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Healthy Sauerkraut Recipe

My Name is Susannah Makram. I typically work with families and CEOs. I work with West End production managers, directors, actors, producers. WE need safe and immediate treatment for back pain and health concerns zapping their energy. We need help to feel energised within our modern lifestyle and I empower them to take ownership of their health journey.

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That is our Naturopathic Portfolio ethos. How can we make it yours? How can we make it work for you In The Four Phases?


Healthy Recipes

Sometimes our clients want snacking inspiration. Their lifestyle encourages taking time to organise meals and more importantly, they enjoy it!

Healthy recipes

Healthy recipes

Vegan recipe

Fermented Foods Are More Digestible & Safer To Eat Than Many Raw Foods

eg. sauerkraut and cabbage – sources of probiotic and prebiotic – dairy free, raw, vegan food, respectively,

Recipe Sauerkraut

SINGLE JAR SAUERKRAUT RECIPE

Cabbage – 1 small to medium – approx 2 ounces
1 Tablespoon medium grain sea salt or non-iodised salt
1 Teaspoon caraway seeds, juniper berries (optional)

  1. Cut the cabbage in half. Cut out the thick core and stem end and compost or discard them.Thinly slice the cabbage into shreds or small pieces (think coleslaw)
  2. Loosely pack the sliced cabbage into a clean, wide mouth glass jars, sprinkling in the salt as well as the caraway seeds and juniper berries (if using) as you fill the jars. It is not necessary to sterilise the jars for lacto-fermented foods. the jars do have to be pristine clean, however. Pack the cabbage, salt and spices down firmly as you add them to the jar. Once the jar is almost full, loosely cover it and let it sit for 2 to 4 hours. During this time the salt should draw enough juice out of the cabbage to completely cover the solid food. If it doesn’t, top the kraut off with a brine made of 1 teaspoon non-iodised salt dissolved in 1 pint filtered or non-chlorinated water.
  3. Pour the salt brine, if necessary, over the cabbage and spices. Gently press down on the cabbage and spices to release any air bubbles and to submerge them in the brine. Cover the jar loosely with a lid. Place the jar on a plate to catch any overflow that may happen once active fermentation gets going. Leave the jars at room temperature for 3 days. During this time, remove the covers at least once a day and check to see that the vegetables are still submerged in the brine (add additional salt brine if necessary). You should start to see some bubbles on top – a sign that fermentation is underway.
  4. By the end of the 3 days, the sauerkraut should have a clean, lightly sour smell and taste. Put the jars in the refrigerator (no need to put plates under them at this stage). Wait at least 5 more days for the flavor of your sauerkraut to develop. This recipe also works well with red cabbage.

Fermented Vegetables – Why? Tangy tasting, mineral rich, nutritionally dense, gut healing to name a few… WORRIED YOU’RE NOT EATING ENOUGH FRUIT AND VEG? It’s too bloating? You’re missing out on this bloat-free gem.

Lacto-fermentation is the process that produces traditional dill pickles, kimchi and sauerkraut.

Lactic acid is a natural preservative that inhibits the growth of harmful bacteria.

The “lacto” portion of the term refers to a specific species of bacteria, namely Lactobacillus. Various strains of these bacteria are present on the surface of all plants, especially those growing close to the ground, and are also common to the gastrointestinal tracts, mouths, and vaginas of humans and other animal species.

Lactobacillus bacteria have the ability to convert sugars into lactic acid. The Lactobacillus strain is so named because it was first studied in milk ferments. These bacteria readily use lactose or other sugars and convert them quickly and easily to lactic acid. However, lacto-fermentation does not necessarily need to involve dairy products.

Do you want more simple dairy free recipes? Gluten free recipes? Throughout the next few weeks we’ll be showing you how to make the most out of seasonal food when you subscribe to Susannah Makram TV. Perhaps you don’t have time to make these so what you need to know is what and HOW? 

Sugar free recipes

Naturopathy at the Bulgari Hotel Spa is fad free. Sugar free diet? Who is paleo any way? We’re personalised: that’s the VIP everyone @ Susannah Makram clinics is. What’s the number one healthy recipe for weight loss? It’s yours. Follow

WE:

1. Value our body and its powerful capacity to self repair
2. Value our time and WE know what WE want
3. Value what’s most important – Health is Wealth
4. Value our contribution to the world

When we know what we want, there is only ONE question. HOW?

