Hello, friends!
Now it's getting colder outside, so it's time to strengthen the immune system and warm ourselves up from the inside!
Today I want to give you some valuable tips on how to bring more heat into your body.
- First of all, make sure that you have enough rest and that you get a good, restful sleep. Go to bed before midnight.
- Use the right foods: onion, garlic, chives, dill, carrots, sweet potatoes, parsley root, pumpkin, fennel, oats, chestnuts, nuts, meat (especially chicken, beef, lamb)
You can spice up your meal with warming spices: ginger, cinnamon, star anise, fennel, pepper, chili, curry, galangal, cardamom, allspice, paprika, vanilla
- Avoid cooling food: tropical fruits (bananas, kiwi, pineapple, ...), citrus fruits (oranges, lemons, ... - no, we do not need the vitamin C from these fruits for our immune system), tomatoes, cucumbers, salads, ice cream, ice-cold drinks, dairy products (especially cow's milk: yoghurt, curd cheese, cheese, ...)
- Eat 3 cooked meals a day, especially a hot breakfast is important.
- Of course, soups heat us up properly. Stews and casseroles provide cozy warmth in the stomach
- Even if it is uncomfortable outdoors, the fresh air is good for your health: it stimulates the blood circulation and strengthens the immune system.
Food prepared in the oven adds extra heat to your body.
Vitamin C for colds or for the prevention of colds - a myth?!
Maybe the cold has already caught you? Then drink a cup of hot water with freshly squeezed lemon! Or eat citrus fruits like oranges and mandarins regularly.
The vitamin C strengthens your immune system and brings you so well through the winter!
... Or maybe not?
These are the general recommendations that you hear over and over again when you catch a cold.
But I want to get to the bottom of it today.
Lemons and citrus fruits generally grow in southern areas. This has a decisive advantage for the population there, because these fruits have a strong cooling effect from the thermal point of view.
But if you want to strengthen the immune system, this will turn into a major disadvantage!
Due to the cooling effect of this food, the spleen and kidneys are getting weakened. In the long term, this will lead among other things to a lack of spleen energy.
Our body needs much more time to processed this food (because it first has to heat it up and thus consumes more energy, which then lacks other important functions), and this weakens our immune system.
That's why it's so important for us to eat cooked foods.
Maybe you think now that the hot lemon drink has always helped you so well, when you had a cold.
Then that is perfectly ok. Not every person is the same, maybe this hot drink is just right for you - or it was just a coincidence.
But if you wonder why you are always sick and catch a cold so easily, and you eat a lot of citrus fruits or drink orange juice regularly -you might want to take my advice to heart!
In any case, it is highly recommended in cold season to warm up the body from the inside with a hot bowl of soup or broth.
If you worry about your vitamin C supply, I can reassure you. Our regional and seasonal cabbage and winter vegetables are also rich in vitamins and minerals, which provide us with great care and bring you well through the season of snuffing.
In addition, not all nutrients are equally important for each person, depending on the metabolic type: the priorities are different.
Maybe you will want to try to spend this season without oranges, tangerines, etc. to test how it turns out? I look forward to your report!