Nourishing diet
Food is energy for your body and brain, but also for your mind. A nourishing and balanced diet lubricates and cares for the system from the inside – and your skin will love you for it!
Nanna Kirkebjerg, founder of Lucia Care, recommends eating as many greens as possible. Pay particular attention to vegetables that contain anti-inflammatory properties. Limit your carbohydrate intake and try to keep sugar to an absolute minimum.
Turn up the green
An easy way to start getting more vegetables into your system is to boost yourself with a homemade vegetable juice. Because it's difficult to eat, for example, five to six raw celery stalks, lemons, and kale a day. It all goes down easier when you combine and mix it into a green juice or smoothie, which actually tastes fantastic.
Vegetable juice
Drink a vegetable juice every day. Feel free to use a slow juicer to retain the fibers.
Start, for example, with apple, orange, spinach leaves, kale, celery, a little ginger, lemon, and grapefruit.
Ensure that the vegetables are the focus. Fruit should primarily be included as a flavor enhancer, for natural sweetness, or for visual appeal.
You can continuously advance, develop, and challenge yourself and your taste buds more and more.
Green porridge
🍵 Make a green smoothie from the same ingredients, e.g., celery, cabbage, carrots, beets, spinach, etc.
Ensure a clear predominance of vegetables and use fruit only as flavorings or natural sweeteners.
Blend the vegetables into a thick purée, adjusting the consistency with a little water if necessary.
🍵 Use fruit and berries as a topping and serve with almond slices, chopped nuts, or similar.
Lemon and ginger work well to bring the flavors together.
Tank up on vitamins
Vegetables give you vital vitamins and minerals. Amino acids build our cells, and they are found both through diet from vegetables and from protein. And then there are the amino acids that the body can make itself. There are 22 in total, and we need them all.
It is incredibly important to have an appropriate level of vitamin D in the body. In addition, a balance of magnesium, selenium, zinc, and copper is important, as they help many vitamins to transform into active components and building blocks for our cell formation and our immune system.
There is a garden in your stomach
You take good care of yourself when you take good care of your gut, and it needs lactic acid bacteria. Poor gut flora can prevent the body from absorbing the good things from your diet. As a general practitioner, Nanna Kirkebjerg sees more patients who are low in, for example, both B and D vitamins, even though they eat a varied diet. This can be because their gut is not absorbing enough nutrients.
The good bacteria and the good fat
Lactic acid bacteria are important for many processes in the body and not least in relation to a stressed brain and a stressed nervous system. Feel free to take a sensible supplement of lactic acid bacteria every day.
The same applies to good fats, which you need for your cells and your brain. These are omega-3 oils, especially olive oil, avocado oil, and milk thistle oil. For example, you can pour two teaspoons into your vegetable juice or green porridge every day, and you'll be well covered.
