Breakfast Broth
This is my go-to morning breakfast. It’s packed with nutrition that supports your mitochondrial health and it feels so warm and nourishing. I love starting my day with this meal!
Ingredients:
1.5 cups bone broth (from organic grass-fed/grass-finished animals)
one stalk of celery (sliced) (about 1/4 cup)
one leaf of kale or other dark leafy green (chopped) (about 1 cup)
3-4 shiitake mushrooms (sliced)
1-2 eggs (from organic free-range chickens)
1 t raw sesame seeds
2 t raw sunflower seeds
2 T raw sauerkraut
Instructions:
In a pan on the stovetop, heat the bone broth with celery, kale, and mushrooms until boiling. Drop eggs in carefully and cook for a few minutes, until the whites have solidified. Remove from the heat and pour into a serving bowl. Allow to cool for a few minutes before sprinkling with seeds and adding the sauerkraut. Enjoy outside in the sun with your bare feet on the earth!
Always source your animal products from pasture-raised, grass-fed and grass-finished animals. Animals that are fed corn and soy products do not contain the same nutrients. Use organic vegetables to avoid glyphosate contamination (Round-Up) which is not only disruptive to your gut microbiome but also replaces an important amino acid in your fascia, changing it’s structure and function in damaging ways.
What’s healthy about this meal?
Raw seeds such as sesame and sunflower seeds contain essential fatty acids, copper, and thiamine (Vitamin B1) which help maintain your mitochondrial membrane integrity and ensure efficiency in the electron transport chain (ETC) in your mitochondria. They also support healthy hormone balance. Mushrooms and eggs provide Iron-Sulfur Clusters, Copper, and Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) which are also important for efficient functioning of the ETC. Kale and celery both support detox pathways, provide good fiber for your microbiome, and are packed full of other nutrients. Naturally fermented foods such as sauerkraut provide nutrients in a bioavailable form and support a healthy gut microbiome.
To make this meal even more nutritious, add an organ meat such as grass-fed liver or hearts or top with fresh herbs for additional phytonutrients.
Eating outside with bare eyes and bare feet provides many benefits. Look for my other posts about grounding and the nutrients you receive through your eyes and skin from sunlight.