A Year of Nourishment: Feminine Health, Radiance and Wellbeing for the Year Ahead 

A few months ago, we greeted the new year with a familiar promise – to prioritize health and achieve some specific wellness goals. 

While goals are fantastic, they often focus on quick fixes that aren’t sustainable. 

This year, you’re doing it differently. You’re committed to prioritizing your health on a deeper level, for a happy, healthier year. Sea buckthorn can be an integral part of this, helping you develop wellness habits that last not just for the year, but for a lifetime. 

If you’re ready to ensure this is the year that you live each day with more vitality, clarity, and resilience, know that it’s possible and sustainable with the right approach. 

Think of your cells as little engines that power your body. 

When your cells are nourished, they simply function better. This can be seen and felt throughout every area of your body – your skin, your energy, metabolism, digestion, and mood. 

It can be felt in the freedom of movement once chronic inflammation is calmed. It can be felt when your body feels hydrated, energized, and your immune system is strong. 

On the flip side, when your cells are depleted of the nutrients they need, there is no amount of surface-level effort that can compensate. 

For decades, women have been taught that wellness involves restriction. The goal is to eat less, do more, and constantly push harder. 

This is counterintuitive to what we really need to be doing, which is nourishing our minds and bodies. 

What we now know is that, as women, our bodies thrive with care – not restriction. 

This is the year to make the shift from resolutions and goals that drain you to habits and rituals that are restorative and healing. 

This shift involves:

• Learning how to nourish your hardworking body, rather than restrict it
• Hydrate on every level
• Leaning away from deprivation
• Prioritizing sleep
• Allowing yourself to rest, rather than constantly hustling
• Choosing movement that strengthen your body

This is a shift that recognizes your body and your health aren’t just projects to work on, but rather partners in a life of wellness and vitality. When you support your body with the right nutrients and habits, you’ll be amazed at how it responds. 

Your body is complex – in the most wonderful and beautiful ways. 

Each day, how you feel and what is going on internally are influenced by factors like hormone cycles, sleep, stress, and the type of nourishment that is reaching your cells. 

When one area is depleted or out of balance, the entire system feels off. 

The way to maintain balance is to support the foundations of wellness, so that all the processes in your body work synergistically, as they were designed to do. 

For women’s health, these are the pillars of wellness that matter most – and the ones to focus on this year. 

Your body is complex – in the most wonderful and beautiful ways. 

Each day, how you feel and what is going on internally are influenced by factors like hormone cycles, sleep, stress, and the type of nourishment that is reaching your cells. 

When one area is depleted or out of balance, the entire system feels off. 

The way to maintain balance is to support the foundations of wellness, so that all the processes in your body work synergistically, as they were designed to do. 

For women’s health, these are the pillars of wellness that matter most – and the ones to focus on this year. 

• Plump, smooth, and radiant skin
• Sustainable energy 
• Improved digestion
• Fewer cravings for unhealthy foods 

The omega-7 content found in sea buckthorn is incredible at restoring and maintaining hydration at a cellular level. 

The body is extremely responsive to how it’s nourished. The foods you eat don’t just provide a burst of fuel – they’re responsible for your energy levels and mood, and they can affect hormone levels, as well as impact long-term health. 

When the way your body is nourished is aligned with its needs, everything about your health and wellness feels more balanced. 

When it’s not, everything can feel a bit off. 

You might notice irritability, fatigue, cravings, bloating, and issues with your skin. Nutrition can also affect the more intimate areas of our lives, including everything from feminine health to libido. 

This is why a diet packed with nutrient-dense foods is so essential for women. 

High-quality nutrients provide the raw materials that the body needs to produce and metabolize hormones, support a healthy gut and digestion, regulate mood, strengthen the immune system, and maintain hydration of the skin and mucous membranes. 

Seems simple, but modern life means that our diets often fall short. 

When the new year rolls around, we work to remedy this by making resolutions to do better and eat better – then modern life creeps in again and throws a curveball. 

This year, stop making it about eating a specific type of diet. Instead, begin by eliminating foods that you know don’t nourish your body, like the bags of processed salty snacks and baked goods that were created in a factory thousands of miles away. 

Next, add in the foods that nourish your body and explore new ways of enjoying them. The wonderful thing about most fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, whole grains, and healthy fats is that most of them are extremely versatile. 

Hormones have a direct relationship with nutrients, especially healthy fats, antioxidants, and certain vitamins. Without these building blocks, the body begins to struggle to maintain hormonal balance. This can show up as mood swings, irregular cycles, low libido, and perimenopause/menopause symptoms. 

