The Culinary Pharmacy: Intuitive Eating, Ancestral Healing, and Your Personal Nutrition Plan - Lisa Masé

The author frames her book with her healing journey to overcome ten years of chronicle
infection, anxiety, depression, infertility, hypothyroidism, and food sensitivities. She
explains how she grew up in Italy, cradled by the Adriatic Sea and the Dolomite mountains,
and by returning to her traditional foods and healing herbs she was able to heal herself. She
discusses the three kinds of hunger—Heart, Head, and Habit—and offers proven folk
and scientific strategies for transforming cravings and changing habits, including meditation, breathwork practices, and realignment of the gut-brain axis via the vagus nerve.

Detailing the healing principles behind Ayurveda, TCM, and the Mediterranean
diet, the author provides clear, easy-to-follow instructions for determining your
Ayurvedic and Chinese constitution types, which can help you discover how best to
heal yourself. She includes food lists for each constitution. Discussing the energetics
of food, she explains the importance of personalized nutrition based on genetics,
epigenetics, intuitive eating, and seasonal, local foods. She guides you on the path
of food sovereignty to regain control of your food. Throughout the book, the author
shares recipes, meal plans, and stories to illustrate the concepts she discusses and to
help you easily integrate your ancestral healing wisdom into your life.