 Hey guys, welcome back. Today I'll be sharing with you not one, not two, but three different recipes with the hero of the day being Turmeric. Now I've really got into ever since reading about keto and just learning so much about like your body. I've really got into having a lot of anti-inflammatory foods and making a lot of anti-inflammatory recipes. So since going that vegan vegetarian keto for a month I've been following that through. Not really strictly, I must have been reining it back in, but I am focusing on eating more high fat low carb to help reduce inflammation in my body to help my overall health and help me in future from getting any I guess chronic illnesses or diseases from having such systemic chronic inflammation over long periods of time. So I thought I'd share with you three different anti-inflammatory recipes with Turmeric being like the main ingredient, the big kind of shell of the day. So let's go straight into it today. Now Turmeric is actually really, really, really well known for its potent. So it's really high in anti-inflammatory properties. In particular it's active ingredient which is Cochuman. So that's what it's really well known for, the potent anti-inflammatory ingredient Cochuman. And it can actually be taken as a supplement or in powder form which you can use in food and things like that. Or you can use it as a fresh bulb where you can just, honestly you could chop a little bit off the bulb and just swallow it whole if you can like a capsule, not too big though so you choke. So you want to cut it up quite small and then just swallow a little bit. And that's, it's like a natural supplement in itself. Cochuman can be taken the same, it can be taken in capsule or in powder form as well. The thing is if you take Turmeric just cut up off the bulb as well because it's high in resistance starch, it acts as a prebiotic which means that it can go through your digestive system or your small intestine undigested and then it can get to your large intestine where all your bacteria, your gut bacteria and your gut microbiome is and feed that good bacteria to help I guess promote more healthy bacteria in your digestive system. So that's what prebiotic is. It just feeds healthy gut bacteria and helps promote a healthy gut flora. So Turmeric's really great for that. So any foods that are high in resistance starch such as Jerusalem artichokes, asparagus, green bananas, you can even get white potato starch powder which is also high in resistance starch, it's like a supplement form and having lots of this can help really feed that good bacteria in your gut. If you do take Turmeric as like the full whole plant version to the fresh bulb version make sure you chop it up really finely and really small because it can be quite unforgiving on the throat especially at the start when you get used to it. So you can take it with like a smoothie or just with plain water when you're swallowing it but it's also recommended that you do take it in its natural version with the plant just because you can get the valuable co-properties that come with it not just the anti-inflammatory but all the fiber resistance starch and things like that. So that's why it's always good I reckon to take supplements but also to take real foods as well because you get the balance of everything really not just one property. But more than its anti-inflammatory properties Turmeric's also been shown to help with brain health as well. It's been shown that Turmeric can actually help impact upon the growth of neurons in our brain. So I really feel that Turmeric is very much a life-enhancing food it's so so wonderful for many different reasons. So if you find you do suffer from a lot of pain from inflammation and joints or just in your body consuming Turmeric may not necessarily get rid of it but it is a wonderful step forward towards having to reduce information in your body. I wouldn't say it's the cure or the be all end all like it you need to really like address other areas but Turmeric is just wonderful for its anti-inflammatory properties so consuming it really just has so many beneficial impacts on your body. So the three recipes that I'll be sharing with you today is a wellness shot so I have shared a Turmeric wellness shot in the past called a Jammu wellness shot but this one's going to be different this is a lemon ginger wellness Turmeric shot so it actually has ginger lemon obviously but the three main things it has is ginger black pepper and Turmeric and the reason why these three are so important is that ginger and black pepper help enhance your body's absorption of Turmeric so without it you wouldn't absorb as much of Turmeric's beneficial properties without the ginger and the pepper so combining all three really helps boost absorption of Turmeric in your body so really interesting note to remember when you do have Turmeric maybe add a bit of ginger a bit of black pepper it'll just skyrocket that absorption of Turmeric in your body but it also has some lemon and some orange in the wellness shot just to give it a bit of sweetness because Turmeric I wouldn't say is the most tastiest of foods neither is ginger or black pepper more bitter I would say so that really helps to make it taste really young really sweet so we're gonna be making that today and we'll also be making a chai spiced Turmeric smoothie which I'm so excited to have and also chai has so many beneficial in anti-inflammatory spices in it as well so you see the double boost with the Turmeric and the