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Welcome to the Vitalife show. I'm doctor Janine Bowring
and today's topic is all about how to reduce puffy eyes
so a lot of people especially women complain to me that they have chronic
puffiness around the eyes especially on the lower
eyelid so this can be caused by a few different factors
first and foremost as a naturopath I always look at the internal organ
health & its the kidneys that i very much related to this
area underneath the eyes so if there's toxicity in the kidneys then this often
will translate
into this area becoming very puffy in retaining water
so one of the things that we do of course is detoxification
I'm gonna talk about my favourite detox formula in just a moment to stay tuned
for that
now the other cause for puffy eyes can be actually styes bacterial
infection in this can be from you know touching things in the environment and/or
always rubbing or touching the eyes which a lot of people
you know develop this bad habit not knowing
that this is what they're doing so again remember always wash your hands and
try to just be aware
you know that you're not rubbing and touching your eyes frequently
the other thing you know people have developed allergies and this causes
puffiness in the eyes as well as fluid retention
so be aware of your allergies there are definitely natural thing
to help to treat your allergies maybe it's your pillow so I've had a number
patient that you know wake up every morning
with puffy eyes and irritated eyes because they're actually reacting
to whatever their pillow is made of or
you know coated with because you know the flame retardant all those toxic things
that they use in pillows can be really a bad thing for your health.
Just be aware that you may need to change your pillow
now one of the great things you can do is massage
around the eye to help to reduce that puffyness
so follow me here you just gonna use hopefully your clean
fingers and just the tip of your fingers
around the outside of the eye And what this does is help stimulate the circulation
also help to stimulate the lymphatic drainage
around the eyes and in the skin of the face
and this is a great way to reduce that puffyness so you're gonna start just with
these two fingers on each end and start
on the eyebrows you don't want to get too close to the actual eyelids
and starting on the eyebrows just gently pushing starting from
inside and out
this helps to get that blood flowing
helps to increasing energy in circulation around the eye
and then of course you do bottom so again not getting too close to the actual
eyes and just gently press and you can actually feel
the edges of the orbit
or the bone
eye socket and you just gently again
pressing so you can do about 20 repetitions on upper
portion of the eye
and then 20 repetitions on the lower and what's nice is it helps to further drain
lymph
of the face is just to do some gentle massage
down the cheeks then starting from behind the
ears down the neck and again 20 repetitions of
each of these and also underneath a chin
theres some lymph here at the end of the chin and as gentle
20 strokes like that you can do this once or twice a day
fantastic for helping to reduce that puffyness around the eye
the other great thing is cucumbers so putting
a couple of slices of cucumbers right around the eyes and letting that sit for about
fifteen to twenty minutes
is a great way to get rid of that puffyness. I also love tea bags
using
a black tea is the best because the stronger
tannin content the tannins that actually help to get rid of that puffyness
and cause the contraction of the tissue
so what I love to do and brew a little bit and black teaso 2 tea bags
and put those tea bags directly in the freezer for about 10-15
let them get nice and cool and then put those directly on the eyes
lie down on your favourite spot where you can relax meditate for a few
moments but you'll see that
whether its for the styes, the allergies any type of eye irritation
and that puffyness it really helps to shrink that tissue
so it's an amazing thing to do. I promise I will talk about my favorite
thing to do
internally. Its Vitadetox now this is my own formulation for Vitatree Nutritional
A whole food formulation helping to detoxify
not only the kidneys which is so important for this area of the face
but all the internal organs and that's really important that you're doing this
at least four times a year so at the change of each season
a full body detox to get out all those internal toxins that had been built up were
exposed to them on a daily basis
and trust me if you're not detoxing you are
working and getting closer and closer to ill health and disease
so its so important I do this with all my patients I have
you know for over 15 years now and I've seen thousand of patients
across North America so important to detoxify because your health
literally turns around when you get those toxins out
of the body. Trust me on that you have to absolutely try the Vitadetox
its the best thing you can do for your internal health
your internal organs the way they are functioning the way that they should be
functioning
but more importantly for the beauty aspect because once you detox and get
all those free radicals and those toxins out of the body
especially the skin cells you see that radiance that glow that comes back
people
or quite literally ask you what have you been doing? I mean you look radiant
look fantastic
and it's because of the detoxification so check that out, Vitadetox. At vitatree.com
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