COLLEGE BOUND FOR SUCCESS
COLLEGE BOUND FOR SUCCESS
Jhoane Robinson, Herbalist, Co-Founder Cedar Bear Naturales
We are heading into those sweet late summer days where the lines blur between barbeques, boat rides, firepits and the impending fall semester that lies ahead. Summer jobs are coming to an end, homework free weekends are numbered, and the days are admittedly getting shorter.
For you college students, whether this is your first semester away from home or you are a seasoned senior looking forward to what the future might hold come May, it’s time to get your head in the game. Or perhaps you are a parent or guardian, looking out for your newly adult kids and considering how you can help them set off for the new school year prepared both physically and mentally.
No matter how you cut it, there are four pillars for school success: brain health, energy support, restful and restorative sleep, and immune health. When a college student can find a balance between them, a calm place of homeostasis, they are ready to take on a successful school year. With these four pillars in place, they should be able to tackle almost anything with vigor and stamina.
If you are a student, high school, college bound, or otherwise, take the advice below to heart. If you are a parent or guardian, guide your new-to-adulthood kid through these steps for success!
Get Your Brain in the Game Ahead of Time
Being a student requires a lot of heavy lifting in the brain department and it can be rough on the body in so many ways. The sheer amount of information shared in the first week back in class can be daunting. You’ve got to come with your A game, ready to hit it out of the park.
Wellness & School Success Tip: Familiarize yourself with the materials a week or so in advance. Then relax. Your brain will be jam packed with information soon enough. By getting organized ahead of time, you can earn yourself some relaxation to clear your mind and transition from your summer lifestyle into full time college mode. Do yourself a favor and read those syllabi and materials lists as soon as they become available. Purchase all of the required materials right away so you aren’t wasting space in your brain worrying they won’t come in time for the first week of classes. You’ve got enough to think about!
Health Tip: Eat breakfast, no matter what time of day you wake up. It’s named “break fast” for a reason - you need calories and nutrients right after your non-eating hours. Hard working students keep crazy hours at times, but hey, no one is judging a breakfast burrito at 2 in the afternoon!
If you are planning to stay up until 4 am studying, plan a healthy meal at midnight to discourage the temptation to eat junk food all night. Whatever you have for dinner, get extra and save it for a middle of the night meal.
When making meal choices, remember, high quality protein, healthy fats, and vegetables feed your brain!
Cedar Bear Herbal Brain and Cognitive Support
Brain Booster - If there is just one herbal TincTract® to start the school year off with, this is it. Support your memory and cognitive functions and your brain and cardiovascular health with this special brain activating and building formula with herbs that have been used for centuries to enhance energy levels and memory function. Start taking it daily a couple weeks before the semester begins to get ahead of the game!
Magnificent Mushrooms - Improve immune function and support your brain and cardiovascular health by taking this TincTract® regularly. As you get deeper into the semester, an overall support like this will keep your brain functioning at a high level while supporting other areas of health and helping you stay well.
Lion’s Mane Mushrooms - Support mental clarity, cognitive function, and overall brain function with Lion’s Mane. Traditionally used as a boon for brain health, it also supports the immune, digestive, and nervous systems. This makes it a no-brainer on the college campus!
Support Healthy Energy Levels
Ideally students are entering the fall semester well rested, rejuvenated, and ready for another round of academia. If you are shaking your head, this section is for you (or the adult kid you know so well!).
The truth is, life is busy. Just because students get a summer break, doesn’t mean they can or will take it. Many students choose to take a summer session class to accelerate their graduation track. Others work 1, 2, even 3 jobs to save up for tuition and living expenses during the school year. Some have family obligations which require full or part time attention. Those who can take the time off often travel abroad, visit friends and family, or stay up late and party like rock stars - and why not? Unencumbered summer days are numbered, right?
Whatever the reason a student may be dragging their feet back to the college campus, it is no time to mess around with low energy levels. If you are hitting the campus in need of rest, use a multifaceted approach to get yourself back up to speed.
This requires deep sleep, dense nutrition, and stress support. Think a minimum of 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep, 3 high quality daily meals plus nutrition-packed snacks, and something to balance your stress like a yoga or meditation class (or solo practice if you’re disciplined like that).
Stop pushing so hard and create a daily routine that allows for work/life balance. Hone this skill and carry it with you beyond college as you grow into your career and chosen life.
Wellness Tip: Schedule in a daily walk to a healthy cafe or a campus dining hall that has good choices for lunch (or dinner). This tackles two goals at once: stress support and healthy eating.
Health Tip: Get away from energy drinks and high caffeine with a healthy energy support formula from Cedar Bear. With herbal energy support, you won’t experience the high and low energy dips caffeine causes, rather a steady burn of available stamina to get through your busy days.
Cedar Bear Herbal Energy Support
Energy and Stamina - This formula has everything a college student needs to toss the caffeine and keep on going, strong and steady. An energy blend that enhances oxygenation in the brain and gives a natural caffeine lift for energy and metabolism.
Adrenal Balance - Formulated specifically for adrenal fatigue & exhaustion, stress, and restoring mental focus, pick this up and take it daily as a tonic when you are feeling completely depleted - or on your way there. This adrenal complex supplement supports adrenal function, healthy cognitive function and promotes improved concentration.
