Tip of the day: Upgrade your Water!

You, dear reader, are roughly 70% water. Your brain even more so. Water is life. Without it our cells, tissues and organs cannot function. It helps provide you that fluid that carries nutrients and oxygen known as blood, helps create hormones which control your function and clears toxins from your body. That’s just naming highlights, an actual listing on the benefits of water could potentially break the Internet from sheer length.

So water’s remained largely unchanged throughout history. You drink it from a stream, a well or your tap or even use the sea to provide you with desalinated water. Pretty straight forward yeah?

Well what about augmenting and upgrading our daily water intake with a few minor additions that can make all the difference to your body? Sounds pretty nifty I’d say!

Ingredients:

• 2 liters of water
• 2 large lemons (sliced)
• 10 stalks of fresh mint
• 1 large cucumber (sliced)

Process:

• You’re dumber than my cat if you think there’s a process to it, just add all the above to the water inside a plastic or glass container and store overnight in your fridge.

And there you have it! Zero-calorie flavored drinking water which not only quenches your thirst but also boost your immunity as well as flushes out toxins. Consume 2 - 4 cups first thing in the morning and aim for an overall intake between 3 - 5 liters of water per day. Drink half an hour before your meals to facilitate digestion as well as decrease overall food intake.

Let me know what you think!

Tip of the Day: Upgrading Your Green Tea

Hands down green tea is commonly regarded as one of the top line detox/healthy beverages that millions around the world consume every day. Green tea is stock full of a unique blend of chemicals, antioxidants and polyphenols which among other things can do the following:

• Promote fat loss by boosting metabolism
• Regulate diabetes by helping to regular blood sugar
• Regulate blood pressure by promoting healthier blood vessels and preventing heart disease
• Reduce risk of esophageal cancer
• Reduce bad cholesterol levels in the body and favor the cholesterol balance towards the good kind
• Reduce risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases
• Prevent tooth decay
• Combat depression
• Promote healthier and more youthful looking skin
• Posses antibacterial and antiviral qualities

The list literally goes on, and on, and on. But this article doesn't aim to convince you to drink green tea and make it a regular on your grocery shopping list; merely to show you that even a superpower drink can be augmented to kick even more ass.

Ingredients:

• 1-2 teaspoons of pure grounded green tea (try and get the real stuff, avoid the low quality tea bag variety)
• A handful of fresh/dry mint leaves
• 1 teaspoon powdered ginger (I prefer using sliced fresh ginger myself - 2 / 3 small slices ought to be enough)
• half a lemon’s squeeze OR a slice of lime
• 1 tablespoon honey (I prefer the Royal Jelly variety)

Process:

• Seems pretty fucking straightforward to me. Just add all this shit to a cup of hot water.
• Leave the mix to brew for at least 5 - 10 minutes before consuming in order to let all the ingredients and their chemicals fuse with the water. And also to avoid burning your tongue.

Note: You’ll notice (actually you didn’t notice) that I said hot and not boiling. Most kettles unclick after reaching the boiling point after which we immediately pour them in our mugs. It’s actually been proven that extremely hot water (one that hasn’t yet reached boiling point) is better for tea than boiling one. This is due to the fact that it doesn’t immediately scorch the tea leaves and allows for the blend of chemicals inside the leaves to fuse better with water. Just manually unclick your kettle moments before it reaches boiling point and you should be fine. Or not. Whatever, I’m not your mom.

Another Note: A word for the cautious, particularly males, some studies indicate that consumption of green tea and green tea by-products should be limited to two or three non-consecutive days per week maximum due to the fact it may also result in the boosting of estrogen amounts in the body (Definitely not a good dude if you own a willy, just a heads up!)