Latest / Beyond Sovereignty / #017 - 10 Superfoods to Instantly Reduce Stress and Anxiety! 🍓🌿

Transcript

#017 - 10 Superfoods to Instantly Reduce Stress and Anxiety! 🍓🌿 · Beyond Sovereignty

0:00
Strawberries that are chemically sprayed are one of the most toxic things
0:03
to the body. It's like having ancient orange. Ancient orange was a
0:07
chemical that was sprayed over Vietnam during the Vietnam War. And
0:10
that's why the next generation were all deformed. You
0:13
don't want that. I really would love you to try this food to reduce your
0:16
anxiety. Citrus. Yes! Nature's medicine for
0:20
diabetes. 90% of people that go to a vegan diet fail
0:24
because they do not have enough minerals. They can get all of those minerals from... You have
0:27
been lied to. Wheat is not the only thing to calm you
0:30
down. You've got to try this other alternative instead. Welcome
0:35
Wisdom Keepers, Soul Tribe and New Earth Leaders to
0:38
Soul Temple, your haven for self-discovery and growth.
0:42
I'm Blythe Langford and I am your guide to finding yourself and
0:46
your true, true, true, true, true purpose. Together, let's
0:49
shift from feeling stuck and misaligned to living a
0:53
life of purpose and prosperity. I
0:57
am going to share the top 10 foods that
1:01
will reduce your stress and anxiety. If you stick around to
1:04
the end, there is going to be some myth busters for
1:08
all the lies that you've been fed around the foods that actually cause
1:12
you anxiety when they say that they don't. Really stick around
1:15
for those ones because it'll potentially change how you do everything. Number
1:21
one is berries. Berries are like little
1:26
gifts from God. The darker the berry, the more antioxidants it
1:29
has. And so when it has lots of antioxidants, they act
1:32
like little ninjas in your body so that when you eat them, they
1:36
literally find areas of anxiety and stress or
1:39
inflammation and help to illuminate them so
1:43
that they can change the structure of
1:47
the stress or anxiety within the body. They have antioxidants like
1:51
vitamin C which helps to combat oxidative stress. For
1:54
example, I used to be a hairdresser and we had hydrogen peroxide and it was
1:58
left out with the air. The air would literally change
2:02
the chemical structure of it. That's what stress and anxiety does
2:05
in the body. It actually changes the chemical structure of your cells. These
2:10
foods can go in and just combat that
2:14
structural change so that they can come back into their natural organic state,
2:17
which is to be calm and at ease. Everything
2:21
that we put in the body is literally just creating a
2:25
feedback to the body of whether we want it to deregulate and
2:29
calm down and go into its natural state or actually cause our
2:33
body to go into a reactive state. Our foods are
2:37
literally our medicines. Blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries,
2:41
having them fresh, of course, is always going to be best. The closest
2:44
that they've been to being picked, they will still be alive because
2:49
when they are alive and living, it's like they've still got their blood
2:53
force and their life force flowing through them. Then
2:56
you eat that and that makes you feel more alive. You're
3:00
literally taking on those foods' energy. If you
3:03
realize that every bit of energy on this
3:07
planet comes from the sun, you want to eat most in alignment with
3:11
what's got the most photons from the sun, which is raw
3:14
foods and vegetables. berries, add them in your smoothies, just
3:18
get it in your body. Our number two food for reducing anxiety is
3:21
leafy greens. Now, leafy greens are underrated
3:25
and also the amount of leafy greens that we need every
3:29
single day, people just are not getting enough. It is where our
3:32
nutrients come from. Our nutrients are what changes
3:36
the neurotransmitters in our brain. They're what give us
3:39
the biofeedback for our body to relax, for our
3:43
bones to strengthen, for our blood to clean itself. We
3:47
do not get enough leafy greens. Now, there's
3:50
a whole thing at the moment, don't eat leafy greens. They've got too much oxalates
3:54
in them. Well, just don't eat the ones that don't have oxalates in
3:57
it. You'll be fine. Like, even lettuce, like
4:00
the humble lettuce when it's in its organic state is literally
4:04
like nature's diazepan, right? Which is... an
4:09
anti-anxiety. It's an anti-depressant. It's like
4:13
a sedative, you know, and that's just from lettuce. So
4:17
have a whole bunch of lettuce every single day. You can literally put it in a smoothie with
4:20
the berries. Holy moly, oh my gosh, it's going to be like the
4:23
best day ever for you if you've got anxiety. It will literally change
4:27
your brain and literally cleanse your body.
