Tag: health
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Supportive measures at the first signs of a cold
A practical guide to supporting your body early with nutrition, hydration, rest, warmth, supplements, and simple home remedies. This post explains why we get sick more often in winter and offers effective measures to ease or help stop a cold before it fully unfolds.
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Understanding Blood Tests: “Normal” isn’t Optimal
This post explains why standard blood tests often fail to detect early nutritional deficiencies or disease risks and argues for aiming for optimal rather than “normal” lab values. It highlights the importance of preventive, more detailed testing, shares personal insights from advanced blood work, and introduces a practical spreadsheet to help people understand and interpret their own…
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From Rush to Ritual: How my Morning Routine changed everything
This post contain why I believe a morning routine can change your life too and how to overcome challenges.
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From Control to Freedom: My Healing Journey with Food
This blog post is a deeply personal reflection on my healing journey with food. From emotional eating and orthorexia to finding balance and food freedom. It explores how childhood influences, relationships, and self-discovery shaped my relationship with eating, and how compassion and knowledge helped me make peace with my body.
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Reviving My Blog: A Journey from Travel to Community
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Dear Reader, It has been years since my last blog entry. I’ve missed writing here. You might remember me as the full-time minimalist traveller. Living a nomadic lifestyle was a powerful and inspiring chapter that taught me who I am, what I value, and what I don’t want. But to bring my ideas to life,…
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Easy Vegan Peanut Ginger Sauce Recipe
This recipe for peanut ginger sauce, from “Favourite recipes from the world – Unleash your vegan creativity,” is a simple yet popular dish. It includes peanut butter, soy sauce, vinegar, lemon juice, garlic, ginger, date caramel, coconut milk, and optional chili. The sauce pairs well with salads and spring rolls.
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Vegan Cookbook
Dear readers I haven’t been very active here since a while. I promise to come back soon. Lots of blog entries are waiting to be published. Plus I still haven’t shared our experience from the Philippines and Lombok. Both of them contain very local experiences, two weddings, living on a private island thanks to Couchsurfing,…
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Coconut carrot soup with ginger
This is one of my favourite soups. It is sweet, spicy, and creamy. Turmeric contains compounds with health benefits (e.g. anti-inflammatory, antioxidant). The most important is curcumin. Curcumin is not well absorbed into the bloodstream. Black pepper, fat (fat soluble), and heat enhances the absorption / increases the bioavailability. Ingredients (4 people) 1 TSP virgin…
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Creamy Banana Oatmeal
This is my breakfast since years. It is very easy to prepare, nutritiously balanced, and filling until lunch time. Since it doesn’t require any plant-based milk and is very adaptable, it is easy to prepare almost everywhere in the world. The banana together with the nut butter make the oatmeal so delicious creamy. The pinch…
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Kimchi
Kimchi is spicy, fermented cabbage flavoured with garlic, ginger, and chillies which I learnt to love in Seoul. It is tasty with so many things like Tofu Scramble, Brown Rice, and Buddha Bowls. And it is very healthy because of gut bacteria (probiotics) that boost the immune system, reduce inflammation, and aid digestion. Kimchi is…
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