When booking a conference with us, we offer a variety of health lectures led by Jana Stridfeldt Bjuhr, our wellness, environmental, and quality coordinator, who is also a certified health advisor, functional medicine health coach, and mindfulness instructor. Each lecture lasts two hours and includes a healthy snack session in the style of No Junk. Besides our conferences, these can be combined with yoga classes in “Andrummet” or any activity at Aurora Spa.
Lectures
Lifestyle Advice for the Rat Race
A general lecture on health based on the hectic lifestyle we have today and how we can make simple lifestyle changes that will make a big difference to our health. There are usually many fun discussions and many laughs. The lecture takes 2 hours incl. coffee break. The coffee break follows the theme of the lecture and the following topics are addressed:
Food for recovery
- Have you loaded your body with the right nutrition?
- Blood sugar and its effect on health and hormones
- Does food bring more stress or balance?
- Food to strengthen gut flora and invigorate the mind
- Superfoods to protect the body against stress
Exercise for recovery
- Finding the ‘right’ level – does your exercise cause more stress or more recovery?
- Circadian rhythm – our internal clock. How can we optimize our health based on it?
- Sleep for recovery – the right amount at the right time
The importance of daily breaks
- Stress and its impact on your entire hormonal system.
- Stress is not dangerous – but the lack of recovery is
- Breathing, meditation, mindfulness. Can one minute really make a difference?
BLOOD SUGAR SMART
Here you will learn more about the gastrointestinal system and how it can affect your physical and mental health. During this lecture we will clear up many questions and you will get a proper basic course in diet and nutrition and how you can easily increase your energy and fat burning, get a stable blood sugar and a better immune system and a happier stomach. This lecture offers many important AHA experiences and provides lots of inspiration to make that dietary change that you can’t quite get started with. Some of these points include
- Diet basics – energy, fats, proteins, carbohydrates
- What is blood sugar?
- How is blood sugar regulated and maintained?
- Do you burn more fat or sugar?
- The blood glucose curve and blood glucose-related health
- How you can influence your blood sugar with simple tips
- Ketosis – what is it?
- Fasting – advantages and disadvantages
- Everyday food and performance food
- The impact of gut flora on your health
- Circadian rhythm – food and shift work
- Tips on shopping – comparing different products
Wonderful woman
This lecture is perfect for the female-dominated group to gain more knowledge and understanding of hormones and how they affect our everyday life and our performance and how we can relate to it and create the right conditions for hormonal balance both at work and in private life. You will learn about:
- Basic course in the female body
- Thyroid – energy and metabolism
- Adrenals – stress hormones and sex hormones
- Menstrual cycle – sex hormones and the cycle through the different phases of life
- How our hormones affect each other
- Fatigue, hormonal imbalances and the OAT axis
- Endometriosis, PCOS, PMS, menopausal symptoms, fertility
- Contraception and its impact on our health
- Strengthen the oil phases of your menstrual cycle to reach your full potential
- Blood sugar – insulin, ketones, fasting and autophagy
- Take advantage of your different mental states during your cycle
- Right diet and right movement at the right time
- The impact of caffeine on the menstrual cycle
- Fasting cyclically and optimizing your hormone levels
- Use supplements if you need
HARMONY, PEACEFUL NIGHTS & WELL-BEING
A lecture where we go into depth about how stress works, the chaos too little recovery can cause and how we can prevent stress-related illness. We will talk about:
- Why do we stress?
- The hormonal cycle
- Hormonal changes due to stress
- Stress and our mental well-being
- Circadian rhythm, sleep and melatonin
- Sleep tips
- Stress management
- Breathing
- Mindful presence
- Exercise
Shortcut to Health
You are unique with your genetic makeup! No one else is exactly like you! You have inherited your genes You are completely unique with your gene set. No one else is like you! You have inherited your genes from your biological parents. Some of these genes may feel uncomfortable to inherit? Will you get cardiovascular disease like your dad or allergies like your mom? It used to be thought that 80% of our health and diseases are due to our genetic inheritance, which doesn’t always feel too encouraging, but today we know that about 80% of our genetic inheritance around our health can be influenced by our lifestyle! This is good news! During this lecture you will learn more about how genes work and how you can influence your genetic expression with topics such as:
- Genes, DNA, Chromosomes
- Mutations – what does it mean?
- Genetic variations – what do you have?
- Telomeres – the end of your chromosomes that affect your lifespan
- Epigenetics – how you can influence how genes express themselves and how long your telomeres are
- Shortcut to health – lifestyle advice to keep your genes in check
Contact us for further assistance at bokning@ripan.se or 0980–630 00
