turn off all screens. Turn off blue light sources. If you can’t sleep, get out of bed and do something quiet and relaxing until the urge to sleep returns. Then, go back to bed. Never go to bed tipsy. Alcohol is a sedative, and sedation is not sleep. It also blocks your REM dream sleep, an important part of the sleep cycle. Your heart rate doesn’t get low enough, so you’re not getting that restorative sleep, you’re not able to really slow things down. Avoid heavy and/or large meals within a couple hours of bedtime. Having a light snack is okay. Avoid nicotine and caffeine. Nicotine and caffeine are stimulants, and both substances can interfere with sleep. The effects of caffeine can last as long as eight hours. Spend time outside every day when possible. Be physically active. Exercise before 2:00 pm every day. Exercise promotes continuous sleep. Avoid rigorous exercise before bedtime. Rigorous exercise circulates endorphins into the body, which may cause difficulty initiating sleep. If you’re a clock watcher, remove it from the line of sight. Have a comfortable pre-bedtime routine. Warm bath Meditation Quiet time Reading Connected to #4 - Stay in bed and focus on your breathing for a little while before you get up out of bed.   Naps Napping during the day may provide a boost in alertness and performance. However, if you have trouble falling asleep at night, limit naps or take them earlier in the afternoon. Adults should nap for no more than 20 minutes. Napping in preschool-age children is normal and promotes healthy growth and development. It’s the 20-minute power nap that really rejuvenates you the most and has you wake up and being alert, whereas the 30-40-minute nap can almost get you into that deep sleep again, and then you wake up out of that and you’re more groggy, and your body’s confused. It’s not sure if it should be going into deep sleep or not.     Deeper Dive Resources   TeriAnn’s Health Journey Podcast https://empoweringyouorganically.com/podcast/inspired-health-journey-teriann-trevenen/   Organixx Articles on Sleep https://organixx.com/?s=sleep   How Much Sleep Do We Really Need? https://www.sleepfoundation.org/excessive-sleepiness/support/how-much-sleep-do-we-really-need   Consequences of Insufficient Sleep http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/consequences   Energy Conservation and Sleep https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7546319   Alzheimer’s Disease and Sleep https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/alzheimers-disease-and-sleep   Garmin Fitness Trackers https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/into-sports/health-fitness/cIntoSports-c571-p1.html   Oura Ring https://ouraring.com/   Why We Sleep Book https://amzn.to/2MVSjwy   Essentia Mattresses https://amzn.to/2ZouMps   Blue Light and Sleep: What’s the Connection? https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/block-blue-light-to-sleep-better   How Long Is an Ideal Nap? https://www.sleep.org/articles/how-long-to-nap/

Sweet slumber! Sleep is something we all do. More importantly, sleep is something we all need for vibrant health. Listen in this week as we discuss theories of sleep, stages of sleep, and the science of why we sleep. You’ll want to listen to the end! We wrap up by giving you 10 Tips for Improving Your Sleep Hygiene.   * * *   Notes on Sleep Different levels of sleep are different for different people. It’s recommended that you get 7-8 hours of sleep a night. Sleep is really important physiologically, and the biologically, it’s a necessity in our body. You cannot get your sleep back. You cannot correct for missing sleep.   Theories on Sleep Inactivity Theory One of the earliest theories of sleep, sometimes called the adaptive or evolutionary theory. Suggests inactivity at night is an adaptation that served a survival function by keeping organisms out of harm’s way at times when they would be particularly vulnerable. Energy Conservation Theory Research has shown that energy metabolism is significantly reduced during sleep by as much as 10 percent in humans, and even more in other species. For example, both body temperature and caloric demand decrease during sleep, as compared to wakefulness. Many scientists consider this theory to be related to and part of the inactivity theory. Restorative Theory Sleep provides an opportunity for the body to repair and rejuvenate itself. Science shows animals deprived entirely of sleep lose all immune function and die in just a matter of weeks. This is further supported by findings that many of the major restorative functions in the body, like muscle growth, tissue repair, protein synthesis, and growth hormone release, occur mostly, or in some cases, only during sleep. Other rejuvenating aspects of sleep are specific to the brain and cognitive function. For example, while we are awake, neurons in the brain produce adenosine, a byproduct of the cell’s activities. The buildup of adenosine in the brain is thought to be one factor that leads to our perception of being tired. Scientists think that this buildup of adenosine during wakefulness may promote the drive to sleep. As long as we are awake, adenosine accumulates and remains high. During sleep, the body has a chance to clear adenosine from the system, and as a result, we feel more alert when we’re awake. Brain Plasticity Theory One of the most recent and compelling explanations for why we sleep is based on findings that sleep is correlated to changes in the structure and organization of the brain. This phenomenon, known as brain plasticity, is not entirely understood, but its connection to sleep has several critical implications. It’s becoming clear, for example, that sleep plays a critical role in brain development in infants and young children. Infants spend about 13-14 hours per day sleeping, and about half of that time is spent in REM sleep, the stage in which most dreams occur. A link between sleep and brain plasticity is becoming clear in adults as well. This is seen in the effect that sleep and sleep deprivation have on people’s ability to learn and perform a variety of tasks.   