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When Your Next Meal is Part of the Treatment Plan

When Your Next Meal is Part of the Treatment Plan

For many chronic health issues, everyday exposures matter most. Food isn’t only fuel. It’s raw material, signaling molecules, and a daily set of “instructions” your body reads repeatedly.

The idea of food as medicine isn’t new. It shows up in traditional healing systems, in public health, and increasingly in modern clinical research. The most useful way to think about it today is practical and evidence-based:

  • Food can reduce risk (primary prevention).
  • Food can support treatment alongside medical care (adjunct therapy).
  • Food can change symptoms by affecting inflammation, blood pressure, lipids, glucose, the gut microbiome, and even brain signaling.

It won’t replace necessary medications or procedures. But in many cases, it can meaningfully shift the trajectory of health and sometimes quickly. continue reading »

Why Hydration Is Essential for Life

Why Hydration Is Essential for Life

In our busy lives, it’s easy to underestimate the silent, vital role water plays. We often think of hydration as something necessary only when we’re exercising or sweating profusely. But hydration is critical to everyday health, affecting nearly every system in our bodies. continue reading »

The Benefits of the Anti-Inflammatory Diet

The Benefits of the Anti-Inflammatory Diet

When people face a variety of health challenges or simply changes in how they feel and their relationship to food, they may change their philosophy and look to food as medicine. And for those diligent enough to do the research, they may discover the anti-inflammatory diet—a nutritional approach that some say has transformed their life.  continue reading »

The Benefits of Eating for the Seasons

The Benefits of Eating for the Seasons

Restaurants that have revolving seasonal menus have gained in popularity in recent years. The concept of seasonal eating has deep roots. Before the advent of modern agriculture and global trade, people naturally consumed foods that were locally available during specific times of the year. But today, the convenience of supermarkets allows us to eat almost any fruit or vegetable year-round. While this accessibility is convenient, it disconnects us from the natural cycles of food and may not always be the healthiest or most sustainable choice. Let’s delve into the benefits of eating for the seasons and how it can transform your health, environment, and culinary experience. continue reading »

The Dandiest Dandy Wild Spring Veggie!

Oh Dandelions!

They are getting so much more positive attention these days!

I dug these up from our yard, which isn’t sprayed- notice the roots, buds, flowers and leaves! There is a small window when they are  in their prime as a seasonal vegetable. Now is that window to harvest them as food! Once they have completed blooming, they become a bit tougher and the bitterness increases. They are still medicinal anytime!

Their medicine is Yang Ming Tai Yin, which means they clear internal heat and regulate water metabolism.

Yang ming internal heat can manifest as dry mouth and thirst, acne, PMS/irritability, red eyes, dark or burning or incomplete urine and/or stool, and heat sensations.

Tai yin digestive symptoms can manifest as bloating, gas, diarrhea, constipation, urinary disruption, fatigue, brain fog.

Dandys clear heat and drain damp, preventing the body from overheating and drying out, and from storing, and accumulating damp, phlegm and pus.

With seasonal consumption they improve the flow of urine and bowel movements.  This means they also are supporting the absorption and transformation function, by improving elimination. When we absorb, transform and eliminate well we feel good! I really noticed the healthy urine flow and bowel movements after eating dandelions.

Flowers clear heat from the face and eyes

Leaves clear heat and damp from the bladder and intestines

Roots benefit the stomach’s body fluids, digestive fluids to improve absorption.

Whole plant benefits the breasts, decreasing midcycle or PMS breast swelling, benefit prostate by improving urinary flow, increase normal cell growth by benefiting absorption and transformation, benefit the skin by reducing acne, boils pustules.

 

Here is my new favorite recipe:

DANDY SAUTEE, ROOTS et.al.


4-5 whole dandelion plants dug up from the root, from a place you know is clean. Wash well to get ALL the gritty dirt off.

Probably they are best harvested from January to May.

Slice the whole plant length-wise so you have long thin pieces, you can cut these into smaller pieces so they are easier to eat

6 cloves garlic, sliced thin

1/4-1 whole jalepeno de-seeded and sliced longways into 1/4″ by 2″ pieces

1 Tbsp Fat—-olive oil, bacon fat, ghee, to sautee

Salt and pepper to taste

Put your fat in a pan with medium heat

Add garlic and jalepeno to sizzle to aromatic, a minute or two

Add Dandy.

Sautee until the garlic is golden, and the greens are well wilted and soft.

S&P to taste!

We had them with eggs, in ramen, with rice, use as your green veggie of choice until they are out of season!

 

Let me know how you like to prepare the dandiest Dandelion!

 

 

 

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