Empowerment Series: Beauty from Within, A Functional Medicine Approach tomorrow night.

I spent the weekend with my two very beautiful daughters and granddaughter and family and friends in upper Michigan. As we sat around the fire pit watching the sun go down over my daughters lake we shared how none of us felt beautiful growing up. To others this may sound very strange as my daughters are drop dead gorgeous. My hope is that my granddaughter will always know and celebrate her beauty from her infant bald head to every beautiful roll in her body.

This year I will be sixty years old and feel and look better than I did in younger years. People often ask me what's my secret? I so hope you will join us tomorrow evening while I share the functional medicine wisdom that has allowed me to regain an optimal level of health, wellbeing and beauty from the inside out. We will discuss how to slow or even reverse what we attribute to aging.  This is good for both men and women!  This will be a small intimate discussion at Rise Well-Being Center in Reston, Virginia. You might be surprised with what you will discover!

If you have not been to Rise Well-Being Center it is well worth the visit. I teach yoga here 7:30am Wednesday mornings and Carpe Diem Dance at 10:00am. There are many great teachers and offerings from different movement classes, QiGong, Tai Chi and meditation to spiritual development and wonderful body work and holistic therapies all in a very beautiful consciously green setting.

Check out all the Empowerment Series Here and please consider coming tomorrow evening, Thursday, May 30th from 7-8pm .

Please sign up Here.

Carpe Diem,

Lisa

PS
Save the date for June 9th for Love Your Body Day at Reston Town Center. I will be giving a short talk on Intermittent Fasting and will be sharing a booth with Tasty6 where you can sample part of our IF Kick-Start happening in June! Rise Well-Being Center will also have a booth there and there is free yoga all day in the pavilion.  This is one of my favorite events!

About Lisa Jackson, RN, CHC, RYT-500, FDN-P, AFMC

Lisa is an author, functional nutrition and functional medicine trained health coach, yoga teacher, and retired Registered Nurse with the mission to "Inspire, Educate and Empower" individuals and corporations to achieve optimal health.

Lisa's book, Savvy Secrets: Eat, Think & Thrive is a self-health book offering her Seven Steps to Optimal Health.

When she is not coaching, or speaking, you can find Lisa joyfully sharing Carpe Diem Dance or playing with her two grandchildren. She is the mother of four adult children and believes, "Optimal health should not be a secret."

Who Knew? What you eat (and do) 4-6 months before conceiving a baby can affect your pregnancy, your baby, and your grandchildren? As a Grandmother and Mother of 4 adult children, I am deeply passionate about helping you conceive and deliver the healthiest baby possible. 

In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed a dramatic and frightening increase in autism, autoimmune disease and cancers…developing in younger people than in my generation. What has changed? Our genes have not changed, it takes thousands of years to change a gene. Our diets and lifestyles have changed, which affects the genetic expression. This is called epigenetics.

Here are two brown mice with identical genes. Both mice were kept in the same environment and fed the same food. The Mother of the healthier brown mouse was given supplementation prior to pregnancy, during, and while nursing.

Nutrients will give you a genetic advantage!

If you are healthy, it takes 3-4 months to prepare a couple for optimal conception.  It takes optimal nutrition to provide the optimal blueprint for your egg and sperm. 

Also, when the egg and sperm come together, you have the second opportunity to rewrite genetic expression. Epigenetics is so important for all stages of rapid growth, from preconception to fetal development and puberty. Eggs and sperm take 4 months to mature prior to conception. This time is vital!

It takes optimal nutrition, stress reduction and exercise to provide the optimal blueprint for your egg and sperm. For healthy couples, it takes 3-4 months to prepare you for optimal conception. 

If you need to heal or detoxify the body, you must start earlier. For many, this can be 6 months to 2 years prior to conception.  In 2005, a study spearheaded by the Environmental Working Group found over 200 known toxins in the umbilical cord blood of newborn babies. Clean up the body and diet prior to getting pregnant. Functional testing and health coaching is a perfect gift for newly engaged couples.

Nutrition is not just what you eat, it’s what is absorbed and then assimilated into the cells.

Many things can interfere with this. Together we will look at your micronutrient status, food sensitivities, gastrointestinal health, hormone balance, stress levels (both hidden toxic burden and external stressors), exercise, and emotional considerations. Of course, nutrition is the foundation and once we get the results from testing, we can co-create an optimal diet and lifestyle plan for your unique bodies.  

Contact me if you are ready to commit to a transformational 3-6-month program for you and your future family.  

If you are considering pregnancy, are pregnant or just had a baby, Beloved Yoga Studio is having a Prenatal & Postnatal Wellness Forum  at their Reston, Va studio next Saturday from 12-5pm. 

Carpe Diem,

Lisa

About Lisa Jackson, RN, CHC, RYT-500, AFMC

Lisa is an author, functional nutrition and functional medicine trained health coach, yoga teacher, and retired Registered Nurse with the mission to "Inspire, Educate and Empower" individuals and corporations to achieve optimal health.

Lisa's book, Savvy Secrets: Eat, Think & Thrive is a self-health book offering her Seven Steps to Optimal Health.

When she is not coaching, or speaking, you can find Lisa joyfully sharing Carpe Diem Dance or playing with her two grandchildren. She is the mother of four adult children and believes, "Optimal health should not be a secret."