Stages of Sleep Stage 1 – Non-REM sleep. The changeover from wakefulness to sleep. During this short period of relatively light sleep, your heartbeat, breathing, and eye movements slow, and your muscles relax, with occasional twitches. Stage 2 – Non-REM sleep. A period of light sleep before you enter deep sleep. Your heartbeat and breathing slow, and muscles relax even further. Your body temperature drops, and eye movement stops. Stage 3 – Non-REM sleep. The period of deep sleep that you need to feel refreshed in the morning. It occurs in longer periods during the first half of the night. Your heartbeat and breathing slow to their lowest levels during sleep. Your muscles are relaxed, and it may be difficult to awaken. REM Sleep First occurs about 90 minutes after falling asleep. Your eyes move more rapidly, mixed-frequency brainwave activity becomes closer to that seen in wakefulness, your breathing becomes faster and irregular, and your heart rate and blood pressure increase to near waking levels. Most of your dreaming occurs during REM sleep, although some can also occur in non-REM sleep. As you age, you sleep less of your time in REM sleep.   Why We Sleep Matthew Walker, an expert in sleep at UC Berkley, and author of the bestselling book, Why We Sleep, said, “The decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic impact on our health, our wellness, even the safety and education of our children. It’s a silent sleep loss epidemic. It’s fast becoming one of the greatest challenges we face in the 21st Century.” “It makes you dumber.” Cognitive function. More forgetful. Unable to learn new things. More vulnerable to dementia. More likely to die of a heart attack. Less able to fend off sickness with a strong immune system. More likely to get cancer. Makes your body literally hurt more. Lack of sleep distorts your genes and increases your risk of death generally, disrupts the creation of sex hormones, like estrogen and testosterone, and leads to premature aging.   10 Tips for Improving Your Sleep Hygiene Try to keep the same sleep schedule on weeknights and weekends. Limit the difference to no more than about an hour. Staying up late and sleeping in late on weekends can disrupt your body’s clock and sleep-wake rhythm, which is going to impact your pattern of being able to fall asleep. For children, have a set bedtime and a bedtime routine. Don’t use the child’s bedroom for time-outs of punishments. Create a quiet, comfortable sleep environment. Set your bedroom thermostat at a comfortable temperature, turn off the TV and other things that may disrupt sleep. If your pet wakes you up, keep them outside the bedroom. Your bedroom should be dark. Turn off bright lights and have a comfortable mattress. Essentia mattress Light-blocking film White noise machine Keeping your room cool An hour before bedtime, dim the lights and turn off all screens. Turn off blue light sources. If you can’t sleep, get out of bed and do something quiet and relaxing until the urge to sleep returns. Then, go back to bed. Never go to bed tipsy. Alcohol is a sedative, and sedation is not sleep. It also blocks your REM dream sleep, an important part of the sleep cycle. Your heart rate doesn’t get low enough, so you’re not getting that restorative sleep, you’re not able to really slow things down. Avoid heavy and/or large meals within a couple hours of bedtime. Having a light snack is okay. Avoid nicotine and caffeine. Nicotine and caffeine are stimulants, and both substances can interfere with sleep. The effects of caffeine can last as long as eight hours. Spend time outside every day when possible. Be physically active. Exercise before 2:00 pm every day. Exercise promotes continuous sleep. Avoid rigorous exercise before bedtime. Rigorous exercise circulates endorphins into the body, which may cause difficulty initiating sleep. If you’re a clock watcher, remove it from the line of sight. Have a comfortable pre-bedtime routine. Warm bath Meditation Quiet time Reading Connected to #4 - Stay in bed and focus on your breathing for a little while before you get up out of bed.   Naps Napping during the day may provide a boost in alertness and performance. However, if you have trouble falling asleep at night, limit naps or take them earlier in the afternoon. Adults should nap for no more than 20 minutes. Napping in preschool-age children is normal and promotes healthy growth and development. It’s the 20-minute power nap that really rejuvenates you the most and has you wake up and being alert, whereas the 30-40-minute nap can almost get you into that deep sleep again, and then you wake up out of that and you’re more groggy, and your body’s confused. It’s not sure if it should be going into deep sleep or not.     Deeper Dive Resources   TeriAnn’s Health Journey Podcast https://empoweringyouorganically.com/podcast/inspired-health-journey-teriann-trevenen/   Organixx Articles on Sleep https://organixx.com/?s=sleep   How Much Sleep Do We Really Need? https://www.sleepfoundation.org/excessive-sleepiness/support/how-much-sleep-do-we-really-need   Consequences of Insufficient Sleep http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/consequences   Energy Conservation and Sleep https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7546319   Alzheimer’s Disease and Sleep https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/alzheimers-disease-and-sleep   Garmin Fitness Trackers https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/into-sports/health-fitness/cIntoSports-c571-p1.html   Oura Ring https://ouraring.com/   Why We Sleep Book https://amzn.to/2MVSjwy   Essentia Mattresses https://amzn.to/2ZouMps   Blue Light and Sleep: What’s the Connection? https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/block-blue-light-to-sleep-better   How Long Is an Ideal Nap? https://www.sleep.org/articles/how-long-to-nap/

