If you’ve followed me for a while, you probably know that I have been talking about the utmost importance of gut health since I started my health coaching career over 10 years ago, as it was one of the first discoveries that prompted my career shift (when I started healing my gut and realized the power of food as medicine), and to me its the #1 area of focus with 95% of my clients. When someone wants to lose weight or just “get healthier”, I first start them with GUT HEALTH basics.
So thats what I want to talk about today!
Our gut is the foundation of overall health - from immunity and energy, to mood, skin, and of course digestion and even weight loss, our gut plays a role in nearly every system in our body.
One of the absolute key drivers of optimal gut health is the food we eat DAILY, in particular, getting enough plants filled with FIBER, pre- and pro-biotics, and antioxidants. So today I dive deeper into the top 5 foods for a healthy gut microbiome (for optimal gut and overall health).
Read MoreChronic long-term inflammation (what SO many people are facing today) is extremely harmful to our health. Not only does it lead to weight gain, but also contributes to obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune diseases, and other health conditions.
Thankfully, there is a lot we can do to reduce inflammation in the body just through our daily diet.
Some anti-inflammatory foods that I recommend to eat regularly include:
leafy greens (lettuces, arugula, kale, spinach, etc).
fermented foods like raw sauerkraut, kimchi and unsweetened organic yogurt or kefir
colorful vegetables (orange veggies like organge bell pepper, sweet potato and butternut squash, yello veggies like yellow squash, yellow peppers and onions, purple vegges like purgple cabbage, eggplants and purple potatoes/carrots/cauliflower, white veggies like cauliflower and radish, red veggies like beets, and of course ALL green veggies, including brocoli, green beans, zucchini, all green herbs, ETC).
colorful fruits - in small amounts at a time (blue/purple including blueberries, blackberries, plums; red including starwberries, raspberries, cherries and red apples; orange including oranges, nectarines, some varities of peaches; green including green apples and pears, etc.)
omega-3 rich proteins like wild-caught fish and seafood, organic grass-fed meats and poultry, as well as organic eggs.
nuts and seeds - ncluding walnuts, almonds, chia seeds, flax seeds, hemp seeds, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, etc., as well as nut and seed butters
other healthy fats including avocados and extra-virgin olive oil
fiber-rich legumes including: lentils, chickpeas, peas and all beans, as well as small amoutns of whole grains such as quinoa, wild rice, brown rice, millet, amaranth, teff, buckwheat, etc. (*only if your tolerate these ; reguardless I recommend sticking to small portions and cooking properly, always soaking before cooking).
Today I’m sharing a day of healthy, delicious and easy “anti-inflammatory” meals to get you started on your anti-inflammatory lifestyle!
Read MoreYou can spend all you want on improving your skin from the outside, but to get the best results, you also need to focus on improving your skin health from the INSIDE.
If you want beautiful skin, you need to start ADDING BEAUTY-PROMOTING FOODS into your daily diet (as well as reduce the foods that lead to oxidative stress and contribute to aging and inflammation).
This also applies to SUN-CARE. You can literally use food as sunscreen (in combination with your physical/mineral sunscreen of course). Apart from applying a good nontoxic sunscreen daily, it helps to consume certain foods that can help to protect your skin from the damaging effects of the sun's UV rays.
READ MORE for eight foods rich in phytonutrients that may help protect your skin from sun damage, and promote healthy, beautiful skin.
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