What is Food as Medicine?

We make choices every day, and those choices influence our health — for better or worse.
"Food as medicine" is about understanding ingredients and how they can affect us.

What we eat becomes us — cellularly, energetically, and spiritually. If you think about it, our food choices shape who we are.

Choosing Foods to Reduce Inflammation
Inflammation is at the root of many chronic diseases, and when it is ongoing, it places constant pressure on digestion, immunity, the nervous system, and the body’s ability to detoxify and repair. Using food as medicine means choosing foods that calm and support these systems, rather than adding to the inflammatory load the body is already managing.

Choosing foods that soothe and support — rather than those that inflame and irritate — is the foundation and the art of using everyday food as medicine.

Inflammatory Ingredients and Foods

Certain foods and food practices add to inflammation and increase the burden on the body, particularly when eaten regularly.
These include:

• Gluten
• Dairy
• Sugar, especially refined and added sugars
• Highly processed foods made with nitrates, preservatives, chemicals, and additives
• Seed oils and processed oils with a high toxin and chemical load
• Alcohol
  
• Animal products where the animals have been given antibiotics or raised on feed and water exposed to herbicides, pesticides, and toxic chemicals
• Plant foods grown with herbicides, pesticides, and chemical sprays
  
• Artificial flavours and scents, many of which are made from petrochemicals and act as neurotoxins
  

Choosing an anti-inflammatory eating style, working with the healing power of plants, and cooking with whole, chemical-free ingredients supports the body to calm inflammation, reduce toxic load, and improve digestion and nutrient absorption.

The food we choose to eat each day directly affects how the body functions:

• How well we digest and absorb nutrients
• How efficiently we eliminate waste and toxins
• How we respond to immune stress
• How we maintain balance at a cellular level

When these systems are supported through food, the body is better able to sustain steady energy, clearer thinking, emotional steadiness, and long-term resilience.

That is what functional nutrition is.
That is what it means to use everyday food as medicine.
That is why BK + my recipes follow an anti-inflammatory eating style.

There are millions of recipes out there, but are you cooking food that truly supports your health and reduces inflammation? 
We make choices every day, and those choices influence our health — for better or worse.