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Can anyone suggest some super foods or recipes/ideas to help with-
1. Recovering from knee surgery( I had pins removed from my knee from a injury I had 2 years ago)
I should be ok to start training again in 2 weeks but for now my knee is stiff and my body feels like there is poison in it from the anesthesia. Need to help it repair and detox!!!!!
2. I have symtoms of a cold, probably from the anesthesia running my body down.
Any advice would be great : )
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Permalink Reply by Michelle Novak on -
Whenever I don't feel well pretty much for any reason I make the following soup and it always delivers!
Under the Weather Miso
serves 6-8
2 qts. vegetable stock or filtered water
1 tsp grated ginger
2 bulbs garlic, peeled
1 bay leaf
green onion for garnish
5 tsp Miso
Bring stock or water, garlic, and bay leaf to boil. Simmer 15 minutes, or until garlic is soft. Remove bay leaf. Mix miso,
garlic, ginger, and stock in blender. Reheat in pot, but do not boil. Place cubes of bread (or i like soba noodles instead) at bottom of bowl and ladle hot
soup over them. Garnish w/green onion.
enjoy!
hope you feel better soon!
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Permalink Reply by Lisa on -
Hey Jasmin,
I would suggest eating as high-raw diet as you can right now. The healing powers of raw food are amazing! I am also healing from a variety of injuries, procedures, etc., right now (and will be having a surgery soon) and am eating almost full-raw. The results are astounding! I'm healing so fast.
Good luck!
Lisa
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Permalink Reply by Burton on -
A good dashi (stock) for miso can also be made with kumbu (kelp) and water. Boil a piece 4" square in the water and remove the piece before it gets too soft and use the water. This is used in traditional Japanese cooking a lot when "bonito" is not around, which is dried fish flakes. I also like to make stock out of the greens of baby scallions but keeping the scallions in the soup.
Michelle Novak said:Under the Weather Miso
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Permalink Reply by Jay Crawford on -
Hi Jasmin,
In the Eastern medicines, post injury/surgery would focus on cleansing and support of the liver, kidneys and blood, as they take the brunt of delivering and cleaning up during and after the 'rebuilding'. Healing is a lot like renovating your house. You have to make sure you have all the materials needed to finish the job and it's messy so a little extra clean up will help the process go smoothly.
Vega WFHO would be a good source for complete vit and min support. Outside that maybe make a meal of another green smoothie. Kale, spinach, dandelion and some sea veg like, Chlorella, Spirulina and Kelp would be very beneficial. Lots of chlorophyl to keep the blood clean would improve recovery. Plus drink a pot of green tea daily, its total systemic support would be benficial aswell.
Possibly most important would be your emotions. Your MIND must feel happy with the healing process for it to go well. Indulge a little! EG: Find a bar of Green and Blacks dark chocolate and a carton of nice strawberries and have this for dinner once this week:) Reward your suffering and you will become stronger!
All the best!
Jay
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Permalink Reply by Jasmin Dillon on
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Thank you all for the advice.
I have been very good at trying to as much Raw food as possible. I do have a weakness for the curry lentil crackers from the thrive diet book-I know these are not raw but they are so yummy.
And Jay I did have a little binge eat today but not with strawberries and chocolate. I had my first batch of vega products arrive- it was like christmas. I had just finished a raw sald for lunch and 30mins later I ened up eating one vibrancy bar and an hour later I had two energy bars ( I just wanted to try one of each flavour!!!! YUMMY
My bodyis still adjusting to the change (food digestion is interesting) and I am gaining weight but assume its from not training rahter than the diet.
Jazz
Jay Crawford said:Hi Jasmin,
In the Eastern medicines, post injury/surgery would focus on cleansing and support of the liver, kidneys and blood, as they take the brunt of delivering and cleaning up during and after the 'rebuilding'. Healing is a lot like renovating your house. You have to make sure you have all the materials needed to finish the job and it's messy so a little extra clean up will help the process go smoothly.
Vega WFHO would be a good source for complete vit and min support. Outside that maybe make a meal of another green smoothie. Kale, spinach, dandelion and some sea veg like, Chlorella, Spirulina and Kelp would be very beneficial. Lots of chlorophyl to keep the blood clean would improve recovery. Plus drink a pot of green tea daily, its total systemic support would be benficial aswell.
Possibly most important would be your emotions. Your MIND must feel happy with the healing process for it to go well. Indulge a little! EG: Find a bar of Green and Blacks dark chocolate and a carton of nice strawberries and have this for dinner once this week:) Reward your suffering and you will become stronger!
All the best!
Jay
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Permalink Reply by Allison C Holms on -
Eating a solid vegan anti-inflammatory diet always helps me. I am struggling with lingering knee pain from several surgeries I had in high school and I noticed that when I stick to a strict whole food vegan anti-inflammatory diet, my symptoms get better. I also had a MAJOR reconstructive jaw and face surgery just over a year ago where I had my lower and upper jaw compeltely broke and reconstructed to fix a severe overbite. I stuck to a strict vegan diet and my surgeon said he had never seen anyone recover as quickly as I did. I was back to power walking 3 days post op and back to heavy bootcamp work outs four weeks later! Most patients took 6 months to get to where I was in 4 weeks! An anti-inflammatory diet basically is eating whole, unprocessed food and avoiding common inflammatory foods such as peanuts, wheat (all forms: flour, wheat, etc), nightshade vegetables (bell pepper, eggplant, potato, tomato), and processed foods including processed soy (soy protein isolate). I started a blog about gluten free vegan recipes. Feel free use any you would like. I just started it a few months ago and have not had time to add any new recipes, but there are a few on there. http://veganadventuresincooking.blogspot.com/
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Permalink Reply by Allison C Holms on
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Oh, and drink kombucha! It does wonders for strengthening your immune system and detoxing your body! I have at least one every day. I buy the GT kombucha synergy (fruit flavored ones) from the local whole food type market. http://www.anahatabalance.com/teakombucha2.html (article on the benefits of kombucha)
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Permalink Reply by Jeri Taira on -
I don't have any advice yet. But, I did want to stop by and say get well. All I can think is "ouch".
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