4:31
and your blood so that you do not have stress and
4:35
anxiety. Swiss chard, high in folate, it literally
4:38
creates like a dopamine effect in the body. So it reduces anxiety
4:43
and causes relaxation and pleasure. Because when we
4:46
have anxiety, we're totally avoid of pleasure, right? They
4:49
have a really calming effect to help your sleep and
4:52
it helps to decrease the heart rate because when we are anxious, our
4:56
heart rate is increased. So they literally help to calm your
4:59
heart rate and bring you back into a nice resting state.
5:03
I love, love, love, love just having greens dipped
5:07
into a dip. You could literally just dip it into like a raw vegan
5:10
hummus or a raw vegan avocado dip or a corn
5:13
dip, but also smoothies. And that is literally like your anti-anxiety medicine.
5:18
So you could have that twice throughout the day and it would just help to calm your nervous system
5:22
and also prepare you for whatever meetings are coming up
5:25
without anxiety or stress. Number three, food for
5:28
reducing anxiety. which is one of my fucking favorites that
5:32
has been like a game changer for my life. And if every
5:35
vegan ate this more, they would be so much healthier because
5:39
most vegans are unhealthy, is seaweeds. Now,
5:43
I am talking seaweeds every single day. So whether you
5:46
have them in your smoothies, whether you have them just cut up in your main
5:50
meals, not only is it absorbing all of this
5:54
extra extraordinary energy. That energy
5:57
literally comes into the body and nourishes our blood and
6:00
just pushes out everything that's not supposed to be there, which includes
6:04
anxiety. It really helps to calm the nervous system
6:08
because it has got all of the B vitamins that you need. It's got iron,
6:11
it's got protein, and all of these things help to strengthen your
6:15
bones, strengthen your blood. It's got huge amounts of
6:18
magnesium, which are not found on plants. that are outside
6:21
of the water, it's got a different level of magnesium that not
6:25
only helps to improve your bones, but also helps to
6:28
strengthen your mind and your brain and
6:31
your muscles and your nerves. Because if your nerves are
6:35
calm, that's it. That's the
6:38
key to reducing anxiety is really calm nerves. So
6:42
having your seaweeds. Really important thing with your
6:45
seaweeds is to rinse out all of the salt as well. When
6:48
they're dried, they're super high in salt. So just rinse them in some
6:51
spring water, some really good water that's not fluorinated from your
6:55
tap. Just rinse off that sea salt first because you don't
6:58
want to have over sodium. It's also really high in zinc. It
7:02
is really reduced with high levels of vitamin C and zinc
7:06
and your B vitamins and your niacin. And that is what is
7:09
in seaweeds. Now my favorite seaweeds that I have every single day
7:13
is wakame, Irish moss, dulse, kelp.
7:17
So they are your seaweeds to have. You can have them even just as
7:20
they are. I mean, my favorite one to have by itself would
7:24
be nori. It is so yum. All the other ones I will rinse
7:28
and then have with something else. And if you get
7:31
Irish moss, it's a thickening agent. So you can use it instead of eggs. You
7:35
can use it to thicken up your cakes. You can use it to make crackers. I
7:38
use it in like pretty much so many different things. So
7:42
instead of using like an oil, I will use a
7:45
seaweed because it is anti-inflammatory whereas oils
7:49
are inflammatory in the body. Seaweeds, can't
7:53
stress how important they are. 90% of people
7:56
that go to a vegan diet fail because they do not have enough minerals and
8:00
they can get all of those minerals from seaweeds. The next one is
8:03
saffron. Saffron is the unspoken
8:07
ninja of Egypt, I reckon.
