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If you’ve ever found yourself like Snow White in a near comatose state from an overindulgence of food that you regret consuming because of its ill effects on your system, then you are not alone. In the same way that Snow White felt it was only socially polite to accept the apple and take a huge bite, most of us find it pretty challenging to attend a social event yet refuse to eat the carbohydrate coma that the host is offering.
Rise & Shine: Delivering Liver Protection When Overindulgence Knocks
And, when everyone around you has an alcoholic drink in their hand on a hot summer’s day, their glasses alluringly misted with cool condensation and those tiny bubbles tickling their way up the inside of the glass, those same people can treat you like a social pariah unless you join them in their revels. Perhaps they know something you don't know about how to prevent a hangover … But, sometimes, the willpower required to walk away and make healthier choices can be as elusive as snow in summer.
At other times, we choose to indulge. High days and holidays are part of each season and there can be times to make a conscious decision to engage in the bacchanal for a hot minute. But, whether you’ve broken a going dry for a while promise to yourself or you intended to step up to the buffet altar and plant your face firmly in the trifle, complete with pointless sugar sprinkles, these are the times when it would be great to support our liver as the good friend we wish to be. And, like a good friend, we don’t arrive empty-handed. If the liver could text you before the party, it would message: Bring Rise & Shine.
Wait! Liver Protection Tablets? It’s a Miracle!
Well, not quite a miracle, but Rise and Shine Indulgence Recovery could have you springing from your food and drink coma much like a modern day equivalent of Lazarus! With milk thistle extract, whose beneficial effects on the liver have been tried and tested for over 2000 years, and its component flavonoid, silymarin, Rise and Shine Indulgence Recovery is a supplement that helps to protect the liver from toxins. Silybum Marianum (Milk Thistle) has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties to boot and may even help the liver to repair by growing new cells.
We all wish we’d taken better care of ourselves the day after when we've swapped our wine goggles for the ever crystal clear glasses of retrospect. The good news is that, if you want to know how to support that day after meh, then taking three Rise and Shine tablets before you even head off down Excess Drive can help the liver get ahead of what’s to come. Follow this up with three tablets the morning after the night before and you are well on your way to reaping the benefits that milk thistle extract has on liver recovery.
How else can I support liver protection?
Apart from milk thistle extract, Rise and Shine includes Nicotinamide. What is Nicotinamide? I hear you ask. Well, this little genius could help to banish that familiar feeling of ‘can’t be bothered’ which frequently pays a call the day after we overindulge. Nicotinamide has an important role in energy production in the body so supplementing this naturally occurring chemical when we’ve soused our liver with more unhelpful chemicals is a body friendly thing to do because it’s so often the case that your overindulgence the night before coincides with the visit from the in-laws the day after, your child’s football tournament final on the hottest day of the year so far or that almighty housework blitz you’ve been telling yourself needs doing.
For further liver protection make Cysteine your friend
Cysteine: this little wonder supplement does a plethora of beneficial things for us including nourishing your brain and replenishing antioxidants. This little amino convinced us that it was so versatile that we popped it in our Rise & Shine recipe for days just like these.
As we all know, antioxidants are crucial in the toxin elimination processes of the body and, once we’ve indulged, there are plenty of those to mop up. But, Cysteine is also a powerhouse for the mind and our mental health. Have you ever noticed how paranoia can come calling when you’ve been drinking and often self-shaming goes hand in hand with food overindulgence? Looking after your mental health could start with ensuring you have enough Cysteine HCL Monohydrate to keep your mind healthy.
The benefits of this ingredient keep on coming. As a precursor to glutathione, it plays a role in decreasing inflammation in fat cells which can be caused by high blood sugar. If sugar was your poison of choice in the hours before, be sure to top up on it to support your body’s response. Longer term, if your habit is to keep indulging in sugar, then you risk becoming insulin resistant. Cysteine has been shown to have a possible connection to preventing insulin resistance and improving blood sugar regulation. Remember, it may not have been cake that you succumbed to, but alcohol is also a carbohydrate, so supplementing with it could contribute to mitigating the splurge that caused havoc with your blood sugars.
Let common sense prevail
Ultimately, there are going to be times when we haven’t put into our bodies the healthy things we intended to and that’s ok on occasion. We live in a varied modern world with a myriad of temptations facing us and a plethora of choices to make each day. Of course we can choose to be more typically social in the way we eat and drink and we all know that being the life and soul of the party doesn’t mean we have to drink our body weight in alcohol or be rude to the cake on offer.
When the chips are down (literally, down!):
- Try a little self-compassion and tenderness when you think you’ve ruined the long term plan - our bodies listen, so be kind to yourself.
- Support with Rise & Shine Indulgence Recovery and its superhero, liver protection ingredients.
- Drink plenty water to help flush those toxins away or try a WillPowders Electrotide to support this process
- Remember, tomorrow might be another day, but a day is 24 hours and you can start that day right now with returning to your supportive habits
Keep it real...
And, finally, Snow White may have been kissed awake from her food coma by the love of her life but I’ll bet he still left the toilet seat up on occasions so supplements, rather than long term romantic engagements, are probably a better way to care for your hangover!
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