Winter Blues including the Flu
This year is going to be another tough one , colder weather predicted , and the common flu is back so they say. This makes a perfect cocktail for …Depression . Let’s get a head start on it before it takes you down. By stacking the odds in your favour you can beat Winter at its own game . Good old fashion exercise and diet lead the way in beating the Blues. Bundle up and walk . Why does walking make us feel good? We all know that a satisfying stroll changes our outlook. Perhaps we realize it all the more today, when so many of us were hunkered down and this simple activity is a challenge to break free. Join a running group, get into pre ski shape to hit the slopes this season . Make winter fun again. There are no lock downs preventing you this time.
Hit the gym in time for a 2023 holiday in the Sun. New research into weight lifting has revealed two insights: that the practice is able to strengthen the connections between nerves and muscles, and that this strengthening can still happen in the later years of our lives.
Here are some warning signs of Winter Blues that can lead to a nervous breakdown
Anxiety
Depression
Sleeping too much
Not sleeping enough
Fatigue
Change in appetite
Physical discomfort
Brain fog
Trouble breathing
You may even have a sulfur deficiency leading to Chronic Fatigue ( winter blues)
Sulfur is the 8th most common element by mass in the human body, behind oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus and potassium. The two sulfur-containing amino acids, methionine and cysteine, play essential physiological roles throughout the body. However, sulfur has been consistently overlooked by those addressing the issues of nutritional deficiencies. In fact, the National Academy of Sciences has not even assigned a minimum daily requirement (MDR) for sulfur. One consequence of sulfur’s limbo nutritional status is that it is omitted from the long list of supplements that are commonly artificially added to popular foods like cereal.
Sulfur can be found in a large number of foods, and, as a consequence, it is assumed that almost any diet would meet the minimum daily requirements. Excellent sources are eggs, onions, garlic, and leafy dark green vegetables like kale and broccoli. Unfortunately you may have to eat a wheel barrel full of kale to equal a tablespoon of Organic Sulfur Crystals. Meats, nuts, and seafood also contain sulfur. Methionine, an essential amino acid, is found mainly in egg whites and fish. A diet high in grains like bread and cereal is likely to be deficient in sulfur. Increasingly, whole foods such as corn and soybeans are disassembled into component parts with chemical names, and then reassembled into heavily processed foods. Sulfur is lost along the way, and so is the awareness that this loss matters.Experts have recently become aware that sulfur depletion in the soil creates a serious deficiency for plants,, brought about in part by the increase of fertilizer in world agricultural industry.
Our modern lifestyle practices conspire to induce major deficiencies in sulfur and vitamin D3 . We are encouraged to actively avoid sun exposure and to minimize dietary intake of cholesterol-containing foods. We are encouraged to consume a high-carbohydrate, low fat diet which, which can lead to impaired cholesterol uptake in cells. Fortunately, correcting these deficiencies at the individual level is easy and straightforward. If you just throw away the sunscreen and take Organic Sulfur crystals, those two steps alone may greatly increase your chances of living a long and healthy life.
