Should you eat seasonally?

Imagine this👉 you sit down at your fav taco shop + without knowing anything about you they serve you the precise 🌮 *you* need to heal your bod. It’s the exact food you need at the exact moment you need it.

Well, call that restaurant Mama Nature, and that pretty much sums up seasonal eating. As the seasons change, the exact foods we need to support our body during the season grow. Seasonal food is MEDICINE.

One of my fav examples is the way dandelions grow wild in spring and are natural antihistamines...just in time for ‘allergy season.’

🙌Oh #mamanature you so wise!🙌

So I want to focus on one reason food is medicine, and it’s a perfect one as we move into winter.

D.E.T.O.X

So let me introduce you to your seasonal meds: the Brassica family of foods, aka cruciferous veggies.🥬🥬🥬

There’s been a LOT of research on one compound within these veggies called sulphoraphane, which, in the words of one nerdy research article, “upregulated the expression of genes related to detoxification.”

Translation: It turns up the dial on your bodies natural ability to detox…all the way up to 11. And it does this as a time when you need it most: more exposure to blue light, less sunlight and vitamin d, less movement to promote lymphatic flow, and greater indoor and outdoor air pollution.

Among other things that these sulphoraphane rich seasonal foods do, according to research? Regulate hormone health, metabolize excess estrogen, and fight cancer.

KALE🥬 CABBAGE💜and BRUSSELS💚 .... oh my!

So that, my friend is a big ‘ole YES to the question of “should you eat seasonally?”

Which cruciferous veggie will you add to your plate 🍛this week to turn up detox for you and your whole family?