Tamara Wolfson – Kitchen Medicine

Improve your gut health and overall wellbeing, strengthen your immune system, promote longevity, and heal health issues with the right flavors, foods, and herbs for each season.

Create your “ideal meal” based on your unique constitution and health concerns — as well as dozens of flavorful, healthful recipes to help you thrive.

It wasn’t so long ago that we lived our lives according to the seasons…

During winter’s crisp, short days, we retreated indoors, enjoyed a slower pace, and ate squash, root vegetables, and soup stocks rich in nutrients from animal bones.

We allowed how we lived, ate, and cared for our bodies to flow with the rhythms of nature.

Of course, most of us today — with our busy modern lives — don’t always have the luxury of aligning our days with nature’s changing faces.

Yet, there’s one important way you can follow her cues — to boost your overall health, help heal physical and emotional imbalances and disease, promote greater longevity, and even bring greater enjoyment and satisfaction to how you nourish your body…

You can learn to prepare and eat the foods that are best for you — and your body’s organ systems — in each season.

You may already tailor your meals to your dietary and health requirements, but you’re missing out on important nutrients and energies when you don’t consume the proper flavors and types of food your organ systems need to thrive at certain times of the year.

For example, in winter, our bodies need bitter-flavored foods, such as arugula, dandelion, rhubarb, and leafy green vegetables to help us keep heat in our core, dry dampness, and stimulate digestion. The right amount of this flavor will energetically nourish the heart; and an excess of this flavor is actually unhealthy for the bones.

This centuries-old way of approaching food and nourishment invites us to view food through the lens of Chinese medicine, which considers how our contact with elemental forces (including the energetic properties of food) can heal us, helping us to bring our digestive system, and thus our health, into balance.

Our digestive health, supported by our gut’s microbiome — a complex mini-ecosystem of bacteria — holds the key to our overall health, wellbeing, and longevity. In fact, current medical research reveals that as much as 50% of diseases are related to poor or improper diet.

Discover How Particular Flavors Activate Certain Energetics in Your Body

In Kitchen Medicine, you’ll discover which foods are best for you and your health each season, including how the different flavors of foods (sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and pungent) impact your body.

In Five Phase Theory, an ancient Taoist system of organizing and understanding the ecology of the body, balanced eating includes considering how particular flavors effect various tissues and organ function.

Viewing your daily and seasonal menus through this lens gives you access to delicious and enjoyable meals that will not only nourish your entire system (giving special attention to particular organs at the time of year they need it), but can also help you improve your digestion and optimize your health — even help heal health conditions.

In this new 7-module program, you’ll discover which foods can help you to regulate your blood sugar and strengthen your blood, so you have more energy and stamina.

You’ll learn which foods and herbs can best help cleanse your system — and when’s the best time to do a “cleanse.”

You’ll learn how to create fermented foods successfully and safely, so you can add this natural probiotic to your daily menus.

AND you’ll discover how to sprout, seeds, nuts, grains, and beans — which unlocks beneficial enzymes and makes them easier to digest — helping cut down on inflammation in the body.

You’ll find out how to make a bone stock customized with various medicinal ingredients specific to your dietary and health needs. A hearty bone stock soup can help improve skin conditions, diabetes, leaky gut, osteoporosis, arthritis, allergies, autoimmune diseases, and digestive issues.

You’ll even discover your “ideal meal,” based on your unique constitutional imbalances, dietary requirements, and health concerns.

AND you’ll receive dozens of healthy, healing recipes to try out now and in the seasons to come — from Fermented Turmeric Ginger Beer to Chia Pudding with Vanilla & Cardamom to Traditional Mushroom Kombucha plus Basic Sauerkraut and Traditional Russian Borscht.

Learn From a Healing Foods Specialist With Decades of Experience

Tamara Wolfson is an acupuncturist, natural medicine practitioner, and apitherapist whose
perspective on the healing and energetic properties of food originated in her studies with Jeffrey Yuen, an 88th generation lineage holder of the Jade Purity School of Taoism.

Tamara defines and categorizes food as a healing tool, in the same way Chinese medicine categorizes and treats imbalances in the body with Chinese herbs.

