Crusaders for Health Newsletter: Edition 24
Dr. Elena Villanueva is an international speaker, health influencer, & co-author of The Longevity Code. She teaches evidence based approaches for finding & treating the underlying causes of chronic illness & brain related conditions. Dr. V’s unique approach incorporates the merging of science and spirituality & the integration of the mind/body/spirit.
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Elena is the producer and host of the Mental Health Masterclass, Inflammation Masterclass, Mastering Trauma Masterclass, The Leaky Brain Summit, Your Brain & Mental Health: What They Aren’t Telling You, and the all new Beyond The Pill Masterclass, plus the TribeTalk Podcast. Find information on these topics and more relevant to your health and holistic healing at ModernHolisticHealth.com.
Three things you can do to support your Mental and Physical Health as winter approaches
As November unfurls its amber tapestry and the first hints of winter chill tease the air, there’s more to this transitional month than the promise of holiday feasts and gatherings. November presents a unique opportunity to focus on a fundamental yet often overlooked aspect of our well-being: How our microbiome influences our mental and physical health. The beautiful vast ecosystem of living organisms within us, without whom we would have no immune health, no happy hormones, no existence at all, are pivotal not only in our ability to sustain health but also necessary in the facilitation of our ability to heal from mental health conditions and other chronic illnesses.
The Enigmatic World Within: Understanding the vast ecosystem of living organisms within us
While we have trillions of bacteria and viruses living on and inside us, which are vital to our health and vitality, our gut holds a powerful network of microorganisms that create what is known as the gut microbiome. Often dubbed the body’s “second brain,” the unique ecosystem within our gut is teeming with life—trillions of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses. This bustling metropolis, collectively termed the “microbiome,” is a linchpin in our body’s functioning.
From digesting complex carbohydrates to producing essential vitamins and brain chemicals like serotonin and dopamine, the trillions of bacteria and viruses that make up our bodies and literally give us life, health, and vitality, are fascinating multitaskers par excellence!
From influencing our personality to our immune function, to our health in every aspect, the living microbes that live on and in us influence our human experiences that stretches far and wide.
Mood and Emotions
Ever had butterflies in your stomach before a big event? That’s the gut-brain connection and the interplay of millions of microbes in action. Research indicates that the ecosystem of microbes living in our gut (known as our microbiome) can significantly impact our mood, anxiety levels, and even cause depression.
Immunity
A significant portion of our immune system is regulated in the gut. A healthy microbiome with optimal balances of the right types of bacteria and other microorganisms equips the body to fend off infections and illnesses more effectively.
Chronic Diseases…
by Dina Joy Muchnick, Chinese Energetic Medicine Therapist
In the hustle and bustle of modern life, where emotions often ride the rollercoaster of daily challenges, finding ways to nurture emotional health becomes an invaluable pursuit. Enter Qigong, a time-honored practice that not only embraces the physical but also lovingly nurtures the emotional well-being of those who engage in it. Let’s explore five heartwarming ways in which Qigong can become your steadfast companion on the journey to emotional harmony.
Embracing the Breath of Serenity:
At the heart of Qigong lies a gentle, intentional dance with the breath. Each inhalation is an invitation to welcome peace, while every exhalation is a release of tension. In the rhythm of your breath, you discover a sacred space where emotional storms subside. As you inhale, envision light, positivity, and serenity filling your being, and with each exhalation, let go of any emotional burdens, tension, and pain you may have. In this symphony of breath, you find a pathway to calm the storm within and cultivate a lasting sense of emotional serenity.
Flowing Through Emotional Blockages:
Just as a river flows effortlessly around obstacles, Qigong encourages the flow of energy, breaking down emotional barriers in its path. The graceful movements of Qigong guide emotions through a harmonious journey, allowing them to surface, be felt, express themselves, and gracefully dissipate. This fluid dance empowers you to acknowledge and release emotions, creating a profound sense of emotional freedom. Through Qigong, you learn that emotions are like passing clouds—temporary and ever-changing.
Cultivating Mindful Emotional Presence:
Qigong is not just a physical exercise; it’s a mindful exploration of your emotional landscape. As you engage in the flowing movements, each practice becomes an opportunity to be present with your emotions. In this mindful dance, you become an observer, allowing emotions to rise and fall without judgment. This practice of emotional presence fosters self-awareness, a key ingredient in the recipe for emotional health. With Qigong, you learn to be with your emotions, cultivating a compassionate space for their expression.
