• YOUR HEALTH IS YOUR WEALTH

    HELLO EVERYONE! AND HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025!

    Are you a person having trouble surviving all the Xmas food you will be eating?

    There is an infinite choice of foods that make your mouth water during holidays like Christmas.

    But not all ingredients work together in your best interest…

    Christmas and Easter time is the time people end up mostly in the ER. How come?

    Because they have eaten too much of combinations that doesn’t work together…

    With that said, it means that you should not combine animal proteins with carbohydrates in the same meal. Something we teach all the year around at Bülow Clinic.

    So if you have ham or turkey on the table together with herring, salmon, sausages, mashed potatoes, Swedish meat balls with lingonberries, brown sauce with mashed potatoes, creamed cabbage, Janson’s temptation, rice à la Malta, rice porridge with an almond, ginger cookies, saffron buns, brown bread, you’re in trouble if you eat it all!

    Make good choices in what you eat, not only during the weeks but also for the holydays and weekends! If you go with the proteins, don’t take the mashed potatoes, the bread and the cookies. Sounds dull? I think ending up in the ER is far worse…

    1. Don’t forget to walk or exercise. It will help with digestion and you won’t feel as a “couch potato” if you have been over eating.
    2. Get enough sleep. When we sleep we rejuvenate our bodies and lose weight.
    3. Drink enough water every day.
    4. Have organic wines instead of Soda pops. Give the children ginger and lemon water instead of Coke etc.
    5. If you now have gained weight after Christmas and New Year celebrations…maybe, it’s time to “do a yearly service” on your body?

    Don’t forget that we digest over 70 metric tons of food in a lifetime. If you had a kitchen appliance that processed that amount of food, my guess is that you would have it serviced on a weekly basis.

    We are now talking about your body, that is planned to last for up to 100 years, and not a machine in the kitchen.

    Can it do that without service? Would it last for such a long time without cleaning the system from time to time? Well, that is for you to think about.

    In the meantime I wish you all a healthy fabulous 2025!

    To your health,

    Eva

  • YOUR HEALTH IS YOUR WEALTH

    WHY IS SLEEP IMPORTANT?

    Sleeping properly is one of the best things you can do for your health. How come? First of all, our brain consists of more than 1 liter/quart of blood. During our sleep, and only between 23-24 pm, the blood leaves the back of the brain to be purified in the liver. If we are physically or mentally active during this time, our body miss out on this. The liver doesn’t get enough blood to function properly and the blood sits in the back of the head and will not be cleansed, as it should. 

    Growth hormones peak at 23.00 h = 11 pm. IF you are asleep.

    During this time our oxygen levels drop by 8 % and our “deep sleep” is 3 times deeper than the deep sleep after midnight. The only time our growth hormones are released is during this time.

    In order for this to happen we need to go to bed around 10 pm. When we miss out on this deep sleep over time, our body gets overtired.

    When we are tired our brain can’t receive enough water, oxygen or amino acids and our immunity diminishes and our body is less likely to defend itself from bacteria, viruses and other microbes.

    And the less sleep you get, the fatter you become! Because it also impairs the body’s ability to use insulin properly…

    Have you ever heard about melatonin and serotonin? Melatonin is our “sleep hormone” and serotonin is our “wake-up” hormone.

    According to the Nurses Study 2006, the less melatonin we make during the night, the more likely it is that our cells (that actually should die and be replaced) will live beyond their natural life span and thus can become cancerous…

    Melatonin also triggers a nocturnal reduction of our body’s estrogen levels. If we have any night-light on, our melatonin levels drop and our estrogen levels won’t diminish, which is bad for estrogen dominant cancers like breast cancers amongst others.

    To cut it short; any sliver of light disrupts the production of melatonin. 

    So throw out your mobile phone and your clock from your bedroom! And have some heavy curtains that blocks the light completely. 

    By constantly being exposed to light during nighttime, the light turns off the production of melatonin, thus promoting tumor growth. Even if you don’t fall asleep immediately you’ll get 90 % of the benefit of sleep just lying there with your eyes closed.

    If you have a sleep problem, it’s: 

    1) either your body clock that is out of sync with the circadian rhythm, or 

    2) you have too much toxins in your body, or 

    3) you have been eating too late before bedtime, or 

    4) you have been eating very heavy food wrongly combined. So, don’t eat 4 hours before going to bed. 

    It’s important to wake up at approximately the same time in the morning. Why?

    Because if you wake up too late, which is after 6-7am, your waste in your body backs up in your system. This goes for your fecal matter that backs up in your colon, your urine backs up into your kidneys and the sweat into your skin. 

    That is why it’s vital to take a shower in the morning. Otherwise the debris from your sweat will re-enter your skin and enter into your lymph system and your blood stream.

    When you sleep late at night, or wake up too late in the morning, your liver is unable to remove toxins from your blood.

    The serotonin, your “wake-up” hormone, is produced when the daylight comes and has its peak at noontime, or if you workout or eat sugar! That’s why you shouldn’t workout or eat sugar in the evening. ☺

    Interestingly enough the serotonin is manufactured in the digestive system by 95%, and only 5 % in the brain. Maybe now we can understand the importance of eating well…?

    As daylight diminishes, your serotonin is automatically broken down into melatonin.

    To your health,

    Eva