Last night Carolyn and I had a talk to give. If you’re in
NYC, you know that it was an insanely
rainy night. So, like the true professionals we are, we emailed our host 10
times saying “are you sure we’re on, it’s so bad out maybe people would like to
do another night?” We were on and, as is often the case when you least expect
it, it was great. We had a smart/fun group in a small, swanky 51st
floor room. There was booze we didn’t drink and chandeliers we did NOT swing
from (we didn’t know these people yet). The topic was top 10 foods you should
eat to undo holiday damage.
Issue: Hangovers
Shockingly over 20% of people do not experience hangovers.
Most of us do. Try our 1 for 1 rule and have 1 water for every drink you have
or just stick to 1 drink (some people can do this). If you overdo it, think
ginger. Most hangover issues stem from inflammation. We like Wakaya ginger Mix it with water after you drink or next morning or be like us and plop some
in your clear spirit of choice.
Honorable hangover mentions: coconut water, eggs, vitamin B12
Skip: hair of the dog or bacon egg and
cheese rituals
Issue: Sweet tooth (or teeth)
Sweets are a big
issue this time of year or really every time of year. If sweets are your
kryptonite- be ferm! I’m talking fermented foods. Your gut is really the
control tower for your body and what’s going on there affects your cravings,
especially sweet cravings. The “top shelf” ferm(ented) foods are fermented veggies (farmhouse kraut, bubbles pickles and
BAO are great brands) & kefir (sort of turbo yogurt when it comes to
probiotic count).
Issue- Dry, gross skin
Winter, sugar,
booze and too much time inside = parched, sad skin.
If you haven’t
started collagening, you have 2 choices:
collagen powder or
bone broth. In NYC check out the new brodo shops west village and Bryant park.
Issue: Zero Energy
First I’ll remind
you to sleep more and hydrate (professional obligation). If you want a little
metabolism boost, make that water ice cold. If
you’re seekinga more interesting upper, drink matcha. Matcha, because you
consume the whole leaf via this pretty powder, puts plain old green tea to
shame.
Matcha gives you a
push without making you jittery. It revives you and calms you down at once,
impressive. If you’re really feeling low, drink matcha with brain octane in it
and thank me when you decide to take a break hours later.
Issue: Stress!!!
Once upon a time
there was a mineral called magnesium. This super-crucial mineral helps you
chill out and keeps your metabolism humming along. However, there’s also a
demon called stress that runs around the city scopping up magnesium. I don’t’
know where I’m going with this but most of us are deficient in magnesium which
means both our mood and metabolism are subpar.
Don’t freak out. I
love magnesium bath flakes (Naturopathica makes amazing ones), you can
supplement magnesium (we love pure encapsulations or natural calm packets). And
you can eat real, potent dark chocolate, 70% or > and avocado morning, noon
and night.
Issue: family
Solution: I’ll get
back to you on this one, Foodtraining can only fix so much.
Happy Holidays!
Cheers to not feeling like Santa at the end of this season.
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