Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Nourish Your Health: Eat Local, Eat Seasonal

19 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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YouTube talk by Aaron Hartman, MD (recorded Mar 19, 2024) advocating seasonal and local eating to improve health. The speaker links seasonal food choices to changing physiological needs across seasons (spring detox after winter fats; fall nuts/fruit preparing for winter) and promotes eating "real, local, organic" plants as a route to better health. The piece is practical and prescriptive: apply seasonal, local, organic choices to change your health trajectory.

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In the spring, you feel so great eating them. You're actually detoxifying from the winter fats and stuff you've been eating. And then later on in the fall, you start eating more nuts, different fruits and things like that. It's actually preparing you for wintertime again. So your body's nutritional needs and what you eat should be seasonally directed or affected as well. These things go behind eating real plants, and it's an important part of your health. So if you apply these concepts, eating real, local, organic, as close to home as possible and seasonal. If you apply these concepts, you're already on your road to eating real plants and changing your health trajectory.