Susan Bratton, the Dear Abby of sex, joins us again with six essentials for connected sex. Tune in to understand herb cycling and supplementation to support our sexual health against health issues that impact our sexuality, especially as we age. Susan also helps us be better communicators in and out of the bedroom. Something we can all use!   * * *   About Susan Susan is a champion and advocate for all who desire passionate relationships. Considered the Dear Abby of sex, Susan’s fresh approach and original ideas have helped millions of people of all ages and across the gender spectrum transform sex into passion. Married to her husband, Tim, since 1993, Susan is an author, award-winning speaker, and serial entrepreneur, who teaches passionate lovemaking techniques to her fans around the world.   Susan has been featured in the New York Times and on CNBC and The Today Show, as well as appearing on ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, and on NBC as the Marriage Magician. Susan is the Chair Emeritus of The AdTech Conference. She was both CMO and a member of the board of directors for an Anthony Robbins tech startup, as well as serving on numerous boards throughout her career.   In 2009, Susan was honored as a Silicon Valley Woman of Influence by the Business Journal, and as a top 10 internet pioneer by Ad Age Magazine. In 2010, was bestowed the Lifetime Industry Achievement Award by DMG World Media.   Susan talks about, after 25 years of marriage, “I know from experience that deep passionate intimacy with my partner is priceless, a priority that tops my list of must-haves, alongside good health and the love of family and friends. I have made it my mission to aide anyone who wants the kind of lovemaking that improves with age.”   * * *   Your Libido Is Your… Sex drive Creativity Passion Lust for live Vitality   What Health Issues Impact Your Sexuality? Diabetes/Pre-Diabetes Neuropathy Loss of sensation Anorgasmia Heart disease Plaque in your arteries/veins Not enough blood flow to your penis   Supplementation It took you this long to get sick, you’re not going to get healthy in a matter of days. We’re always working on our health because we’re always trying to reverse anti-aging, we’re trying to do anti-aging, we’re trying to reverse atrophy. Everything external is a reflection of internal, including our genitalia. Adaptogens/plant-based botanicals Support hormones Lower cortisol Increase testosterone Increase estrogen Manage aromatase expression of over-estrogen in men Supporting herbs Maca – libido support Cacao – polyphenols Nitric oxide precursors Citrulline L-arginine Arugula, dill, beets, spinach, cabbage Supplements Tribulus Terrestris Fenugreek Tongkat Ali Give it 90 days to build in body. Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy Some hormones actually help you with things like hearing, like aldosterone. DHEA is a precursor to testosterone and estrogen. Typically, men feel good in the 700-1000 mg/dl. For women Combination of estrogen, bioidentical estrogen, as well as progesterone. Testosterone in coconut cream (used intravaginally)   Herb Cycling Over time, your body actually adjusts to having herbal formulas, and then, they’re not as effective. Each month use a different herb to see what works for you best.   Engorgement It means being filled with blood. It means to nest. When we’re born, when we’re in utero, we all start out as female. And about 16 weeks in, we get a, depending on the XY chromosome, we get a hormonal bath that turns half of us into boys. But we start out with exactly the same genital material. And that genital material turns into a penis or a vulva, a penis and scrotum or a vulva. The two channels that run down the penis, the corpus cavernosum and the corpus spongiosum, those are erectile tissue. Those are the chambers that fill up with blood to give a man an erection. Those chambers are in our clitoris. So, we have a clitoral head, a clitoral shaft, so we actually have a shaft, the glans is like the tip of the penis, the shaft is like the shaft of the penis. So, a woman actually achieves a clitoral erection given enough massaging or oral pleasuring, or lovemaking. And then, the clitoris has two little arms that drape over the entrance to the vagina. That’s called the introitus, the entrance to the vagina. And then it has two plump bags that are the legs of the clitoris, that are called the vestibular bulbs, that are actually under the pubic hair on each side of the opening to the vagina. And that whole structure is the erectile tissue of her clitoral structure that needs to get filled with blood. Then she has a urethral sponge. We have an extruded little tube that goes down the urethral outlet, where your urine comes from your bladder and exits out of your vulva, between your clitoris and the opening to your vagina. That’s an exit. There’s a tube that runs, a fluffy tube of erectile tissue there. That’s what people call the G-spot. You can get to it from the outside, and you can get to it from the inside of the vaginal canal. And then there’s another sponge, called the perineal sponge, that’s located between the rectum and the vagina, those two tubes are parallel up inside her, and there’s a spongy tissue between them. All of that’s erectile tissue. You only see half of a man’s shaft. There’s 50 percent of his penile tissue that’s buried up inside him. Sanskrit - Yoni is the woman’s vulva, and the Lingam is the man’s penis Yoni massage Use Sexual Soulmate Pact Lingam massage   Performance Anxiety Once you understand anatomy and you start to really pleasure each other manually and orally, which gives you additional benefits, then it takes the focus off of intercourse, but it actually also makes intercourse even more pleasurable.   Polarity Testosterone and estrogen Masculine and feminine Estrogen is femininity, it’s all over the map, it’s going a million miles, it’s got its eyes on everything, it’s sensitive, it’s delicate, it’s fussy. Testosterone is straight ahead, goal-oriented, able to just be like in the zone much more easily.   