Review – Original Shakti Mat
The Shakti Mat is a portable bed of nails used to relieve pain, promote relaxation and help with a range of health problems including insomnia, pain relief and recovery from injury. It is very popular in Sweden where it is used by an estimated 10% of the population. So we thought it was worth trying – we were so impressed we now use it in clinic. Why? Because we have seen this simple self help option make a difference to many common problems that western medicine does not offer sustainable solutions to. It helps us help ourselves – with no harmful side effects.
What is it?
Originally, a bed of nails was constructed out of wood and metal nails. Today the mat is available in a portable user friendly design. The metal nails have been replaced with plastic spiked discs and instead of a wooden base there is a comfy Styrofoam padded insert within a 100% cotton material ‘pillowcase’. Each mat has 230 plastic discs and each disc has 27 points. This results in potentially 6000 points of contact with your skin which surpasses traditional models.
How the mat works:
“From a physical viewpoint the points on the discs stimulate the body to release endorphins – a family of neuropeptides concentrated in the pituitary gland and hypothalamus involved with pain relief. These endorphins are the body’s response to stress and help determine mood. Membrane receptors for endorphins are found in large quantities in the pain pathways of the nervous system. The release of endorphins triggers a self-healing mechanism in the body and blocks pain. The result is a sense of deep relaxation and well-being, even high levels of happiness.” Use of the Shakti mat also prompts the body to release a range of other calming hormones and it increases the circulation of blood and lymph. This too has a detoxifying, stimulating and healing effect.
Alkaline your water with Berry Tree
‘Why Alkaline my water?’ you ask. Well, take just five minutes and write down EVERYTHING you ate and drank over the past week and you will probably discover you have ingested way more acid than alkaline substances. Over the short term that does not matter. But! Our love of the 21st century western diet (fast food/processed/cereals/colourings etc) and lifestyle means most of us live that imbalance over our entire lifetime. So what? WELL, increasing research is linking high acid levels in our blood to chronic disease; many people are choosing to alkalize their diets and lifestyles.
So like we were saying, an acid imbalance for prolonged periods results in over acidity (or acidosis) weakens all the body’s systems making it vulnerable to diseases; it is very common today. In 1933 the New York doctor William Howard Hay published a ground-breaking book “A New Health Era” in which he maintains that all disease is caused by auto-toxication (or “self-poisoning”) due to acidosis in the body.
What is Resveratrol?
Hi There! Well we just had to kick off our new blog site with an article on Resveratrol given the recent media flurry. Confession, we are in our mid forties with young children (11 yrs and under) so we are extremely interested in the claims regarding Resveratrol and its benefits to health, aging and more importantly healthy living. We had the same kinds of questions as everyone else: ‘what is Resveratrol‘? what are the benefits and are the claims real? Well we did some basic research and have come up with enough positive information to decide that for us, its worth a trial and that it will deliver on our goal of healthy living. Have a read and make up your own mind. Depending on the time of day you are reading this you may want to avail yourself with a glass of your favorite tipple – preferably red 
Resveratrol is a polyphenol with important anti inflammatory and antioxidant properties. Resveratrol is produced when plants are under attack from bacteria or fungi. It is naturally occurring and found in the skins of red grapes, peanuts and some of other berries – and is present in red wine. Researchers began to correlate the presence of Resveratrol with the so called ‘French paradox’ i.e. how could the French (on the whole) who consume a diet so much higher in fats than in most other countries, have such an unexpectedly low incidence of heart disease? Many researchers concluded the lower levels of heart disease among the French are due to regular consumption of red wine. Resveratrol has mild has anti-coagulating effects, which lessens the stress on the heart. It is also high in antioxidants which clean up the free radicals floating around in our blood from years of stress and living in polluted cities and eating food grown with pesticides etc. The majority of health researchers now concur free radicals are the cause of most of our modern degenerative diseases. So, the combination of observations listed above has lead man scientists, doctors and wine lovers to believe/declare that drinking moderate amounts of red wine may help fight cancer and increase overall health. So the benefits of red wine i.e. the side effects of Resveratrol are just great!
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