Guest Blog by Naturopath Kelli Kolar
As a naturopath and nutritionist I love to support you to make better choices about your diet and skincare routines and look much younger and healthier.
Sugar triggers a process called glycation, where sugar molecules bind to proteins like collagen and elastin, causing them to become stiff and malformed. This leads to various skin issues, including premature aging, inflammation, and acne.
Palm oil is used in everything from foods to personal care products to cleaning products and biodiesel. It can be difficult to grasp just how big this billion-dollar industry is, and it requires some serious effort to avoid it.
But even so, it’s a crucial time to start choosing with our dollars. In the years to come, more rainforests will have been destroyed, more animals displaced and killed and more workers exploited, and we’ll have nothing to show for it.
But the question will remain, “Why didn’t we do something sooner?”
There are negative ions all around us.
We can find them around moving waters (like waterfalls, rivers and the ocean's edge), in the forest and even in our garden, especially after the rain.
These amazing things in nature are good for our body and mind, but what are they exactly? And how can we get more into our days?