Health Homework (12) Take advantage of frozen spinach for easy phytochemical boost

Remember: Frozen spinach = good. In contrast: Frozen Brussels spouts are nasty because the texture goes to primordial mush.

Frozen spinach is easy to work with, stores indefinitely (thereby providing convenience and avoiding wasted money and energy) and perfect for cooking wherein the texture is mostly irrelevant.

Although I don’t have any love for fresh spinach especially in salads (because it makes my teeth feel fuzzy, aka "spinach teeth" supposedly because of the oxalic acid), I actually love spinach when cooked into soups and especially omelets, especially if I can get some cheese, Tabasco hot sauce, and strong coffee to go along with it.

Buy some frozen spinach to keep on hand to add to whatever your cooking, especially soups and omelets.

It’s an easiest strategy for getting more vegetables into your diet for their long list of benefits including minerals such as potassium and all of the phytochemicals that provide anti-inflammatory benefits, antioxidant defenses and overall improvements in physiology and especially the gut microbiome—to learn more about the gut microbiome see the long list of video courses provided immediately below the image.

Obviously, we try to choose organic and pesticide-free when possible.

Remember: Frozen spinach = good.

In contrast: Frozen Brussel spouts are nasty because the texture goes to primordial mush. Brussel sprouts have to be fresh—see recipe here.

Health Homework (11) Make peace with Brussels sprouts

COURSE INDEX Human Microbiome and Dysbiosis in Clinical Disease

The video series outlined below extends from the book “Human Microbiome and Dysbiosis in Clinical Disease” (2015) which is included in the larger textbook Chapter 4 of Inflammation Mastery: Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine.

1. Video #1 Introduction to Terminology and Concepts: Course Introduction & Clinical Impact of Microbial Molecules: Introduction to the human microbiome and dysbiosis; terms and definitions, clinical relevance and contextualization

2. Video #2 Pathophysiology: Physiologic and Pathologic Mechanisms of Dysbiosis

3. Video #3 Prototypes: Prototypic Clinical Patterns of Dysbiosis-Induced Disease

4. Video #4: Clinical Approach: Testing Microbes vs Treating Dysbiosis and How the Clinical Approach to Dysbiosis Differs from the Approach Used to Treat Infectious Disease

5. Video #5: Dysbiosis by Location—The Mouth

6. Video #6: Dysbiosis by Location—The Sinuses and Respiratory Tract

7. Video #7: Dysbiosis by Location—Genitourinary Tract

8. Video #8: Dysbiosis by Location—Blood, Tissue, Parenchymal Dysbioses

9. Video #9: Dysbiosis by Location—Skin and Environmental Dysbiosis

10. Video Series, Topic #10: Dysbiosis by Location—Gastrointestinal Dysbiosis

    1. Gut Dysbiosis 10.1 on Prototypes: 1 hour, 22 minutes

    2. Gut Dysbiosis 10.2 on Prototypes and Their Solutions: 2 hours

    3. Gut Dysbiosis 10.3 on Solutions: 38 minutes

    4. Gut Dysbiosis 10.4 on Solutions: 33 minutes

    5. Gut Dysbiosis 10.5 on Solutions: Final hour

    6. Gut Dysbiosis 10.6 on Solutions: added in 2020 specific to Gas, Bloating, IBS, and the Gut Microbiome Adaptation to a Healthier Diet (public access)

    7. Gut Dysbiosis 10.7 on Solutions: The Use of Antibiotic Drugs and Endocrine Interventions