
Zoisa Holder
- Apr 20
- 1 min
Wellness Wednesday - massage, the stomach and digestion processes...
Massaging the stomach can help to relax muscles, alleviate constipation, support digestion and elimination processes. A 2020 systematic review of the effect of abdominal massage on gastrointestinal functions showed that it alleviated constipation for people with multiple sclerosis, cancer and elderly adults. It also increased bowel movements in constipated individuals. It is important when receiving a massage to be let the practitioner know what is right for you, always let t
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Zoisa Holder
- Mar 11
- 5 min
Pilates, exercise and food nutrition
One of the most important things, as well as eating healthily, is to consider your blood sugar levels, which we look at in the Kinesiology triangle of health. Every time you eat - and not necessarily just sweet things - there is a whole digestion process going on to break down the food. The body breaks it down into energy so that it can either use it and if it can't use that energy up to fuel the muscles, then it just feeds that whole metabolism and digestion process. So why
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Zoisa Holder
- Feb 14
- 1 min
Wellness Wednesday Remedy - Kinesiology and food testing
How we use kinesiology to test for food intolerances When food testing in Kinesiology, we are checking to see if are foods are: Biogenic - nourishing for the body, Biostatic - neither good or bad, fillers or Biocidic - deplete the body of energy or over stimulate the body. When your body is in balance and a muscle test is performed (see our blog on kinesiology for more info on this ) a working muscle will lock, and unlock when asked to switch off. When an item of food is plac
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