Eating According to the Seasons

So here’s the story.  I started getting sinus headaches about 4 years ago. I had never had them before, so it was strange that they would start up in my late 40’s. I had done my best to alter what I felt was the cause of the headaches, addressing the bio-mechanical, biochemical and mental/emotional/spiritual aspects as they relate to sinus headaches – nothing had really done the job though.

The last headache I had was a few weeks after moving to Victoria in September, and whilst on my way to find some Grapefruit Seed Extract, I ended up at a little office in Oak Bay. It was there that I had a very cool conversation with a lovely woman who was a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Doctor. I have known about the concept of keeping warm and eating warm foods in the winter time, so when she jumped right into this topic, well big light bulbs went off.

I quickly made the link to the fact that I had started doing smoothies for breakfast at about the same time my headaches started to occur – and to the fact that over this past summer, I hadn’t had any headaches. So here we are in September; the cold weather has started to come on and voila – I get a sinus headache.

The lovely doctor gave some herbs to make a horrible tasting drink along with a handout of things to do, including no cold drinks on their own (thank you very much) and within a day, my head was normal again. And guess what? I haven’t had a sinus headache since!!

So now I drink my smoothies warm for the winter season, including making very yummy, warm smoothie bowls. I am following the TCM guidelines for keeping warm and am eating the recommended foods to keep me healthy over the winter season. So far so good.

I would love to hear your story, if you have had any similar results when you have switched your diet to suit the seasons.