8:11
They say that this in itself is like
8:15
Zoloft, an antidepressant for anxiety. Now, my
8:18
favorite way of having saffron is to chuck it in any smoothie or
8:22
any sauce, but the best drink
8:25
that you can make with saffron, saffron, seven cashews,
8:29
some hot water, half a teaspoon of vanilla and five
8:32
medjool dates. And every single one of those foods is
8:36
an anti-anxiety food. So having that in
8:39
the evening will help you sleep and reduce your anxiety and get ready
8:43
for the best sleep of your life. Our number five food
8:47
for reducing anxiety is medjool dates. mature
8:51
dates. Oh my God, they are my saviour. I love mature dates. I
8:55
cannot explain how amazing they are. Have them in everything.
8:58
They thicken up everything. Sweet, savoury, everything. They literally
9:02
are a substitute for tryptophan, which
9:06
is an amino acid that helps serotonin and
9:10
melatonin neurotransmitters that regulate sleep, wake
9:13
cycles, and promote relaxation. Now, I also think
9:17
they're the ones that help. People get those shots to help with their
9:20
melanin and serotonin and all of that. I
9:24
would prefer to have really nice dates rather than getting injections. That's
9:28
something that would be really helpful for you. Consuming dates at nighttime a
9:33
snack or having them as an evening meal, whilst they give you
9:36
energy, they also help to promote sleep. That's why that smoothie
9:39
that I recommended before with the saffron, the cashews, the dates, and
9:43
the vanilla, that is literally like four anti-anxiety things
9:46
all in once. You can have that throughout the morning or the
9:49
evening, and it will literally just help you feel so fucking amazing. Also,
9:53
they balance your hormones. Because they've got natural sugars,
9:58
natural fructose and glucose, that actually are the
10:01
best fuel source for the brain. So they help women's cycles
10:06
balance out their hormones. It really has a beautiful relieving effect
10:10
on menstrual pain because the magnesium in them reduces discomfort by
10:14
relaxing your muscles. Seriously, medullodates each and every day.
10:17
Do it. Our number six food for reducing anxiety is
10:21
citrus. Yes, citrus. That's why I have a whole freaking
10:24
farm of citrus foods. Oranges, grapefruits, lemons. My
10:28
gosh, the science behind this is next level. The
10:31
vitamin C's will lower your cortisol levels, right? Reduce
10:35
your physical, mental, and emotional stress. It also helps
10:38
to boost the immune system to reduce the cortisol and blood pressure.
10:42
So it's nature's medicine for diabetes, right?
10:46
If you started off your day each and every day with grapefruits
10:50
and oranges, like I've said a billion times, you could
10:54
literally get rid of not only your stress and
10:57
anxiety, but also diabetes. Far
11:00
out. Simplest thing ever. Now, oranges are abundant in
11:04
wintertime. So in the colder seasons, that's when they're
11:08
actually seasonally available. So that is when you smash them out,
11:11
smash them out all winter. Or if you're feeling anxious,
11:15
a beautiful juice would be orange juice with basil
11:19
because basil is another antioxidant and it really helps to
11:22
reduce your anxiety as well. Number seven for the foods that
11:26
will reduce your anxiety and stress is cashews. Cashews
11:31
are a legume, they're not even a nut, and they're like so fucking
11:34
creamy that you can make cheese out of them. These
11:38
are the best raw vegan option for making cheese
11:41
if you have fat. I rarely have fat, but when I used to have cashews,
11:45
holy moly, it's like the best thing ever. You can make yogurt, ice
11:48
cream, everything that you want out of cashews. Now, cashews are
11:52
really high in B6, right? They also have tryptophan,
11:56
which is also the calming effect, the relaxing state that helps
11:59
you warn off anxiety and depression as well.
12:03
Also, this B6 helps our body absorbs magnesium. So
12:07
whilst people are magnesium deficient, they also are B6 deficient, which
12:10
is also in our seaweeds. That B6 helps
12:14
us to absorb the magnesium because there's one thing that we can put so much
12:17
magnesium in the body, but if it can't absorb it, there's no fucking point. So,
12:21
cashews are next level amazing. antidepressant, anti-anxiety,
12:26
and also neuroinflammatory. So they help to reduce inflammation
12:30
in the brain, which is where this chronic stress comes from, and
12:33
also the dysregulation in the gut. It helps our mitochondria really
12:37
relax and helps beyond tryptophan, right?
