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On this blog obviously we talk a lot about nutrition. We think the role of nutrition in our health is not to be underestimated. Probably the impact is much higher than exercise. But, the two go hand in hand. You will not be able to be really healthy if you only eat the best foods. And of course there's also factors like drinking water, having enough physical and mental rest,...

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Is it possible to increase your brain capacity? Is it possible to build your brain, make it stronger, so you can think better and clearer, have more concentration, a better memory, become smarter? Is is possible to prevent degeneration of the brain by aging? And how would you do that? We will elaborate on these questions in this article. If you would like to install a new operating system in your brain: read on.

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Magnesium is a mineral that exists everywhere in nature in different compounds. The human body contains about 28 grams of magnesium, from which half is found in the bones. Magnesium plays a key role in our energy system: it is vital for over 350 enzymatic processes in our body. The body is not able to hold magnesium. Just like oxygen and water, continuous addition of this mineral is needed. If your body gets too much  magnesium it is immediately excreted. 30 to 50 % of western people (some say 80-90%), however, have a magnesium deficiency. Read More

Healing and tonifying herbs also known as superherbs, tonic herbs and chinese tonic herbs

In the previous two articles I already had been describing what the different thermal qualities of vegetables are, according to chinese nutrition philosophy. This article is fully dedicated to the range of herbs. Read More

Given the fact that for thousands of years, the ancient Chinese have been considering cooking not as a destruction of food, but rather consider it as energizing the food, I hereby would like to create awareness for thermally warm food as a source of strength. Even if you want to have raw food and not cook your food, I recommend in certain cases to warm up the food in a dehydrator to the maximum suitable temperature for raw of 42 degrees Celsius, over a longer period and to eat it at this warm temperature. Read More

By Marie-Claire Hermans

Juice fasting is receiving more and more attention of a wider audience. While fasting was previously dismissed as an elitist activity or something you only did as a last resort to restore your health, nowadays a juice fast regains a genuine interest due to its preventive nature. Read More

Why are heat and cold, according to TCM, important factors for our health

From the perspective of TCM fresh food is ideal for a good intestinal environment, a healthy liver and healthy blood, and a good strong "stomach fire". But if you're not careful, and you eat only 'thermally cooling' fresh food (like avocado, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, bananas, mung bean sprouts and algae), you may cause damage to the Yang and/or an energetic damage to the spleen. The Asians then speak of a spleen-qi-weakness, a spleen-yin-deficiency or spleen-yang-vacuity. Read More

The combination of traditional Chinese nutrition based on the five elements and modern raw food.
"The attempt to combine raw food and the teachings of the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine."

In this article I want to, if you are rawfoodist, make you more aware of the different effects of raw foods. If you do not eat raw food, but like healthy eating, you too can benefit from this article, whether you eat 10%, 30%, 50%, 70% or 100% raw. Read More

How to protect yourself against infections without medicine, vaccines or antibiotics

Whether we like it or not, we all get sick once in a while. From an insignificant cold to a serious flu that keeps us in bed for a whole week. In winter, it's more likely that our immune system is having a harder time. With today's rapid pace of life, we cannot dwell too much, and it may seem easier to grab quick solutions so we can keep going. Painkillers, anti-inflammatories, antipyretics, antibiotics (that's a lot of antis, isn't it?)...Hopefully we all know they essentially don't solve anything. In this article, I propose a three step system to keep your immune system as strong as possible, with lifestyle, nutrition, and herbs. Read More

For the past ten years, I've been looking for the best strategies in creating optimal health and well-being. Things that are relatively easy to apply, are not too expensive, and have a high success rate in producing measurable results.

I focused on nutrition for a while, since I discovered that a few major changes in your diet, and then further finetuning it, can produce dramatic results. But like many people on this path, I found that only nutrition (and water, sunlight, exercise) wasn't enough. I encountered limits: I could still feel bad, become sick, or go back to old bad habits. Of course, this happened far less than before, but still all this great nutrition and superfoods didn't appear to be enough at times to feel great. Read More