Balancing the Emotional Qi…
This deep-dive interview explores Laurie’s incredible journey with Modern Holistic Health. Laurie reveals how she overcame age-old traumas and achieved significant emotional and physical healing.
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The Truth About Essential Oils: Science, Benefits, and My Everyday Routine
Are Essential Oils Really Effective? Separating Fact from Fiction.
In a world filled with wellness trends, essential oils have captured the spotlight, promising everything from anxiety relief to better sleep and improved digestion. But are they truly a panacea, a clever marketing ploy, or something in between?
Join us on this enlightening journey as we delve into the fascinating world of essential oils.
Science vs. Hype: We’ll explore the scientific evidence behind essential oils, revealing which claims are grounded in research and which might be overhyped.
Types of Oils: Discover the various essential oils available, each with unique properties and potential benefits. We’ll cover the spectrum, from lavender’s calming influence to peppermint’s invigorating aroma.
Everyday Use: Learn how incorporating essential oils into your daily routine can make a genuine difference in your life. From DIY cleaning solutions to relaxation techniques, we’ll share practical tips and tricks.
Empower Yourself: Knowledge is power, and understanding essential oils empowers you to make informed choices that can genuinely enhance your well-being.
Whether you’re a seasoned essential oil enthusiast or just curious about their potential, this video will equip you with valuable insights and knowledge.
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Get Inspired and Take Action on Your Health!
It takes the belief that you CAN heal, and sometimes we just need inspiration. I invite you to check out these stories of our clients whose lives have been transformed so that you can see that YOU TOO can have the same transformation in your health and your life! Check out these stories from clients and be inspired.
My most recent win is my ALT liver numbers are finally in range!!! I’ve been in the program and healing my liver since February and had a history of high liver enzymes and liver stress overload. Since starting my MHH protocols in your program, my liver markers on my blood work have continually decreased and finally they are in range!
Layla T., October 2023
I consider myself blessed to be one who has been touched by your gift. I’m just starting month five, and the changes in how I feel physically, emotionally and spiritually are astronomical. Just imagining where I will be once I complete this program is mind blowing. So always take time to heal yourself and continue to lead by example as you have set up one awesome system which works wonderfully! Love you and what you are doing ❤️
Laurie, October 2023
I have found that trusting the modalities is truly a large part of our healing. I had a homework exercise from Dina to do knee tapping. I did it once a day until my next session. I didn‘t see too many results, just a few that weren’t earth shattering. During my next session, Dina told me to increase the amount of time. I did it twice a day at 5 minutes. WOW! It was a game changer!!! An extra added bonus is that it has helped regulate my nervous system as well and I don’t get overwhelmed as easily!
Debbie M., October 2023
In only 4 months of working with Modern Holistic Health, Rosita helped rid me of an almost 50 year trauma which has been remarkable. Can’t wait for my next session. I finally see how I am worth investing in myself. I’m starting to see and feel real results. I’m not going back! I can’t thank everyone at MHH enough for your help and encouragement.
Laurie S., October 2023
This month’s featured program is a part of my mission to spread lifesaving truths around the world. Together we can help as many people as possible to get their health back, their lives back, and live their lives with all the love, joy, health, and vitality they desire.
Remember, your health is in YOUR hands. So join me for some TV viewing time in the evenings to watch this month. Let’s kick up our feet, relax, learn how to be our own guarantee in life, and let’s thrive and heal together!
Dr. Elena Villanueva
Ready to break free of chronic discomfort and empower your health?
The weight of chronic digestive issues extends well beyond the physical… In their often uncomfortable, embarrassing, and painful persistence, they can make you feel isolated, like a prisoner in your own body, sapped of vitality, joy, and self-esteem. Still, there is a path you can take out of discomfort and into resilience…
Enjoy learning from The Gut Reset Summit: Your Journey to Empowered Health from Nov. 27 – Dec. 3, 2023. It’s free and online!
Join the Free 3-Day Remote Healing Challenge!
Are you ready to unlock your healing potential?
My colleague Dr. Sue Morter, a Bioenergetic expert with more than 30 years of experience, is here to challenge you. She knows that anyone can learn the skill of Remote Healing, and she’s inviting you to join her free Three-Day Challenge to prove it.
