OWN the Basics for Metabolic Health

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If you are looking to improve your metabolic health, make sure you OWN the basics first. It is so easy to go down the social media rabbit hole and get completely overwhelmed with what we should be doing when maybe we should be concentrating on nailing the basics first. I've been down ALL of the nooks and crannies searching for reasons but I ultimately found my answer right here 🎯 in the 3 most important things we all know we need for good health. 

Oxygen 🌱
Water 💧
Nutrition 🥗

We all realize these are vital to life, but are you making sure you don't have problems in this foundation? 

A large portion of US adults have shown to be chronically dehydrated (I was). 

Many people are also not getting optimal levels of certain nutrients in their diet. 

There are piles 📚 of studies linking all three of these elements to issues with metabolic health. 

Conversations about hormones such as cortisol are a big topic on social media right now. If you are concerned about cortisol you may want to look here first - issues with any of these can raise cortisol. 

Sometimes the right answer is the simple one! 💪 

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📖 Inspired by the principle of Occam's Razor and the wisdom of Albert Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."

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