Can we Build an Opportune Diet Against Coronaviruses?

The Immune Connection
Written By Leanne de Groot
 
 

Quercetin 🥙 and her bigger sister Kaempferol 🥗

Many are choosing to supplement with Quercetin given its’ anti-viral, anti-oxidant, and immuno-regulatory properties.

However, I have concerns about the potentially toxic effects of excessive intake of quercetin, after reading studies suggesting that quercetin supplementation, can interfere with thyroid function 😟

The good news is that Kaempferol-rich plant sources have higher bioavailability!!

It's another polyphenol with anti-inflammation, anti-viral, immunomodulatory, and antioxidant benefits, but doesn’t appear to have any negative effects on thyroid functioning!

Food is our fuel, it's a natural source of nutrition for our stone-age bodies - even in this modern world.

Sometimes we like to think we are smarter than we actually are and push things to excess. For some, taking a bulk amount of quercetin will be ok, but for many, I would suggest that it could cause a cascade of chaos.

Food first! If you’re not winning there, then and only then move on to an experiment of supplementation. And it is exactly that - an experiment of one (you!)

Quercetin glucoside from organic red onions has the highest extent of intestinal absorption relative to quercetin supplementation. Organic chili peppers, organic cooked asparagus, organic citrus and berries, organic dill, and oregano are other options with less bioavailability

Big sister Kaempferol is an encouraging flavonoid for coronaviruses prevention or mitigation. My favourite sources which give you the bonus and safe inclusion of quercetin are organic red onions, organic capers, and organic saffron.

There’s one other source of quercetin that I add to my smoothies in summer (eat seasonally and you will feel the benefits). Can you guess what it is in the picture? Organic Activated B________ G_____ ? 🌱

 
 
Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

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