Resilience in Healthy Ageing
Dr George Gaitanos reflects on his experience working with elite athletes, emphasizing the importance of resilience in achieving peak performance.
Detox at home: a complete guide
How best to approach your own nutritional detox at home? We asked our nutritionist Simone Gulino, for advice on how to do it safely and sustainably.
On one breath
During the 2018 Vertical Blue competition, Alenka Artnik’s world-record dive showcased not just her skill but her mental resilience. Despite reaching a record-breaking 105m alongside two other divers, Artnik chose to stop, listening to her body over her ego. Freediving, a sport where mental strength often outweighs physical, requires surrendering to the ocean’s depths. Artnik shares her insights on balancing success, mental peace, and personal growth in a sport that’s as much about self-awareness as it is about numbers.
What programmes and treaments can you get at Chenot?
It can be difficult to decide which type of detox programme and treatment is best for you. In addition to the countless interventions, approaches, and perspectives on detoxification, it’s also difficult to understand what’s effective and what’s not.
Here, you can find a detailed breakdown of the several options available at Chenot and how their treatments are structured.
What is the Chenot Method®?
The idea that exposure to mild stressors can have positive effects may sound counterintuitive. Yet, since at least 1943, the concept of hormesis has been debated and gained traction in several fields.
Hormesis is one of the key components of the Chenot Method®, which delivers a series of mild stressors to elicit positive responses in cells and organisms. But how does it work exactly?
How long does it take to detox your body?
Detoxification is the physiological process by which our bodies remove toxins and chemicals that build up from routine. Our bodies can get rid of toxins in different ways through internal organs and metabolic processes: the liver, the kidneys, the intestine, the lymphatic glands, sweat and respiration. How long does it take to reset your body, and what are the main processes in action when that happens?
What are the best ways to detox your body?
What kind of toxins can we encounter in nature and in the human body? Which ones tend to accumulate in our bodies more, and—most importantly—how do we ensure we can wash them out and stay healthy?