Don’t Forget to Sleep!
Although I’ve touched on sleep already, it is so incredibly important that it deserves its own little corner of this post. I cannot stress enough how important sleep is for quite literally every function in the body. When we sleep, our bodies heal themselves. When you were a kid, that is when your body grew, did you know that? If that isn’t a testament to the importance of sleep, I don’t know what is.
I’m not just talking about cat naps or stolen shut eye during lecture hall. I’m talking about a deep, restful, full rapid eye movement (REM) sleep cycle kind of sleep. This requires quiet and darkness. Lights out, computers off, kind of sleep. If you have roommates, eye masks and earplugs are the way to go.
Wellness Tip: Let’s talk about sleep hygiene, since that’s a thing these days. It's really just a fancy phrase for keeping a healthy routine: limit naps, stick to a sleep schedule, get some form of physical exercise each day, and clean up your sleep environment (dark, quiet, temperature regulated).
Health Tip: Tone down the stimulating drinks, alcohol, and/or sugar at least 4 hours before you plan to catch some serious shut eye. Eat a well balanced meal a couple hours before you head to bed to keep blood sugar stable through the night. Avoid eating too close to bedtime as your body will then still be concentrating on digestion instead of deep rest.
Cedar Bear Herbal Support for Sleep and Anxiousness
Kava Calm - When you’ve done everything right to promote a peaceful night’s rest - or a peaceful day’s rest as it may be on campus - and your mind and body won’t let it happen, give this expertly formulated Cedar Bear TincTract® a try. It temporarily relaxes your muscles, nerves and mind while soothing the digestive system to allow you to fall into a blissfully deep slumber with no side effects.
Immune Health is Paramount
As students delve deeper into the fall semester it never fails to become crystal clear as to why year-round immune health is worth paying attention to. As summer fades into fall the daylight quietly recedes and the chill of longer nights sneak in. All the while, class workloads get tougher, the papers, projects and tests all come at much higher stakes, and it may feel like there’s no end in sight!
Although you may have saved yourself some sniffles by bolstering your immune health months ago, this is the time to really double down on immune health. Did you know 70% of the immune system is in the gut? That’s right, so when doubling down on immune health, be sure to support your digestion.
Wellness Tip: Do your future self a favor and choose rest over a second or third! round of drinks with your friends. Schedule out how you are going to get your full 8 hours of sleep and stick to your schedule - it will feel so much better than grumpily smashing the alarm on your phone in the morning, remembering all too well that hindsight is 20/20.
Although there is no time like the present to work on a healthy immune lifestyle, when you are in a bind and feeling low, Cedar Bear has some fantastic formulas that work in the moment. Then use Cedar Bear’s health building tonics to gently increase immune health over time, so that next fall won’t hit so harshly.
Health Tip: Combine health building tonics with health building habits. Adequate rest (I can’t say this enough), proper nutrition, moderate exercise, and good time management will reduce stress on your body and mind, clearing the way for a healthier, happier student.
Cedar Bear Herbal Immune Support
Echinacea Super Immune - an immune activator (these herbs help the immune system increase white blood cell activity) that helps maintain upper respiratory health while supporting the lymphatic system. Take at the first sign of a scratchy throat or other symptoms, or before like when a roommate starts coughing, to get ahead of it!
Elderberry - this powerhouse of an herb builds and supports a healthy immune system, use this Cedar Bear TincTract® as a daily seasonal support and double up use in times of need.
Cedar Bear Health Building Support
Turmeric Golden Drops - improves digestion and builds gut health, (which builds immune health), overall energy levels, and supports healthy detoxification. A trifecta of immune boosting actions!
Iodine - an important building block for health, this form of iodine is completely bioavailable to support the body’s metabolism, thyroid and immune functions as well as protects the body from harmful environmental toxins that can have an adverse effect on immune health.
WHY CEDAR BEAR® HERBS ARE BEST
Building and supporting overall health, wellness and vitality is a hallmark of Cedar Bear herbs. You will find that the support on a micro-nutritional level from Cedar Bear herbs brings astounding results for immune and overall health. Just what every college kid needs to supplement their diet and lifestyle choices.
Hey, the college years can be hard on the body, but they don’t have to be with Cedar Bear’s support!
It’s not just the herbs that makes them so effective at supporting and building health. When they are made with Cedar Bear’s special proprietary process called the TincTract®, (more than a tincture, and more than an extract, and works better and taste better than either!), Cedar Bear’s TincTract® process makes the herbs both bio-available and bio-utilizable, so every drop goes right to work supporting your health and well-being.
Best of all, the TincTract® process not only makes herbs work better, but they taste better, too! And all Cedar Bear® herbs are totally alcohol-free. They have only three things in them, herbs, glycerin, and water. Nothing else!
With the right herbs and the TincTract® process, with Cedar Bear® herbs you have the herbal support you need to activate and build brain and immune health while supporting healthy energy levels and restful sleep.
Get a head start on your health before the semester begins today and keep it going throughout the school year with herbal products by Cedar Bear®!
(These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.)
