So, one of the things we do in Chinese Medicine is talk about dietary sources of medicinal foods & herbs. Today many of us have heard the phase “You are what you eat,” originating from a book written by a French Author in the early 1800’s. As far back as thousands of years before there was a phrase coined “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” by the classical age Greek physician Hippocrates. In the Far East too, the Chinese discerned how to relieve illness by managing the food we eat. The Chinese physicians mapped out the thermodynamics of food and considered that if a person was ill with a cold disease for example (something such as chills to the bone) that foods and herbs warming or hot would help return the person to homeostasis and foods that are cold would cause further harm…
I have recently been reading a superb book by a current US physician named Dr Michael Gregor, M.D. I use my Chinese Medicine dietary knowledge on a daily basis; I know some practitioners who insist that whatever was said in the Chinese Medicine ‘bible’ is fact, however I look at these things differently and consider that we can build on and compliment ancient knowledge with new understanding; so long as the source isn’t tainted!
Dr Gregor’s book is extremely well sourced and adds another level of insight to nutrition from the aspect of modern research. Unlike research from some of the large drug companies, there is no Big Carrot or Big Broccoli, so the research seems to be mostly untainted. Dr Gregor’s passion is derived from his own grandma’s journey, she was given 3 weeks to live with heart failure before she found her own nutritional expert, who within the space of several months turned her life around, and extended her lifespan by 30 years+!
Dr Gregor is a Western Medical physician who writes for other Western Medical DRs who he says are given substandard schooling in nutrition in the current medical school model. A visit to see him at his clinic often results in a prescription for nutrition rather than something you will get from the chemist; how refreshing is that!
I wanted to share this video with you on a simple hack Dr Gregor has for getting the maximum nutrition from Broccoli. I hope I’m not spoiling the ending, but if you are cooking broccoli the trick is to add mustard powder for a strong anti-cancer effect! Don’t take my word for it, watch the video linked below from Dr Gregor’s own NutritionFacts.org.
Sometimes the simple things can make a HUGE difference!
Here is the video blog on Broccoli:
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/second-strategy-to-cooking-broccoli/