12:41
So really those amino acids in there help our
12:45
nervous system create a better mood
12:48
for ourself. How fucking cool is that? Now eat that all the time, every
12:51
day. until you go into a more cleansing lifestyle like
12:55
me, and then you have it rarely. Number eight for reducing anxiety
12:59
and stress in the body is cruciferous vegetables. Broccoli,
13:02
cauliflower, all of those deliciousness, Brussels sprouts, cabbage. Oh
13:07
my gosh, I love them. So the best way is to have
13:10
them raw, of course. but blanched. So you
13:14
cut them all up, put them in a bowl, pour some boiling water over
13:17
them, just for like 10 seconds for broccoli, 10 seconds for cauliflower, 30 seconds.
13:21
And then you rinse that off and that's when it is really great
13:25
on the gut. Now these anti-anxiety vegetables.
13:29
They're really rich in sulforaphane, which is a powerful phytochemical that
13:33
helps inflammation. So it helps to reduce
13:37
this inflammation in the gut. If we're able to get rid of that inflammation in the gut, then
13:41
that's when instantly we can feel a lot better. It is literally the
13:44
best compounds for depression and anxiety. Now, our number nine
13:47
food for reducing stress and anxiety is basil. I
13:51
noticed this a few years ago, that basil actually looks really similar to
13:54
a marijuana plant. I don't know. And then that got
13:57
me wondering, Is it similar? Does it have calming effects?
14:01
Guess what? It freaking does. It has been known throughout
14:04
like India for freaking ever they've been using holy
14:08
basil to relieve anxiety. And I was like, dude, it
14:11
makes so much sense because on that basil plant, when
14:15
it goes to like little buds, it literally looks like marijuana. Now
14:18
I don't smoke marijuana. I literally can't. I wish I could. I actually wish I
14:21
could, but it makes me crazy. So instead I have basil.
14:25
What a loser, but I have basil. It is the best thing ever.
14:29
Now, the most amazing thing that you can do with basil
14:33
is mix it up with garlic and cashews and
14:37
lemon juice and salt and pepper. and far
14:40
out, you have got the best dip. Oh my gosh, dip all
14:44
of your ceriferous, however you say
14:47
that word, veggies and your leafy greens and your seaweeds
14:51
into that dip. Holy moly, it'll change your
14:54
life. It'll make your life so much better. It is so freaking yummy
14:58
and also makes you feel good. Oh my God, as if you don't want that.
15:02
If you can, eating your food while it's reducing your anxiety, helping you
15:05
feel a little bit high at the same time, getting you ready for bed, or
15:08
like if you've got a meeting coming up, it's getting you ready so that you can have
15:11
a really nice integrated conversation with the ones that you love. So
15:15
get holy basil into you each and every single day because it will
15:19
improve cognitive brain function. So you don't need to go to a therapist. You
15:22
can just eat basil. How cool is that? So much easier.
15:26
And it will also help with your magnesium. Now,
15:29
this kind of magnesium in the holy basil increases your memory and
15:33
learning with flavonoids that have actually been linked to better brain
15:37
function. How cool is that? And it's also a nerve tonic. So
15:40
whilst it clears your mind, it cleanses your nerves as
15:44
well, which is like amazing because once you can cleanse
15:47
your nerves, it reduces the tension in your nerves as
15:50
well. So it helps to calm the body whilst it's calming the
15:54
brain. And our last and final medicine
15:58
for reducing anxiety in the body, number 10, is
16:02
avocado. When you open up an avocado to me, it just looks like the womb, right?
16:06
Like you've got this beautiful little thing with a little stone in
16:09
the middle. It's just like a mama's tummy. You know, and that's what
16:12
I feel like it is for ladies as well. It's just like this little cuddle to your
16:15
tummy, right? So it is really great
16:20
fat. Like it's a really great fat. It's really great for the skin. It's really great
16:23
for your vision. It's really great for lowering blood pressure. It's
16:26
really great for lowering your stress. because of this monounsaturated
16:31
fat, which is actually healthy. But the
16:34
thing with avocado is people eat too much of it. You
16:38
should be having half an avocado a day max. We
16:41
don't want to be having too much fats because fats are really like
16:44
a medicine to the body. People are like, yeah, this thing is good for me. I'm going to have so
16:48
much of it. No, it's like magic mushrooms. You don't
16:51
need so much to have the full effect. Little bits
16:55
are great. Overconsumption is poison to the body, so
16:58
have a little bit. When you're going for ayahuasca, you don't need to go for the second cup
17:01
if you're already fucked up. Just little bits are okay.
