1. Prioritize Hydration
Hydration is one of the most important elements to your digestive system. It helps your body safely flush out toxins and cleanses your kidneys and bowels. Since water helps move food through your digestive system, it makes sense as to why your digestion slows down (and therefore reduces your energy) when you're dehydrated.

It can be easy to forget to drink water during the day, especially if you have young children or your work environment is chaotic. But setting an alarm on your phone to drink a glass of water every hour and a half or so can make a big difference in how much energy you have to accomplish your day to day tasks.

If you find it hard to stay on top of drinking water, get yourself a really cute water bottle that you'll want to carry around with you. Take the opportunity to fill it up on your morning and evening commute, and put a water drinking chart on your desk if you have to.If you're a coffee or soda drinker, be sure to add in an extra glass of water for each of those you drink because both beverages are dehydrating.

If you've had 8 glasses of water and a coffee and soda, you've only really had 6 glasses. The same rule applies for alcohol.

How much water do you require? Your body weight in pounds / 2 in oz.

For example: 150 lbs / 2 = 75 oz. (Before factoring in caffeine, alcohol or soda). 

2. Eat Raw Foods Before Meals
Raw foods are living, which means they give us life and energy. Just ask our Pure Energy Chef, Steve Factor!

Eating raw foods 10-15 minutes before meals offers your body plant enzymes that help you digest your meals. For example, having a small veggie salad before your meal can help improve digestion, as can simply chewing on a few cucumber slices or celery sticks before eating.


Plant enzymes do come in capsule form as herbal supplements and are usually sourced from papaya or pineapple, but I personally recommend skipping the capsules and using real food instead. Not only will you better absorb the enzymes, but it's also a cost effective option!

3. Spice Up Your Life With Herbs
Herbs can be extremely helpful for improving digestive function, especially fennel seed, ginger root, dandelion root, peppermint, triphala and nettle.

Dandelion root helps promote bile flow to reduce bloating, increase bile flow to digest fats and absorb fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. Ginger soothes nausea and discomfort and relieves gas and bloating. Stinging nettle is a liver supportive herb that helps promote the safe elimination of metabolic waste and gentle cleanse the GI tract. Both fennel seed and triphala have been used in Ayurveda for thousands of years to help relieve constipation and bloating.

You can add digestive herbs to your diet by sipping on herbal tea blends throughout the day (which also counts towards your water consumption!) and you may wish to take specific herbs in health supplements such as capsules or powders for a more concentrated dose.

4. Minimize Mucus Forming Foods
Wheat, meat and dairy products such as cottage cheese, milk, heavy cream and butter are considered mucus forming foods. By being categorized as mucus forming, these foods have the ability to leave behind a slimy or sludgy residue in the intestinal tract. As you can guess, that sludgy residue will slow down your digestion and rob your body of energy.

Wheat, meat and dairy also require a large amount of digestive energy. If you eat these foods regularly, it wouldn't be surprising if your energy levels began to soar once reducing their frequency in your diet. An easy way to begin minimizing these foods would be to have a “Meatless Monday” each week by replacing animal protein with plant based protein, such as beans, lentils and quinoa. You can replace dairy milk with nut or rice milk, while butter can be replaced with coconut oil. Wheat can be replaced with wheat-free whole grains such as spelt, kamut, brown rice or rye.By substituting these foods for plant-based foods, you'll not only improve the health of your digestive tract and your energy, but your overall health and wellness.

5. Eat Foods That Nourish Your Body at a Cellular Level
Raw foods are considered superfoods because they nourish your body at the cellular level. But if you have a weakened digestive system, it can be difficult for your body to breakdown and absorb the nutrients from these high fiber foods.

For this reason, chlorella makes a great natural energy supplement with nutrition that goes directly to your cells. Chlorella is so energizing because of its high concentration of chlorophyll, beta-glucans, antioxidant vitamins and the unique nutrient, Chlorella Growth Factor (also known as CGF). All of these nutrients are used by your body to help produce more cellular energy, which is sure to last much longer than the buzz from your grande Americano.

Doesn't chlorella sound too good to be true? Before you get too excited, there is a catch to this amazing green superfood!

Chlorella has been on planet earth for more than two billion years. In order to survive for so long, chlorella must've had a very distinctive quality that's allowed it to do so and that's the chlorella cell wall. The chlorella cell wall acts as an “outer shell” to allow chlorella to survive through all of the changes the planet has gone through in two billion years. And beyond the chlorella cell wall is where all of the nutrients are located.

If you're wondering what the problem is, let me explain. The chlorella cell wall is made out of cellulose, a type of fiber. Unfortunately, humans lack the enzyme required to properly digest cellulose which makes it impossible for our bodies to break down the outer cell wall and receive all of the energizing nutrients inside of it.

But here's the good news: Despite this fact, you can still receive all of chlorella's health benefits!In order for us to be able to include chlorella in our diets as an energy supplement, the outer cell wall must be opened. There are several processing methods in place to do this, such as blanching or heat freezing. But as a heat and light sensitive algae, not all processing methods can keep chorella's nutrients pure and undamaged.

Sun Chlorella Powder and Sun Chlorella Tablets undergo a pulverization method called DYNO®-Mill processing. DYNO®-Mill processing ensures that your body receives all of the nutrition in chlorella without using any heat or light sources during the processing method. The result is a highly nutritious chlorella supplement for energy, free from oxidation, chemical exposure and toxicity.

About Brandi Black, RHN
Brandi Black is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist from Vancouver, B.C. Experiencing her own health challenges at a young age led her to become passionate about educating on the healing properties of food, and how to achieve hormone balance, clear skin and sustainable weight loss naturally. In her spare time you'll find Brandi writing in her blog and hanging out with her teacup chihuahua, Coconut.

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