Summer Nutrition Musings

Here are some Summer Nutrition Musings from the wise Lyssandra Guerra of Native Palms Nutrition 🥦🥬🍋💗

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TIRED

BLOATED

FATIGUE

LOW CONCENTRATION

STUBBORN WEIGHT GAIN

GASSY

CONSTIPATED

MOODY

OVERALL FEELING MEH

MAYBE it's what you're eating, when and how you're eating? . . .

Sometimes a handful of very good recommendations is all that is needed to jumpstart a new health pattern. 🧡

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Beneficial Foods for Spring!

I love this rundown from @phasesacupunture of all the beneficial foods for the spring time! . .
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Here are 5 foods recommended to eat throughout the season of spring

🥬Green Foods: During spring, it is recommended to eat foods green in color and rich in chlorophyll that help accelerate rejuvenation of the liver. This includes things like alfalfa, spirulina, chlorella, parsley, wheat grass, kale, Swiss chard and collard greens.

🌿Spring Vegetables and Herbs: peas, watercress, asparagus, barley grass, and radishes-all of these help move liver Qi and open up the liver meridian.

🍋Sour Foods: lemons, limes and grapefruit are all good choices that help cut fats that may have been stored up in the body during the winter months, while also keeping the liver Qi moving smoothly. Other sours include dill, kombucha, pickles, vinegar, and kimchi. 

Naturally fermented sour foods are also beneficial as their live enzymes improve digestion.

🌱Pungents: Spring onions, garlic, scallions, turmeric, basil, cumin, fennel and pepper can help be the extra kick we need to get things flowing.

🥕A Little Sweetness: Think young vegetables such as young carrots and beets. This nourishes the blood and helps keep you vital during all the new activity. Just make sure you're cooking by stir fry or steam grilling in order to allow your body to easily digest all of the nutrients!

📍And acupuncture can help address any imbalance or health issues that are occurring due to diet, stressors, autoimmune disorders, or injury.

Face the spring with hope! ❤️ 

What is Really Happening with a Spring Detox / Cleanse

Since it’s the #SpringCleanse time of year I know it’s popular to use the term detox for when we limit our diet trying to rid ourselves of toxins. What’s really happening is called #Biotransformation; this is the process of rendering fat-soluble compounds into water-soluble substances so that our body can excrete them. While I do think that that if feels great to spend time once or twice per year checking in on cleaning up our eating (I’m doing that right now), I think what is most important is learning the realistic tools to keep up what feels best for our bodies for the year ahead. And it is so much more helpful when we use Functional Blood Chemistry in the mix! 🧫💉Individualized lab work is the best way for us to see all the details of where your body needs support and direct the “biotransformation” in an way that helps your body rid itself of waste to allow for the body to function better WITHOUT the deprivation phase! This is why I LOVE the 6 weeks to glow program! 
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📸@lyssandra_nativepalms ++ more wise advice on cleaning below! ・・・
🌱SPRING CLEANING🌱… greens greens greens, soups, broths, limited raw, and limited starchy vegetables (plus eating nutrient-rich meats like liver, sardines, salmon) …I’m catering to MY specific body and have been doing this for a week now to reduce inflammation, ease digestion, strengthen immunity, have more energy, and reduce stress… feeling pretty good and staying on it 🤙🏽

When it comes to cleansing, what information do you need to help you get started? Where are you confused? How do can you tell that you need one? Everyone's body is different, what one person needs may not be what the other needs...HOWEVER, there is some essential knowledge and to-do's that everyone should follow... 🤔
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Spring Tonic for Cleansing

A great spring tonic we’re loving 🌱💗 @kitchenwitchbonebroth
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TONIC RECIPE! Spring green means more movement, new growth, and shedding that old schtuff too. Our Healing Greens Tonic is a seasonal, simpler rendition of our wildly popular Healing Greens Soup. All you need are a few staples and blender. Our, brothy, answer to the green juice 💚
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Ingredients:⁣
-@kitchenwitchbonbroth 1/2 - 1cup, warmed⁣
-Ghee 1tsp -1TB (we love @fourthandheart)
-Dino kale, 1-2 leaves
-Cilantro, 3 whole stems w/leaves
-Squeeze of Lemon⁣
-Salt to taste⁣
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Add all ingredients to a blender, blend for 10-20 seconds, pour into your favorite mug, and sip away. 
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⁣#functionalmedicine #rootandstem#springcleanse

Why Magnesium Is So Important!

Are you getting enough

MAGNESIUM?

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Nutrition wisdom my our fav expert @lyssandra_nativepalms ✨

Magnesium is rich in green vegetables and fruits… helps to ease digestion and anxiety (even harsh PMS symptoms)…I believe a common link between the two is magnesium deficiency.

WHY?

Estimated 80% of adults are lacking in this mineral, also known as the 'calming' mineral… If you aren’t calm, you may feel on the crazies. Feeling stressed (chronic low or high levels all the time) impedes on a properly functioning digestive system. Neurotransmitters like serotonin are synthesized in the gut…however if there’s gut dysfunction like constipation, there’s no synthesis happening, in other words…those neurotransmitters that help make you feel calm, happy, and ambitious aren’t being made, instead you may feel blocked and anxious. Magnesium deficiency also slows peristalsis, causing constipation and when you’re constipated physically and emotionally, life is crappy. Make sense?

So, eat your greens and take a supplement when necessary. Need specialized guidance? Our popular 6 WEEKS to GLOW in partnership with @lyssandra_nativepalms is back... early bird special pricing until APRIL 7th. Email us to learn more and sign up.

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Spring Foods To Nourish

Ok, so I know I talk a lot about how us acupuncturists never want you to eat raw food ;) But Spring time is the perfect time to bring it back onto your plate! 🌱🥕🥑🥒🥗

My go to raw food exception is yummy sauerkraut and fermented foods. What I love the most about sauerkraut and kim chee is not only are you getting the benefits from the probiotics and enzymes from the fermentation, but you are also giving your Liver (the organ of the Spring in TCM) lots of love with all the benefits from the Brassica family. 🥦Brassicas like cabbage, brussel sprouts, and broccoli, have a ton of antioxidant activity and help prevent oxidative stress, stimulate the immune system, help protect you against malignant cell transformation (cancer), and help rid your body of toxins.

+++ Check out this super easy and super delish sauerkraut recipe : https://minimalistbaker.com/how-to-make-sauerkraut/ #springcleanse

#spring #eatveggies #fermentedfoods #guthealth #rootandstem #functionalmedicine #rawfoods #detox