Taoist Healing Foods

A program of recipes, superfoods, and medicine meals to maintain energy, restore cellular function, and reduce inflammation

• Explains the restorative benefits of an omnivorous diet containing healthy grass-fed meats, non-starchy vegetables, and omega-3 fatty acids

• Details how to properly prepare super foods and healing herbs--such as avocados, bone broth, coconut oil, turmeric, spirulina, and rosemary--to jumpstart a fat-burning metabolism, lubricate joints, reduce inflammation, and preserve cognitive ability

• Provides a wealth of medicine meal suggestions, including recipes, to address specific issues and concerns, from weight loss and younger-looking skin to thyroid problems and liver detox to anxiety, chronic pain, and insomnia

As our bodies age, they become depleted of the digestive enzymes and healthy body fats necessary for optimal health and longevity, leaving us weak, deficient, overweight, and low in energy. We are also bombarded by inorganic chemicals in our food, air, and water that tax our bodies heavily, leading to inflammation and premature aging. To combat cellular deterioration and support optimum body function, we need to return to the healthy animal fats and healing food remedies of our Paleolithic ancestors.

Offering a restorative program of recipes, super foods, and medicine meals, Taoist Master Mantak Chia and William U. Wei reveal how to maintain and sustain healthy cellular activity well into old age through a balanced omnivorous diet and safe toxin elimination. They explain how, just as the pull of gravity encourages improper posture as we get older, the loss of internal chi pressure and the displacement of our inner organs cause a similar internal sagging as we age. The authors reveal the benefits of a diet containing healthy grass-fed meats, non-starchy vegetables, and omega-3 fatty acids and explain which vegetables and modern foods to avoid. They detail how to properly prepare super foods and healing herbs--such as avocados, bone broth, coconut oil, turmeric, spirulina, and rosemary--to jumpstart a fat-burning metabolism, lubricate joints, reduce inflammation, keep hair and skin healthy, and preserve cognitive ability.

The authors provide a wealth of medicine meal suggestions, including recipes, to address specific issues and concerns, from weight loss and younger-looking skin to thyroid problems and liver detox to anxiety, chronic pain, and insomnia. They also explain how to reduce the adverse effects of menopause, how coffee protects the liver from alcohol, and how to combat inflammation. As the authors show, it is possible, even in our modern world, to eat your way back to health and have a high quality of life well into old age.

Mantak Chia, world-famous Inner Alchemy and Chi Kung master, founded the Universal Healing Tao System in 1979. The director of the Tao Garden Health Spa and Resort in northern Thailand, he is the author of more than 60 books, including The Tao of Immortality and Healing Light of the Tao. William U. Wei is a senior instructor of the Universal Healing Tao and has taught with Master Chia in more than 30 countries. The coauthor of Cosmic Detox and Sexual Reflexology, he lives in Milwaukie, Oregon.