Purely Living Wellness Blog

October 26th, 2015

10/26/2015

Immune System Fuel As We Enter Cold & Flu Season

9/18/2015

Today I was listening to a podcast on NaturalHealth365 which I am privvy to as a paid subscriber to the inner circle - one of the best investments I have made into my holistic wellness training, and for my family.
The speaker was a very wise, quite old integrative doctor who had seen many changes through his lifetime. Through generations we have lost the wisdom of using good things from the earth to help our bodies heal. Such as elderberry to prevent colds and flu. Turmeric to reduce inflammation and pain. Ginger for digestion, and so on.
I would like to give you his name, but it is not one I can pronounce, much less spell. But I plan to look up his site. He commented that cancer is growing in our bodies 25-40 years before we have the symptoms that alert us to its presence. This is why it is often a disease that manifests with age. It only gets out of hand when the immune system is not functioning and doing its job of erradicating free radicals.
What do you use to boost your immune system? My family members are huge fans of a 2 oz power pack of anti oxidant juice. At the first sign of illness, exposure to a slew of viral breakouts at school - we start the day with these powerful shots of super foods and anti-oxidants.
When my husband was on his journey with late stage cancer he never once caught a cold or flu that year - even though he was exposed during the holidays to people getting over the flu or with colds. People did not think we should leave the house and expose him to all the germs - but he wouldn't hear of missing a family get together. Every morning began with an Anti Oxidant Immunity Booster. To the morning shot I would add drops of Lugol's iodine and collodial silver, with the latter being an anti-bacterial (nature's antibiotic). Before bed Jesse was glad to have the super food drink on its own so he could completely enjoy it. That said, it is a great way to mask some other supplements one might take.
As we get into the cold and flu season give your body what it needs to maintain a healthy immune system. Your natural defense system depends on you to fuel it properly to provide optimal performance.

Be well and stay well,
Rita S.

Medication Detox

6/27/2015

This past week I tuned into Dr. Judy Seeger's webinar on detoxification. Seeger specializes in helping cancer patients detox from chemo and radiation - which has a SEVEN year residual in our bodies! (I find that incredibly scary!) The toxins promote acidity and recurrence of cancer. It is important to know that these treatments DO NOT get the stem cells, and because of this cancer is always present even once in remission.

Now, you maybe thinking, I have never had chemo or radiation, so I am good...

BUT have you had an x-ray, CT or PET scan, live on the coast with a high radiation fall out from the ocean (thanks to nuclear disasters)? My husband was extremely senisitie to radiation - the diagnostic CT spread his cancer like wildfire, I am certain from what I have learned.

We ALL have toxins in our bodies - even those who eat healthy. Many of us use toxic skin care products and consume foods with artificial ingredients, without giving a thought as to what is happening inside our body.

An optimal functioning body can take care of and eliminate toxins. Unfortunately one of the biggest contributors to a non-optimal body and detriment to self healing are TOXIC medications - which could be Tylenol OTC, allergy meds, or a Rx from your trusted doctor.

Want to turn your health around? Join me for the upcoming 30 Days to Healthy Living challenge...it is not a diet, but a learning process to make changes that become habits for a more optimal health and well being. Food choices are 80% of any weight loss challenge...you cannot out exercise a bad diet. Nor can you have peak performance as an athlete if you are fueling with toxic foods.

The 30 Day Challenge comes with complete menu planning, grocery shopping lists, and private facebook forum. In addition, I help customize the plan to your needs by listening to your concerns, learning what type of toxins you may be dealing with, and offer additional insight and support. This may include additional supplements from sources I have learned through on-going alternative healthy symposiums, a complimentary session on the BioMat or with the Wellness Pro, or referral to a holistic practitioner.

Medication is so very toxic. pH strips are a great way to monitor how your body is doing with healing itself, and I can show you how to monitor that as well....

To your health!
Rita Shimniok, Purely Living Wellness

Chemical Burden - What's Your Load?

4/2/2015

Over 212 chemicals are found in human tissue of one person – what does the body do with this? It has to process, try to expel, figure it out – chemical STRESS!! The result is compromised immune system. These chemicals mimic estrogen – which drives cancer, interupt the endocrine system...which drives cancer, create hormone imbalances…which drives cancer, in other words – chemical overload causes cancer!

This is just ONE of the highlights from today's Truth About Cancer summit - the discussion - Dirty Dozen - The Top Environmental Toxins That Causes Cancer. From the entire list, the one we as consumers have the most control over - is the toxins we put on our skin, through our choice of skincare, make up, shampoo, and sunscreen.

I have many notes from today's talk and will be putting the list together in the form of an article to place under my education tab. But I want to share with you some additional statistics which I found quite frightening...

Average person urinates 7 pesticides each time they urinate.
Average woman absorbs 2 lbs of cosmetic sludge through their skin each year, per Dr. Keith Scott Mumby
Recent report revealed that 10 newborn infants had umbilical cord blood analyzed, and found 287 chemicals in the blood, of which 208 are carcinogenic!!

Yes, I had to emphasize that last bullet point. That one shocked even myself. Are you pregnant? Whom do you know that is? We all know that what you eat, and your lifestyle (whether you drink or smoke), directly affects an unborn baby's health. But not once, when I was pregnant years ago, was I warned that what I put on my skin could affect my baby's heatlh.

I learned several years ago that if my, or my husband's hormones, were out of balance during conception or during pregnancy, especially lack of the progestation hormone - progesterone - that it could affect the brain development of an unborn child. There is MUCH to consider during pregnancy. Not only eating healthy, but choosing pure and safe skincare, shampoo, deodorant, in addition to proper nutrition and avoiding exposure to fumes, lawn chemicals, toxic cleaners, and more.

Chemical Body Burden organization states, "Of the approximately 80,000 chemicals that are used in the United States, we do not know how many can become a part of our chemical body burden, but we do know that several hundred of these chemicals have been measured in people's bodies around the world."

So what is your chemical burden? And whom might you be passing that chemical burden on to?

Choose wisley,
Rita S., Purely Living Wellness

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Rita Shimniok, CMSA

Health advocate, educator and wellness consultant...I am a forever student of integrative and holistic approaches to wellness.
This blog is dedicated to everyone who is on a wellness journey. Each journey is unique, yet we may share commonalities. You and I may follow some of the same alternative and holistic brilliant minds who practice outside the box of traditional medicine. We may be eliminating the same food groups from our diets. Perhaps you have successfully turned your health around, as have I done, or you are eager to learn more of how you may do so.
With each and every day I believe there is a lesson to be learned. Life is an experience. We all make mistakes, I know I do! But the only true mistake is one in which we don't learn from our errors, or we cease to seek out knowledge from those who have become wise on the journey.
Much of the information on this website, and this blog, are the result of my own wellness journey, and my husband's journey with a terminal cancer diagnosis and an undiagnosed advanced Lyme disease - which ultimately contributed to his earthly body failing him. Yet his Spirit was intact and whole, and he rejoiced the day he went home to his Creator God.

It is my hope that you embrace LIFE, and live intentionally from experience!

October 26th, 2015

Immune System Fuel As We Enter Cold & Flu Season

Medication Detox

Chemical Burden - What's Your Load?

Rita Shimniok, CMSA

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