Eating seasonal food

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Seasonal food Spring UK

Eating seasonal food is healthy – right? Naturopathic healthy eating ideologies encourage eating fresh seasonal food. Why? Are there any health benefits to eating seasonal produce?

Eating Seasonal Food

Seasonal foods have better nutritional value for our overall health. Is this healthy or ethical only?  Eating what’s in season — here’s the lowdown from the Knightsbridge, Chelsea Nutrition Expert.

What is bioavailability?

Nutrient content of foods doesn’t necessarily change but it can be more or less bioavailable. What is the bioavailability of food?
In simple terms, it’s the way our bodies may not benefit from eating the same banana at different times of the year. The nutritional value of the banana might be labelled the same. Bioavailability refers to how nutrients are delivered to feed and heal your body.

 

Food in Season

Food in Season

Organic food

Non-seasonal produce are foods that are often full of pesticides, waxes, preservatives and other chemicals that are used. Why is our produce pumped full of toxic chemicals these days? Well, it’s so the produce look fresher than it actually is. Seasonal foods also have a much higher antioxidant content than non-seasonal foods.
VERY important side note: eating food in season is delicious! It’s fresh produce that is ripe and ready for consumption!

Organic Food and food intolerance

Eating freshly harvested produce means we’ll be rotating our foods. This helps keep our body from developing intolerances to certain foods.

Spring Detox

This enables us to reap the health benefits of a diverse diet that is naturally detoxifying. For example, in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), spring is associated with the liver. The liver is one of the body’s primary detoxification organs. Synergistically, spring is also the time when dandelion and other bitter greens are fresh and available. These bitter greens support the liver and its function of cleansing the blood.

 Paleo

Our ancestors ate seasonal food because they didn’t have much choice. We, on the other hand, can make informed decisions about what we eat. We can choose to opt out of eating food that isn’t harvested in our current season. Coordinating our diets with the seasons naturally cleanses us. It can help build immunity for the body. Generalised eating plans like the paleolithic diet or paleo diet allude to this. Raw food diets, raw veganism, vegetarianism and even gluten free follow fundamental principles. They might have roots in a way of eating that our ancestors did…

Is Paleo best?

However, the bases for eating a paleo diet in this way, for example, is not 100% accurate. Let’s examine the historical evidence… We’ll look at regional specificities, climate and how there are ever changing updates to these campaigns. We need to appreciate the value of food as medicine. No one prescription is right for all.

Eating Seasonal food

Eating Seasonal food

Categorically eliminating whole food groups to improve health (of all human bodies, without exception) in general and quality of life for all, doesn’t make sense. Providing the information your body needs by food does. Find out how personalised nutrition is changing the lives of so many. Taking ownership of our health isn’t easy… BUT it can be Safe. Clinical. Practical. Effective. Nutrition for health and healthy weight loss, really looks at what’s going on and how we can change this simply.

Blood type diet

Eating for our blood type can be positively reinforced by eating seasonably. It’s pretty neat when you think about it. It’s easy to work out.

Sustainable agriculture

Eating foods in season in our area right now, means we’re more likely to be eating local produce that does not require shipping methods. It’s more likely to be grown by local farmers in our community. Sustainable and environmental benefits contribute to our local economy. Also, this way of life reduces the pounds and pounds of produce that are shipped all over the globe every day.

Foods in season

UK – Support your local farmer’s market. Field to Fork eating.

Apricot – Blackcurrant – Strawberry – Tomato – Raspberry

Jersey Royal New potatoes – beetroot
Asparagus – Aubergine – Courgette – Watercress – Spring Onion
Peas – pepper –
Radishes –  Sorrel – Spinach- Pak Choi
Runner beans – borad beans – Watercress – Spring onions

Crab – Scallop – Plaice – Sea Trout – Wild

Whiting – Tuna

Beef steaks – Chicken – Sausages – Spring lamb – Pork – Venison

Imported Produce 

Apple – Pear – Quince

Imported Produce 

 Pomegranate

6 Reasons: Osteopathy, Nutrition and health

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Functional Osteopathy

Knightsbridge and Chelsea Osteopath Susannah helps optimise professional performance. HOW? Physical therapy techniques unique to osteopathyFunctional osteopathy treats the body as a whole.
How we move is our dynamic posture. Osteopathic techniques with a focus at Susannah Makram Clinics enhance two things: form and function.  We do this to capitalise on our body’s unique inherent strength.
We do this to optimise health. PRO-TIP: Don’t ignore warning signs.

