Posts tagged Health
Lacto-Fermenting 🥕

For Lacto-fermentation, firm vegetables, such as beets and turnips, are best. I’ve found the softer vegetables, such as tomatoes and cucumbers, can be more challenging.

Warning ⚠, when fermented, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and other "gassy" foods produce a strong odor, it's best to blend them with other vegetables to avoid this perfuming of your kitchen 😉

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Building our Arsenal Against Disease ... Will Eating our Probiotics do the Trick?

80% of our immune system lives in our Gut. Without balanced Gut health, our body cannot process or break down our food and absorb nutrients. We are then delivered into the downward spiral of overfed and undernourished states, where disease and unchanging cravings are inevitable

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Detox - Should We Really?

If your body is highly symptomatic and you are trying to regain some control, be mindful of the trap of perfectionism. Perfection and being 100% symptom-free 100% of the time is impossible, and that goal can add stress which becomes inflammatory and actually burdens our body and our liver. Tread softly with self-compassion as the goal is to improve our habits in a way that supports detoxification, without driving ourselves to obsession.

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