F4L Blog
Crispy Skinned Salmon with Apple Slaw
So as summer is around the corner my mind turned to food!!!
The barbie needs a clean up and a new gas bottle must be found!
We will be cooking outside across most of the summer I suspect and I have a go to with my meat of choice and that is a tasty slaw. Not just any old slaw but a tasty one that has a few more ingredients in it to make it taste different and little bit fancy!!
Leading a remote team
Over lockdown businesses I had worked with before and new ones came to me to help them connect with their team while working remotely.
Balance – how’s yours?
I’m reading a book about neuroplasticity and I was blown away by the first case study.
A lady who had been taking a drug which had a side affect of attacking the vestibular system (your inner ear balance mechanism).She had many falls and ended up seeing a specialist who referred her onto a guy who was trialing a new technology to help the brain correct itself and learn to balance the body again.
Midnight Snack? Not So Fast
Your eating habits impact how you sleep more than you may realise.
Late-night meals and snacks can affect the time it takes for you to fall asleep, your sleep efficiency, and even your REM and deep sleep numbers.
How Quality Sleep Boosts Your Immune System
Most people have experienced the effects of a good night’s sleep on your body’s ability to fight a sickness. When it comes to your health, sleep is your armour.
How blue light impacts your sleep
In an earlier blog I talked about the circadian rhythm and how it is is driven by light and our sleep cycles will follow this thyme – if we let them.
The winter wellness you may not have thought of…
When it comes to looking after yourself. There are so many things to look at it’s hard to know where to start sometimes.
So to distill some of the time taken in looking at all aspects of health I wanted to share come BIG BANG hits so you can add these into your life.
Locking down (or finding your new) circadian rhythm
In the late 1800’s the invention of the light bulb did an amazing thing for productivity allowing us to keep working after sunset. However with it came some unexpected health consequences that we may not have foreseen.
Move well, before you move lots
If you think about it our bodies are very much like our cars. If we look after them they look after us. Often it can be too easy to skip a service or let the tyres get so worn down that the car may not even pass it’s WOF. Would you do the same to your body?
The Silver Lining – there’s always a silver lining right?!
Dark clouds can represent dark or testing times, even hopeless times, but the silver lining means that after difficult times better days can follow.
This is something I want to explore in this blog. There are some health messages in here too!