Foods to support you on your menstrual cycle

Foods to support you on your menstrual cycle:

• Menstruation (Vata Phase): Light, soupy, cooked foods that are easy to digest, and drink warm water to reduce cramping.

• Follicular (Kapha Phase): Enjoy building foods and good fats like ghee, dates, bananas, avocados, to name a few.

• Ovulation (Kapha Phase): Building foods like Fresh fruits, melons, leafy vegetables, and coconut.

• Luteal (Pitta Phase): Cooling & calming foods like cucumbers, leafy greens, zucchini, and drink coconut water

One of the things I most wanted women to understand while writing Everyday Ayurveda for Women’s Health is that the menstrual cycle is not random. The body is shifting through different energetic phases all month long, and food can either support those transitions… or make them much harder.

Ayurveda has always viewed women’s health through the lens of rhythm, nourishment, digestion, rest, and cyclical living. Sometimes the support the body needs is surprisingly simple: warmer foods during bleeding, more building foods after menstruation, cooling foods before the cycle begins again. There are so many simple, accessible tools, friends!

This kind of wisdom changed the way I understood my own body, and it’s one of the reasons I wrote the book in the first place.

The paperback edition of Everyday Ayurveda for Women’s Health will officially be out in the world on September 15th!