Communication and Getting Your Needs Met Passionate lovemaking is emotionally-connected lovemaking. It’s when you feel totally safe with each other, when you can surrender to your pleasure together, when you can just lock your systems together and go off into joy, that you don’t know where their pleasure starts and your pleasure ends. For a woman especially, to be able to let go, she needs the conditions to be right outside the bedroom as well as inside the bedroom. Women want to be totally taken care of, but they also want some freedom. Women today are very emancipated. Men don’t understand how much romance is important to women, how much encouraging her, telling her you love her, taking her out for a walk in the countryside, rowing her in a boat on the lake, taking her for a hike. Moving a woman’s body moves her emotions, and she wants to feel an emotional connection to you. Men, often, what they want is recreational companionship. They want touch, affection, passion. Physical touch for them is love.   The Platinum Rule Treat your partner the way they want to be treated.   Behind Closed Doors With 20 percent of the effort, you get 80 percent of the results. Sexual Soulmates book You put intention on being a soulmate and learning how to do it.   Six Essentials for Connected Sex The Sexual Soulmate Pact   Lover’s Space Creating a sacred place for you to make love with each other, for slowing down, for getting the temperature right, the sheets soft, having plenty of towels, having organic lube, a pitcher of water, lighting the candles, putting on the music that appeals to you and gets you in the mood, wearing sexy lingerie, dancing for your partner, doing all the kinds of things that are just like getting back into play and making the environment really, really nice. The Soulmate Embrace   Embodied Sex You’re feeling her, you’re touching her skin, you’re not even stroking her skin, you’re touching below her skin to the tissue underneath the skin to give pleasure, you’re bringing pleasure to yourself in all these wonderful nerve receptors by touching her for your own pleasure. You’re stroking each other’s whole bodies, you’re not just using friction of genitals, which is kind of like unconscious sex. This is conscious sex.   Presence Presence in lovemaking is a mindset. It is just like meditation, where when you meditate, and then you start thinking about something else, and then you bring yourself back. If you’re worrying about having an orgasm, you’re not going to have one. Feeling Your Pleasure Letting go Sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous system toggling Orgasms actually come out of you. They bubble up out of you like a spring bubbles up out of the ground. Polarity Masculine/feminine Reengage with the Soulmate Embrace Create a safe container for her to let go. Body shame, women as well as men. Atrophy sets in when you don’t make love   Erotic Playdates The more that you turn bedroom into play, the happier you are, and when you learn new things together, the beginner’s mind of meditation, that is really, really great. You can learn about female ejaculation. Men can learn male multiple orgasm. You can learn to have expanded orgasms.   Finding Time for Sex An hour is a quickie. It takes 20-30 minutes for your genitals to get engorged. You have to schedule it. You have to get a babysitter; you have to get the kids to bed early and get dinner done and make a commitment to it. Set a timer if you have to go somewhere so that you can come down from the oxytocin rush. Don’t make the goal about sex.     Deeper Dive Resources Organixx Supplements https://shop.organixx.com/search?q=sexual+health   Organixx Articles on Libido https://organixx.com/?s=libido   The Soulmate Embrace https://personallifemedia.com/soulmate-embrace/   The Sexual Soulmate Pact https://personallifemedia.com/sexual-soulmate-pact/   Susan’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/susanbratton/   Susan’s YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/BetterLover   Sexual Soulmates Book https://amzn.to/2X8nHMd   My Relationship Magic https://best.personallifemedia.com/relationship-magic-promo/?email_address=   Maca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidium_meyenii   Cacao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobroma_cacao   Citrulline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrulline   L-Arginine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arginine   Tribulus Terrestris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribulus_terrestris

Susan Bratton, the Dear Abby of sex, joins us again with six essentials for connected sex. Tune in to understand herb cycling and supplementation to support our sexual health against health issues that impact our sexuality, especially as we age. Susan also helps us be better communicators in and out of the bedroom. Something we can all use!   * * *   About Susan Susan is a champion and advocate for all who desire passionate relationships. Considered the Dear Abby of sex, Susan’s fresh approach and original ideas have helped millions of people of all ages and across the gender spectrum transform sex into passion. Married to her husband, Tim, since 1993, Susan is an author, award-winning speaker, and serial entrepreneur, who teaches passionate lovemaking techniques to her fans around the world.   Susan has been featured in the New York Times and on CNBC and The Today Show, as well as appearing on ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, and on NBC as the Marriage Magician. Susan is the Chair Emeritus of The AdTech Conference. She was both CMO and a member of the board of directors for an Anthony Robbins tech startup, as well as serving on numerous boards throughout her career.   In 2009, Susan was honored as a Silicon Valley Woman of Influence by the Business Journal, and as a top 10 internet pioneer by Ad Age Magazine. In 2010, was bestowed the Lifetime Industry Achievement Award by DMG World Media.   Susan talks about, after 25 years of marriage, “I know from experience that deep passionate intimacy with my partner is priceless, a priority that tops my list of must-haves, alongside good health and the love of family and friends. I have made it my mission to aide anyone who wants the kind of lovemaking that improves with age.”   * * *   Your Libido Is Your… Sex drive Creativity Passion Lust for live Vitality   What Health Issues Impact Your Sexuality? Diabetes/Pre-Diabetes Neuropathy Loss of sensation Anorgasmia Heart disease Plaque in your arteries/veins Not enough blood flow to your penis   Supplementation It took you this long to get sick, you’re not going to get healthy in a matter of days. We’re always working on our health because we’re always trying to reverse anti-aging, we’re trying to do anti-aging, we’re trying to reverse atrophy. Everything external is a reflection of internal, including our genitalia. Adaptogens/plant-based botanicals Support hormones Lower cortisol Increase testosterone Increase estrogen Manage aromatase expression of over-estrogen in men Supporting herbs Maca – libido support Cacao – polyphenols Nitric oxide precursors Citrulline L-arginine Arugula, dill, beets, spinach, cabbage Supplements Tribulus Terrestris Fenugreek Tongkat Ali Give it 90 days to build in body. Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy Some hormones actually help you with things like hearing, like aldosterone. DHEA is a precursor to testosterone and estrogen. Typically, men feel good in the 700-1000 mg/dl. For women Combination of estrogen, bioidentical estrogen, as well as progesterone. Testosterone in coconut cream (used intravaginally)   Herb Cycling Over time, your body actually adjusts to having herbal formulas, and then, they’re not as effective. Each month use a different herb to see what works for you best.   Engorgement It means being filled with blood. It means to nest. When we’re born, when we’re in utero, we all start out as female. And about 16 weeks in, we get a, depending on the XY chromosome, we get a hormonal bath that turns half of us into boys. But we start out with exactly the same genital material. And that genital material turns into a penis or a vulva, a penis and scrotum or a vulva. The two channels that run down the penis, the corpus cavernosum and the corpus spongiosum, those are erectile tissue. Those are the chambers that fill up with blood to give a man an erection. Those chambers are in our clitoris. So, we have a clitoral head, a clitoral shaft, so we actually have a shaft, the glans is like the tip of the penis, the shaft is like the shaft of the penis. So, a woman actually achieves a clitoral erection given enough massaging or oral pleasuring, or lovemaking. And then, the clitoris has two little arms that drape over the entrance to the vagina. That’s called the introitus, the entrance to the vagina. And then it has two plump bags that are the legs of the clitoris, that are called the vestibular bulbs, that are actually under the pubic hair on each side of the opening to the vagina. And that whole structure is the erectile tissue of her clitoral structure that needs to get filled with blood. Then she has a urethral sponge. We have an extruded little tube that goes down the urethral outlet, where your urine comes from your bladder and exits out of your vulva, between your clitoris and the opening to your vagina. That’s an exit. There’s a tube that runs, a fluffy tube of erectile tissue there. That’s what people call the G-spot. You can get to it from the outside, and you can get to it from the inside of the vaginal canal. And then there’s another sponge, called the perineal sponge, that’s located between the rectum and the vagina, those two tubes are parallel up inside her, and there’s a spongy tissue between them. All of that’s erectile tissue. You only see half of a man’s shaft. There’s 50 percent of his penile tissue that’s buried up inside him. Sanskrit - Yoni is the woman’s vulva, and the Lingam is the man’s penis Yoni massage Use Sexual Soulmate Pact Lingam massage   Performance Anxiety Once you understand anatomy and you start to really pleasure each other manually and orally, which gives you additional benefits, then it takes the focus off of intercourse, but it actually also makes intercourse even more pleasurable.   Polarity Testosterone and estrogen Masculine and feminine Estrogen is femininity, it’s all over the map, it’s going a million miles, it’s got its eyes on everything, it’s sensitive, it’s delicate, it’s fussy. Testosterone is straight ahead, goal-oriented, able to just be like in the zone much more easily.   Communication and Getting Your Needs Met Passionate lovemaking is emotionally-connected lovemaking. It’s when you feel totally safe with each other, when you can surrender to your pleasure together, when you can just lock your systems together and go off into joy, that you don’t know where their pleasure starts and your pleasure ends. For a woman especially, to be able to let go, she needs the conditions to be right outside the bedroom as well as inside the bedroom. Women want to be totally taken care of, but they also want some freedom. Women today are very emancipated. Men don’t understand how much romance is important to women, how much encouraging her, telling her you love her, taking her out for a walk in the countryside, rowing her in a boat on the lake, taking her for a hike. Moving a woman’s body moves her emotions, and she wants to feel an emotional connection to you. Men, often, what they want is recreational companionship. They want touch, affection, passion. Physical touch for them is love.   The Platinum Rule Treat your partner the way they want to be treated.   Behind Closed Doors With 20 percent of the effort, you get 80 percent of the results. Sexual Soulmates book You put intention on being a soulmate and learning how to do it.   Six Essentials for Connected Sex The Sexual Soulmate Pact   Lover’s Space Creating a sacred place for you to make love with each other, for slowing down, for getting the temperature right, the sheets soft, having plenty of towels, having organic lube, a pitcher of water, lighting the candles, putting on the music that appeals to you and gets you in the mood, wearing sexy lingerie, dancing for your partner, doing all the kinds of things that are just like getting back into play and making the environment really, really nice. The Soulmate Embrace   Embodied Sex You’re feeling her, you’re touching her skin, you’re not even stroking her skin, you’re touching below her skin to the tissue underneath the skin to give pleasure, you’re bringing pleasure to yourself in all these wonderful nerve receptors by touching her for your own pleasure. You’re stroking each other’s whole bodies, you’re not just using friction of genitals, which is kind of like unconscious sex. This is conscious sex.   