17:06
Now, avocado, obviously, as you know, just get that in
17:09
your face however you want to, and remember that you don't need
17:13
to always have fats internally. You can put them on
17:16
your skin. Now, I don't personally eat much fat. Like,
17:19
at all. But I am lathered the frick up every
17:23
single day in fat because my body is the number one
17:26
absorber. My skin is the number one absorber of fat. So
17:29
I put it on my body every day, right? So that is where
17:32
you want to get most of your fats, is externally. Whilst you
17:36
have these 10 foods that are amazing for reducing anxiety,
17:41
If they're not in their organic state, if they have got chemicals and pesticides on
17:44
them, then they're poisonous. It's really important
17:48
that you get them from great sources. Go to your farmer's
17:51
markets or find them online, organic ones that you can buy in
17:55
bulk that are heaps cheaper. If you are getting
17:58
berries, for example, strawberries that are chemically sprayed
18:01
are one of the most toxic things to the body. If you're having them whilst
18:05
they're sprayed, it's like having ancient orange. Ancient orange was a
18:08
chemical that was sprayed over Vietnam during the Vietnam War, right?
18:12
And that's why the next generation were all deformed. You
18:16
don't want that. So make sure that you're getting really great quality because it
18:19
will change your life. I never got sick again when I started eating organic
18:23
food and it saved me money in the long run. Before that, I
18:26
was spending so much more money on chemicals, medications and pharmaceuticals because
18:29
I got sick regularly. Once I started eating organics, never got
18:32
sick again, never spent any money in the last 17 years on
18:36
any medications. And I'd love you to have that same experience
18:40
where you can just be like, hey, I'm just going to eat my medicine in foods organically
18:45
rather than having to take pharmaceuticals. It'll change your
18:48
life. It'll give you back your life because you'll actually be able to
18:51
be responsible for your own health and you'll never need to go to a doctor again. And
18:55
I just want to put this last point in. I was at the doctor a
18:58
few years ago when I had my accident and I was disabled in
19:01
my right arm. Healed that with food. Anyway, another story. But I
19:05
went to this doctor and he said, oh, you know, what's your diet? And I said, oh, I'm
19:08
a raw vegan. And he's like, when was the last time you were sick? I said, 17 years
19:11
ago. He's like, oh, yeah, totally. I would never recommend that diet because people
19:16
won't need to come see me. I'll be out of the business. I was like, can you
19:19
say that again so I can record that? He's like, definitely not. I
19:23
was like, fuck, damn it. Damn it. Always record shit
19:26
when you go to the doctors. But you don't
19:29
need to go to the doctors. They would never recommend this diet because then they
19:33
would be out of the job. It's a fucking scam. Anyway,
19:37
don't even get me started. I hope you've loved this episode and you've gotten some tips
19:40
to take away from this. Now, I didn't have time to put in there all the myths that I wanted
19:44
to bust, but if you're interested, pop it in the comments and I'll definitely do an episode on
19:47
that because you know I love conspiracies and have my own way of thinking.
19:50
But I hope you take so much out of this episode and tell me what you are
19:53
going to try and tell me the results that you have because all
19:57
of these things I've recommended are fucking yummy. I can't wait to see you in the next
20:00
episode. Have a beautiful, healthy, relaxing, stress-free day. Thank
20:04
you for joining me on Soul Temple. If this episode
20:07
spoke to your soul, I would love, love, love your support
20:11
with a five-star review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. And
20:14
do not forget to subscribe on your favorite platform. But don't
20:17
let your journey end here. Connect with me and my like-minded community of
20:21
souls at Blythe Langford on all social platforms. I
20:25
look forward, I really look forward to diving deeper with you on