One way to combat this as you’re focusing on improving your health to ensure you get lots of healthy fats in your diet. 

Healthy fats, like omega-3 and omega-7 help the body to:

• Produce sex hormones
• Reduce inflammation
• Support adrenal function
• Stabilize blood sugar 
• Reduce stress

All of these impact how the body uses and metabolizes hormones, including the stress hormone cortisol. 

Along with healthy fats, antioxidants help to protect the glands that produce hormones from oxidative stress, further supporting hormonal harmony. 

Sea buckthorn delivers both omega fatty acids and antioxidants, helping your body to use nutrients and hormones more efficiently. 

New Year’s resolutions often come with an “all-or-nothing” tag attached. It’s either going all in on hitting the gym six days a week or sitting on the couch, binge-watching a favorite show. 

What is really going to transform your health this year is shifting the mindset to focus on consistent, moderate movement. 

Sustainable movement and exercise goals are the way to go. 

Yes, you can push yourself to become healthier and stronger, but if you’re struggling to get moving or falling into a sinkhole every time you miss a gym day, high-intensity and overcommitment likely won’t get you there. 

Focus on movement that improves circulation, supports lymphatic flow, improves metabolic health, and boosts your mood. 

• Walking
• Stretching
• Strength training
• Yoga
• Low-impact cardio 
• Functional mobility exercises

Think of these types of exercises and movements as the foundation of your physical health. Build on these daily, even in small doses, and you’ll find that the blocks begin to fit together and soon you’ll be crushing the more challenging goals you’ve set for yourself. 

What is the most underrated health strategy?

Without a doubt, it’s sleep. 

It’s estimated that at least 35%of adults aren’t getting the sleep they need – and it would be easy to argue that this number is actually higher. 

It’s suggested that the average adult needs somewhere between 7 and 9 hours of sleep each night. So, if a person who regularly gets 7 hours of sleep a night were asked if they were getting adequate sleep, they might answer yes.

But this only tells part of the story. 

The amount of sleep a person needs is highly individual. One person might thrive on seven hours, while another needs a full nine to feel completely rested and restored. 

Plus, women tend to require more sleep than men to feel rested. 

Then we need to look at how that sleep number is calculated. If you go to bed at 9 pm and wake up at 5 am, that’s a full eight hours in bed, but you might not be getting quality sleep the entire time. 

It takes the body and mind time to settle down, relax, and recognize it’s time for sleep. 

Lifestyle habits like scrolling on your phone, eating late, and stress can make it difficult not only to fall asleep but also get the quality of sleep you need once your eyes are shut. 

All of this to say that prioritizing your health this year means quality sleep is an important goal. 

Begin with a consistent nightly wind-down routine, a comfortably cool bedroom, and reduce evening screen time to improve sleep quality and quantity. 

Since the new year, you’ve been doing all the “right” things. 

You’re eating well, moving your body, hydrating, and trying to manage stress – but you’re still not feeling your best. 

Maybe you’re tired, you can feel inflammation throughout your body, and there’s just this sense of feeling overall disconnected from your body. 

This isn’t a personal failing on your part. It’s simply a sign that your body needs nourishment and restorative care for all of the hard work that’s going on behind the scenes. 

As a woman, your body is uniquely sensitive to the nutrients used to fuel it. 

The hormonal fluctuations and imbalances alone place a high demand on the feminine body, and when the proper nutrients aren’t available, the effects ripple outward. 

So, to optimize your wellness this year, it’s important to recognize the importance of nourishment for a woman’s body. 

Fueling your body with the right nutrients influences so many areas of your health. 

• Tissue Repair: From beautiful skin to strong muscles and a healthy gut lining, cells that are fueled with the right nutrients do the best work. 
  
  
• Energy Production: When you’re constantly on the go, nourishment is what keeps you moving. Fueling your body with the good stuff is the difference between feeling like you’re dragging your feet and experiencing a steady, level energy throughout the day. 
  
  
• Skin Vitality: Beauty is more than skin deep, and how the body is nourished on the inside will eventually show on the outside. Your skin needs nutrients to support hydration, promote collagen production and elasticity, and give you that gorgeous, natural, and healthy glow. 
  
  
• Gut Health: Nutrients, including healthy fats and omega-7 fatty acids, are essential for digestive health, which also affects immune health and mood. 
  
  
• Reduced Inflammation: So many women today are dealing with the effects of chronic inflammation, but this doesn’t have to be your life. Antioxidants and healthy omega fatty acids are natural inflammation fighters that are crucial for long-term health.