Medical Medium Healing Essentials

Arugula and nectarine are a match made in heaven in this fresh, juicy salad. With just the right amount of spice from the arugula and some crunch from the pistachio nuts and romaine, it’s a salad you may find yourself making over and over again.  As I share in my bestselling book, Thyroid Healing, “arugula reduces nodules, tumors, and cysts in the thyroid (both cancerous and benign) and helps p...

If people knew all the potent healing properties of celery juice, it would be widely hailed as a miraculous superfood. Celery has an incredible ability to create sweeping improvements for all kinds of health issues. CELERY JUICE STANDS ALONE Celery is truly the savior when it comes to chronic illness.  I’ve seen thousands of people who suffer from chronic and mystery illness restore their healt...

This wonderful dip is rich in flavor, creamy, hearty and satiating. It tastes fantastic scooped onto vegetable crudités like celery, cucumber, radishes, asparagus, cauliflower, tomato slices, bell pepper, broccoli, cabbage leaves and lettuce leaves. It’s also incredibly delicious served alongside steamed potatoes, baked potato fries, or even on top of a green salad. But what’s even more impressive t...

Fibroids are growths in the uterus that can be like smooth pieces of muscle. They can be the size of an egg or even the size of a small grapefruit. Fibroids can be incredibly disruptive and difficult to deal with, even causing bleeding and extreme discomfort. In most cases, doctors recommend surgery when a woman comes in with a fibroid, and in many, surgery is presented as the only option because of...

The combination of sweet watermelon with savory herbs, garlic, and tomatoes makes this raw Watermelon Gazpacho burst with flavor. Refreshing and deeply hydrating, this gazpacho is a perfect light lunch, especially on hot days or when you’re feeling stressed out. It can even be a great breakfast because it’s best enjoyed on an empty stomach.  Watermelon is also known to significantly reduce infl...

If you are reading this, chances are that you or someone you love is one of the many people plagued by asthma. No matter what age asthma hits—whether you are facing adult-onset asthma or caring for a young person with childhood asthma—living with asthma can be a constant struggle. After all, the quality of our breathing affects our quality of life in more ways than one. The good news? You can heal f...

Cucumber noodles are an easy and delicious way to reap the many healing benefits of this special fruit. Topped with a chunky sauce of fresh, juicy tomatoes, flavorful garlic, and fragrant basil, this recipe provides a wonderfully healing and tasty meal or snack for anytime of day. You may find this simple recipe becomes a daily or weekly staple for you and your family! Cucumbers strengthen the adren...

Changing up the way you eat your fruits and veggies can make all the difference when you are choosing to eat a healthier diet. This pretty and fun Watermelon Tart gives you a new and unique way to get more healing fruits into your diet. Make this with your kids or let them have fun making it for you!  Watermelon is an excellent fruit that effectively hydrates, detoxifies, and cleanses the enti...

The vibrant colors of this smoothie make it a delight for the eyes, but its taste and healing properties are even more impressive. As you drink in the sunset colors of this smoothie, take a moment to consider some of its incredible undiscovered healing benefits… Peaches are a wonderfully hydrating and mineral rich fruit that are easy to digest and rich in beta-carotene, vitamin C, iron, calc...

This homemade strawberry jam not only has an incredible flavor and aroma; it’s also going to be fresher than any store bought variety, free of preservatives and refined sugar, and so simple to make! This recipe gives you two ways of making it—keep it raw or cook it. Both are delicious and give you an easy way to bring more berries into your diet.  Strawberries are packed with Vitamins A, B-comp...

Fruit leathers are such a fun and effective way to get fruit into your precious children’s bellies. They’re colorful, delicious, and so convenient to give to your children or for them to grab themselves. They’re also a great travel, car, and work snack for those of us with a few extra years on us! These fruit leathers are made with berries to harness their incredible healing powers, but feel free to...

This colorful twist on traditional lemonade offers so many more antioxidants and healing benefits than the original. The addition of the most healing food on the planet—wild blueberries, plus raw honey, and fresh lemon juice instead of preserved or pasteurized lemon juice, makes for a deeply healing and delicious drink. It’s also a delight for the eyes that is fun to serve at any family or social ga...

These Strawberry Lemon Bars are incredibly delicious and make such a convenient grab and go snack for children and adults. As you bite through the walnut crumb topping, the strawberry lemon jam gives a wonderful pop of flavor in the center of the bars.  Strawberries are rich in antioxidants which boosts their ability to rebuild, repair, and rejuvenate the body. They also have high levels of phe...

