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Beat The Summer Heat
The best thing is to drink plenty of water. Not so much that you are peeing out all your nutrients though! The general rule is ½ your body weight in ounces of water. For example, a 150lb Adult would drink 75oz of water a day. Unless you are working outside or exercising and losing a lot of water there is no need to drink more than a gallon of water a day.
Try All the things below to help beat the summer heat!
- Yarrow tea or tincture sprayed onto the back of the neck can help cool you down if you get overheated easily.
- Hydrosols sprayed topically: calendula, chamomile, lavender, and rose can be helpful to cool you down
- Beat the heat teas
- Use lighter-colored leaf teas
- Cold brew instead of hot brew Learn to make cold brew tea here.
- HERBS THAT HELP: Hibiscus, rosehips, lemon grass, lemon verbena, matcha, peach, lemon balm
- Add any of these herbs fresh from your garden into seltzer or a mineral water. Let them sit overnight or for a couple of hours to infuse.
- Green tea for caffeinated beverages.
- Adding fresh fruit like strawberry, blueberry, watermelon, fresh lemon juice, cucumber
- Honey as a sweetener
- Make any tea into a popsicle! Learn more at next week’s Freebie!
- Use the High C- Tea from cold brew tea post or this tea
- Beat the Heat Tea:
- Hibiscus 4 tsp
- Lemon Balm 4 tsp
- Peach 2 tsp
- Add to 32oz boiling water. Steep for 30 min. Strain and cool down and pop in the fridge.
- Once cooled add Honey, Fresh Cucumbers, and ½ a lemon (or 2 Tbsp Lem Juice).
