Nutrition

Tea and Coffee is BAD for you Myth or Fact Find Out!

Tea and Coffee is BAD for you: Myth or Fact? Find Out!

Here is a truth bomb for you. There is nothing wrong with coffee or tea. It has been a beverage of choice for centuries. The problem is not having it the right way and at the right time or chugging cup after cup. Do you tend to wake up and have coffee on an...

How A Blob Of Jaggery Can Help Your Lungs A Time-Tested and Scientifically-Proven Remedy

How A Blob Of Jaggery Can Help Your Lungs: A Time-Tested and Scientifically-Proven Remedy

The main issue with the current rise in air pollution is that dust particles and harmful pollutants (carbon) get trapped in the lung alveoli and cause inflammation.   The fantastic research on jaggery shows how it can help this issue by:   ✔️Trapping the pollutants from the lungs ✔️Translocating the pollutants from the lungs to lymph nodes ✔️Activating defense mechanisms...

THIS Simple Activity Did Wonders for My Clients Trying to Achieve Fat Loss

THIS Simple Activity Did Wonders for My Clients Trying to Achieve Fat Loss

Food log There are days when I reflect on my 13-year journey in holistic nutrition and integrative and lifestyle medicine. During one such musing, I went back to roughly 10 years ago. At the time, we did not use social media extensively. We did not have WhatsApp, Facetime, Zoom, or other fancy chatting or international...

From Kanji to Kimchi 4 Easy Recipes To Make Your Own Probiotic At Home

From Kanji to Kimchi: 4 Easy Recipes To Make Your Own Probiotic At Home

Everybody is chasing probiotics today. What is the hype surrounding it? Let us decode. Think of your gut microbiome as an intelligent and diverse colony of trillions of strains of bacteria, fungi, bacteria, and viruses - both good and bad. When the bad gut bugs overnumber the good bugs, you have an imbalanced gut. It...

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Dates – A Divine Fruit

Dates are a proof that nature always wanted you to relish sweet things, but in a healthy manner. Dates although feared by many in the fitness space have multi-fold benefits for the human body. It’s a wholesome food which can be a part of most of our diets. Dates are considered as a superfood...

Want to Stimulate Your Liver Function This Homemade Beverage Can Help!

Want to Stimulate Your Liver Function? This Homemade Beverage Can Help!

Let us talk about a simple drink you can make to stimulate the health of your liver. There is too much information about how one can undergo liver detox. But let me tell you, not everything you read is true because you need to understand how toxins accumulate in the human body and what...

Decoding the Power of Raw Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) on Sugar Spikes and Type 2 Diabetes

Decoding the Power of Raw Apple Cider Vinegar on Sugar Spikes and Type 2 Diabetes

Raw apple cider vinegar (ACV) has been gaining popularity as a natural remedy for various health conditions, including diabetes. One of the claimed benefits of raw ACV is its ability to reduce blood sugar spikes in people with diabetes. What does science say about this? Let's explore this. Diabetes is a chronic lifestyle condition characterized...

8 Unmissable Health Benefits of Cloves or Laung and How to Use It

8 Unmissable Health Benefits of Cloves or Laung and How to Use It

A dried flower that is also a wonder spice, did you know that clove, also known as laung or lavang, can be powerful for cancer, immunity, gut issues, candida overgrowth, bacterial infections, oral, skin, hair, bone health, and more? Clove has been used in different forms of medicine and nutrition for years. The dried flowers...

Your 101 Guide to Relish Mangoes This Season Dos, Don’ts, Benefits, and More

Your 101 Guide to Relish Mangoes This Season: Dos, Don’ts, Benefits, and More

The mango season is almost here. And it is about that time when my inbox is overflowing with questions like: I am diabetic. Should I eat mangoes? Will mangoes make me fat? Will mangoes shoot my sugar levels high? Will mangoes worsen my acne? The questions are many, but the answer is simple. It certainly will if you are...

Add a pinch of hing asafoetida for better gut, skin, hair, and more

Add a Pinch of This Pungent Spice for Better Gut, Skin, Hair, and More

Do you find it hard to digest legumes (rajma, chana, beans), lentils (dal), and cruciferous veggies (broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower)? Do these foods cause a lot of gas and discomfort? Before you start calling out to the Google gods for an answer to your embarrassing problem of expelling gas around the clock or villainizing these foods,...

Download Team Luke’s FREE Khichdi Booklet Here

The Good Old Indian Staple: Download Team Luke’s FREE Khichdi Cookbook Here

If India were to name a national dish, it would be the classic khichdi. This blend of rice and lentils has been a staple for Indians for centuries. From the travels of Jean Baptiste Tavernier in the 1600s to the kitchens of the Mughal era that gave the humble dish an imperial twist, khichdi has...