❤️ Save your pelvic floor

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Janie Kokakis
September 25, 2023

Happy High Noon (EST).

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Today’s Topics:

  • Save Your Pelvic Floor: Is shower peeing bad?

  • Tidbits & Recipes: Dates, ginger & serotonin.

  • Did You Know: It’s time to soak.

  • Open Journal: coming soon

Save Your Pelvic Floor

When you're standing, your pelvic floor is fired on. When you pee, you need to relax your pelvic floor.

So when you stand and pee, you're confusing the relationship between your pelvic floor and bladder…

Keep it up and T-Swift might write a breakup song about it. And when your pelvic floor and bladder don’t work together, it gets weaker.

If you find this habit hard to break, sit and pee before your shower.

Here are 3 signs you might have a weak pelvic floor:

  1. Incontinence

  2. Difficulty controlling bowel movements

  3. Pelvic organ prolapse

If you’re experiencing any of these symptoms, chat with a pelvic floor specialist for guidance.

P.S. Did you see Taylor Swift was the MVP of the NFL yesterday? Obviously, you did, she’s everywhere.

Tidbits & Recipes:

Chocolate Dates (recipe): Eating dates has several health benefits, including improving gut health, providing natural sugar for energy, supporting bone health, improving brain function, and having a low glycemic index that is beneficial for people with diabetes.

Ginger has been shown to have antioxidant properties and may offer protection against heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that regulates several physiological functions in the body, including mood, appetite, digestion, and sleep. Regular exercise, spending time outdoors in sunlight, and practicing relaxation techniques, can improve serotonin levels.

Learn to Scramble Well(ness):

While eating your lunch, waiting for your lunch, or letting go of your lunch, try our wellness-themed word scramble. It's one word a day, and you can find the answer at the bottom of this newsletter - good luck!

ADDRLEB

Did You Know? Like Really Know…

Taking a bath with Epsom salt can help with muscle pain and soreness.

Epson salt has magnesium sulfate which helps to reduce inflammation.

Here's 4 more reasons why you need to take a bath tonight:

  1. Reduce stress and improve sleep

  2. Boost your immune system

  3. Regulate blood pressure 

  4. You stink (just kidding)

Open Journal

Coming soon.

Today’s Top Workout Song on Spotify

Strangers

Kenya Grace · Song · 2023

Scramble Answer:

BLADDER

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