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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

Why it’s better to have beverages at room temperature

Drinking fresh-pressed juice at room temperature (or slightly cool, not cold) allows maximum nutrient absorption, smoother digestion, and a gentler effect on your body’s energy systems

Juice recipe, Natural Healing, health and healing, WellbeingDina KhalilAugust 15, 2025healthy juice recipe, fresh pressed juice, healing juice, juice recipe

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

Neuro-relaxation and healing adrenal fatigue

Neuro-relaxation is essentially the process of shifting your nervous system out of a state of high alert (sympathetic dominance—fight, flight, or freeze) into a calmer, more balanced state (parasympathetic dominance—rest, digest, and repair).

health and healing, Self-Care, Natural Healing, Adrenal Health, RelaxationDina KhalilAugust 10, 2025healing adrenal fatigue, neuro-relaxation, calm fight or flight, calm cortisol, healing panic attacks, heal inflammation, restore, soothe the body

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

How to Know If You’re in Fight or Flight Mode

If your body feels wired or your mind feels like it’s sprinting without rest—you’re likely in fight-or-flight.

How to Move From Fight-or-Flight to Calm (Regulating Your Nervous System)

health and healing, Natural Healing, Relaxation, Healing, MindfullnessDina KhalilJuly 25, 2025fight or flight, healing, healing panic attacks, healing anxiety naturally, calm fight or flight

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

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.

How I relieved my joint pain

I’ve done yoga, cycling or walking in nature and working out regularly so really wanted to make sure my body was getting the care needed to function optimally, especially as I was aging. I also use ginger and turmeric daily.

Natural Healing, Self-Care, health and healing, Wellbeing, HealingDina KhalilMay 19, 2025self healing, holistic healing, healing joint pain

Easing inflammation in the body

Every choice we make can help or hinder, having a huge impact on how we age or thrive. Chronic inflammation is associated with diseases, such as high blood pressure, heart, disease, rheumatoid arthritis, gastrointestinal disorders etc.

health and healingDina KhalilJanuary 6, 2025anti-inflammatory diet, healing inflammation, health, wellness, healing the body naturally, reducing inflammation

As within, so without

Our cells are made up of what we feed it-From the food (sugar, alcohol, highly processed dairy, wheat-gluten & soy products) to the environment we place ourselves in both physically, mentally and emotionally (negative habits and self-talk, chronic complaining, judging or comparison

health and healing, health and healing natura, Self-CareDina KhalilDecember 2, 2024mental health, emotional health, spiritual health, wellness, self care, health

Moving through seasonal effective disorder and the winter months

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of depression triggered by seasonal changes, often during fall and winter. Natural strategies can help manage and alleviate its symptoms. Here are some effective approaches that I use and practice to ward off depression.

health and healing, Self-Care, HealingDina KhalilNovember 18, 2024depression, SAD, Seasonal Defective Disorder, wellness

Drinking fresh-pressed juice at room temperature (or slightly cool, not cold) allows maximum nutrient absorption, smoother digestion, and a gentler effect on your body’s energy systems

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.

Neuro-relaxation is essentially the process of shifting your nervous system out of a state of high alert (sympathetic dominance—fight, flight, or freeze) into a calmer, more balanced state (parasympathetic dominance—rest, digest, and repair).

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.

If your body feels wired or your mind feels like it’s sprinting without rest—you’re likely in fight-or-flight.

How to Move From Fight-or-Flight to Calm (Regulating Your Nervous System)

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