Category: Hydration

Lavender Moon Milk

I call it moon milk because it sounds cool. Hip. Chic. Sleepy.

I played around with this recipe for a while. The key here is to really be careful about the lavender to milk ratio… it can get ugly real fast.

Sweetner is a MUST. Honey again for me.

And a secret splash of… salt.

No kidding. I had been playing around with this because I wanted to test out lavender for sleep. I just couldn’t love the recipe. On a whim last night I threw some stuff around like a witch over a potions brew and what do you know? IT WORKED!

Lavender Moon Milk

Ingredients:

  • 1 Cup milk of choice (I used unsweetened vanilla almond milk) 
  • 1 TSP dried edible lavender buds 
  • 2 TSP honey
  • ¼ TSP coconut oil
  • ¼ TSP vanilla extract
  • 1 pinch salt

Directions:

  • Place all ingredients in pan over high heat on stove top.
  • Once brought to rolling boil, reduce heat and let simmer for 5 minutes – stirring occasionally.
  • Strain lavender out with mesh strainer.
  • Enjoy!

I truly believe this helps me calm down. I haven’t had it enough to talk about sleep… though last night I had the “moon tummy” as I so creatively came up with and was so tired.

I ended up waking myself up and reading on my phone into all hours of the night… so that’s on me.

However, if you’re wanting to know what lavender has been proven to help with I’ll tell you.

Studies have strong evidence that lavender is good for

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Restlessness

I would also like to mention even though I didn’t sleep last night I felt oddly positive today. Could be me overthinking. But hey.. whatever works.

Lavender also has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties.

So while I wouldn’t use this on wounds or injuries needing actual medical emergencies – you could test it out on bug bites and small burns (like the one you might get when making this drink)

Enjoy your moon milk!

P.S. I don’t recommend putting lavender buds on your drink – they’re disgusting, I used them in the photo because I am hip. Chic. Cool. Sleepy…

Why you should look when you go – Part I

Wrapping up week three of step one!

And I touched a little bit on monitoring the color that comes out of you when you go pee. But I wanted to be a bit more thorough.

I think it should be pretty clear to everyone by now that that is the color we want to be seeing when we go. (get it?) The more tinted yellow we find in our toilets, usually, the more dehydrated we are.

Simple Pee Chart

Continue reading “Why you should look when you go – Part I”

Baby Steps – Step 1, Hydration

HYDRATION.

I’m sure you all have heard how our bodies can survive weeks without food but only days without water. It’s 3 to 4 days to be in the ballpark, maybe maximum a week.

You’ve also probably heard that 60% or more of our body is made of water… We are sort of like walking water balloons if you think about it… Every single cell in our body is made of water. It’s between our joints, it’s in our brain, it carries toxins out of our systems… so why is it that we don’t get enough of it?

We get so busy go go going that we forget to take a few sips here and there and then before we know it we have a headache and feel famished. Most of the time we blame it on other things likes stress or a hard workout.

Hey, maybe it is from those things… but maybe you haven’t been hydrating as well as you should be.

Drink up!