Recent years have seen an increased interest in superfoods, adaptogens and medicinal foods as we are more and more aware of how what we eat and assimilate affects every aspect of our physical and psychological health.
There is actually an expanding scientific field called nutrigenomics, which studies how food influences gene expressions and contributes to either health or to disease and how a healthy, but also personalised, diet can be used to prevent and mitigate chronic diseases. It should consequently not come as a surprise how many foods and ingredients, which you may already use everyday, contain specific compounds that give them medicinal properties that can protect against diseases and help to slow the effects of ageing. Here’s a list of some of our favourite sources of plant medicine...