How I keep my health in check whilst traveling.
So I recently traveled over 14 hours from Melbourne to Los Angeles whilst still healing a chronic health condition and I thought it would be helpful to share with everyone, how I prepared and what I am doing to mitigate fatigue, jet lag, bloating and other symptoms worsened when traveling.
I made sure before my trip I was focusing on lowering any inflammation, this meant of course, no drinking alcohol, no eating things you know have an inflammatory affect on your body
Lot’s of full body lympathic drainage and deep belly breathing, I have been using a tool from Imbibe and it makes doing a lympathic drainage routine so impactful for your overall health, if you dont know how to do a great full body lympathic session and the benefits, you can find some classes in the Amavi transpire portal.
For the flight, I took a little bottle of 3i fulvic minerals to add into my water for mitochondria and free radicals support, packed my own tea which was a VATTA Ayurvedic tea specific for traveling (no thank-you to the micro plastics and chemical filled ones offered to you). I packed a prebiotic protein collagen powder in a zip lock bag to soothe the gut, reduce inflammation and support my system overall. And then I packed a natural sleeping tablet called Valerian forte to ensure I was syncing up with my new time zone right away.
Staying hydrated and relaxed are huge prorities so I meditated often through the terminal’s and I added things to my water to ensure I was staying hydrated. I actually was blessed to have a hydrogen health drink bottle, which filters, activates and infuses the water with some great minerals. I do recommend it for travel.
When I landed in Los Angeles I seemed to skip Jet lag altogether and began sleeping and waking in perfect cycle, I realised after traveling 4 times over this trip that if you make sure you sleep or stay awake according to your incoming time zone - you dont get jet lag.
Some of the things I kept in mind before traveling were things about my stay I knew a vulnerable body finds harsh. These are things like tap water, lack of sunlight, mouldy environments, and harsh chemicals. I knew I was going to be going to a climate with lot’s of sunlight, and would be staying with my friend who lives a lox tox life, she even has a shower filter and all natural home products, so I knew these were going to make any burden’s on my body so much less.
Overall my top recommendations would be, to be prepared, once you create that supportive foundation for your body it gives you so much more resilience to go ahead and do the things you’d like to enjoy on your trip. I have been eating mindfully at home for now, but when I head out I choose amazing foods like oysters as my hero food and whatever else I consume, I make sure I do with digestive enzymes to support my body breaking anything I eat down. Note, not everyone needs these, but if you have low stomach acid or difficulty breaking down certain foods, you might want to speak to a doctor or natural health professional about getting some.
The other top travel tip I have is to get a travel friendly infra red light therapy device, I have an amazing one you can purchase through the Amavi healing members toolkit. It has so many benefits like mitochondria support, inflammation support, circadian rhythm, thyroid and endocrine system support and so much more.