We did the supermarket games before - you can check them here. But this weekend let´s try something different. I will post some comments with products and meals, and YOU have to rate those with green, yellow, red and explain why you gave that score; 🟢 = great 🟡= OK-ish 🔴= no way So, let´s play! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 START: Saturday May 9th 10.00 (UK TIME) END: Sunday May 10th, 20.00 (UK TIME) WINNER: the person that engages the most PRIZE: Move to Premium Membership 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 It´s a great way to engage and level up, especially for the new commers 😍

There is a phenomenon that engineers discovered, somewhat to their embarrassment, only after they had spent decades trying to straighten rivers. In the name of flood control and agricultural efficiency, they lined the banks with concrete, cut the curves, and forced the water into a direct, efficient channel. The result, they assumed, would be a calmer, more manageable river. What they got instead was the opposite. The water, deprived of its natural meanders, accelerated and scoured the riverbed. It carried away sediment that had taken centuries to accumulate. The straightened river, designed to be more orderly, became the source of the very floods it was meant to prevent. The river needed its bends. Not despite the fact that they were inefficient, but because of it. Your autonomic nervous system is, in its own way, a river with two banks. On one side runs the sympathetic branch - the accelerator, the one that floods your body with adrenaline and cortisol when a deadline looms, a car brakes suddenly or an email arrives at midnight with a subject line that makes your stomach drop. On the other side, the parasympathetic branch - the brake, the one that slows the heart, deepens the breath and tells the digestive system it is finally safe to work. In a healthy system, these two forces don't simply alternate; they "dance". Every heartbeat, in fact, is a tiny negotiation between them. The interval between one beat and the next is never perfectly identical. It stretches and contracts in subtle, rhythmic variation - a phenomenon cardiologists call heart rate variability, or HRV. A high HRV is not a racing heart; it is a flexible one. It is the physiological signature of a nervous system that can bend. And like the engineers' river, we have spent much of modern life trying to straighten it. Chronic stress does not simply mean feeling overwhelmed. At a biological level, it means the sympathetic accelerator is engaged far more often than the body was designed to sustain. The cortisol that was meant to spike and then dissolve, becomes a low, continuous background radiation of threat and the body cannot distinguish from a predator in the grass. The parasympathetic brake, the one that is supposed to restore and rebuild, barely gets a turn.

We went on an evening hike today, and my son came around a bend in the path and said he’d found some weird looking mushrooms. I got so excited! Look at these beauties! I’ve been looking for morels in our area for 10 years! I’m try to decide how many I cook and how many I use to spread spore around our yard.

I switched to an anti inflammatory diet a few years ago, and it was amazing the changes I felt in my body, like it opened up a bit, and lost weight. This community is really important because I think EVERYONE could benefit from learning the things that @Elena Maren teaches!

Do you know what lab works you should ask you GP / Doctor on insulin resitance? Here you have the table with the biomarkers and.... THE OPTIMAL RANGES! Yes, we don´t go for the standards when you talk about insulin. We want to be in the optimal ranges in order to know for sure that we don´t go straight on the path of Insulin Resistance. Check the classroom to see the slides and keep the BIOMARKS OPTIMAL Ranges at hand when you will have your lab results. TASK: as soon as you can go and visit your doctor. Come back with results and let´s start measuring how powerful changes are.