You have probably heard it more times than you can count. Be present. Live in the now. Stay in the moment. And yet, here you are, in the middle of a perfectly fine Tuesday, mentally composing an email you haven’t written yet while also replaying something someone said to you in 2019.

Being in the present moment today is proving to be a challenging task. There are so many distractions pulling us away from even a single moment to pause — the pause turns into a phone moment, checking Instagram, dopamine spiking. I am just as guilty.

Our bodies are extraordinary. Nature has gifted us with an incredible self-healing intelligence — but it needs the right conditions and the right fuel to do its job. When we bombard it with processed foods, refined sugars, late nights, alcohol, and chronic stress, we tip the scales and the body starts to struggle.

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