chai spices it's just like perfection so I will just share the pre-made chai spice mix rather than going through it again but I have made this mix in the past so I will share it in the cards above if you guys want to check that out to learn what spices to include in the chai spice mix to then put in the Turmeric smoothie bowl just so it gives it that extra health boost and last but not least we'll be making a Turmeric coconut milk vegetable curry which honestly I just love anything with coconut milk in it it makes it so creamy plus you just pop everything into one pan and just let it cook so it's so quick and so easy to clean up afterwards which is like oh such a must when cooking I just the cleaning is never my favorite part anyway let's go straight into making these recipes today to start off with I usually peel off the stickers the produce stickers and actually collect them as a zero waste little idea that I've had and I'm actually working on creating a picture of them in the near future so it just saves them going to waste but once you've gotten rid of the stickers and the peels add all the ingredients to your blender and preferably a high speed blender like a NutriBullet or another high-powered blender and you want to add in all the ingredients and blend it on high for at least 30 seconds or until all the ingredients are well combined once that's done you can strain out the pulp by pouring it through a fine mesh or a nut milk bag once that's finished you can pour it into your shot glasses or whatever you're serving it with and just ready to go 3 2 1 bottoms up it's so nice the start takes a while to get used to and when I was first having tumeric shots and wellness shots it took me a while to get used to the taste I'd be like feel that going down so I must say adding a bit more sweet things like orange juice and lemon to things so much better but I'm having a little reaction to the lemon I think I may have added a little bit much this time around because my gosh that was sour so good now if you don't want to drain the pulp out of it because you want to keep the fibrous part of it that resistance starts as well from the tumeric you don't have to do the straining at the end I just want to do that I found that when I have the little chunks left into it it sticks to the side of my throat it's end up coughing I kind of do a bit of both I keep the pulp sometimes and then sometimes I'll just compost it so it's up to you what you prefer to do I thought I'd just show you so you can see the removing pulp part of it I have some left over so I'm gonna make myself another shot later on probably tomorrow or tonight later on down the track it keeps for probably a couple of days in the fridge and then probably not so good afterwards but that's why I like how much the serving sizes are because it only makes a little bit so even if you do a little bit left over it's probably makes one or two more wellness shots out of it and then it's done so it's like you have so much left over that you China use it all up before it goes to waste yeah that's pretty much it that is the wellness shot I don't know about any like on my face some like super self-conscious that I'm gonna like an orange mo from the wellness shot this is like down here I won't go but I just love it it's like a huge immunity booster in a tiny little glass and you just feel amazing the more you have it so it's not like a one-time thing and you're like oh my gosh I'm all better usually tend to have it like a make a part of your routine to have really helpful boosting foods things like that but I love wellness shots just because especially when you're sick if you take a few of those over the course of the week that you may be ill you honestly see so much improvement in how much quicker you get better so that recipe was originally from minimalist baker so I will link it in the description below if you guys want to check it out and make it yourself later on too I adjust the amounts myself sometimes just make a bit more turmeric a bit more juice or just how much like more ginger just change the amounts to how much I want sometimes add another ingredients like pineapple to give it a little bit extra sweetness but that's usually in summer when pineapples come back into season but that's the thing about it is you can really mix and match whatever you like with it and it's so flexible and adjustable that you can really cater it to your own wants and needs yeah so let's go on to the next recipe I think I'm pretty much done with that I will be making a trimmery smoothie for recipe number two so excited so this is the chai spice trimmery smoothie bowl I'm gonna make mine really thick a bit like a nice cream but if you guys like your smoothie bowls to be more like rent on the runnier side you can do that to just add in less frozen fruit but I like my smoothie bowls to be thick oh so good when I like that to start off with you want to heat your milk up on a stove top or in the microwave until the milk is nice and warm then you're gonna add in your chai spice a bit of cinnamon and turmeric and you want to mix that together and let that steep for at least three minutes or more once that's done I let it cool before I added into my blender because I had frozen fruit in there so once it cooled I added in all the rest of the ingredients to the blender then blended it up until nice and creamy I actually added in a couple more bananas because I added in a little bit too much plant milk then I topped it with all my favorite