In Bad Taste ... What's To Come
The tongue map you were taught at school was a historic symbol of taste. A testament to our understanding of the human body. It’s also a symbol of mistruth and is a complete lie. Here’s how to use its outdated structure to learn why the bitter foods offer a sweet spot for optimizing your health, fighting disease and maximize your well-being.
SECTION 1: THE SWEET
Bitter foods have always been sweet medicine that optimize your health and fight disease of all kinds.
1. A bittersweet beginning
A breakdown of the events that inspired me to start this investigative newsletter thanks to a skin cancer diagnosis and why this sparked my efforts into showing the world the power of bitter foods.
2. An ancients knew best
How and why empires have risen and fallen on the taste of bitterness. Whether it was ayurvedic nutritional practices, Chinese medicine, or European medieval medicine, you can learn how and why they formed from their most beloved stories.
SECTION 2: THE SOUR
Sour and bitter tastes are a warning system that protects you but here’s why you should hit their mute buttons if you’re looking to live longer.
1. Your soured triangle of taste perception
Understand why you’re hard wired not to enjoy bitter foods and drinks from an early age. This will help you unlocking the secrets of constant bitter food exposure.
2. A curdled relationship with bitter foods
Learn why you’re designed to taste bitter foods and unpack how to differentiate the taste of poison versus nutrition.
SECTION 3: THE SALTY
The food industry has salted the joys to be had from the taste of bitter taste, but here’s how you can reclaim it and your health.
1. You’re trapped in a world of agricultural bias
How and why the food industry has spoilt your relationships with bitter foods and moved away from their cultivation in favor of less healthy alternatives.
2. Salty truth about why bitter is opposite to sweet
Your body has hidden taste receptors deep inside key organs. Learning why they work is vital to understanding how you can get a taste for better health.
SECTION 4: THE BITTER
You’ve evolved to taste and enjoy bitterness, yet actively avoid it. Here’s why its the flavor that will benefit your well-being.
1. Stepped out map of how bitter foods make you better at everything, namely:
Step 1: A healthier digestive system
Step 2: Absorb more nutrients
Step 3: Digest joy into your life
Step 4: Build more muscle
Step 5: Sleep stronger
Step 6: Elevate your mood and bones
Step 7: You’ll get leaner
2. A breakdown of the best bitter supplements for your health and disease fighting capabilities. These include the following:
- Leucine
- Amino acids
- Bitter Melon Extract
- Herbal bitters
- Turmeric
- Ginger
- Green Tea Extract
- Vitamin D
- Garlic
- Antioxidants
SECTION 5: THE SAVORY
Your taste buds crave that lip smacking savory taste and bitter plays the perfect partner to them by rounding off the flavor profile of your entire menu.
1. Savoring the best of bitter
- A break-down of the best bitter foods you can eat, what they do and why.
- Eating versus drinking bitterness (beer, wine, coffee)
- Chefs discuss tactics for neutralizing and using bitterness for your benefit.
- Recipes and nutritional applications of bitter foods
2. The return to the personal story
Turn in for my dermatologist’s reaction to my progress and get a wrap up on how to integrate bitter foods into your life effortlessly so they become enjoyable and beneficial.
Bittersweet Tip 2: Eat the Whole Apple
You’ve been eating your apple the wrong way. Research by the Graz University of Technology in Austria found you’re shortchanging your health by throwing the core in the bin. Here’s what they founds is an apple’s seeds and core.
1. Increased fiber that leaves you feeling fuller
2. Get gut healthy bacteria from the seeds
3. Flavonoids with anti-inflammatory and disease fighting agents
4. Phytonutrients that protect your cells from oxidative damage
Bite into the core and seeds with a some of the apple’s flesh to dilute their mildly bitter undertones. Go one better by chewing the seeds to release all their goodness and make them more digestible. No, an apple tree won’t grow in your stomach and they’re not poisonous. Eat everything you’ve paid for.