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Kickstarting Health in the Gottfried Home: Our Morning Rituals

By Dr. Sara and David Gottfried | December 11, 2017

Do you race out of bed to get your morning caffeine, or do you meditate quietly for thirty minutes? Do you take the time to eat a nutritious breakfast, or consciously skip it as you rush out the door? What measurements or supplementation, if any, do you perform or take each morning? In the Gottfried…

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Levels of anxiety are understandably high right no Levels of anxiety are understandably high right now. But we can use food as medicine to help lessen the physical effects of anxiety on our body. ⏺ The following list is one part of the Anxiety protocol in my book BRAIN BODY DIET 🔽 Step 1 is EAT FOR CALM: 👉 I recommend: 1️⃣Magnesium-rich foods like almonds, cashews, spinach, pumpkin seeds, and avocados (see the Magnesium post in Stories for more details) 2️⃣B vitamin-rich foods - deficiencies in B9 (folate) and B12 may be linked to anxiety. Great sources of B vitamins include oysters, mussels, mackerel, and organ meats (liver and kidney). Excellent sources of folate are asparagus, spinach, and liver.  3️⃣Healthy fats - like avocado, nuts, seeds, oily fish (salmon, herring, sardines), olives, and coconut. Healthy omega-3s and omega-6s play a vital role in reducing neuroinflammation and anxiety. 4️⃣Probotic foods like sauerkraut and kimchi. 5️⃣Bone broth - helps to seal leaky gut (anxiety has a strong gut/brain connection) and simply feels soothing 🔽 AVOID ⭕Caffeine, sugar/refined carbs, processed/packaged foods, GMO/glyphosate, alcohol, lectins, 🎬 Don’t forget you can watch my anxiety documentary for free #linkinbio. It investigates anxiety’s connection to diet and lifestyle, the gut-brain axis, and how personalized dietary and targeted nutritional approaches, including key dietary supplements, can play a critical role in symptom relief and resolution, as well as the importance of approaching health conditions from a whole-body perspective. ❓How are you managing your anxiety in this time? 🔽 And don't forget to save or share this post with someone who needs it. #brainbodydiet #anxiety #calm #shelterinplace
We still lag in testing despite assurances from ou We still lag in testing despite assurances from our leaders, so we must continue to do our part, including awareness of risk, physical distancing, and taking care of ourselves. Testing is the first line of defense + we are falling increasingly behind on this key metric. “We started late using a faulty test, and never quite recovered,” reported Fareed Zakaria today. Compared to South Korea and Italy, as of Saturday, we’ve tested 1/3 as many people per capita for coronavirus. Our healthcare workers are in peril because we haven’t flattened the curve sufficiently here in the US. You know that New York medical teams lack protective equipment and as Governor Cuomo has explained, rationing may be coming soon as the rolling apex is still 14-21 days out. It’s becoming increasingly more difficult to provide care safely. It’s going to get worse. South Korea and Singapore have flattened their curves through widespread testing, and careful contact tracing including the use of a new app to alert contacts in Singapore. I’d recommend watching Fareed Zakaria’s interview today with Lee Hsieh Loong, Singapore’s Prime Minister. Importantly, the PM said we all need to CONTINUE to flatten the curve for probably the next year. We need to move next to suppression of outbreaks. In this phase, we need more widespread testing and alert clinical systems to identify cases and clusters promptly, intervene rapidly and extensively, and suppress spread before widespread harms occur. We must stay vigilant towards the evolving list of people most at risk, and band together while physically distanced. In this Repost from @who — I’d add smoking, vaping, immunocompromise, age 65+. ・・・ You may catch #COVID19 and be at risk of becoming severely ill, if you've a noncommunicable disease/a pre-existing condition such as: ❗️Cardiovascular disease ❗️Chronic respiratory disease ❗️Diabetes ❗️Cancer Here are tips for people affected by these conditions to stay safe: ✔️Take your medicine & follow medical advice ✔️Secure 1 month+ supply of medication ✔️Keep distance from sick people ✔️Wash 👐 often ✔️🚭 or quit drinking 🍾 ✔️ Protect mental health #coronavirus #covid_19 #covıd19 #covid #shelterinplace
