As the year 2022 begins, we find ourselves looking inward to find new ways to heal. We have also come to realize that our personal health means nothing if our planet and people are suffering. After months of experiencing the pandemic, quarantine and isolation, we’re finding new health trends through social media which speak to us and our well-being.
Here are our favorite top health trends to look out for this new year:
Practicing Sound Healing
In 2021, we have witnessed an increase in at-home workouts. In 2022, we will see an increased demand for sound healing its many benefits on mental and emotional health.
Technology is evolving through A.I. sound Apps and “functional music”. These technologies are designed to prompt a specific mental state like focus or sleep while reducing distraction. Due to the pandemic, it is also anticipated, the wellness world will revive ancient sound healing. Practices like singing bowls (originating in the Tibetan mountains around 500 BCE) and gongs (dated back to sixth-century China).
“There has been a great increase in popularity and demand for sound baths since the pandemic. It created time and space for people to shift their focus to wellness and self-care practices.” (2)
In a sound bath, participants lie comfortably on the floor, while the practitioner plays instruments that yield different vibratory qualities.
“Many people leave a sound bath feeling that their anxious, fearful thoughts have quieted and been replaced with a deep sense of calm and a stronger connection to their true self.”
(2)
Kai Wellbeing offers Private and Group Sound Healing sessions, Corporate Wellbeing sessions and specialized Workshops. Checkout these Sound Healing wellness experts on Heal & Zeal and book your session today.
Optimizing Longevity
The year 2022 will be a transformative year in helping people enjoy healthier lives for longer accessible for everyone. This doesn’t necessarily mean extending lifespans but rather providing resources to improve health spans. The main purpose is for people to lead happier, healthier lives for as long as possible.
There is a boom in health trackers and at-home ways to get a detailed breakdown of your health. This includes testing and analyzing your blood with health insights and actionable nutrition recommendations targeted supplements for your unique biology.
Lumen hit the market as the first handheld, portable device to accurately measure metabolism, using just your breath—allowing consumers to better optimize blood sugar levels, improve metabolic flexibility, and help stave off metabolic disease. Levels—a technology that gives you real-time biometric feedback about how your body reacts to food and exercise, through continuous glucose monitoring—has skyrocketed in popularity, with a current wait-list of over 100,000 people. (3)
Bioniq utilise personal health monitoring solution for longevity and better quality of life. After an initial blood test, they analyse your vitamin and mineral levels to create a formula that targets your deficiencies. Moreover, you’ll then be able to monitor the results via your personal dashboard on the app.
In my opinion, such technologies can be quite expensive thus not accessible to the wider population. Maybe in the near future it will be, with the advancements in research and technology.
“We are living through one of the greatest medical revolutions in human health, with medical wearables, home testing, and the ability to measure and control one’s biological age.”
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Nourishing Your Skin Microbiome
The microbiome refers to the world of bacteria, fungus, and microorganisms living on and in you. The health and diversity of this flora has some impressive influence on the body. It also plays a huge role in immune function. This is not only for the gut microbiome but also the skin microbiome.
Termed as high-tech postbiotics, researchers have been able to identify key beneficial outputs from the bacteria living on our skin naturally. Through modern technology, they are able to bioidentically recreate these natural postbiotics and infuse them into skin care. Once on the skin, they are able to connect with various receptors to improve skin hydration, signs of aging etc. Also blocking exposure to irritants and pollutants, stimulate micro-circulation, support the skin’s immune system, and calm inflammation.
Essentially, they’re getting closer to eliminating the guesswork. Postbiotics are able to feed your skin microbiome exactly what it needs to behave optimally.
As the largest and most visible organ, the skin not only gives clues into what’s happening beneath the surface in terms of immune function, nutrition, oxidative stress, and metabolic issues, to name a few, but it’s the body’s first line of defense against infection, environmental stressors, and loss of nutrients and water. So addressing the skin is a gateway to overall health and well-being.
(4)
Upgrading to Smart Supplements
In 2022, supplements will continue to represent a significant personalized and targeted nutrition strategy. But smart supplements will undergo strategic improvements to reflect the latest science has to offer. Smart supplements consider health from the inside out.
Forward-thinking supplement formulas are currently leveraging combination technology to offer consumers more ingredients for targeted and maximal support. For example, if you need to take zinc to boost your immune function, an upgraded supplement would ideally pack in more its immune-essential vitamins C and D3 – plus key botanical bioactives.
The upgraded “greens” powders are organic and deliver a variety of leafy greens. Also include root vegetables, sea vegetables, grasses, fruits, herbs, prebiotic fibers and even sometimes digestive enzymes and targeted probiotic strains.
The next-generation multivitamins will be a comprehensive formula, complete with fat- and water-soluble vitamins, macrominerals and microminerals. Also simultaneously delivering powerful botanical phytonutrients like carotenoids and antioxidant powerhouses like glutathione.
Other enhancements include, cleaner excipient (additives besides the active ingredients) profiles, transparency & authenticity confirming that the ingredient is what it says it is, ingredient optimization, precision nutrition that considers the individual needs, curated formulas for dietary patterns & food sensitivities.
Supplements are not just vitamins and minerals anymore. In elevated formulas, you’ll find a marriage of micronutrients with targeted botanicals and other bioactives. More is more, when it’s backed by science.
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One good example is the The Clean Living Company. They offer science-backed highest quality, naturally sourced products with crystal clear information. They claim to be the only company to offer collagen (fresh organic bone broth) in the form of a supplement in its most bio-available form.
Embracing the Body-Face Connection
Our bodies are all interconnected through our fascia, lymph, circulatory system, chi, hormones, skeletal structure and our life force. For some reason in mainstream skin care culture, we forget this simple fact; instead, the face is treated like its own entirety, divorced from the rest of us.
In holistic practices, experts often use the skin and more specifically the facial skin as a way to see what’s happening internally. Our skin and faces can tell us a lot about ourselves. Puffiness can show us our lymph and circulation is stagnant. New asymmetries can show us that the body is out of alignment. Tension and inflammation around the jawbone can be an indication our fascia is tight. Instead of looking at these as flaws, “signs of aging,” or inevitable realities of life, you can view them as cues from your own body. And ultimately, by addressing the root cause you can bring balance back to the face. (6)
Acupuncture has always been about the whole-body experience as it’s about the circulation of chi and blood. People are turning to these practices in place of mainstream “anti-aging” treatments. In the case of lymph and fascia, massages and physical manipulation have become much more common and accessible alongside standard spa treatments.
What’s so great about these modalities is that you can do them at home,. Adopting a regular face yoga practice will do your face and skin wonders better than any fillers or botox can.
Rejuvenating your face is an added bonus of being healthy already because your face reflects your entire body.
(6)
Checkout the Heal & Zeal Wellness Portal and search for wellness experts based on your symptoms, goals or discipline to help you reach your optimum health.
Try and give these health trends a go, Wishing you the best of health in 2022 and beyond!
Reference:
- https://amp-mindbodygreen-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.mindbodygreen.com/articles/health-and-wellness-trends
- https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/wellness-trends-science-of-sound
- https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/longevity-for-all
- https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/embracing-full-body-biome
- https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/new-generation-of-vitamins
- https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/full-body-treatment-is-the-new-focus-for-facial-skincare
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