Remote Healing may seem rare, out of reach, or downright unrealistic… but the truth is that every single one of us possesses the ability to heal. Very few, however, have tapped into these innate abilities and awakened their inner healing power. The good news is, you don’t need special talents or a specific background – just this one skill.
Dr. Sue has seen incredible results from thousands of participants in her past challenges. Now, it’s your turn to transform yourself and those around you from afar.
Don’t miss this opportunity to prove it to yourself:
A 10-minute routine DOUBLES your energy levels
What if you could invest 10 minutes every morning for the next month to DOUBLE your energy levels?
Interested?
I’m incredibly excited to share a new live virtual event with you from energy expert Ari Whitten. He’s teaching a new system that he says is “the single fastest method to increase energy levels that I’ve found in 25 years of studying health science.”
What is it? It’s about optimizing your cellular energy production through dramatically increasing your body’s oxygen-carrying capacity, and the ability of your red blood cells to deliver oxygen to your cells.
He has partnered with world-renowned breathing expert Patrick McKeown to develop a brand-new system of specialized breathing practices to go from fatigued to energized in just weeks.
You can register for FREE right HERE.
During this live virtual event he’s giving away the secrets of how to use specific breathing practices to:
Grab your FREE spot in this live virtual event HERE.
Personal Wellness Favorites To Make Holiday Shopping A Breeze
Every year we get thousands of emails and requests asking what our favorite personal care and household products are. At one of our recent Inner Circle live podcasts, we again had many requests asking what our most trusted products are because the holidays are coming up. Many want to give themselves and their loved ones gifts of health, so I’ve put together a beautiful site for you to visit! https://modernholistichealth.com/lifestyle-buyers-guide
Ann, our entire team, and I are so excited to have curated special deals on our favorite products that we all use every day. From our favorite bone broth hot cocoa mix from Paleovalley that my grandkids absolutely LOVE, to the tried and true air cleaners we love and trust, we’ve got some special deals we’ve curated just for you!
(For established clients)
This appointment type should only be made for an established client. (After you have had your initial/first visit completed).
Not sure WHO to book with? No Problem! Here at MHH we have an AMAZING team of coaches and EVERY ONE OF OUR COACHES can help you with ANY of your conditions, so just pick the one that has availability on the day and time that works best for you.
This package contains 12 Biological Coaching Visits at 30 minutes each. Purchasing this package can save you 10% vs. if you purchased 12 sessions individually.
Using the combined modalities of EFT tapping, Resonance Repatterning, Color, Light, and Sound, this visit type addresses:
• Anxiety • Depression • Fear • Mind racing • Feelings of anger • Feelings of hopelessness • and more…
This unique approach can address and resolve emotional trauma, present or past, that has been locked into the physical body’s memory, often below the realm of conscious thought. Our bodies replay these memories at different times, and they can adversely affect our health especially in times of great stress and uncertainty.
These packages contain 12 Brain & Emotional Repatterning visits of 60 minutes or 90 minutes each. Purchasing either of these packages will save you 15% as compared to purchasing individual sessions
Not feeling well and looking for help with your condition, diagnosis, or symptoms that won’t go away no matter what you have tried? Our holistic biological health coaches can help you! Our coaches teach you how your body works, what the underlying cause of your condition or symptoms are, and how to fix and address them using long-term solutions that are data-driven and that work!
Our holistic biological health coaches have a deep understanding of advanced functional testing and genetics testing, along with much experience in complex cases.
Our biological coaching team works with you to empower and teach you how to understand and interpret your lab results, what your results mean, how they are connected to your health conditions or symptoms, and most importantly, what to do with the information, how to put protocols together based on your lab results, and when to reorder your various labs to track progress.
You will become your own healing master learning how to navigate the healing process, how to modify your protocols, when and how to detoxify your organs and cells from the toxins discovered on your lab results. You will learn the importance of tracking your assessment forms and symptom sheets and how to troubleshoot your healing process.
In addition, you have the opportunity to learn how to understand YOUR genetic blueprint – Our coaches are trained in the field of epigenetics and understand implicitly that YOU are in control of your own gene expression and how your genes either work for or against you. If you choose to add genetic testing into your program, your genetic blueprint information can be used not only to help drive your plan of action for healing, but also it can be used to understand your body’s unique nutrition, lifestyle, sleeping, eating, and physical activity needs are so that you can optimize once you are healed.