THIS! #Repost @mike.natter ・・・ Last week, on THIS! #Repost @mike.natter ・・・ Last week, on a 28hr call, I went to steal away for a nap in the early morning hours. Less than an hour later my diligent intern knocked on the call room door “mike I’m concerned about bed 2, his BP is getting soft.” Bed 2 happened to be a patient we were concerned may have COVID but with his test pending. I was still deep in a REM cycle when I got to the patient room. I looked at the vitals from the door. “Yup, those are soft all right.” As I sorted through the gowns and gloves and dug through the cart in search of an N95, the nurse asked me “what do you want to do?” I mumbled something about pressors and realized I needed more data to sort out what was going on. My brain still foggy with the remnants of dismantled sleep, and as I was about to enter the room, I felt someone next to me. “Hey Mike I’ll come help you grab an ABG.” It was Jack, my co resident who was on his own 28hr shift in a different unit. “I’ll put money on it this guy has COVID,” he said as he threw on his flimsy yellow gown and dove into the room. No hesitation. Together we got our labs, assessed the patient and treated him as we would any other. BPs improved as did mental status the next day. ✖️ Jack and all of my coworkers are heroes. When I tell them this, they recoil. “Hero” doesn’t sit well with them. None of us asked for this. Many of us are fearful. And yet, they show up. Every single day. The nurses, ER staff, techs, transporters, housekeeping staff, PTs/OTs, RTs, NPs, PAs,EMS/EMTs, security guards, dietitians. EVERYONE. It is in these uncertain times when fear can set in. But there is a difference between fear and panic. Fear mobilizes us and allows us to hear the call to arms. Panic paralyzes us and seeps into the air paralyzing others. I have fear. We all have fear. But we will not panic because we are all in this together and together we can and we will beat this. via @comitecenter
Remember going to the flower market? Life has chan Remember going to the flower market? Life has changed but we can still order seeds and garden! And we can let go of how we wish things were and make friends with how they are. #Repost from my beautiful daughter, shown here at 6 months and now sheltering with us at age 20! @gemmalilliann ・・・ prettier than the flowers❣️hbd mama #weekendvibes #shelterinplace #stayhome #covid_19 #covıd19 #corona #coronavirus
MOOD. I don’t have all the answers. I don’t ha MOOD. I don’t have all the answers. I don’t have a recipe for perfect immune health, because it doesn’t exist. I don’t have a cure for SARS-CoV-2. Cases in the US surpassed 100,000 today. Some like Governor Cuomo say the apex won’t be for another 21 days in New York. Bill Gates told us that we need to shut down the United States for 6-10 weeks. There are new hot spots in New Orleans, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Chicago. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is the first world leader to test positive. There are still no proven treatments though there is some hope on the horizon for an antibody (immune) therapy called plasmaphoresis at Mount Sinai Hospital, but it’s hard to scale. Still, immune therapy may help because we have no natural immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which may explain why it spreads so rapidly. Once you produce antibodies, humans become protected though we don’t yet know all the details. A new preprint (Luo et al., not yet peer reviewed) suggests that in a study of 5,000 close contacts of persons infected with COVID-19 in Guangzhou, China, only 2.6% of quarantined contacts developed symptoms and 90% were mild to moderate cases. (Note these are from today’s situation report from Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, a great source daily for the most rigorously science-based data.) There’s still a lot of uncertainty. To me, the grand challenge is to create peace and serenity regardless of external circumstance. We are being called to adapt, which is the primary job of our immune system. Behave like my puppy, who believes sheltering in place is the greatest gift! How are you coping? Please let me know below and together let’s continue to find the gifts even in an uncertain time. #corona #coronavirus #covid_19 #covid19 #covid #sarscov2 #repost @thechalkboardmag 📷 @werenotreallystrangers
Did you watch the latest part of my interview with Did you watch the latest part of my interview with @dr_mosconi? If not, head to my IGTV to watch it now. I reference SMASH fish in our discussion of omegas, both 3 and 6. 🧠 When making recommendations to my patients about good food sources of Omegas, I tell them to eat more of the SMASH fish as they offer a healthy source of these vital fats yet are low in mercury. 🧠 For in-depth details on the benefits of Omega-3s and 6s, the best ratio and more, head up to my Stories where I share some of the posts I wrote on this topic. And if course, don't forget to watch the video. 🔽🔽 Which one of these fish are your favorites? I love them all, including anchovies. I have a recipe for a delicious Chef’s Anchovy Salad in my book BRAIN BODY DIET). Are you an anchovy lover or hater? If you love 'em, tell me how you like to eat them. 🔽🔽
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