Healing Foods http://learntruehealth.com/healing-foods LAPIS Method: http://learntruehealth.com/lapis FUNKY KITCHEN: http://learntruehealth.com/funky Cooking healthy helps optimize our weight. Pre-digestion Specialist Sarica Cernohous teaches us how cooking Healing Foods is actually fun, easy and flavorful. How our Food Choices Evolved I love traditional, holistic medicine. There is a medicine that we have been using for thousands of years. In the last 150 years, we turned away from nature to use chemical compounds. Nature will help you survive. We completely forgot that it's food that nourishes us. Food is what feeds every cell in our body.  Hence, we should learn the art of cooking healthy. Consequently, whatever we eat does have its consequences. One in four women gets cancer while one in three people are pre-diabetic. An alarming statistics is that fact that one in sixty-eight children are born with autism. Whereas 30 years ago, it was one in ten thousand. Cooking Healthy To Maximize Nutrition I have learned so much from Sarica Cernohous. Her years practicing holistic medicine, helped people shift and start cooking healthy. As a result, this maximizes the nutrition they are getting out of their food. In addition to that, it also boosts all the health benefits from just cooking right. "One of the hats I wear is the foundation of my thinking. Because it is related to my practice of traditional Chinese medicine. That's like a 5,000-year old pursuit," says Cernohous. Cernohous further explains, "When I first learned the theory of this medicine, I felt that it was a language that I had lost. It was such a common and reasonable yet sublime and powerful way of looking at the world. Hence, that has really infused in everything that I do." The Funky Kitchen If you're struggling with weight issues, there's a link between gut and healthy bacteria.  Especially relevant is that healthy bacteria in your gut helps maintain weight. Cernohous' course teaches you how to do this. Furthermore, the six-week course educates you on how to repopulate the gut with healthy bacteria by cooking healthy. This is also based off her book with the same title. "First of all, I began studying how the foods of our ancestors were prepared. It is not just about bringing healthy foods into your diet. These healing foods should be prepared in a manner to extract their maximum nutrition. Hence, the Funky Kitchen was born." A distinct factor of Cernohous' course is how to the proper preparation and benefits of fermenting foods.  She also advises to properly space out the times of your meals, preferably every five hours.  This is to give your body time to break down the nutrients. "Fermentation allows us to take a large molecule. And through the activity, it leaves out these more macro-components into their more micro-pieces," explains Cernohous. "It takes this big, obnoxious gluten protein molecule. Finally, through the enzymatic activity of fermentation, that is cleaved out to smaller amino acids." Cernohous also adds, "This creative design of life vitality wants to just express itself. It doesn't take a whole lot to begin to shift things. But it does require a commitment to doing it." These are the modules covered by the course: Week 1: Sourcing, Tools, and Overview Identifying the best tools for the kitchen Guidance on top-notch resources for the ingredients you’ll need An overview of some of the concepts and practices we’ll be covering in the weeks to come Week 2: Culturing and Fermentation Basics with Water Kefir and Yogurt Discover the #1 thing that has been missing from the foods you’re eating Go beyond the basics and learn how pre-digestion works to relieve strain on your digestive track How to make culturing and fermenting easy, safe, and affordable Week 3: Fermenting Veggies Short-ferment and long-ferment recipes with safe techniques to get the maximum nutrition with the minimum fuss How to integrate fermentation into your diet if you have health i