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Eating nutrient-dense, whole foods can help you improve exercise performance, prevent chronic disease, and live a longer, healthier, and happier life.
How is it that food has such a profound effect on health and happiness? Nourishing whole foods contain nutrients that build neurotransmitters, promote detoxification, and feed beneficial microbes. Nourishing foods have thousands of chemicals that stimulate healthy gene expression. We rely on foods to build, repair, and replenish every single cell of our bodies. If we want to change who we are, we need to change what we eat. Today is the perfect day to upgrade your diet.
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Clean Eating Diet
A Clean Eating Diet is a simple yet powerful way to reset your plate—and your health. It centers around fresh, whole foods rather than processed items from a box or can. All real, nourishing foods are included: fresh vegetables and fruits, grains, legumes, raw nuts and seeds, quality meats, dairy, eggs, healthy fats, and natural sweeteners. If you’re ready to eat better but aren’t sure where to start, this foundational way of eating helps you reconnect with cooking, flavor, and vitality. It’s a practical, sustainable path to feeling better in your body—one meal at a time.
Mediterranean Diet
Rooted in tradition and backed by decades of research, the Mediterranean Diet is a sustainable, long-term approach to optimal health and longevity. It emphasizes fresh vegetables and fruits, legumes, whole grains, raw nuts and seeds, and antioxidant-rich extra virgin olive oil. When animal protein is included, the focus is on omega-3-rich fish and seafood. This nourishing way of eating supports heart health, balances blood sugar, reduces inflammation, improves gut health, and promotes metabolic resilience. It’s not just a diet—it’s a lifestyle built on simplicity, seasonal food, and daily nourishment.
Detoxification Diet
Every day, your body works hard to neutralize and eliminate toxins—but modern life can overwhelm these natural detox pathways. A Detoxification Diet gives your body the nourishment it needs to do this work more efficiently. By removing common dietary toxins and increasing foods that support liver function, cellular repair, and daily elimination, this plan helps reduce inflammation, restore energy, and promote optimal health from the inside out. It’s a gentle yet powerful reset designed to help you feel lighter, clearer, and more balanced.
Elimination Diet
Could the foods you eat every day be keeping you stuck? When your body reacts to certain foods, even healthy ones, it can trigger a cascade of inflammation that disrupts digestion, hormones, mood, and energy. An Elimination Diet helps uncover these hidden sensitivities by removing common triggers and allowing your body to reset. As inflammation calms and gut function improves, symptoms like fatigue, joint pain, skin issues, and brain fog often begin to lift. This is more than a diet—it’s a powerful path to clarity, healing, and lasting food freedom.
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Nourishing Meals® allows you to find recipes that fit your unique dietary needs. Combine diets and specific food allergens to create a customized diet, and then let the site guide you to hundreds of recipes that you can create meal plans and shopping lists with.
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How Nervous System Dysregulation Affects Digestion
If digestion feels unpredictable—bloating one day, discomfort the next, reactions to foods that should be fine—it’s easy to assume the problem is the food. However, digestion doesn’t begin in the stomach. It begins in the nervous system. Digestion is a parasympathetic process. When the body feels safe, relaxed, and supported, digestive secretions flow, motility is coordinated, and nutrients are absorbed efficiently. When the nervous system is under stress—whether from inflammation, blood sugar instability, poor sleep, or ongoing emotional or relational strain—digestion downshifts in favor of survival. You can’t digest well while running from a lion.
How to Balance Cortisol With Diet
Cortisol often gets labeled as a “stress hormone,” but in a healthy body, cortisol is not the enemy. It’s a guiding hormone. One that helps regulate energy, blood sugar, inflammation, blood pressure, and the sleep–wake cycle. When cortisol follows its natural daily rhythm, mornings feel alert, energy stays steady, and sleep becomes deep and restorative. When the rhythm is disrupted, the body can feel wired at the wrong times and tired when energy is needed. The good news is that cortisol rhythm responds quickly to daily habits—how you eat, sleep, move, manage stress, and expose yourself to light. Small, consistent changes can help bring this rhythm back into balance.
Sleepytime Herbal Tea Recipe
A warm cup of herbal tea in the evening gently tells your nervous system that the day is complete. Heat, aroma, and familiar flavors activate the parasympathetic response, helping cortisol fall and melatonin rise naturally. Unlike sleep aids that push the body into sedation, calming herbs work by lowering neural noise and restoring a sense of safety. When the nervous system is supported, sleep can emerge organically. This sleepytime herbal blend brings together traditional nervines and calming botanicals that help the body soften, the mind slow, and the stress response unwind. Below, you’ll learn how each herb in this blend gently guides the body toward rest.
Magnesium for Sleep: The Simplest Way to Support Deeper Rest
If falling asleep feels hard, or your body is exhausted but your mind won’t slow down, magnesium may be the missing link. Magnesium is involved in over 300 enzymatic reactions in the body, many of which directly affect the nervous system, stress hormones, and sleep chemistry. Yet it’s also one of the most commonly depleted minerals due to stress, inflammation, blood sugar imbalance, medications, and modern diets. When magnesium runs low, the nervous system struggles to downshift. Muscles stay tense. Thoughts keep looping. Cortisol lingers. And deep, restorative sleep becomes harder to access. The good news? Restoring magnesium, through food and supplementation, often brings noticeable changes quickly.
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