toppings so you can choose what you like I just use coconut flakes cacao nibs and some cinnamon oh my gosh that smoothie was amazing oh I added in a couple extra bananas at the end just because I I certainly put in too much milk so I usually only put half of that milk in of the 250 mil I know because I like mine thick like I said at the start that nice cream kind of version but accidentally for the whole thing and I didn't realize until I started blending it up and I was like oh it's too late now so I added in two extra bananas so that one was really sweet super nice I had like four bananas in there to try and thicken it up but usually I only add in half just to make it really thick but if you like you're running a smoothies totally add in the whole thing because so good that recipe is actually by Cotto Crunch originally found it from them and oh my gosh so nice I've never had anything before that was chai spiced with turmeric so when I tried that I was like oh my goodness it's like heaven in a bowl even my mom tried it after she was like well it's nice and I was like yeah it's a winner it's a crowd favorite anyway I thought before we move on to the last recipe of today I thought I'd share with you about this new supplement that I've been taking this supplement brand is called Neutro Essence they're actually sponsoring this video today so they gave me this supplement to try and I've been taking it for the past four weeks now so it's just a tumeric cook human supplement and basically what it helps to do is it helps target and helps to remedy inflammation in the body so I'll show what they look like so good what I love about this capsule is every time you pop open the lid it's got a big whiff of tumeric it smells so good so fresh so these are the capsules I take two a day 30 minutes before eating I usually have them first thing in the morning because I don't tend to eat until 12 30 in the day so I usually have this in the morning and as a little supplement to take first thing that way I know it's definitely away from food and it's just a nice immunity booster anti-inflammatory boost for my body so I actually have that first thing in the morning when I get up with some water I just want to say a big thank you to Neutro Essence for sponsoring this video today what I love about this company is that they're focused more on holistic healing so healing through natural means rather than using toxin field chemical field drugs and medication which are essential in their own right however I do think they're more of a last resort rather than always going to them as like a first-time thing I always look at conventional medicine as more of like a last resort or to even use alongside natural holistic medicine and things like that and what I love about this company is that they do their focus on more natural remedies I guess more natural products and the thing is that because their products are natural and they don't have any of the nasty side effects and kind of negative downsides to conventional medicine such as drugs and medication that can often give or cause negative side effects from taking them over long periods of time so basically this is just a natural supplement a bit of a health boost to take I see it as a health boost anyway because I'm quite healthy already I haven't noticed huge differences in taking the supplement but again it's only been a month I see it as more as optimizing my health but if you do suffer with intense or severe inflammation in the body this can be so beneficial because the capsules are actually divvied up I guess portions in the most optimal amount of turmeric they can take a day so you know that when you're taking these capsules you're receiving the optimal dose I guess of turmeric now did ask if their supplements contain any fellows of binders so that's one of the first things I look for when buying or look shopping for a new supplement to take I understand that they can often contain unhealthy fillers and binders and things which I think sometimes aren't needed so I did ask them and they said that that actually does contain one filler called MCC micro crystalline and it originally comes from a wood pulp micro crystalline is actually commonly used in many health supplements around the world so you may also notice it in other products that you get to they're actually working on removing this filler completely in future so they are working towards doing that which I thought was awesome as well so they're not just like leaving it be they were looking at other options to use instead of using fillers and things in their products which I thought was really cool as well because that's something I really look for when I shop for supplements is that does this supplement have like all natural ingredients so it's not got synthetics at all and doesn't have like no fillers no binders and things like that or as minimum as possible so I was really happy with this product so this supplement actually focuses on reducing inflammation in the body like I said before because turmeric is such a potent anti-inflammatory and is so rich in antioxidants because of their curcumin so it's so wonderful at targeting and helping to reduce inflammation in the body some of the positive side effects of reducing inflammation in the body is that you can notice a reduction in pain so say if you have really severe joint pain muscle pain or things like that you may notice a reduction in that you may also notice a reduction in stress as well stress physically