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Book SynopsisFind your ideal foods and cultivate wellness with traditional wisdom. Exploring the healing power of food, holistic nutritionist Lisa Masé weaves together three ancestral healing philosophies—Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and the Mediterranean diet—with modern nutrition science to help you discover your ideal foods for vibrant health.
The author frames her book with her healing journey to overcome ten years of chronic infection, anxiety, depression, infertility, hypothyroidism, and food sensitivities. She explains how she grew up in Italy, cradled by the Adriatic Sea and the Dolomite mountains, and by returning to her traditional foods and healing herbs she was able to heal herself. She discusses the three kinds of hunger—Heart, Head, and Habit—and offers proven folk and scientific strategies for transforming cravings and changing habits, including meditation, breathwork practices, and realignment of the gut-brain axis via the vagus nerve.
Detailing the healing principles behind Ayurveda, TCM, and the Mediterranean diet, the author provides clear, easy-to-follow instructions for determining your Ayurvedic and Chinese constitution types, which can help you discover how best to heal yourself. She includes food lists for each constitution. Discussing the energetics of food, she explains the importance of personalized nutrition based on genetics, epigenetics, intuitive eating, and seasonal, local foods. She guides you on the path of food sovereignty to regain control of your food. Throughout the book, the author shares recipes, meal plans, and stories to illustrate the concepts she discusses and to help you easily integrate your ancestral healing wisdom into your life.
Showing how to simplify your eating to cultivate wellness, this engaging and comprehensive guide to the culinary pharmacy provides all the knowledge and tools necessary to help you make your food your medicine.
Trade Review“Food is what heals, and where our food comes from and how it’s prepared and savored all matter. Lisa kindly and wisely directs us to the kitchen, to food, and to the wise intelligence of our enteric brain, the gut. And Lisa does so with such deliciousness.” * Rosemary Gladstar, author of Medicinal Herbs *
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The Culinary Pharmacy is not just a book on healthy eating; it is a recipe for living a healthy life. Within the pages of this book are recipes and mindfulness techniques woven together with holistic dietary practices from around the world. Having worked with Lisa personally on my path to health and recommended Lisa’s services to many of my clients, I am thrilled to see Lisa’s knowledge of food as medicine shared in these pages!” * Salicrow, author of The Path of Elemental Witchcraft and Spirit Speaker: A Medium’s Guide to D *
Table of ContentsForeword by Rosemary Gladstar
Preface: Honoring Origins and Intuition
Introduction: The Path Begins
1 The Roots of Food as Medicine Ancestral and Individual Origins
2 Constitution Informs Nourishment
Ayurveda, Chinese Five Element Theory, and the Mediterranean Way
3 Organs, Seasons, and SystemsThe Need for Food Rhythms
4 Toward Intuitive Eating Nourishment beyond Food
5 Trusting Your Gut
How Microbiomes Interact
6 Nutrients and Wellness Food Types and Combinations
7 Personalized Nutrition Plans
Nourish Your Body and Spirit
8 Simplify
Eating for a Reset
9 Food Sovereignty Reclaiming Our Right to Food
10 Starting Your Culinary Pharmacy Staple Foods and Their Benefits
Notes Bibliography
Index
