Hilda Labrada Gore aka Holistic Hilda: Top 5 Health Hacks – Wise Traditions

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Key Takeaways

• Be skeptical about health fads and what doctors tells us
  • Do your own research
• Embrace real food, not processed food
  • Your body knows the difference
• Cook once and use that base-meal several times to make nutritional eating easier
• Sunrise beats screen-rise
  • Our bodies need sun exposure in the morning, not a phone check
  • Morning sun time is critical – it sets our circadian rhythm and revs up our mitochondria
• Move more!

Products Mentioned 

• Ancestral Supplements Grass Fed Beef Organs (Desiccated) — Liver, Heart, Kidney, Pancreas, Spleen

Intro 

• Hilda Labrada Gore (AKA Holistic Hilda) (IG: @holistichilda and T: @holistichilda) is a health coach and DC chapter leader for the Westin A Price Foundation.  She is normally the host and producer of the Wise Traditions podcast but appears in this episode as a guest celebrating the show’s two millionth download.
  • Hilda is also the author of Podcasting Made Simple
  • Check out her website

Holistic Hilda’s Top Tips

1. Educate Yourself

• Be skeptical – don’t take every piece of nutrition advice you hear at face value
• Look for the money trail
  • Ask yourself – “Are they telling me this because they genuinely want to improve my healthy or because they have a special product they want me to buy?”
• Trust your intuition
  • Pay attention to how your body reacts to certain foods
• Always look for the most natural choices            
  • i.e. Make your own granola

2. Embrace Real Foods and Eliminate Processed Foods From Your Diet

• “Even if the package says ‘natural flavoring and colorings,’ these can be concocted in a factory and our body doesn’t know what to do with them”
  • These flavorings and preservatives can poke holes in your gut leading to leaky gut
• Consider meal prepping with foods that make it easier to eat healthier during the week
  • The goal is to cook less often but cook enough quantity so you have a meal-base that lasts for several nights
• Don’t over complicate meals – “Simplicity is gourmet”
  • If you have a good cut of meat or farm fresh eggs, you don’t need to do a lot
  •  Fresh ingredients make flavorful dishes

3. Get More Sun Exposure

• The sun energizes the mitochondria in our cells (the little engines that keep our body functioning properly)
  • Hilda eats her meals outside to get more sun exposure and vitamin D
• Early morning sun exposure (in the first 30-45 minutes after you wake up) is ideal for circadian rhythm
  • Sunrise beats screen-rise!
    • Humans needs sun in the morning – not their smartphones
• Hilda adds – “I used to be a night owl. Now I go to bed earlier.  My sleep is more efficient and more profound.”

4. MOVE

• Move more! – Our bodies were meant to
  • We fuel our bodies for a purpose – to move, not to sit inside all day
  • “Part of life is playing and enjoying and moving”

5. And most importantly….

• If the listener could do to one thing to improve their health, what should they do?
  • Hilda recommends exploring the spiritual facet life
    • “We are comprised of mind, body, and spirit – there’s much more to us than meets the eye.”
    • On the importance of a spiritual practice:
      • “You can do everything to make your body strong but if your spirit is flagging, you’re going to miss most of the joy that’s out there.”

Additional Notes

• Don’t get overwhelmed!  
  • To start, just pick one of the five recommendations mentioned here to apply to your life
• Slow change offers lasting change