9/23/24: Smudging, probiotic rules, Navy Seal advice

Happy Monday my friend,

Today Riana begins her Holistic Health Coach training through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN is the #1 school for health coaches). If you want to get certified alongside my wife, you can STILL join and be in her group. I made sure any Earth Conscious Life readers who join with Riana get 25% off the 6 or 12 month certification. Use code ECLxIIN and Go HERE to learn more or enroll.

🎸 BE THE CHANGE: UK musical trip-hop band, Massive Attack, is setting an example for slashing travel pollution while on tour—and how other musical acts can follow in their footsteps! These environmentalism focused musicians developed “Super-Low Carbon Live Music,” a road map that any band can adopt to help the music industry meet UK’s eco-goals while touring.

🥘 RECIPE OF THE WEEK: Suffering for Succotash—but with a Far East twist? Are you a fan of both U.S. Southern cuisine and Indian food? You might love this down-home comfort Succotash recipe infused with flavors of garam masala, including a small recipe for how to make your very own version of this Indian spice at home. If you’ve never had this tasty, healthy vegetable-forward dish featuring peas, corn, peppers and tomatoes… and you need more Indian spice in your life… don’t pass this one up!

🫒 SUPERFOOD SPOTLIGHT: For a superfood that’s both super and sustainable, read up on this ultra-healthy ingredient of huge scientific interest: created from olive oil, no less! Read about a byproduct called “OMW,” what that stands for, and how it may contain 10X as many healthy plant compounds and antioxidants compared to extra virgin olive oil.

💡MIND: How do you get into the mindset of leadership? Can anyone turn their brain into the brain of a leader? Here’s how– according to Executive Coach Katia Verresen, who claims anyone can cultivate a powerful “abundance mindset” to achieve better leadership capabilities. Verresen has coached higher-ups in major companies from Amazon all the way to AirBnB–teaching them to dream big, grasp out-of-reach goals, and all using tips founded in neuroscience!

🏋️ BODY: Here’s how to fall in love with your physical health journey– even when it seems impossible to get in shape, and every routine looks challenging. Fitness author, former Navy SEAL, and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist Stew Smith shares tips on tailoring exercise and training perfectly to you and your schedule– and by tapping into patterns that make you happy, inspired, motivated, and comfortable.

🌿 SPIRIT: In the Midwestern U.S., Minnesota just passed a bill allowing Indigenous students to use spiritual smudging practices while in school—such as with sage or cedar. This ritual has been historically used to help with stress, anxiety, or other overwhelming emotions by restoring spiritual calm and mindfulness– even improving students’ success in the long-term! This sets a powerful example for how spiritual practices, when welcomed into the right spaces, can impact well-being in surprising ways we may overlook– such as on the academic or professional track.

Three rules for picking a probiotic

1. AVOID PROBIOTICS THAT REQUIRE REFRIGERATION.

A probiotic that needs to be maintained in a refrigerator is a risk because you have no control over the conditions of transit, or how long the product has been on the shelf.

Plus, your body temperature is much higher than a refrigerated store shelf.

2. AVOID NON-FREEZE DRIED CULTURES.

Freeze drying is the process of removing all the water out of a substance.

The best probiotics are freeze dried which keeps them “dormant” until they make contact with water again. As soon as the probiotics get hydrated, they spring back to life.

3. AVOID STRAINS THAT CAN’T SURVIVE STOMACH ACIDS.

Most probiotics don't survive stomach acids and therefore are useless. Laboratory tests are often the best way to make sure that’s what will happen.

The BiOptimizers team agreed to offer all Earth Conscious Life readers a FREE bottle of their popular P3-OM probiotic.

Just a pay a small shipping cost.

P3-OM is a transient probiotic that eliminates bad bacteria fast, eats up excess sugar, and protects your gut from inflammation and viruses. 

You can get it here RIGHT NOW until they run out.

The right probiotic should do everything from:

• Help synthesize B and K vitamins

• Enhance digestion and nutrient absorption

• Stop the growth of “bad bacteria” and other pathogens

• Help metabolize other plant compounds/drugs

• Produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) and polyamines

• Produce immune system boosters

This full bottle sample does NOT require you to get an ongoing subscription that you have to cancel later…or any other trick like that.

They’re doing this because they believe once you use it and feel the difference, you will want to buy more.

So try it HERE while they’re offering this limited bottle.

To a healing future,

— Rob