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Did You Know Changing Your Air and Water Filters Supports Wellness?

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Turning a simple maintenance task into a wellness ritual is an empowered-living move. When you change your air and water filters, you are actually connecting to five distinct wellness actions that support feeling good every day.

1. Replacing air filters reduces dust, allergens, mold particles, and pollutants in your environment, so that you are breathing cleaner air. A well-maintained filter supports a fresher, more comfortable living space and helps reduce everyday irritants in the air you breathe.

The KenkoAir Purifier® uses a multi-stage filtration process, including a medical-grade H13 HEPA filter, which captures 99.95% of airborne particles like dust, pollen and pet dander. Unlike other filters, the KenkoAir Purifier® releases negative ions to create a refreshing, invigorating atmosphere that is both calming and restorative.

2. Cleaner air at night means fewer irritants can disrupt breathing and sleep quality. By changing your air filter in a timely way, you help maintain a fresher sleep space to support your body’s natural overnight processes, helping you wake up feeling refreshed and ready for the day.

Remember that the Kenko Sleep Systems are ideal for creating your sleep sanctuary.

3. Think of a water filter like a sponge. Once it’s “full,” it can no longer trap toxins, and in some cases, it can actually start leaching those trapped contaminants back into your water. Additionally, a clogged filter reduces the flow rate.

Fresh water filters help reduce contaminants and improve water quality and taste. Cleaner tasting-water can make it easier to stay hydrated and enjoy drinking more water throughout the day. Choosing filtered tap water also helps decrease your dependence on single-use plastic water bottles, which are one of the biggest sources of waste in landfills.

The PiMag Waterfall® is in a class of its own. Not only does it produce alkaline water and reduce excess acidity, but it also uses advanced ionic filtration to reduce a wide range of contaminants, including chlorine, chloramine, lead and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

4. Old filters can allow accumulated particles to recirculate through your home or water system. Replacing them regularly helps reduce the presence of unwanted build-up and supports a cleaner, more comfortable environment. By maintaining your filters, you help create conditions that support an active lifestyle.  

5. When your air and water supplies are well maintained, your environment feels fresher and more comfortable day-to-day. Changing filters on time supports cleaner air and water throughout your living spaces, contributing to a setting that feels easier to live, rest, and recharge in.

Replacing your water or air filter isn’t just a chore — it’s a simple way to refresh your personal environment. It’s one of the easiest recurring habits that supports cleaner inputs and everyday comfort, helping you feel ready to take on whatever the day brings. Make timely filter changes part of your overall wellness lifestyle routine and enjoy the difference a well-maintained environment can make.

Great Sleep Fuels a Fully Empowered Life

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One of the 10 actions for Empowered Living is recharging your energy. Achieving this requires connecting with nature, consciously breathing in fresh air and getting restful sleep. Humans spend about a third of our lives sleeping, because it is critical to healthy living and longevity.

Here’s what happens with good quality sleep:

• The heart and blood vessels heal and repair themselves.

• Grhelin (hunger hormone) and leptin (satiety hormone) are balanced. Inadequate sleep makes ghrelin levels go up, so you feel hungrier than when you have restful sleep.

• Healthy insulin levels are supported. Insulin controls blood sugar levels, which increase when you are sleep-deficient.

• Deep sleep triggers the release of the growth hormone that helps children and teenagers develop healthy muscle mass, repair cells and tissues.

• Deep sleep supports healthy development during puberty and promotes fertility.

• Restful sleep supports the body’s immune system. Sleep deficiency can affect the body’s natural defense system against germs and illness, making it difficult to combat infections.

• Major threats to longevity are decreased. These risks include heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity and stroke.

• Good sleep supports the brain to improve learning and memory. Problem-solving, decision-making and creativity are enhanced.

Sleep deficiency can result in feelings of stress and depression; and can cause mood swings, lack of motivation and not getting along in social situations. It can also cause lack of focus, problems in learning new things, slow reactions and poor decision-making, which in turn result in making more mistakes. It’s a vicious cycle of frustration and fatigue, lack of confidence and inertia. In other words, when was the last time you felt joy when you were sleep-deprived?

