Stress Busting Fruit And Vegetables

When we're feeling thrown off by difficult life events or too much to do, it's common to want to reach for something to eat. It's the brain's way of saying that it could use some support in navigating a challenge. The key is to know which foods will actually help us.

Foods That Fight Stress

1. Apples

Apples provide precious trace minerals such as manganese and molybdenum, as well as electrolytes and critical mineral salts that help the body rehydrate after exercise or stress of any kind. Laden with tons of pesticides, make sure to buy organic.

Tip: At least once a year, go to an organic orchard that allows you to pick apples yourself. The act of picking fruit is one of the most powerful, grounding meditations that exists.

2. Bananas

Bananas are high in tryptophan so they can help soothe sleep disorders, create calm, reduce anxiety, and alleviate depression. Bananas can also alleviate gastric cramps and stress-related gastrointestinal disorders.They also have stress-assist phytochemicals to get you through your day.

Tip: The optimal stage at which to eat a banana is peak ripeness, the point when its skin is yellow with brown speckles.

3. Mangoes

Mangoes are a real miracle sleep aid, when you eat mango before bed, phytochemicals from the fruit, along with amino acids such as glycine, glutamine, and cysteine combined with fructose and glucose, travel to the brain and quickly restore depleted neurotransmitters. This allows most insomniacs a chance to finally get some true rest during the night.

Tip: If you're meditating to resolve an issue, try eating a mango beforehand. it will help connect you to the insights you need.

4. Artichokes

Artichokes are dense with minerals such as magnesium and silica, in addition to those, however, they contain sedation phytochemicals that calm all body systems.

Tip: Enjoying artichokes for dinner helps your liver purge and clean itself in the early hours of the morning, while you sleep.

5. Cucumbers

Cucumbers' traces of the amino acids glycine and glutamine, combined with their extreme and highly active content of enzymes and coenzymes, plus their abundance of more than 50 trace minerals, make them an excellent delivery system for neurotransmitter chemicals. This is great news if you are dealing with anxiety or other neurological conditions. A great hydrator.

Tip: When using conventional cucumbers, make sure to peel off the skin before eating to avoid consuming toxic wax coating.

6. Wild Blueberries

Wild blueberries are currently acknowledged by nutrition experts for their sky-high levels of antioxidants. On top of that, these tiny jewels have a plethora of undiscovered qualities. For one, they're armed with polyphenols, anthocyanins, anthocyanidins,dimethyl resveratrol, and as yet unknown cofactor adaptogenic amino acids. Tip: A breakfast addition whether on oats or in a smoothie is quite delicious.