Happy new week. Hope you enjoyed the recipes last week and have been happily chomping some quinoa salad! Here are this week’s posts for you. Hope you find something useful x
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Mothers Day Pressie
If you are on the hunt for a Mothers Day pressie – even for yourself (from the cat, hint, hint Winnie!) or for someone you think of as a mother figure, then you’ll not go far wrong with this gorgeous bundle from Inlight. I wish someone would buy it for me! Their stuff is simply lovely, as you know. It comes with their mini essentials skincare kit, which should last about 6 weeks, plus their lovely facecloth, some seeds and samples of their chocolate and superfood masks.
I see they also have 3 for 2 on all travel size/mini oils until 16th March, so get in quick!
Treat yourself – and use my code PHC10 to get 10% off. Read more about Inlight here:
New Non-Toxic TGF Grain and Dairy Free Skincare Range Listed
Children’s Healthy Eating Ideas
Following on from my piece last issue on The Lancet report predicting the truly shocking overweight and obesity rates in children – a third by 2050, I saw this great guest post on Nest Wellness, which I thought might help:
raising real food kids in a processed world
Great Tip:
Melatonin and Vitamin D are both hormones, not vitamins. But they are also ‘circadian nutrients’, so if you take Vitamin D supplements, you should take them in the morning!
Robyn Puglia
Tissue Inflammation & Repair After Injury or Surgery
Lots of you have been asking what I did to support P lately after his fall and surgery on his hip and wrists etc, so I thought I’d share some bits to help. I’ll do the first section here and follow up with the rest next issue so this doesn’t become enormous!
After surgery, you need to focus on controlling inflammation and making sure connective tissues like bone, tendons, muscles and ligaments have the raw materials they need to repair. You can get lots of anti-inflammatory and joint support type products, but I really like Arthrosoothe because it has a great mix of both.
Joints, cartilage, ligaments, tendons and synovial fluid undergo a continuous but slow turnover and a re-modelling process and this contains lots of co-factors to help that happen. I’ve found it works really well for patients in-clinic.
Make sure you check any contraindications with anything else you are taking, such as morphine. See here for help with that. If there is something in it that doesn’t work with other meds etc, then try to get a similar mix but without that one ingredient, or take several to try and match it, or concentrate on the other bits of the protocol until you are off it.
Protein
You need specific amino acids to heal well too as amino acids are the building blocks of all repair in the body. You could take a protein powder such as lupin, one of the only plant powders that has the full amino acid spectrum, or whey if you are on dairy. But I chose Moss Amino Meal Select because it has all nine essential amino acids plus arginine, a mix that has been shown specifically to have helped burn victims, the elderly and people recovering from hip or knee surgery.
It works by promoting muscle protein synthesis (MPS) even without exercise, so is great for anyone trying to build or maintain muscle, especially. It comes in powder or capsule form. My hubby loved the chocolate one. You can use it as a meal replacement for weight loss, but as extra meals for muscle and weight gain. For repair, I suggest 1 shake a day should be enough.
Calcium
If you have broken a bone or needed a knee or hip replacement, you will probably be given some calcium to take. Or a medicine that helps you absorb Calcium. You may also be given some Vitamin D. The calcium hydroxyapatite form is by far the best calcium in this case. But it’s not that easy to get. I used this one. If you prefer, you can take a bone formula with it in – good idea for maintenance.
It is also a good idea longer-term to test for bone density. You will likely be offered a DEXA scan, which is great – have it. But also consider a DPD bone marker test, which can show changes much earlier than a DEXA.
Gut
You’re likely to have been given lots of different meds during your hospital stay – I was quite astounded how many! So, it can be a good idea to help your gut and liver repair after them.
You can use several things for the gut, but I found adding aloe vera and ground flaxseed to the protein smoothie helped. They act as prebiotics, but are also very anti-inflammatory. Note, flax is already in the Amino Select so no need to add more.
The aloe also works on the skin – just dab it on to promote healing and bring swelling and redness down.
If you had a lot of antibiotics, replenish your gut bacteria with a strong probiotic like this.
For the liver, milk thistle would be a good choice. Once you are off the Amino Select, it could be a good idea to give yourself a few months on a liver-clearance type multi.
That’s it for this issue, folks!
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Issue 4, March 2025