Sports
Sports or any physical activity for that matter is crucial for your mental and physical wellbeing. This is due to the combination of effects sports can produce. Those being, immune enhancing, mood regulating, cell nourishing, blood & lymph circulation boosting and toxin eliminating.
As sports and activity burn off stress hormones (when done 60min or less) your tendency for inflammation decreases, thus supporting growth and repair, as opposed to damage and breakdown that stress hormones can cause on a physical level. Additionally, the promotion of endorphins (feel good chemicals) from sports let your mind release resistance that is fueling your fight or flight response and lets you come out of the stress response. The thing to realize is that the stress response is useful when it is actually needed, to ensure your survival. However the key to wellbeing is your ability to come out of this response and back into homeostasis.
Exercises ability to bring clarity of thought to the mind is profound. This is achieved by the relaxation that comes during and especially after a session, in addition to the increased blood circulation delivering essential nutrition and oxygen to the brain, while enhancing toxin and cellular waste removal.
The social aspect of sports is beneficial for your health as well, especially if your socialization is with strangers, not in your immediate house hold. Studies have actually been able to show that interaction with strangers throughout the week literally and mechanistically improve your immune system.
To ensure you’re not contradicting your efforts, don’t participate in an physical activity that has you pressured, feeling inferior, competing to the point of exhaustion, promoting stress fractures or causing severe dehydration and electrolyte loss. The key is to find an activity you want to do. You shouldn’t dread your next engagement in your activity. This is a sign of stress from dissatisfaction and should be listened to. Sustainability is what ensures your success.
Food for thought: Stronger than all the armies of the world, is an idea whose time has come.
Electrolyte Recipe:
1/4 cup of freshly squeezed lime juice
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 ½ to 2 cups fresh water, depending on how strong you want the flavor
1/8 teaspoon of sea salt
2 tablespoons natural sugar or honey, to taste
• Blend all ingredients until smooth
Bright N Early:
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice 
-1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
-1 ½ to 2 cups of fresh water
-1/8 teaspoon of sea salt
-2 tablespoons natural sugar or honey, to taste
• Blend all ingredients until smooth
*Citrus fruits contain high amounts of electrolytes. Especially oranges!