Health — Dina Valerie Wellness

Gut Health and Gut Instincts: The Science of the Second Brain

When your gut is healthy, the signals sent to your brain are balanced, reliable, and stabilizing. This can amplify your ability to sense subtle cues, weigh decisions intuitively, and act with confidence. Conversely, when the gut is inflamed, imbalanced, or dysregulated, the communication becomes distorted, leading to anxiety, low mood, brain fog, and impaired intuition

Health, Wellbeing, Staying Healthy, awareness, health and healing, Self-CareDina KhalilAugust 17, 2025gut health, intuition, gut brain axis

The difference between Lifespan vs. Healthspan

Prevent age-related diseases before they take root (heart disease, cancer, diabetes, neurodegeneration

Self-Care, Health, Wellbeing, Staying HealthyDina KhalilAugust 15, 2025health, healthy lifestyle, wellness, lifespan, healthspan, healthy aging

Healing green juice elixir

Fresh-pressed dandelion, celery, parsley, lemon, green apple, ginger juice + blended avocado combo is basically a functional medicine elixir — every ingredient is doing something specific for the liver, kidneys, gut, adrenals, and blood.

health and healing, Health, Natural Healing, Adrenal Health, Staying Healthy, Natures Medicine, Recipes, Juice recipeDina KhalilAugust 10, 2025green juice, healing fresh juice, fresh pressed juice, celery juice, blended avocado, gut healing, adrenal elixir, healthy juice recipe, green juice recipe, healing adrenal fatigue

Giving up artificial and natural sugars to get rid of all sugar cravings

Sugar substitutes — even the “natural” ones — can be problematic for adrenal fatigue because they still trigger the body’s stress and insulin response, disrupt gut health, and keep you on the blood sugar roller coaster that exhausts the adrenals

Natural Healing, Health, Wellbeing, Adrenal Health, pre diabetes Dina KhalilAugust 9, 2025giving up sugar, keto, healing adrenal fatigue, prediabetic, high blood sugar, reduce sugar cravings

Calming The Nervous System With Self Regulation

Self-regulation isn’t about never feeling strong emotions or stress. It’s about shortening the time it takes to return to balance and increasing your sense of safety in the present moment.

Self-Care, Health, Natural Healing, Adrenal Health, Wellbeing, Relaxation, HealingDina KhalilAugust 9, 2025calming the nervous system, stillness, healing, healing adrenal fatigue, awareness, self regulation, lowering cortisol

Why Cortisol Gets Raised and how to lower it to a healthy level

The goal isn’t to “eliminate” cortisol—you need it to survive. The key is to restore a healthy rhythm: high in the morning, low at night.

health and healing, Natural Healing, Adrenal Health, Relaxation, Healing, Self-Care, Health, Wellbeing, Staying HealthyDina KhalilJuly 29, 2025cortisol, stress, healing adrenal fatigue, lowering cortisol naturally, adrenal healing, hpa axis, hpa axis dysfunction, holistic healing, lowering cortisol

Camu Camu and it’s amazing health properties

Camu Camu Protects Lungs & Adrenals, Antioxidants + Vitamin C synergy, Improves Iron Absorption,Vitamin C increases non-heme iron uptake, Supports Mood & Brain Health, Reduces neuroinflammation, Anti-viral & Anti-aging, Polyphenols protect cells & DNA

Natural Healing, Health, health and healing, Adrenal Health, Staying Healthy, Natures MedicineDina KhalilJuly 21, 2025healing adrenal fatigue, healing inflammation, natural healing, supplements, boost immune system, vitamin c

The relation to lungs and stored grief

In TCM, each organ system correlates with an emotion. For the lungs, that emotion is:

Grief & Sadness

The lungs are seen as the “tender organ” that governs breath, letting go, and our connection to life.

Natural Healing, Health, Staying Healthy, Natures Medicine, HealingDina KhalilJuly 21, 2025lung health, lungs, grief, saddness, healing grief, healing lungs

What it’s like living in fight or flight

Living in fight or flight or a state of hypervigilance is like having your body’s alarm system stuck in the “on” position. It’s not just an emotional experience—it’s a whole-body physiological state that affects your nervous system, hormones, immune function, digestion, and even your thoughts and relationships.

HPA Axis Dysregulation aka adrenal fatigue

The HPA axis (Hypothalamus–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis) is your body’s core stress response system. It connects the brain (hypothalamus and pituitary) with the adrenal glands, which produce key stress hormones like cortisol, DHEA, epinephrine, and aldosterone.

Natural Healing, Health, Wellbeing, Adrenal Health, Staying HealthyDina KhalilJuly 15, 2025healing adrenal fatigue, natural healing, stress, hpa axis, holistic healing

Organic Produce-The dirty dozen and clean 15

The importance of eating organic produce to avoid harmful pesticide effects cannot be overstated. Pesticides used in conventional farming can pose health risks, particularly when exposure occurs over time. Studies have linked pesticides to various health concerns, including hormonal disruption, neurological damage, and even certain cancers.

Staying Healthy, HealthDina KhalilJanuary 12, 2025Dirty Dozen, Clean 15, Pesticides, organic produce

Prevent age-related diseases before they take root (heart disease, cancer, diabetes, neurodegeneration

Fresh-pressed dandelion, celery, parsley, lemon, green apple, ginger juice + blended avocado combo is basically a functional medicine elixir — every ingredient is doing something specific for the liver, kidneys, gut, adrenals, and blood.

Sugar substitutes — even the “natural” ones — can be problematic for adrenal fatigue because they still trigger the body’s stress and insulin response, disrupt gut health, and keep you on the blood sugar roller coaster that exhausts the adrenals

Self-regulation isn’t about never feeling strong emotions or stress. It’s about shortening the time it takes to return to balance and increasing your sense of safety in the present moment.

The goal isn’t to “eliminate” cortisol—you need it to survive. The key is to restore a healthy rhythm: high in the morning, low at night.

In TCM, each organ system correlates with an emotion. For the lungs, that emotion is:

Grief & Sadness

The lungs are seen as the “tender organ” that governs breath, letting go, and our connection to life.

The HPA axis (Hypothalamus–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis) is your body’s core stress response system. It connects the brain (hypothalamus and pituitary) with the adrenal glands, which produce key stress hormones like cortisol, DHEA, epinephrine, and aldosterone.

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