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Understanding Physiological Principles – For A Better Monday Style

Understanding Physiological Principles

My Understanding of The Big Picture

As of May 2018, it has now been exactly 25 months that I have started this journey as an attempt to change my lifestyle for a healthier one. To make this wonderful journey possible, I used several different practices that I named starting points. I also like to refer to them as seeds for change, in order to express the idea of a small habit being able to grow over time into something that can make a huge difference in our lives. Call them starting points or seeds for change, I believe that all these practices I’ve been embracing, have ended up being extremely beneficial for me in order to grow into a healthier person. There is one in particular, I believe it to be a bit different and possibly the most important one. This one consists of understanding some of the most important the physiological principles of the human body.

Learning more about the physiological mechanisms of my body not only has been helping me to to be more knowledgeable on the subject, but more importantly, it has been a tremendous motivating factor to embrace and sustain my starting point practices. This knowledge has been helping me in understanding the role these practices play in the big picture of my body healing itself and becoming a healthier and better performing entity. In this post I am going to try to explain in my own words my understanding of how I believe the lymphatic system works.

The Cell

The human body is made of an extremely large number of cells. These cells have a number of needs in order to stay healthy and accomplish the work they need to to. They need to be nourished, and since they all fulfill a function and perform tasks, they produce waste. They are in a way a minuscule version of ourselves. Cells have membranes, and its through these membranes that the exchange with the outside environment is made possible. In order for the cell to be able to evacuate the produced waste, the outer environment of the cell needs to be more alkaline in pH than its inner environment. In other words, if the outer environment is more acidic, then it becomes very difficult for the cell to evacuate its waste material. Consequently, not being able to evacuate waste material could result in having all kinds of problems at the cell level first. From there, an entire group of cells, then a whole organ could be negatively impacted and this situation can turn into what is commonly called a disease in the modern western medical lexicon.Continue reading

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Journal Entry: April 8th 2018 – The End of a Cycle – More Findings on Kidney Filtration

Slightly Changing my Diet

For the past two weeks I’ve been having a hybrid diet. I’ve been juicing six days a week at home, and the rest of the time I’ve been eating at Spring which is an all you can eat vegetarian buffet. This week I have started to reduce the number of times I go to Spring in comparison to the previous weeks and replaced some of my meals at Spring by some mono meals prepared at home. Mono meals of avocado, banana, or grapes tend to work great for me. The days when I’ve been having a juice and a mono meal for the entire day were amazing in terms of the ease in digestion. It almost feels like there’s no digestion.

After a month of including some cooked vegetarian meals to my diet I have the sensation that I am reaching the end of a cycle. Although delicious, I am becoming less exited to eat abundantly at Spring, and most importantly I have lost the great hunger I used to have during the previous weeks. I think it’s time to reduce even more the days I eat at Spring and increase the days I have raw plant based meals at home. The reason why I don’t want to completely stop going to Spring is because during the past month or so I have gained some muscular mass, I feel stronger physically, and my productivity and my desire to do things have been all very high.

The week did not start very well for me

On Mondays Spring is closed, and I was missing produce to make my own juice at home. I went to this place where they have good tasting cold pressed juices named Juice Up. I ended up having three bottles of their delicious green juices. Although their recipes are right on in terms of taste, I think that it’s a shame that they are not using organic produce. I am wondering if having a non organic cold pressed juice does my body more good or bad.Continue reading

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Salt Flush 101 – For A Better Monday Style

Salt Flush 101

My History in Terms of Including Regular Salt Flush Sessions into My Life

I started doing salt flushes in February 2018. I’ve done 5 salt flushes at this point. Although the practice is still fairly new to me, the results went beyond my expectations. It has been one of the most spectacular starting points to this date in terms of getting immediate results.

What is a Salt Flush? How to do one?

A salt flush is the action of swallowing water with salt on an empty stomach first thing in the morning in order to cleanse the digestive system. Continue reading

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Journal Entry: March 25th 2018 – Eight Consecutive Weeks of Feeling Amazing

Spring

The past two weeks have been unexpectedly hybrid for me in terms of nutrition. I have discovered a vegetarian “Tenedor Libre” (an all you can eat restaurant) named Spring. They offer a high quality vegetarian dishes for an affordable price. The service is great, the TV is muted, the lighting is soft, the napkins are made of cloth, and the owner is actually working and making sure that the open buffet is well garnished at all times.

Dining at Spring feels more like eating out at a real restaurant than going to a regular “Tenedor Libre”. One of the aspects I like the most about Spring, is the social component. I find it easier to talk to people in a setting were we go get our own food than being in a setting with full on waiting service, where each table happens to be in its own private bubble.Continue reading

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Journal Entry: March 11th 2018 – Riding the Good Wave

Keeping it Up

It has been an other amazing week of me feeling great.

