Cooked Foods for Digestive and Reproductive Health
By Andrea Vannelli In Chinese Medicine, we aren’t big advocates of cold, particularly where digestion is concerned. This includes practices such as icing body parts and consuming things like ice, beverages with ice, raw foods, cold foods, dairy products (considered cold in terms of energetic properties) and juices....
Sauerkraut and Gut Health
As time goes on, we hear more and more about the importance of improving our gut health and there are many reasons why it is so necessary! Here in the United States, we consume what is considered a more traditional “western diet”. This is a diet high in fats, sodium, sugars, processed foods, etc. When these foods are consumed for long...
The Straight Cut on Beef
The ongoing shortages in our industrial food supply chain are showing us just how disastrous it is to rely on outsourced meat to feed our families. There has never been a better time to ditch the grocery store meat and get back in touch with local farming. Thankfully there are still some farmers who believe in raising their cattle with...
Diary Got You Down?
Do you often find that you are experiencing pain in your lower abdomen followed by intense feelings of bloating and nausea after consuming dairy products? This could be for a multitude of reasons. You could be experiencing a milk allergy, lactose intolerance, or just general sensitivity. According to the National Institute of Diabetes and...
For the Love of Bile
By Dr. Andrea Vannelli We tend to hear a lot about the liver in functional and traditional Asian medicine arenas these days. And with good reason: just to name a few of its key roles, this organ is paramount in helping the body manage blood glucose and energy production, process and store nutrients, conjugate cholesterol...
The Sweet Health Benefits of Honey
Who says living a healthy lifestyle needs to be bitter? If you’re looking to begin your wellness journey but don’t want to sacrifice your sweet tooth, you might find the answer among the bees. Bees make the sticky gold-colored liquid we’ve come to know as honey. You might have seen it used as a topping for toast or as a...
How to Stay Healthy with a Busy Schedule
Start -- Take Care of You! One of the easiest things to do when you have a jam packed schedule is forget to take care of yourself. Especially now with our work from home modality, when there's a busy day at work, sometimes you even forget to eat! Now, I’m not saying this should be normal, because it shouldn’t be. We should be...
Medicinal Properties of Seaweed
Different cultures celebrate their birthdays with various foods and activities. In France, they eat a delicious treat called croquembouche. In Mexico, the children celebrate by breaking the piñatas. In England, they prepare and eat fortune-telling cake. The list goes on and on, but in my hometown, South Korea, we celebrate by eating...