Wellness Hacks to Prepare for the Christmas Party Season
According to UK research, 84% of people battle with stress levels during the festive period. With office parties, family gatherings, and New Year celebrations filling the diary, the Christmas season can leave many feeling depleted well into January.
The busy festive period can be a recipe for cellular exhaustion. Alcohol consumption, excessive food intake, stress, smoking, lack of exercise and poor sleep all drain our NAD+ levels, a critical coenzyme that powers every cell in our body. When our levels of NAD+ (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) drops, we experience fatigue, brain fog, and become more vulnerable to illness.
Nobody wants to struggle through what should be a joyful season. If we work on boosting our NAD+ stores during and leading up to the busy festive period, we can build our resilience, supporting our energy production, DNA repair, and hundreds of biological processes.
To help you feel vibrant and well throughout the party season, not just survive it, we want to share our wellness hacks with you.
Replenish Nutrition Between Indulgences
Focus on nutrient-dense meals between celebrations, including antioxidant-rich vegetables, quality proteins, and fermented foods to support gut bacteria. This is your first line of defence against seasonal excess.
Your gut health directly impacts how well you process everything from prosecco to Christmas pudding. Supporting your gut bacteria with a variety of fruit, vegetables and fermented foods helps maintain digestive resilience.
Take Time to Pause and Reset
It’s important to schedule time to rest and recharge during the busy party season. Even five minutes of deep breathing shifts your body from stress mode to repair mode.
Chronic stress is one of the biggest NAD+ depleting factor, taking the time to pause regularly will help you switch your nervous system from sympathetic to parasympathetic (rest and digest mode), helping to preserve cellular energy.
Don’t Ditch Your Exercise Routine
Whilst it can be very easy to slide out of your usual exercise routine, movement is key for maintenance of your wellbeing. Even 20 minutes of morning exercise enhances mitochondrial function and helps maintain NAD+ production naturally.
Get Outdoors and Embrace Natural Light
Morning light regulates your circadian rhythm, supporting better sleep and cellular regeneration. Taking a brisk walk in nature provides light exposure and gentle movement, ideal for combatting seasonal mood dips too.
Improve Your Cellular Resilience
Taking a NAD+ supplement throughout December can help improve your cellular resilience, improve recovery between festive events and activities, and keep your energy levels stable.
It's about giving your cells the resources they need to cope with increased demands, rather than letting them become exhausted as the season progresses. Boosting your current wellness routine with an NAD+ supplement, like Nuchido TIME+, can help you prepare for the busy festive period.
Stimulate Your Body’s Circulation
Before showering, get into a practice of dry brushing to boost your body’s lymphatic drainage. Then, if you’re feeling brave, try ending your shower with 30 seconds of cold water to activate your stress response pathways that support NAD+ production.
Restore Electrolyte Balance
Consuming alcohol and rich foods can disrupt your body’s natural mineral balance. Bananas provide potassium boosts, whilst drinking coconut water is a great way of naturally restoring essential electrolytes.
Proper hydration with electrolytes will help to restore balance in your body and support cellular recovery.
Prioritize Sleep for Recovery
Whilst it’s hard to avoid a few late nights, it’s important to aim for reasonably consistent sleep patterns during party season. Sleep is when cellular repair peaks. Protecting sleep quality is non-negotiable for maintaining energy through the festivities.
Armed with some wellness hacks up your sleeve, you can navigate the festive season feeling energized rather than depleted, arriving in January without the need for extreme recovery measures.