Smart nutrition, clean air and water are basic necessities, but when you think about humans spending a third of our lives sleeping (or at least trying to sleep), the importance of good sleep is obvious. If you can’t sit still, watch TV, read or be a passenger in a vehicle for an hour without falling asleep, you probably need more restful sleep. It’s not about quantity as much as it is about quality.

Create your sleep sanctuary and commit to good habits that support deep sleep, so you can feel good every day and experience empowered living! With great sleep, you can choose joy!

Source: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/sleep-deprivation/health-effects

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/sleep-deprivation/health-effects

You Can Create a Sleep Sanctuary

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Sleeping well is a challenge for many people. Often, it’s because keeping up with the demands of family, friends and work can cause a huge amount of stress. The result is that neither body nor mind can decompress enough to get a good night’s sleep.

Fortunately, there are actual steps you can take to create a “sleep sanctuary,” some place pleasant and cozy, relaxing and soothing:

1. Perhaps the most important item in a sleep sanctuary is the bed. Regardless of the type of frame you choose for your bed, the mattress is important and should suit your personal needs. Do you like firm, medium or soft? More importantly, what type of mattress suits your spine? For example, even if you prefer a soft, cushy mattress, if your spine is weak, you would probably be better off with a firm mattress, because it affords more support.

Solution: No matter what type of mattress you currently have, the Kenko Naturest® Fit is a topper that sits right under your fitted sheet, in twin, full, queen or king sizes. The Fit is made with sculptured rubberthane latex, which provides massaging effects while allowing for air circulation and ceramic reflective fibers that help regulate body temperatures. 800 gauss magnets create a magnetic field which cocoons the body for relaxation to help improve sleep. Tourmaline gives off electrons that help create calming effects when exposed to pressure, heat or motion, which is provided by your own body as it lays on top of the Fit.

2. Just as the Kenko Naturest® Fit supports your comfort, what your skin actually touches also can make a difference in how well you sleep. Choose linen that feels the most comfortable for you. Invest in natural fabrics, such as cotton, flannel, flax or even silk. Manmade fabrics do not allow air to circulate as freely and may even cause itchy or sweaty skin. Natural fabrics help regular temperatures—cools in hot months and warms in cold ones.

3. Do the breath test of your bedroom or wherever you want your sleep sanctuary to be. Inhale in and out slowly. What do you smell? Since you will be spending all night in the sleep sanctuary, you need to make sure the air is fresh. Stale or unpleasant odors are not conducive to restful sleep. If there is a window, make sure to keep it open at least for a few hours every day so the room has outside air flowing through. Indoor air often contains more contaminants than outdoor air! Dust, pet dander, pollen and odors are typically in household air. Mold, mildew and dust mites may be present. Even gases such as radon and carbon monoxide are found in measurable quantities in many homes.

Solution: Whether you have a window or not, the KenkoAir Purifier®provides multiple-stage HEPA filtration, is energy efficient and includes a deodorizing filter. It operates quietly, is ozone-free and has a negative-ion generator.

4. Many people enjoy the aroma of essential oils. Lavender and cedarwood are examples of essential oils that people choose to de-stress and relax for better sleep.

5. Is your sleep sanctuary dark? Sleep scientists agree that a cool, dark environment is ideal for sleep. You can use black out curtains or wear a sleep mask.

Solution: The Kenko Power Sleep Mask not only helps block out light like a typical eye mask. It also helps relax the entire eye area, using similar technologies to those found in the Kenko Naturest® Fit. The Power Sleep Mask is made with patented Dynaflux® magnetic technology, ceramic reflective fibers and tourmaline technology which helps produce a calming effect. When your eyes are relaxed, you have a much better chance at sleeping through the night.

6. A sleep sanctuary is for rest. Your best bet is to create an environment that is natural—you might want a few green plants, but try to limit the clutter. For example, you don’t need to keep piles of books or clothes in a sleep sanctuary. Instead, hang simple photos or art on the walls and limit the amount of unnecessary furniture or accessories. In other words, create a space that you look forward to retiring in every night!

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