Popsicles are a fun and easy way to get more deeply healing foods into our children and ourselves! As long as they’re sweet and taste delicious, almost any child will love them and be happy to gobble up any healing foods with medicinal qualities hidden in them.  This recipe’s star ingredient is the elderberry syrup. To see a recipe video of how to make this incredible syrup, visit the Medical M...

Elderberries are one of the most effective remedies for viral and bacterial infections such as colds and flu and can substantially shorten the duration of your illness if you get sick. The Elderberry Syrup recipe I have to share with you is as clean, simple, and healing as it gets, with none of the preservatives or additives you might find in some store bought brands. It’s also sweet and delicious, ...

This fun spin on Bubble tea is both delicious and packed full of nutrients, many of which are not yet even discovered by science and research. But it’s benefits extend far beyond the physical; these foods offer tremendous emotional and spiritual support too. As I share in my #1 NY Times bestselling book, Life-Changing Foods, wild blueberries are the food you want in your life when you’v...

Filled with a delicious, gooey, raspberry center, these Raspberry Jam Bites are packed full of both flavor and nutrients. They are made from only the healthiest ingredients and are the perfect snack for anytime of day. Pop a few in your children’s lunchboxes, serve them with herbal tea for an afternoon snack, or enjoy a few after dinner. Raspberries are a great full-body detoxifying food, rich in an...

This Strawberry Shortcake recipe is the perfect decadent treat for a social gathering, birthday or holiday celebration, or for a weekend baking adventure with your children! The fresh strawberries drizzled with raw honey brings an abundance of healing benefits, and when combined with the coconut whipped cream, it’s hard to beat. Made with clean ingredients, this is an indulgence you can feel good ab...

This smoothie is as delicious as it is vibrant! It is packed full of antioxidants to help reverse and prevent aging and it contains some of the most powerfully healing foods on our planet, including the number one most nutritionally dense food in existence—wild blueberries! This smoothie gives you a great way to use wild blueberry powder so you can harness its nutrients and healing benefits, o...

This simple but beautiful combination of fresh peaches, blueberries and celery offers a delicious melding of sweet and salty, juicy and crunchy. Together these foods offer a wonderful and nourishing snack that’s a perfect support for your adrenal gland health. As I share in my book Medical Medium, it’s vital to graze every 1-2 hours on foods that have a balance of potassium, sodium, and ...

Potato salad is a welcome addition to any lunch or dinner table, barbecue, picnic, or social gathering. This fresh and delicious spin on traditional potato salad not only upgrades the flavor, but also makes it a truly healing recipe that you can feel great about enjoying! It’s also very easy and simple to pull together and is great eaten right away or as leftovers. We hope you love this recipe! Pota...

Don’t let the simplicity of this recipe fool you. Not only is it so delicious that it may very well become a daily staple; it’s also one of the most nutrient dense meals or snacks you can eat! Enjoy it for breakfast, a snack, a light lunch alongside a leafy green salad, or serve up a big bowl of this recipe for the whole family to enjoy over the day.  Berries are a saving grace. Th...

Looking for a fun and creative way to enjoy some of the most healing foods available this 4th of July or for any other holiday or celebration? These watermelon sparklers are fun to make, beautiful to look at, and even better to eat! Melon is one of the most alkalizing and hydrating foods. The fruit’s highly bioavailable and bioactive trace mineral count is responsible for driving electrolytes higher...

This luscious wild blueberry soup offers such a fun, refreshing, and comforting way to get the unmatched healing benefits of wild blueberries into your diet. It tastes wonderful served cold in the summer or warm in the winter.  I talk about the incredible healing properties of wild blueberries in all my books for good reason. As I share in my book Life-Changing Foods, “currently, wild blueberri...

Bring back fond childhood memories of eating tater tots and other potato treats with this delicious and nostalgic recipe. A fresh spin on the traditional fried tater tots, this recipe calls for the tots to be baked versus fried, making it a healthy recipe you can enjoy in abundance. The addition of zucchini provides added nutrients without sacrificing flavor. This recipe is perfect for serving to ch...

There’s nothing better than a truly refreshing and hydrating drink when you most need it. Now add incredible flavor and an abundance of healing properties into the mix and this Watermelon Strawberry Ginger Lemonade is a winner of a drink that you’ll want to make over and over again!  Melons are predigested—meaning that melon flesh is so assimilable that our digestive systems barely need to proc...

