What's on the Table!? ~ Health and Beauty Care with the Natural Intelligence of Plants and Herbs

 Green Tea the Forgotten Collagen & Metabolism Plant Ally With so much attention on new trends for weight management, blood sugar balance, and skin firming, I want to highlight an ancient plant ally that may not seem exciting but deserves a place in a daily beauty and wellness routine. Green tea is an important part of my plant-based toolkit. I include it in my morning blend of black tea, five mushroom powder, and a dandelion-chicory coffee substitute. It is also a key ingredient in my Brighten + Fortify Facial Serum , which I use every day. In addition to its well-known skincare benefits, studies suggest that green tea may help regulate blood sugar, improve insulin sensitivity, and support overall metabolic health, making it a valuable part of a whole-body weight management approach. How Green Tea Works Green tea’s many benefits for skin health, weight management, and blood sugar support are largely linked to its bioactive compounds, especially catechins and EGCG (epigallocat...

Episode #01: Beauty Baggage with Celeste Morriseau & Kate Waugh TRU Beauty Confessions is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts About the Episode: In launching this dig into the beauty narrative, we felt it would be necessary as a starting place to get clarity of who we may be speaking to in our wider community. We sat with women from varying backgrounds, ages and lifestyles. We will be unpacking the truths involving our relationship with beauty and the way this impacts how we treat ourselves and others, the way we see ourselves, and feel in our bodies. We realized there can be no Green Beauty movement without understanding that true beauty is much more than skin deep. This is not a cliché but an intellectual understanding that beauty is a vibration or a frequency, it is something that we are able to ‘feel.’ This feeling of ‘beautiful’ is what unlocks our individual magic and prowess in our everyday lives. We will explore the four pillars...

Noticeable changes in the skin including wrinkles, pigmentation spots, and loss of elasticity are considered a natural part of aging, but what is aging? Current medical science explains starting in what is called middle age, the bodily systems become more vulnerable to daily wear and tear. During the latter half of our life span, an individual is more prone to have problems with various functions of the body. It is interesting to note that as far as scientists know, currently there is no hormone or code that causes death or self-destruction. We have ‘Aging Theories’ that range in hypothesis from preprogramed cellular divisions determining our life span, to a loss of molecular changes in the protein molecules of body tissues, or the over abundance of free-radical activity resulting in degenerative disease. Although Haas and Levin from Stayin Healthy with Nutrition state signs of age come with changes in our bodily systems resulting in poor delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the tissues...