Presence Presence in lovemaking is a mindset. It is just like meditation, where when you meditate, and then you start thinking about something else, and then you bring yourself back. If you’re worrying about having an orgasm, you’re not going to have one. Feeling Your Pleasure Letting go Sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous system toggling Orgasms actually come out of you. They bubble up out of you like a spring bubbles up out of the ground. Polarity Masculine/feminine Reengage with the Soulmate Embrace Create a safe container for her to let go. Body shame, women as well as men. Atrophy sets in when you don’t make love   Erotic Playdates The more that you turn bedroom into play, the happier you are, and when you learn new things together, the beginner’s mind of meditation, that is really, really great. You can learn about female ejaculation. Men can learn male multiple orgasm. You can learn to have expanded orgasms.   Finding Time for Sex An hour is a quickie. It takes 20-30 minutes for your genitals to get engorged. You have to schedule it. You have to get a babysitter; you have to get the kids to bed early and get dinner done and make a commitment to it. Set a timer if you have to go somewhere so that you can come down from the oxytocin rush. Don’t make the goal about sex.     Deeper Dive Resources Organixx Supplements https://shop.organixx.com/search?q=sexual+health   Organixx Articles on Libido https://organixx.com/?s=libido   The Soulmate Embrace https://personallifemedia.com/soulmate-embrace/   The Sexual Soulmate Pact https://personallifemedia.com/sexual-soulmate-pact/   Susan’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/susanbratton/   Susan’s YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/BetterLover   Sexual Soulmates Book https://amzn.to/2X8nHMd   My Relationship Magic https://best.personallifemedia.com/relationship-magic-promo/?email_address=   Maca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidium_meyenii   Cacao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobroma_cacao   Citrulline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrulline   L-Arginine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arginine   Tribulus Terrestris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribulus_terrestris

Ready to put serious sizzle back in your relationship? Today, we’re talking about your libido, we’re talking about sex drive, and we’re talking about how to have fulfilling lovemaking with your mate, because it is vitally important. Learn the difference between testosterone driven and estrogen driven approaches to intimacy. Listen in as Susan teaches us how caring for and nurturing the sexuality that is your divine right as a human being on this planet, leads to the intimacy and connection that we all deserve to have.   * * *   About Susan Susan is a champion and advocate for all who desire passionate relationships. Considered the Dear Abby of sex, Susan’s fresh approach and original ideas have helped millions of people of all ages and across the gender spectrum transform sex into passion. Married to her husband, Tim, since 1993, Susan is an author, award-winning speaker, and serial entrepreneur, who teaches passionate lovemaking techniques to her fans around the world.   Susan has been featured in the New York Times and on CNBC and The Today Show, as well as appearing on ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, and on NBC as the Marriage Magician. Susan is the Chair Emeritus of The AdTech Conference. She was both CMO and a member of the board of directors for an Anthony Robbins tech startup, as well as serving on numerous boards throughout her career.   In 2009, Susan was honored as a Silicon Valley Woman of Influence by the Business Journal, and as a top 10 internet pioneer by Ad Age Magazine. In 2010, was bestowed the Lifetime Industry Achievement Award by DMG World Media.   Susan talks about, after 25 years of marriage, “I know from experience that deep passionate intimacy with my partner is priceless, a priority that tops my list of must-haves, alongside good health and the love of family and friends. I have made it my mission to aide anyone who wants the kind of lovemaking that improves with age.”   * * *   Why Are People Afraid to Talk About Sex? We don’t really get a sex education, we get a procreation education, or a “How to not procreate” education. Abuse Adult programming is so prevalent now, that people are getting “their technique” from adult programming, which is complete fantasy, primarily degrading to women. Embarrassment Shame Religion   Why Don’t Our Parents Talk to Us About Sex? They don’t know. When they try to talk to us, we roll our eyes and like “Oh god, I don’t want to talk to you about this!”   Fundamental Thing About Libido Men are testosterone-driven, and women are estrogen-driven, and they make us wildly different in good ways and in ways that confound each other. So, we come to our connection from different perspectives.   “Revive Her Drive” Men ‘do’ to women what they want her to do to them because that’s what they know. Once you teach a man how to approach a woman the way estrogen needs to be approached, then all of a sudden, everything breaks open for the two of them.   Role Reversals There are people at this end and this end that are the minorities, but the general majority is heterosexual, monogamous, masculine/feminine, but there are people where there are reversals. And it doesn’t matter if it works for both people if there’s what is called polarity.   Polarity The masculine/feminine magnetic attraction of opposites.   Getting Over Your Mental Block Surrounding Sex Education is number one.   