Ripe cantaloupe (also known as rockmelon) is delicious all on its own but turn it into a creamy, frosty smoothie with a touch of vanilla and cinnamon and you won’t be able to believe how indulgent it tastes! You will know your cantaloupe is ready to cut into when it emits a sweet and lightly floral aroma and it yields slightly to gently pressure applied to the skin. The high vitamin C content in can...

If you are struggling with a mystery illness that doctors have been unable to give answers for or you’ve spent time searching for answers to your health symptoms online, you may have come across the rumor that lectins in fruits and vegetables are behind your symptoms. This theory is just that—a theory. It is not true and this false information is contributing to people becoming more conf...

These potato nests provide a fun, innovative, and truly delicious way to get some of the most powerfully healing foods available into your diet. The combination of fresh, juicy, and creamy spinach salad with the hot potato nests makes for a wonderful blend of flavors, textures, and temperatures. This recipe would be fantastic to serve at family gatherings and parties and the recipe can easily be va...

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has created a secret epidemic. Out of the roughly 320 million people in the U.S., over 225 million Americans have some form of EBV. Epstein-Barr is responsible for mystery illnesses of every category: For some people, it creates fatigue and pain that go unnamed. For others, EBV symptoms prompt doctors to prescribe ineffective treatments, such as hormone replacement. And...

With all the superfood talk we have today, artichokes should be right there in the top 10 list. Artichokes are one of the most abundant sources of nutrition, filled with phytochemicals such as lutein and isothiocyanates; vitamins such as A, E, and K; amino acids; and enzymes. They are B12-enhancing stars, wonderful for bringing balance to the gut.  Artichokes are also dense with minerals such ...

The best meals are not only packed full of flavor and healing ingredients; they’re also a feast for the senses. The rainbow of color and the fragrant herbs in this recipe make it a special sensory treat that you can feel good about enjoying every day or as often as you’d like. This salad is a wonderful option to serve up to family, friends or simply devour all on your own. Let’s take a look at some ...

This simple and pretty iced tea is a delicious way to harness the healing properties of lemon balm. Lemon balm is a gift from God and Mother Nature to deal with our frazzling world; it’s wonderful for addressing digestive issues, nerve related problems, nausea, loss of appetite, and more with its soothing properties. Its bioactive phytochemicals such as undiscovered alkaloids calm the nerve receptor...

If you have ever struggled with a condition like Crohn’s, colitis, or Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), you have likely suffered a tremendous deal. Not only are these conditions painful, they can take away part of your life at times because it feels as if you have to structure your day around bathroom breaks, bouts of pain, abdominal discomfort and bloating which may have affected your sleep, an...

Black bean hummus is not only creamy and delicious; it’s also packed with extra nutrients and healing properties from the black beans, avocado, and cilantro. This delightful dip is perfect served alongside an array of crisp, colorful vegetables for a family dinner, to serve at your next gathering, or to simply snack on over the day! The ingredients in this dip recipe, along with the crunchy vegetabl...

This recipe is as much of a delight to the eyes as it is to the taste buds. Abundant in antioxidants, it is a wonderful option for a snack, meal, or dessert anytime of day. Feel free to vary this recipe with any fruits you wish. Witness a new colorful creation emerging every time you make it! Raspberries are a great full-body detoxifying food, rich in antioxidants that specifically help remove bypro...

It might come as a surprise to you that there are no two kinds of bipolar disorder that are the same. The same is true for anxiety and depression. Each person experiences symptoms differently, which makes it that much harder to understand. In truth, this disorder is so difficult to understand that its name is not really appropriate at all, especially if you understand the true cause of all the sympt...

Throughout the centuries, fruit has been known to be one of the most healing foods available to us on this planet. In the past couple of decades, however, you may have noticed a shift in our perception of bananas, apples, melons, and mangoes. Many people have begun to fear fruit so much so that they avoid it altogether. This incredible deviation from our historical worship of fruit is due to the lie...

Many people experience acid reflux or heartburn throughout their lives and don’t understand why they feel the burning sensation reach up through their chest and into their throat. Medical communities blame acid reflux on gastric acid and hydrochloric acid backing up into the esophagus. However, this theory of the cause is unfounded and limited in its understanding as I’ll explain in this article. Th...

In this day and age, our livers are more burdened than ever before in history. With toxins in our environment and foods that stress our bodies, sluggish and fatty livers are becoming rampant. While certain liver-cleansing techniques have become trendy, a handful of cherries can do so much more. Cherries are an amazing way to revitalize this organ; they’re the ultimate liver tonic, cleanser, an...