Optimize Your Nutrition

Give your body the nutrients it needs to thrive by eating an optimized diet.

If you've searched online for tips on eating right, you've no doubt run into complex and often conflicting information about what to eat and what not to eat. Our hope here is to give you some clarity on which foods are healthiest.

(And, if you want to read about the unhealthiest foods you'll want to avoid, we created another slideshow about that here.)

To make it easier to get educated quickly on the healthiest foods to eat, we’ve compiled this slideshow of 19 Foods To Eat For Optimum Health. It includes links to more detailed information about each food listed from leading experts in nutrition today like Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. Josh Axe, and our own Dr. David Asher.

We then focused specifically on five nutrient-rich, easy-to-prepare, and cheap-to-buy foods to try to eat every day in this video:

Don’t have time to find and prepare these foods? 

You are not alone!

We've found a few products that deliver crucial nutrients even when you're on the go. 

And we'll tell you which ones and why we recommend them below.

Get Your Nutrients

"All-in-one nutritional insurance"

Athletic Greens consists of 75 natural, nutrition-packed ingredients blended into a drink mix you can take with you wherever we go.

It also tastes delicious!

As life-hacking author Tim Ferriss explained, “I get asked all the time, ‘If you could only use one supplement, what would it be?’ My answer is, inevitably, Athletic Greens. It is my all-in-one nutritional insurance.”

Give your body the nutritional support it needs. Take it daily to consistently feed your body the nutrients it needs to function optimally.

It’s especially helpful when you’re traveling or don’t have time to cook.

Eating whole foods from organic sources is always best, yet it’s very difficult to get all the nutrients we need every day through our diet. So we see Athletic Greens as an excellent - even essential - complement to every diet.

    Get Your Omega-3s!

    Did you know that two-thirds of your brain is comprised of Omega-3 fatty acids?

    To read on this more, read here, here, and here (link to related Facebook posts, where ABVoY discusses this in greater detail).

    Your body doesn't make Omega-3 fatty acids on its own, and you can only get them from a handful of sources - including XXX, YYY, and ZZZZ.

    So if you have a fish allergy or don't have access to fresh caught salmon or a fish allergy, you're 

    [Keep in mind, you should never eat factory-farmed salmon, here, here, and here (link to related Facebook posts, where ABVoY discusses this in greater detail).]

    This product sources the highest quality XXX and XXX oil, and has shown to XXX.

    Minimize Your Inflammation

    What chronic inflammation is and why you need to make a point to avoid it.

    What you can do about it... As discussed above, eat an anti-inflammatory diet. Learn more about that here (links to Inflammation page) and in this video (links to Inflammation video on YouTube).

    This product combines powerful herbs you should take daily that most people don't, and when combined are far more powerful at reducing your body's inflammation.

    It's very important than when taking any supplement that you take it a healthy fat - like EVOO, avocado, or nuts like walnuts and almonds - to ensure your body can absorb the nutrients. Read more about that here.

    Get Your Vitamins 

    Vitamins you need that you're probably not getting in your diet..

    Not eating enough dairy and beef (???), you need to be taking Vitamin B12, because it helps you with this, that, and the other thing. Here's the product we recommend: link here.

    Not getting enough sunlight every day, you need to be taking Vitamin D, because it helps you with this, that, and the other thing. Here's the product we recommend: link here.

    Perhaps Melatonin, too? [Or is that too easy to find locally? The benefit we could offer, of course, is the best product...it's been researched and affirmed of quality and value.]

    [Evaluate products from Dr. Axe, Touchstone Essentials. For now, link to them if you don't already have an affiliate deal with them.]

    Mind Your Gut

      What is gut health, and why should you care?

      [I’ve done Facebook posts about it. Search in Fodder folder for “gut health,” “microbiome,” or simply “gut” and see what comes up..]

        • Prebiotics 

        What Prebiotics are and why you need them..
        Which product we recommend and why...
        • Can’t mention product by name, but do offer 3 bullet points re: the quality and value of this product.
        • Which quality Prebiotic product do I have access to? Or is diet truly the answer? Research it and state your conclusion here.

              • Probiotics

              What Probiotics are and why you need them
              Which product we recommend and why
              • Can’t mention product by name, but do offer 3 bullet points re: the quality and value of this product.
              • Link to ProBio page.

              [Here's what we recommend you do, and what supplements you could take (if you can't manage the diet or are having GI issues). For more info, link to unbranded ProBio product page.]