Tag: women’s health
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Glycine-Rich Slow Cooker Beef Stew
Glycine is an amino acid, and is one of the building blocks the body uses to make proteins in the body. As well as building and maintaining healthy tissues (like skin, joints, muscles, hair, nails and organs) glycine is also vital for healthy hormone function and good gut health. It may not be the most well-known…
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Balanced Bone Broth Rice
Bone broth is an incredible source of glycine, protein, amino acids, collagen, immune-boosting, digestion-enhancing, gut-healing and anxiety-lowering minerals. It’s one of the top things I LOVE my clients to try, and it’s something humans have been drinking for centuries. The thing is, if it’s not in your routine, it can be easy to forget to…
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Recipe: Blood Orange, Sesame & Almond Loaf Cake
It’s blood orange season, and whilst they’re not totally native to the UK, oranges have been imported to Britain since the 15th century, so I’ll take that… As we’re in the second half of winter, vitamin C is still really important, and there aren’t many natural sources of it around right now. Vitamin C is…
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5 Women’s Weekday Breakfast Ideas For Better Energy, Hormones & Mood
If your go-to breakfast looks like an invisible bowl of nothing, a cereal bar, or a sugary cereal, it’s time to re-think how you’re fuelling your body. It sounds cliché but we really are what we eat. Many of the issues we face as a society today like chronic inflammation, obesity and diabetes are largely down to…
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Overnight Hormone Balancing Breakfast
With simple yet powerful ingredients, this breakfast is easy to prepare and provides a healthy dose of hormone balancing benefits. The healthy fats, plant based protein and natural sweetness help balance mood and energy levels, and can be left to set overnight so you can grab and go in the morning! INGREDIENTS 2 tbsp chia…
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Vegan Fat Bars
To balance mood and hunger levels, good quality healthy fats are essential, especially when it comes to hormones or women’s overall health. After the ‘low fat’ craze of the 1980s and ‘90s, much of the ‘healthy’ food in supermarkets is still marked as low fat, but it turns out this low fat food is actually…
