My 2024 Health-Focused Gift Guides
‘Tis the season! Holiday gift guides are back! Here are my top picks and my go-to wellness products. Whether you are just starting off on your health journey or an avid health guru, these guides are ways to inspire you to live well.
In order to give you a well-rounded gift guide for 2024, I decided to break up the guides into three sections: products, food/nutrition supplements, and investments to your health. It is never too early to begin diving into the root causes of symptoms you are experiencing and know there is a better way to live.
Products
Ilia: “Clean, skin-centric beauty.” Ilia has been making waves in the clean beauty industry for a few years and for good reason. They consciously and carefully select ingredients and do not compromise in adding toxic synthetics to their makeup products. Ilia uses recycled aluminum, glass, and responsibly sourced paper for their packaging while also partnering with Pact Collective to keep the empty beauty packaging out of landfills.
Atomic Habits: Bring on the books this season! Let Atomic Habits by James Clear rewire your thinking about what you do each day and how your habits impact your goals. Clear goes into a deep dive of practical and proven ways to build good habits and break bad ones.
Heretic Parfum: Everyone wants a signature scent, but it can come with a cost to your health. Perfumes on the market can be filled with toxic chemical ingredients that can not only irritate the skin, but affect hormones. Heretic Parfum disrupts the status-quo on perfume quality by using naturally-derived botanical ingredients to create vibrant functional fragrances blended with organic non-GMO sugarcane alcohol and raw ingredients from plants and flowers. Heretic Parfum uses natural ingredients that are always vegan and cruelty-free.
Primally Pure Candle: Scented candles contain fragrances that release compounds into the air that are considered toxic. Instead of reaching for the conventional Christmas tree scent from Target, opt for supporting a brand that has your health in mind and at the forefront of their mission. Primally Pure is very transparent about their ingredients they use as a clean and non-toxic beauty brand. Their Holiday Candle gives you all of the scent and none of the side effects by having a simple ingredient list: beeswax, coconut oil, essential oils of sweet essence, cinnamon bark, and black spruce.
Dry Brush: Dry brushing has been having its moment in the last couple of years in the media, but it has been a practice for many ancient cultures around the world. Dry brushing provides gentle exfoliation, detox the body, improves lymphatic drainage, improves the appearance of your skin, reduces signs of cellulite, and activates your parasympathetic nervous system. Beat the winter dullness and get that glow back!
Green Pans: Childhood best friends created ceramic nonstick pans in 2007 after learning about how toxic conventional nonstick pans are. The plastic and chemical coating of nonstick cookware are known as “forever chemicals.” These chemicals are linked to a slew of disease and negative health effects including: cancer, thyroid disease, liver damage, and affecting the immune system. These besties showed the world with their cookware products that it is possible to cook PFAS-free!
Investments
HATCH Restore 2 Alarm Clock: You know I am all about the importance of good quality sleep and Hatch Alarm is an amazing tool for optimizing restful sleep and rejuvenating wake-ups. Hatch Alarm is a sunrise alarm clock, so it mimics the sunrise and wakes your body up through emitting light in your room and gentle customizable sounds. Up to an hour before your set alarm time, the clock will slowly emit light so you will wake from your slumber in a calmer, gentler way. Hatch also supports your sleep and wake routine through their easy-to-follow app where you can customize your alarm times, days of the week, light, and sound.
Clear Light Infrared Sauna: Although this is a larger investment, far infrared saunas are the ultimate therapeutic experience to enhance muscle recovery, pain relief, relaxation, circulation, beating the cold weather blues. These saunas utilize infrared wavelengths that penetrate the body’s tissue to raise the core body temperature while traditional saunas only heat the air around you. This induces sweating–natural detoxifier–and stimulates the lymphatic, immune, and cardiovascular systems.
Vitamix Blender: Serving as the all-in-one, year-round best kitchen product is a Vitamix. When you think of blenders, you may only think about smoothies or shakes, but Vitamix is such a game-changer for meal prep, acting as a food processor for salad dressings, soups, baking, and creating tasty snacks (RECIPE).
Ōura Ring: Even though there are numerous different options for health tracking, Ōura Rings are state-of-the-art in tracking overall wellness. With their start in Finland, Ōura Rings’ Nordic philosophy is one we can all strive for: balance. As you wear the Ring day in and day out, it continually tracks data on over 20 biometrics to directly impact wellbeing. It has extremely accurate data: 99% heart rate accuracy, 98% HRV, 92% body temperature, 79% sleep tracking (compared to clinical polysomnography at 79%). The Ring helps you tune into your body on a new level ever thought imaginable!
GI-Map Test: Finally get the answers to all of your digestive and gut issues such as constipation, slow bowels, diarrhea, bloating, gas, stomach pain, and food intolerances. Aligning with my “test, don’t guess” strategy when it comes to health, the GI-MAP at-home stool test is a great functional testing option that gives a comprehensive picture of the inner workings of our digestive function. This stool test is the same I use with my clients in my 1:1 program, “Master Your Microbiome Gut Health Intensive.” Read more about the GI-Map Test here.
DUTCH Test: Are you tired of feeling at war with your body or being told by a doctor, “everything is normal” after testing your hormones? Here is where the DUTCH test and I come in. This test is the most comprehensive method of testing your sex and adrenal hormones, their metabolites, and organic acids. Just like the GI-Map Test, the urine test is taken in the comfort of your own home. Learn more about the DUTCH test here and the Root Cause Hormone package here.
Supplements and Nutrition
Graza Olive Oil: Did you know many olive oils you can buy in the U.S. are blended from low quality oils or market themselves as being from Italy when they are actually from many different regions…? Graza puts the quality back into olive oil by being 100% Picual olives from Jaen, Spain (the region where over half the world’s olive oil is produced), and having different olive oils (“Drizzle” and “Sizzle”) in respect to their harvest time. You don’t have to live in Italy to get the best olive oil in the world thanks to Graza! Here is a (LINK) to get $5 off your first order.
Electrolytes, Spices: Redmond is a jack of all trades. They keep things simple and transparent with their Real Salt that contains 60+ trace minerals, organic spices that contain no artificial colors, flavors, additives or sugar, and with their Re-Lyte electrolytes that can fit into the lifestyle of high intensity athletes or individuals looking for everyday immune support. Save on your next order using my link.
RASA Adaptogen Coffee: As an herbal coffee alternative, the founder, Lopa, is onto something with this product. Instead of feeling the anxious jitters, 2 p.m. crash or the interrupted sleep cycle from drinking coffee or other sources of caffeine, Rasa gives you sustained energy to conquer every to-do list without the negative effects. Rasa is mixed with adaptogens to help your body cope with stress by giving your body what it needs. Take part in the ritual of making a warm beverage without the consequences of caffeine and save while doing it. Use my code “RASARX025997” to save.
Elderberry Syrup: Beat the cold and flu season by supporting your immune system by incorporating elderberries into your daily diet. The POWER of Elderberries’ Signature Elderberry Syrup contains over 700mg of organic European black elderberry per serving and it is sweetened using only local raw honey.
DoTerra Serenity Essential Oil: A good night sleep and reduced stress throughout the day sound good to anyone else? The peaceful aroma of doTERRA Serenity Restful is a mix of lavender oil, cedarwood, coriander, ylang,ylang, marjoram, Roman chamomile, vetiver, and sandalwood essential oils to soothe and promote relaxation.
You do not need to buy all of these products in order to be healthy. These are just easy and visual guides for you to take into consideration this holiday season. Happy holidays!