The Soulmate Embrace Technique Instead of trying to go from 0 to 100 miles an hour in your intimacy, start with the real foundations, like resetting your polarity. Why not just start by holding each other again? Holding and being held sets that polarity in. For the masculine, his job is to help the feminine get out of her mind and into her body. Our bodies are a temple, they are sacred. We can have sacred sexuality if we can connect at that level of intimacy, pleasure, limbic connections, soul connection, looking in each other’s eyes, syncopating our heartbeats, slowing our breath. “Setting the Lover’s Space,” having water, some strawberries and grapes, organic lube. Put in place all these little things, and hold her, and stroke her, and calm her down. Arousal and pleasure are actually the toggling of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. Testosterone is “Full speed ahead!” But estrogen is like “Doodily-do, doodily-do, do, do.” Slowing down does so many things. It’s the touch of oxytocin. It’s the engorgement of our genitals. It’s the reconnection with each other. It’s the polarity that gets set in. Women need full body touching and stroking, they need their entire proprioceptive grid of cells really smoothed and touched and loved.   The Sexual Soulmate Pact “Okay, how about if we have this agreement where every time we’re intimate, I’ll tell you all the things my body is telling me she needs, so I can clue you in so you can be a winner in the bedroom with me.” Men are ruled by their hormones the same as we women are. When she blurts out any course corrections, and you can go both ways with this, of course, but this is very masculine/feminine, when she blurts out “Go harder,” “Go slower,” “Oh, you’re on my hair,” whatever she’s needing to say, and the only thing he does to respond is, “Okay, baby,” or “Got it,” or “Is this better?” or “Thank you.”   Sex Drive and Libido You need good hormones to have a libido, but that’s only a small amount of it. And it’s all of these touch techniques, and calming your nervous system, and feeling safe, and your other areas of your relationship being met and supported, that are also a big part of your sex drive, what makes you want to be with a person. That’s beyond libido, that’s actually your interest in sex, not just the fact that you feel like having sex, but that you actually take action and want sex.   How Females Can Approach This with Their Partners When you download my e-book, and you print it out, or you send the PDF to your husband or boyfriend, or you go out on date night and you read it together, or you read it in the car together, or you read it over dinner together, or whatever it is, or you leave it under his pillow, whatever you need to do, have him read it so he gets it and follows it, and say, “Could we make this pact? Could we have this pact in our bedroom? Let’s try it.”   What Makes A Strong Libido? Hormones Creativity Vitality General Health Supplements Botanicals Ashwaganda Maca Cacao E-Plexx/T-Plexx Nitrates Citrulline/citrulline malleate Arugula Dill Cabbage Beets Set a little intention that you’re caring for and nurturing for the sexuality that is your divine right as a human being on this planet, to have the intimacy and connection that we all deserve to have. Blood Flow   What Decreases Libido? Outside Forces Repression Shaming Lack of Knowledge Ignorance Fear Aging (genital atrophy)   A Man’s Semen Is Very Healthy for A Woman It has luteinizing hormone; it regulates her cycle. He gives her serotonin. He gives her testosterone, which gives her more courage and lowers her anxiety. He gives her zinc and other minerals that help her clear brain fog.     Deeper Dive Resources   “Revive Her Drive” http://www.reviveherdriveprogram.org/   The Soulmate Embrace https://personallifemedia.com/soulmate-embrace/   The Sexual Soulmate Pact https://personallifemedia.com/sexual-soulmate-pact/   Susan’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/susanbratton/   Susan’s YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/BetterLover   Ashwaganda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withania_somnifera   Maca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidium_meyenii   Cacao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobroma_cacao   Citrulline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrulline   Organixx Supplements https://shop.organixx.com/search?q=sexual+health   Organixx Articles on Libido https://organixx.com/?s=libido

Ready to put serious sizzle back in your relationship? Today, we’re talking about your libido, we’re talking about sex drive, and we’re talking about how to have fulfilling lovemaking with your mate, because it is vitally important. Learn the difference between testosterone driven and estrogen driven approaches to intimacy. Listen in as Susan teaches us how caring for and nurturing the sexuality that is your divine right as a human being on this planet, leads to the intimacy and connection that we all deserve to have.   * * *   About Susan Susan is a champion and advocate for all who desire passionate relationships. Considered the Dear Abby of sex, Susan’s fresh approach and original ideas have helped millions of people of all ages and across the gender spectrum transform sex into passion. Married to her husband, Tim, since 1993, Susan is an author, award-winning speaker, and serial entrepreneur, who teaches passionate lovemaking techniques to her fans around the world.   Susan has been featured in the New York Times and on CNBC and The Today Show, as well as appearing on ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, and on NBC as the Marriage Magician. Susan is the Chair Emeritus of The AdTech Conference. She was both CMO and a member of the board of directors for an Anthony Robbins tech startup, as well as serving on numerous boards throughout her career.   In 2009, Susan was honored as a Silicon Valley Woman of Influence by the Business Journal, and as a top 10 internet pioneer by Ad Age Magazine. In 2010, was bestowed the Lifetime Industry Achievement Award by DMG World Media.   