Our founder, Georgina Hickman, understands this well because she's been there. This study found that a high quality diet can improve phycological wellbeing, vitality and motivation in as little as 2 weeks. Simple dietary changes can have an enormous impact on mental wellbeing, and they can happen pretty quickly too. The EDGE programme is designed to help show employees how to do this by making simple yet significant food and lifestyle changes. When we do this well we can reduce stress related cravings, improve resilience and bounce back quicker. If we are well nourished, it's how we respond to stress, our perception of stress and how well we recover. A 2021 study found that a higher vegetable intake is associated with lower perceived stress: Fruits and vegetables are essential for health and wellbeing. Stress resilience begins with good nutrition and it doesn't have to be hard. Our food choices can help us to function and to heal or they can hurt us and drive inflammation." To work properly we must feed the brain and the body with the nutrients it needs to function. How we feel and our mood is regulated by our brain and affected by nutrients, the microbiome, our digestion and our inflammatory load. I became fascinated by the effects of lifestyle on the mind body and soul, and retrained to become a registered nutritional therapist. A relocation enabled me to reset my life and it all began with food. I dismissed my physical symptoms, normalising how I felt, and living in a constant high alert state. “This was me in my 20's, in a perpetual cycle of stress. Get stressed, eat badly, sleep badly, crave sugar and caffeine, eat more sugar and drink more caffeine.īut foods can increase out heart rate, cause jitters, disrupt blood sugar, steal our energy and disrupt our sleep, further contributing to stress and anxiety.Ĭo-founder of the Edge Programme Sarah Bayliss knows this all too well because she has been there: The problem is that it dissipates just as quickly leaving us feeling depleted and craving more. Most of us can relate to stress driving poor food choices as we attempt to lift our mood and energy with fast and hard fuel. However, there is clear evidence that diet affects our mood (including influencing depression and anxiety), as well as our response to stress. We often disconnect our food choices from our brain health and from our ability to better handle stress. What you eat can directly impact your stress levels! #health #energy #environment #food #sleep #happiness #creativity #resilience #metabolism #bloodsugarbalance #nutrition #bristol #bristolbusiness If you have any questions please do just drop me a message. Join me to learn all about metabolic health - see link below to learn more. How we live, the choices we make impact our mind, happiness and decision making, but also how we present ourselves and our interactions in this world. The day is designed to remind you that you are the most important person in your world, and how you can take better care of yourself to do and be the person you want to be. This is why I am running a second interactive workshop in Bristol - Eating for Resilience on the 21st of May. We now know that insulin resistance is linked to most if not all modern-day diseases and often the fundamental cause.īalancing blood sugar is not just about protecting yourself from disease, it's about feeling great, energised, and focused daily to live the life you want to live. This means being fully concious of our decisions around food and proactively making impactful changes. Now more than ever we must pay attention to our choices to proactively balance blood sugar and avoid insulin resistance. It's no surprise that our decisions around food, exercise, rest, fun and social connection can be forgotten - often pushed to the bottom of the list. From the moment we open our eyes to the second we finally fall asleep our brains are flooded with information, and we are constantly assessing our environment for potential threats that may trigger a stress response. The decisions we make daily defines our health. Yet today most of us are out of balance driven by our lifestyle choices, the food we choose, the sleep we skip, the endless to-do list and the exercise we miss. Balancing your blood sugar and avoiding insulin resistance is possibly the single most important step we can take towards improving energy, focus, creativity, and healthy aging.
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