Get help from our functional nutrition coaches who understand that there is no ONE diet that is right for everyone. Our nutrition coaches work hand in hand with our biological coaches so if you need any lab work done or specific protocols that would require supplement protocols, you have a team working on your behalf and your nutrition coach would make recommendations for which other team coaches would be able to help you.
Your coaches will teach and empower you to learn how to determine and navigate your diet modifications which are decided based on your extensive intake forms, history, and your lab data that your coaches may want to order for you. Based on all of this information, they will teach you what foods to eat and not eat according to various conditions and why.
Your functional nutrition coach will help you learn what substitutes you can use when there are certain foods you may need to stop eating for a period of time, how to put your meals together based on your dietary needs per your lab data, how and when to incorporate gut repair protocols, and what lifestyle modifications you want to address based on your labs and your health conditions.
Nutritional coaching can be a great tool by itself or combined with coaching from our biological coaches. You can schedule with either our biological or nutrition coaches and they can help you get started and make recommendations as needed.
Many people who have successfully mentored with our nutrition coaches have had past issues such as:
Mindset, past and present traumas, and limiting belief systems are some of the biggest barriers to healing, so much in fact that gene expression and biological ‘engines’ of the human body can change for the worse because of it.
In the many years, we have been working in the field of holistic medicine, helping people who have tried everything else with no success or little success, we have discovered how great of an impact our thoughts, beliefs, and past and present trauma, and chronic stress can be to the human body, mind, and spirit.
The rate of recovery and healing for those who place emphasis on creating new neurological pathways to imprint new and healthy mindsets and belief systems in how they perceive themselves and the world around them is greatly improved when the psychological aspect of mindset and integration of mind, body, the spirit is addressed through repatterning of the mind and body neurology.
By removing barriers discovered from traumas, mindset, and conscious/unconscious patterns that are not congruent for healing, health, and vitality, you set yourself up for the best outcomes in your healing journey. Healing only occurs when the physical, emotional, and mental barriers to healing are removed.
Therefore we incorporate mind, body, spirit integration work into our programs and in doing so, we see exponential increases in positive outcomes with our clients. We have put together the most comprehensive ‘whole person’ approach in the world, and this is why our results are so successful.
Our Emotional Processing, Stress Release, & Neurological Repatterning coaches work with you to create new neurological connections, anchor new neurology, and habits, and show you how to become aware of any conscious or unconscious belief systems that may be holding you back from healing and total health.
You are welcome to try one or two appointments to see what you think. We typically recommend a minimum of 6 sessions to make an accurate assessment of how this type of modality is working for you.
Here are some of the modalities our Emotional Processing, Stress Release, & Neurological Repatterning coaches use for brain and body repatterning:
Breathwork is more than just a simple exercise of intentional breathing. Specialized breathwork techniques are used to facilitate major transformation and healing by encompassing a wide range of therapeutic practices that are extremely powerful in providing immediate relief for pulling people out of fight or flight (the amygdala hijack we teach about in Part 2 of our Mastering Trauma Masterclass).
This vagus nerve activation through breath work activates the rest/digest (parasympathetic nervous system), stimulates healing, reduces blood pressure, reduces the cortisol stress response, regulates hormone and blood glucose activity, and heart rate variability (the biological stress response). It rewires the body for self-regulation of the nervous system in a manner that optimizes the body and creates resilience in times of stress.
Yoga breath therapy allows you to disconnect from the mind chatter, mind racing, and negative self-talk and reconnect with your body your energy. From this elevated state of awareness, you are able to facilitate healing, growth, and expansion. And if you are looking for some expansion of your body/mind/spirit awareness, then this type of breathwork can be nourishing and can facilitate the next layer of peace, love, gratitude, connection, clarity, and insights.
In the many years, we have been working in the field of holistic medicine, helping people who have tried everything else with no success or little success, we have discovered how great of a damaging impact our thoughts, beliefs, and past and present trauma, and chronic stress (the fight or flight response) can be to the human body, mind, and spirit.
By becoming aware of how to regulate our own nervous system, and resolve traumas, mindset, and conscious/unconscious patterns that are not congruent for healing, health, and vitality, you set yourself up for the best outcomes in your healing journey. Healing only occurs when the physical, emotional, and mental barriers to healing are removed.
The rate of recovery and healing for those who place emphasis on:
….. Find much success and amplification in their healing journey.