Cold seasons - adjustments in nutrition
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@GreekDemiGod I just turn on the incandescent bulbs and I drink more warm beverages.
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sometime i eat like half a box of chocolates
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3+ pounds of potatoes, lots of eggs, cheese, seafood, some local well cooked root veggies. Only fruit I eat is local apples in season or some other random seasonal fruits in the summer. Never felt good drinking juice, especially tropical juices living in the snowy mountains.
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Probably eat more fats as fats contain vitamin D which in winter we don't get from sunshine. Maybe eat less as we move less in winter. Since we don't hibernate, we can fast to allow senescent cells to give way to new cells. As that may be what hibernating animals do. Koi in temperate climates undergo extreme fast during very cold winters. They don't find much food in the dead of winter. But when spring comes, they recover from this fast and are rejuvenated as with each season as they grow and develop they become more shapely in structure and their scale becomes more colorful and are highly prized for their looks.
Probably if we go through this yearly winter cycle, we may also get rid of the so-called vitamin A toxicity, as during spring the burst of life that surrounds us provide us with more vitamin A sources heading towards summer.
If I have access to a pond, I'd probably do a hot-cold detox with a 15 minute sauna followed by a 1 minute dip in the cold water (hoping it would be around 12°C) and do about 6 reps each time, and so it about 3x a week.
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For myself it's reduced fruit intake simply due to less quality options available. A bit more potatoes and carrots, more broths with beef/chicken bones even if only boiled for 30min to 1hr, calf liver more regularly, a bit more coffee. Will likely restart cooked potato juice (keto acids) and try to finally nail down a good sourdough recipe using my breadmachine.
Minor supplement adjustments, a tiny bit more Boron, Selenium & Lugol's iodine, occassional Vit-D. Have always tinkered with incandescent and red light but may explore other lighting options this winter.
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In my experience. Shifts in temperature, pressure and humidity, relative to activity, including inner/mental activity, seem to demand changes in the circulatory system. It seems to become a lot more important to obey circadian rhythm in the winter. Which a brit would know, doesn't have to align with the light.
I continue to eat a high everything diet and just keep ratio's approximately peaty. But I'm a lot more careful with timing. If I want to avoid malaise or aggression.
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@GreekDemiGod said in Cold seasons - adjustments in nutrition:
How do you adapt your nutrition when fall and winter come along?
Foods that provide warmth in fall and winter.
I have a protein for breakfast. If there are only enhanced cereals (oats, coconut and pecans), it is insufficient.- Pepper in a potato stew, with an egg, a small onion, butter and vegetables (broccoli). I often add leftover meat cut into small pieces (2 slices of duck breast).
=> Capsaicin stimulates blood circulation and increases the feeling of heat. Be careful, this also has a stimulating effect on histamine. - Chicken broth, garnished with various (or frozen) vegetables.
I put 1/3 tsp of hot sauce in a deep plate. At the end of cooking my pasta, I add a 1/5 ladle of warm water to dissolve the spicy paste. I add the small pieces of meat, mix, then add the pasta and a knob of butter. - Variation: Spice broth without yeast or gluten (Rapunzel vegetable broth – No Yeast)
- Rosemary herbal tea: infusion for 10’ (rosemary and 2 stars anise, crushed with a pestle + honey).
- Google search with: Yin and yang food
The nature of a food corresponds to the thermal and physiological effect that it produces in the human body, by warming, stimulating, or on the contrary, calming or cooling certain of our organs.
We therefore distinguish between Yin foods: cold or fresh; those Yang: lukewarm or hot; and those called neutral: having no effect on the body.
About foods of Yang nature:
These are most meats, condiments, alcohols (wine), but also some fruits and vegetables. For example: mutton / lamb, chicken, shrimp, garlic, pepper, chili, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, cherries, pumpkin…
These foods aim to combat “cold” type illnesses and thus combat colds such as coughs, painful muscles, or chills, hypofunction of the body, as well as deeper colds creating blockages in the organs, leading to circulatory, muscular, cardiac, gynecological, and rheumatic pain.
In summary, we can consider that warm or hot foods can stimulate, tone, wake up and accelerate the metabolism.
It is interesting at this stage of your knowledge to harmonize your dishes according to what you need, and your ability to digest well. Enzymes lipogold could help (enzymemedica lipogold). + once at the evening meal Betaine HCL (Now Foods).
You can reheat a cold vegetable with pepper and ginger, cool a hot food with soy sauce for example.NB: Essential oils: use lavender essential oil (vera – aspic – lavandin) + virgin olive oil (or sweet almond or apricot, more expensive). Massage with 2 drops on each calf of the leg. In treatment of 10 – 15 days. 1 week stop. Resumption once possible. At the change of season.
Special case: Black spruce essential oil (épinette noire). Contraindication: hormonal problem.
Black spruce gives a boost to the body, helps fight against gloom and adopt a positive state of mind. It also acts on natural immunity, sometimes responsible for great fatigue. I apply it to the middle of the back (adrenal effect sought). - Pepper in a potato stew, with an egg, a small onion, butter and vegetables (broccoli). I often add leftover meat cut into small pieces (2 slices of duck breast).
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The foods I consume don’t change, only how I consume them and the amount I consume. Living in a cold, mountainous region, I find I require more calories in winter, and instead of consuming most of my food raw like I do in summer, I consume most of it cooked so, for example, my diet is fruit-based and I consume more of my fruit as warm cider and warm compôtes. These foods make me so warm, I shovel snow in a t-shirt and flip flops.
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@sneedful said in Cold seasons - adjustments in nutrition:
sometime i eat like half a box of chocolates
Jeanne Calment would be proud of you.
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A lot of bone broth, potatoes, pot roast, cheese, sourdough bread. I essentially adopt what you would expect an English medieval peasant to consume