and mentally as well I've noticed that information especially over long periods of time has severe stress on the body stress and information is actually underlying causes of a lot of chronic diseases that we see today in our modern society a lot of things like obesity top two diabetes and things like that a lot of the time are caused by inflammation in the body so being able to reduce and minimize inflammation is so so important especially as I'm reading up more and more about the body and how information actually impacts that I'm learning so much and going oh my gosh you may also notice better digestion in the case of IBS for say if you have irritable bowel syndrome or you've leaky gut they're big causes from information so it can help with digestion in that sense by helping to reduce inflammation that way do keep in mind that diet plays a big role in terms of digestion as well so what you eat will have a big impact on your digestive system so it's so important to note that while supplements can really help it's really important that you do look at your diet as well and see what changes you can make in that maybe talk to a medical professional as well and see what changes you can make to help optimize and improve your health you may also notice an improvement in your mood again because information can also affect the brain you may notice that helping to reduce that can also help you to feel better overall as well and increase your sense of well-being and again coming back to joints and things like that helping to reduce inflammation can help with things like arthritis pain in your joints and things like that it wouldn't necessarily cure it like the supplements always say a more of a remedy to help your body heal itself rather than look at the someone to heal you I always think that they just help aid the body in helping to heal itself so I wouldn't look at something that's like the cure for rheumatoid arthritis or things like that it's just a aid to help reduce inflammation in the body so never look at it as like a medicine I guess it's not the same as drugs and medication I always think as natural medicine is a way to help the body heal itself in its own way so when I take supplements I look at it as a way to boost my own health to help boost certain minerals that may be low in my in my body so help give me a boost in those to help my overall sense of well-being and my body's ability to heal itself when it needs to so if you are thinking about taking a turmeric supplement I do recommend them they are really really good because they actually just are turmeric cumin in a capsule they are also vegan friendly so that is a bonus when shopping for supplements I do look for ones that are vegan too sometimes they may have animal products I guess in the capsules and things like that but these ones are completely vegan friendly they're also non GMO they have no hormones no binders no preservatives no artificial ingredients no antibiotics no gluten no wheat no dairy no soy no sugar and no yeast so they're an all natural product which is why I really resonate with this company anything that has like artificial ingredients and I'm like maybe not you can actually find them on Amazon so if you are interested in learning more a bit more about them learning more info on them or if you want to try them out yourself I will link in the description below a link to see more about the product or where you can buy it if you are interested if you do try it do let me know what you think all righty let's get on to our third and final recipe of this evening which is the turmeric coconut curry oh I'm so excited it's probably my favorite a favorite turmeric recipes to make and you know how good the last one first so you just get ready for a treat guys like oh in a large pot you want to heat two tablespoons of coconut oil over medium to low heat and then add in the garlic and let it simmer until the garlic starts to turn brown then add in the can of coconut milk and a half a cup of filtered water add in one teaspoon of turmeric powder the bay leaves then add in the broccoli and carrots and bring to a boil for one to two minutes then lower the heat and let it simmer for 15 to 20 minutes or until the vegetables are tender once it's finished take it off heat and then you can serve it with some rice now I used brown rice and I just boiled it until it cooked through then what I did with the water was I actually strained it out and kept the rice water because I'm going to use it to water my plants with because apparently it's very nutrient-rich and really wonderful for plants oh this is amazing I love this curry anything is coconut oh my gosh has me hat at hello like really makes it so creamy like mmm every mouthful is gonna like mmm so good I'm gonna eat this but I gotta wrap up the video yeah it's like a good mmm bro make this like every day of the week about anything my teeth now that concludes today's video guys I hope you enjoyed it do let me know what you thought of today's video I love making like different anti-inflammatory food recipes to make it just be my latest of creations I just love using it in my recipes I've been trying to include it more often just because of its high potent anti-inflammatory properties and antioxidant properties so I'll do another video in future sharing other anti-inflammatory foods and how to include them in recipes and things I hope you guys enjoyed today's video fingers crossed and I hope to see you guys all in my future videos good night