Angelina's Sustenance in Abstinence Nutrition

Are you skipping the wine tonight? You start the morning off feeling foggy and run down so you pop a few aspirin and get on with your day. Last night's empty wine bottle and the headache are behind you and you don’t give it another thought. ... By the time your workday is done you’ve completely forgotten about how awful you felt earlier and the promise you made. So you pour yourself a glass of wine to unwind...and before you know it the evening has slipped away and you’re right back where you were the next morning. Your brain isn’t ‘forgetting’ the promise you made...it simply can’t HEAR it. Because it’s listening to a much LOUDER biochemical conversation going on. A conversation between imbalanced neurons and neurochemicals that are telling the brain that it better act quickly to bring about a feeling of relaxation otherwise things are really going to get out of control fast (anxiety, frustration, irritability, argumentativeness...you know the feelings). And because your primal brain likes routine and taking the path of least resistance you feel trapped in the nightly cycle. But it doesn’t have to stay that way In just a few weeks of eating right for her brain, 'Jane' went from watching the clock round to 4 o'clock and starting her wine ritual to: I don’t have any cravings for alcohol. I’m feeling a million times better. It’s been a big shift. ‘Jane’ D. That is why I put together this free training where I share with you how to quiet that ‘loudspeaker’ so you too can get out of the nightly wine routine. On the training you’re going to learn: >> How the ‘pseudo’ foods you’re consuming have neurotoxic effects that work to trigger the imbalances and impulse messaging in the brain. >> What foods and chemicals you’ve been exposed to that mimic alcohol’s effects in the brain and work to keep you in the trap (even when you’ve taken a break) and how you can identify them. >> How a dysregulated gut microbiome and the enteric nervous systemyour gut-brain is contributing to the messaging in your head-brain and working to keep you trapped. The training is Wednesday, September 30th @ 4:00 pm Mountain Time. Link in Bio to register

The rate of alcohol use disorder in women increased 84% over the past decade in comparison with a 35% increase in men. These statistics are SCARY, but very common. Compared with men, women generally have less body water and a higher proportion of fat, which does not absorb alcohol, resulting in higher blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels, even when the amount of alcohol consumed is adjusted for body weight. In addition, women tend to have lower levels of gastric... alcohol dehydrogenase, the enzyme that breaks down ethanol into its metabolites. Thus, BAC levels rise faster and stay elevated longer in women than men. It has been speculated that these sex-related differences underlie why women can develop health-related consequences, including cirrhosis of the liver, earlier in their disease and after lower total lifetime alcohol consumption than men. If you know that your evening wine is getting out of hand and you want to get it under control, join me and other motivated career women in the Anchored Abstinence for the Modern Career Woman facebook community. Click the link in the bio to register for my upcoming webinar that teaches you what 3 things you can do to fastback kicking the habit. See more

Studies have shown that women with higher levels of estrogen which occurs during the follicular phase (the first 14 days following the start of their period) of their menstrual cycle become more sensitive to the addictive effects of alcohol due to its impact on the brain’s reward centre. Alcohol becomes MUCH more ‘rewarding’ (increase in the activity of dopamine and alcohol sensitive brain cells) when estrogen levels are high (2017). Lignans which are a type of phytoestro...gen found in foods like cucumbers have been shown to exhibit anti-estrogenic activities. The phytoestrogens are estrogen-like compounds that work to bind to estrogen receptors and help regulate estrogen levels in the body. The lignans also act as antioxidants to lower inflammatory markers. If you’re curious about the role the right nutrition can play in improving your brain health in abstinence then you won’t want to miss my upcoming free webclass. Click the link in my bio to register. Spots are limited. See more