SAFE. CLINICAL. PRACTICAL. EFFECTIVE. Does it always include functional nutrition? 


In London our modern lifestyle means chronic back pain and chronic health concerns recur. —->>>  Why?

Is it stress? What makes us tired all the time? Get stubborn belly fat, skin conditions and poor hair health?
Can  functional nutrition boost performance by a notch after osteopathy?

OSTEOPATHY, NUTRITION CONT’D

When’s the best time to have osteopathy?


“Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.”


Posture and Health

What does being healthy mean to you? Total body wellness or simply feeling balanced? Form and function. The best way to visualise these two things is via our posture. Our posture and health are interconnected.

Are you fatigued at work? Bloated or experiencing gastrointestinal symptoms of stress and anxiety? Chest pains? Feel like you cannot breath properly, you have aches in your joints? Poor posture can lead to an impairment to blood flow through the chest. This strains the blood vessels below the chest to produce a weakness in blood flow to the brain and cause fatigue (Orthostatic intolerance).

Nutrition and health

An internal chemical and hormonal imbalance sets us up for illness. One example can be seen in this study linking Low Immune Function and Intestinal Bacterial Imbalance to the Etiology of Rheumatoid Arthritis. There’s a case for diet and lifestyle alone to be a potential cause of non specific chronic lower back pain. Osteopaths look to treat the cause of pain or disease. Our training includes studying the pathophysiology of disease. Inflammation must exist for a reason. Pain, therefore, must exist for a reason. Put simply, poor posture from lower back pain or an injury we are accommodating for leads to our disrupted patterns of healthy:

(i) breathing (ii) digestion (iii) sleep (iv) responses to nutrition  (v) respones to stress

osteopathy, nutrition

osteopathy, nutrition


Osteopaths are highly competent healthcare professionals, recognised by the NHS. Osteopathy is a way of detecting, treating and preventing health problems. Osteopathy, nutrition and lifestyle change support is health optimisation. How are you feeling?


Osteopathy, Nutrition

The Missing Link In Functional Care. A clinical background in Osteopathy Matters. 6 Reasons – Osteopathy, Nutrition.

  1. Osteopathy seeks to find dysfunction. All the while we’re examining and treating the body as a whole.
  2. Using our understanding of disease pathophysiology and pain pathways are the greatest diagnostic tools of the osteopath.
  3. Correctly identify the cause or causes linked to why you are seeking nutritional therapy to begin with are the only way to deliver the correct therapy or therapy as treatment.
  4. “You can have inflammation without pain, but there is no pain without inflammation”. One cause of pain is metabolic. A type or stage of inflammation indicates a homeostatic imbalance. Both osteopathy and naturopathy adhere to the principle of helping to create the right environment. This is for optimal homeostatis (balance). It means the body will heal itself, as it does in nature. We help this bodily process to happen to the best of its ability.
  5. Clinically, common tests to diagnose inflammation are erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), white blood cell count, albumin levels (and other biomarkers). These tests are nonspecific. So, an abnormal result might be from a condition unrelated to inflammation. With osteopathy, nutrition and lifestyle as a means of optimising health, it’s important to know about this. Recognising signs and symptoms of acute, sub-acute and chronic inflammatory process, for example. Also, being able to interpret laboratory reports thus, is unique and invaluable for healthy weight loss results, unexplained fatigue etc.
  6. Our hormones have a complicated relationship with our Central Nervous System as well as our Cardiovascular Systems.

Functional testing in osteopathy, nutrition

Conventional medical testing will usually produce a result only when you’ve developed a disease. Often you may feel ill long before there is a “measurable pathology” – you know something is wrong but your tests keep coming back clear. Sound familiar? 


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