  • Dry-fast on Sunday
  • On Monday, I went to this new place named Gratitude on “calle Dorrego” to break my fast. They have some plant based food options, along with delicious juices. Their pricing is on the affordable side, the portions are huge, and the produce they use to prepare the food seem to be of extreme good quality. Although I suspect most of the produce they use to be traditionally grown, the quality offered for the peso is pretty impressive.
  • On Tuesday, I ate at home, pursuing the oil and nut free, raw plant based diet.
  • On Wednesday, I had my third salt flush. OMG! On my two previous salt flush attempts, I only had to go to the bathroom twice at each session. This time around, I actually understood why this practice is called a salt flush. I ended up going to the bathroom seven or eight times. At the end I had the feeling that my entire digestive system was completely emptied out. After the digestive tsunami was over, I felt kind of tired and took a nap for a couple of hours. When I woke up I wasn’t feeling all that great. I made myself a delicious green juice, and went out for a walk to “El Rosedad de Palermo” at sunset. A few minutes after making it to “El Rosedad”, something amazing happened to me internally. I started to experience an unprecedented mind clarity. I ended up walking for about two hours, the weather was perfect and the park beautiful. The combination of the salt flush, the nap, the green juice, and the walk in a beautiful setting, had taken me to a place where I felt extremely serene, in peace, and inspired. I decided to not eat solid food for the rest of the day, so the mind clarity could sustain itself as long as it could.

Jamming

I made it back home around 9:00PM. I had not taken my phone with me. As I took a look to the screen saver of my smartphone, I saw that I had several messages from the same number. Obviously someone was trying to get a hold of me.Continue reading

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Three Week Challenges 101 – For a Better Monday Style –

Three Week Challenges 101

The Lab

This starting point could be seen as a sort of a laboratory to quit old habits and embrace new ones. The approach of challenging myself into quitting things, or doing things differently from my routine, allows me to experiment and learn more about myself and see how my body functions under different circumstances. The idea is to embrace or quit a habit for at least three weeks. The most important part for me is to approach the challenge period as a game and try to have fun in the process. In this post you’ll find the stories of two challenges which started as three week ones, but the enjoyment I got out of them was such that they ended up lasting a longer period of time. After the stories, I have listed the things I was able to quit temporarily, and the things I was able to quit for good.

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Journal Entry: March 4th 2018 – 15 Days of Eating Raw/Plant Based and Oil Free Food

No Oil Diet

This past week I kept eating raw/plant based oil and nut free until Friday. Which sums up of me eating as clean as I can for about 15 days in a row. I did my second salt flush on Wednesday. On Friday, I allowed myself to eat out at this organic restaurant named Bio. Everything I ate there was plant based, but I had some cooked wild rice and also some whole grain bread.

Increased Energy Levels

I’ve been feeling extremely good every single day of the week, and eating some cooked food on Friday boosted my energy levels even more. During the entire week I was able to exercise three times a day everyday. Continue reading

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Journal Entry: February 25th 2018 – Salt Flush – No More Cacao – No Perfect Diet

My First Salt Flush

I was able to have a complete raw, plant based, oil free diet this entire week. I prepared all my meals, smoothies, and juices at home. I tried to move my body as much as I could, and I had the opportunity to try a salt flush for the first time. If you are not familiar with salt flushes, it’s the practice of diluting two tea spoons of sea salt (I personally used some Himalayan salt) in a 35oz jar and drinking it in the morning as fast as possible on an empty stomach. This helps cleansing the entire digestive system.Continue reading

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Journal Entry: February 11th 2018: 20 Days of Raw/Plant Based Diet – Trip to Uruguay

20 Days of Raw/Plant Based Diet

I was able to complete a total of 20 days during which I only had a raw plant based diet. During the first week I experienced some lower energy levels, but the overall results I got from this experience were quite astonishing. I was full of energy during the second and third weeks of the three week period. The most spectacular and visible result was that my facial skin quality improved a great deal. I could feel it to be way softer than before. When looking in the mirror or at selfies, I could almost descry an orange colored glow radiating from my skin.

My First Time in Uruguay

On Friday, I had to make a trip to Montevideo in Uruguay. I decided to end the 20 day raw/plant based diet here. After my arrival I was able to find a vegetarian open buffet style restaurant named Espacio Samsara. I had some raw and cooked food. Continue reading

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Journal Entry: February 4th 2018 – The Perfect Week

All of a sudden I started to feel amazing

It now has been over 14 days that I am solely eating at home a raw plant based diet. I’ve been avoiding nuts as well. This week has been very different than the previous one, since my energy levels, and productivity were high. My morale also got boosted, partially due to the fact that I finally got started on a new work project as a freelancer. I can say that I’ve been quite active this week. Besides working, I had four workout sessions instead of three including a 30 minute jog each time. I went out for a long walk every day from my apartment in Colegiales to the Parque 3 de ferbero. This represents a daily shirtless walk of at least two hours under the sun.Continue reading