Mondays, we build your grocery list with one food, focusing on this month’s main topic.

New month, new topic: lovin up the liver. On your next grocery trip, plan to pick up:

BEETS.

For those who wish to know the ‘why’ behind this idea, I’ll give you three things to think about.

FOR THE BETAINE

Betaine is a compound that helps your liver regenerate - oh yes friend, the liver is your one and only organ that will regenerate itself. And betaine, found in beets, helps support this process!

FOR THE BETALAINS

See how they’re all sounding like compounds that come from beets? These offer a different angle on the liver lovin - they help support the liver to do the detox work. They are the support crew to help your liver bag your garbage, and take that garbage to the curb. These compounds do this by helping reduce inflammation, and protect against the damaging effects of inflammation.

FOR THE SLOW CARBS

Beets provide some brilliant metabolic-supporting slow carbs (as Dr. Hyman calls them). These root veg offer those important components you need for the liver to do her work: yes yes, she is fuelled by glucose. Each and every cell of your body runs on glucose as her source of fuel! (Unless you are in ketosis. But that is another topic for another day.) You need carbohydrates for your liver to do her job of hormone manufacturing. Your liver needs carbohydrates to produce enzymes you’ll need to break down foods. Your liver will love the fibre from these root veg, as it will help cultivate the good bugs in your guts - and these bugs are your liver’s besties!

Beets! Beets! Good for your Heart! Good for your Liver!

Add beets to your meals in the coming week, and your liver will thank you. Be it shredded in a salad, roasted and mellowing in a tasty marinade, or turned into Borscht. Heck, try it out in a ferment!

May it be a delicious venture!

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*This is not medical advice.