The “Secret Sauce” for Travel Recovery

August 26, 2011 By: Lynne Brick

How do you feel after you take a business trip or vacation? Do you feel like you need a vacation from your vacation?  Do you feel exhausted, fatigued or that you need a couple of days to get back into your groove?   I’ve had the privilege to travel worldwide to present at fitness conventions.  Sometimes, I need to be ready to speak, teach a class or consult as soon as I arrive. But before I do, there is one thing I like to do, to kick start my energy and help me adjust to time zone changes.  It doesn’t matter whether I drive or fly or how long or how far I travel, I do this as soon as I arrive at my destination or my home:

      Soak in a hot mineral bath for 10-15 minutes.       

Why? A hot mineral bath helps detoxifies my body from traveling.   A hot mineral bath helps prepare my mind and focus my energy. A hot mineral bath helps rejuvenate my spirit.

Here are the ingredients I use:

2-3 cups of Epsom salts

20 drops of lavender oil

Epsom salts consist of Magnesium Sulfate. Magnesium and sulfur are the two main ingredients that provide the medicinal benefits.  Here are 5 benefits of taking a hot mineral bath:

1.  Draws toxins out of your body.  Your body absorbs magnesium which helps to stabilize and neutralize your body’s enzymes plus remove chemical toxins.

2.  Relieves muscle soreness.  Lactic acid, a healthy by-product of exercise, causes the muscle soreness you feel the next day or two. Magnesium helps to pull toxins such as lactic acid out of your muscles, hence relieving the muscle soreness.

3.  Sedates the nervous system.  Magnesium helps to reduce stress and helps your nerves to function properly.

4.  Reduces swelling.  Have you ever had swollen feet, ankles or lower legs after you’ve taken a long flight? Swelling is fluid that extravasated (leaked) from your blood vessels. Magnesium facilitates moving the fluid from your feet, ankles or legs back into your circulatory system so it can be excreted.

5.  Helps to stabilize your body’s magnetic field, especially if you travel by plane. Magnetic fields exist everywhere. Your smart phone, your Bluetooth, your iPad, your computer, your hotel keys and even your body has a magnetic field.  Aircraft do as well. When you fly at any altitude above the earth’s surface, the magnetic field shifts. A mineral bath helps to stabilize your body’s personal magnetic field.

I hope a hot mineral bath will help you as much as it helps me!  Travel in good health.

You Go Girl!    Lynne Brick, RN

Last week’s question:  How old would Lucille Ball been on August 6, 2011? Answer:  100 years old!

This week’s question:   My favorite episode was when she and Ethel worked in the candy factory and couldn’t box the candy fast enough so they started shoving them in their mouth.  What is your favorite “I Love Lucy” episode?

Thought for the day:  (Quote):  “The world is a book and those who do not travel, read only one page.” St. Augustine

Sources:

Www.lynnebricks.com

http://www.sfbsc.com/epsom-salt

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/use-epsom-salts-13-wonderful-ways.html