Susan talks about, after 25 years of marriage, “I know from experience that deep passionate intimacy with my partner is priceless, a priority that tops my list of must-haves, alongside good health and the love of family and friends. I have made it my mission to aide anyone who wants the kind of lovemaking that improves with age.”   * * *   Why Are People Afraid to Talk About Sex? We don’t really get a sex education, we get a procreation education, or a “How to not procreate” education. Abuse Adult programming is so prevalent now, that people are getting “their technique” from adult programming, which is complete fantasy, primarily degrading to women. Embarrassment Shame Religion   Why Don’t Our Parents Talk to Us About Sex? They don’t know. When they try to talk to us, we roll our eyes and like “Oh god, I don’t want to talk to you about this!”   Fundamental Thing About Libido Men are testosterone-driven, and women are estrogen-driven, and they make us wildly different in good ways and in ways that confound each other. So, we come to our connection from different perspectives.   “Revive Her Drive” Men ‘do’ to women what they want her to do to them because that’s what they know. Once you teach a man how to approach a woman the way estrogen needs to be approached, then all of a sudden, everything breaks open for the two of them.   Role Reversals There are people at this end and this end that are the minorities, but the general majority is heterosexual, monogamous, masculine/feminine, but there are people where there are reversals. And it doesn’t matter if it works for both people if there’s what is called polarity.   Polarity The masculine/feminine magnetic attraction of opposites.   Getting Over Your Mental Block Surrounding Sex Education is number one.   The Soulmate Embrace Technique Instead of trying to go from 0 to 100 miles an hour in your intimacy, start with the real foundations, like resetting your polarity. Why not just start by holding each other again? Holding and being held sets that polarity in. For the masculine, his job is to help the feminine get out of her mind and into her body. Our bodies are a temple, they are sacred. We can have sacred sexuality if we can connect at that level of intimacy, pleasure, limbic connections, soul connection, looking in each other’s eyes, syncopating our heartbeats, slowing our breath. “Setting the Lover’s Space,” having water, some strawberries and grapes, organic lube. Put in place all these little things, and hold her, and stroke her, and calm her down. Arousal and pleasure are actually the toggling of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. Testosterone is “Full speed ahead!” But estrogen is like “Doodily-do, doodily-do, do, do.” Slowing down does so many things. It’s the touch of oxytocin. It’s the engorgement of our genitals. It’s the reconnection with each other. It’s the polarity that gets set in. Women need full body touching and stroking, they need their entire proprioceptive grid of cells really smoothed and touched and loved.   The Sexual Soulmate Pact “Okay, how about if we have this agreement where every time we’re intimate, I’ll tell you all the things my body is telling me she needs, so I can clue you in so you can be a winner in the bedroom with me.” Men are ruled by their hormones the same as we women are. When she blurts out any course corrections, and you can go both ways with this, of course, but this is very masculine/feminine, when she blurts out “Go harder,” “Go slower,” “Oh, you’re on my hair,” whatever she’s needing to say, and the only thing he does to respond is, “Okay, baby,” or “Got it,” or “Is this better?” or “Thank you.”   Sex Drive and Libido You need good hormones to have a libido, but that’s only a small amount of it. And it’s all of these touch techniques, and calming your nervous system, and feeling safe, and your other areas of your relationship being met and supported, that are also a big part of your sex drive, what makes you want to be with a person. That’s beyond libido, that’s actually your interest in sex, not just the fact that you feel like having sex, but that you actually take action and want sex.   How Females Can Approach This with Their Partners When you download my e-book, and you print it out, or you send the PDF to your husband or boyfriend, or you go out on date night and you read it together, or you read it in the car together, or you read it over dinner together, or whatever it is, or you leave it under his pillow, whatever you need to do, have him read it so he gets it and follows it, and say, “Could we make this pact? Could we have this pact in our bedroom? Let’s try it.”   What Makes A Strong Libido? Hormones Creativity Vitality General Health Supplements Botanicals Ashwaganda Maca Cacao E-Plexx/T-Plexx Nitrates Citrulline/citrulline malleate Arugula Dill Cabbage Beets Set a little intention that you’re caring for and nurturing for the sexuality that is your divine right as a human being on this planet, to have the intimacy and connection that we all deserve to have. Blood Flow   What Decreases Libido? Outside Forces Repression Shaming Lack of Knowledge Ignorance Fear Aging (genital atrophy)   A Man’s Semen Is Very Healthy for A Woman It has luteinizing hormone; it regulates her cycle. He gives her serotonin. He gives her testosterone, which gives her more courage and lowers her anxiety. He gives her zinc and other minerals that help her clear brain fog.     Deeper Dive Resources   “Revive Her Drive” http://www.reviveherdriveprogram.org/   The Soulmate Embrace https://personallifemedia.com/soulmate-embrace/   The Sexual Soulmate Pact https://personallifemedia.com/sexual-soulmate-pact/   Susan’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/susanbratton/   Susan’s YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/BetterLover   Ashwaganda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withania_somnifera   Maca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidium_meyenii   Cacao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobroma_cacao   Citrulline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrulline   Organixx Supplements https://shop.organixx.com/search?q=sexual+health   Organixx Articles on Libido https://organixx.com/?s=libido