Staying Healthy — Dina Valerie Wellness

The Health Benefits of Spirulina and Coconut Water

Hawaiian spirulina is a blue-green microalgae grown in the pristine, mineral-rich waters off the Kona coast of Hawaii. It’s often regarded as one of the purest and most nutrient-dense forms of spirulina available.

Natures Medicine, Healing, Juice recipe, Staying HealthyDina KhalilAugust 19, 2025spirulina, coconut water, hydration, healthy, healthy drink

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

A science based breakdown of the effects of alcohol consumption on the body

Alcohol enhances GABA (the brain’s inhibitory chemical), creating relaxation, but it also suppresses glutamate, which normally stimulates brain activity. Over time, this can blunt cognitive sharpness.

Wellbeing, Staying Healthy, Self-CareDina KhalilAugust 17, 2025alcohol, beer, wine effects, alcohol effects, side effects of alcohol

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

Calming Your Nervous System After Too Much Caffeine

When you’ve had too much caffeine and your nervous system feels frazzled—racing heart, anxiety, shaky hands, restlessness—the key is to re-regulate your parasympathetic nervous system, restore electrolyte and mineral balance, and support gentle detoxification. Here’s your calm-down toolkit

Wellbeing, Staying Healthy, Natures Medicine, health and healing natura, RelaxationDina KhalilJuly 31, 2025anxiety, calming anxiety, caffeine, calming nervous system, too much caffeine

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

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

Immune Boosting citrus elixir

With the flu making its rounds and it seems to have hit or been hitting several people I know, I have been making sure to “up my game”. Along with taking higher doses of Vitamin D, getting sun on morning walks when it decides to come out.

Recipes, Staying HealthyDina KhalilFebruary 21, 2025healthy immune system, Wellness, health, Juice, healthy juice recipe, flu, Strong Immune Stystem

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

Hawaiian spirulina is a blue-green microalgae grown in the pristine, mineral-rich waters off the Kona coast of Hawaii. It’s often regarded as one of the purest and most nutrient-dense forms of spirulina available.

Alcohol enhances GABA (the brain’s inhibitory chemical), creating relaxation, but it also suppresses glutamate, which normally stimulates brain activity. Over time, this can blunt cognitive sharpness.

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.

When you’ve had too much caffeine and your nervous system feels frazzled—racing heart, anxiety, shaky hands, restlessness—the key is to re-regulate your parasympathetic nervous system, restore electrolyte and mineral balance, and support gentle detoxification. Here’s your calm-down toolkit

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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