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Harvard Doctor: The Most Harmful Foods Causing Brain Disease

August 8, 2024August 8, 2024 Ask the Mountains

This episode really is one of the most informative I’ve heard on brain health, hormones, keto, and what to eat. Worth a listen!

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Surrendering to an unseen force

July 31, 2024November 9, 2024 Ask the Mountains

“Pregnancy is a process that invites you to surrender to the unseen force behind all life.” 💚🧡🤍🩵 Photos taken by Gunhild Berg Johansen, I was ca 6 months pregnant here.

I highly recommend this very helpful and insightful podcast episode on breaking the fear-tension-pain cycle that most women go into when in labour, myself included. I am very close to giving birth to our second child, and feeling all the emotions that comes naturally leading up to that. This podcast episode really helped me, along with a hypnobirthing course I’ve been doing lately.

– Monica Amrita Mani

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Photo series: Everyday life

July 16, 2024February 17, 2025 Ask the Mountains

In my summer sea sámi gákti. And small baby “shoes” made by mother-in-law 🙏🏼

“Det er morgen igjen, vesle håp
og verden frotterer seg med nyvasket solskinn.
Livets ansikt er aldri det samme
selv om vi ser på det i all evighet.” – Kolbein Falkeid
#home #kitchen #midnightsun

Curious little guy on a short hike in the rain. ☔️

Summer details in some of my older paintings.

Just playing and experimenting with colours and techniques so that I will hopefully find the Joy of painting again 😄 I guess I have a little dry spell in my creative life at the moment..

Blue, orange and yellow are great together.

A bouquet I picked by the side of the road.

My partner of 14 years meditating. #yogisondisplay

Xx Monica Amrita Mani

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Is the Ketogenic Diet Safe in Pregnancy? (Very Important)

July 16, 2024July 16, 2024 Ask the Mountains

This short video really highlights something that is close to my heart; right nutrition in pregnancy. Am currently pregnant with our second baby, and since going keto, the difference before and after is like night and day. Especially if I compare to my first pregnancy 4 years ago when I was not in ketosis. I was binging carbs all day and gaining a lot of weight, and barely had any energy. At the end of that pregnancy, I had to use crutches and/or wheelchair. The really shitty thing about using glucose as main energy source is that the more carbs you eat, the more you crave. I’ve noticed that when switching to (animal) fat as the main fuel, I don’t have cravings, mood and energy level is quite stable and I can function a lot better as a mum and basically as a human being 😅 I can write a longer more in detail post about what exactly I eat to maintain ketosis and how it makes sense for me to do that both from a health perspective but also from an ancestral point of view.

(Pictured: beef tallow I eat every day.)

Xx Monica Amrita Mani