She’s spent over two decades teaching others how to incorporate recipes and make lifestyle changes to support eating the best foods possible for optimal health — according to seasonal changes, personal constitution, health challenges, and the symptoms of aging.

Tamara has shared her teachings at the San Francisco Culinary Academy, with Whole Foods Market, and through the University of San Francisco General Hospital’s Cancer Awareness, Resources and Education Program, and dozens of other institutions.

In this brand new 7-module Shift Network program, you’ll learn Tamara’s proven approaches for supporting your digestive health, how to create meals in alignment with the seasons AND according to which flavors and tastes your organ systems need throughout the year…

… an approach to self-nourishment that can not only strengthen your overall sense of wellbeing, but help you to heal your body and support your system as you age.

During this creative, empowering, and self-healing new training, you’ll also discover:

• Your gut microbiome, why it’s important, and what kinds of foods support it
• Food toxins and how you can avoid them
• How to use an elimination diet to clarify if you are suffering from food allergies
• Foods that help cleanse the body, such as beets, artichokes, nettle, and dandelion
• What foods support your liver and help it to filter toxins out of your blood
• How intermittent fasting can help your digestion reset
• An introduction to the healing properties of mushrooms and how you can use them simply and easily in your kitchen
• Which foods are rich in which enzymes, and how these nutrients are like fire for your digestive system
• How to dehydrate food to preserve their enzymes
• Tools and guidelines to make your own fermentations successfully
• Herbal traditions that use bones and gelatin to deeply replenish the body and how to work with these ingredients in the kitchen
• Your personal constitution and what foods can best support it
• Digestive support herbs and how to utilize them to strengthen digestion
• And much more…

The most powerful place to start a journey to optimal wellbeing and healing is in the kitchen, viewing food as medicine.

In Kitchen Medicine, you’ll receive expert guidance on how to nourish your gut and key organ systems, and on how to create meals that use the abundant, healthful foods and herbs of the seasons, incorporating the specific energetics of their flavors — to support your optimal health, aid in healing physical and emotional imbalances, and bolster your system as you age.

AND you’ll discover delicious new recipes that can make eating more wisely and healthfully a fun, tasty, and satisfying adventure.

Greater Connection Through Video

So you can better connect with Tamara and her teachings, all of her sessions will be streamed on video. This video connection will be easy to use and will enhance the impact of Tamara’s teaching. Or, you can easily connect via audio, either through the Internet or your phone.

What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules

In this 7-module transformational intensive, Tamara will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully improve your gut health and overall wellbeing, promote longevity, and heal health issues.

And so you can better connect with Tamara and her teachings, her sessions will be delivered via easy-to-use stream video. Or if you prefer, you can join her via audio through your Internet or telephone connection.

This course will feature teachings, on-location kitchen demonstrations, and interactive Q&A sessions with Tamara. Each module will provide you with the principles, recipes, and techniques you’ll need to prepare health-focused seasonal meals with your unique constitution and health concerns in mind to promote and sustain your optimal wellbeing, longevity, and healing.

Module 1: Food as Medicine

Eating for Wellness, Connection & Joy

The most powerful place to start a journey to optimal wellbeing and healing is in the kitchen, viewing food as medicine. We’ll begin by discovering how to eat to nourish your gut microbiome — the mini-ecosystem of your digestive tract where the key to your health begins.

We’ll learn about foods and herbs that can help you cleanse your system. At the beginning of most natural medicine protocols, there’s a general consensus that before healing can occur, we need to remove toxins. A detox improves and optimizes the function of your bodily systems.

We’ll also discover how the different tastes or flavors of foods can impact your body through the ancient lens of the Five Phase Theory, the ancient Taoist system of organizing and understanding the ecology of the body.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• Your gut microbiome, why it’s important, and what kinds of foods support it
• Food toxins and how you can avoid them
• How the 5 flavors (bitter, sweet, sour, salty, and pungent) affect different systemic functions in the body, according to traditional medicine
• How to use an elimination diet to clarify if you are suffering from food allergies
• Foods that help cleanse the body, such as beets, artichokes, nettle, and dandelion

Kitchen Recipes to Clear Toxins:

• Traditional Russian Borscht
• Beet Kvass
• Nine Herbs Soup With Nettles
• Artichoke Spinach Dip
• Fermented Nettle Ginger Beer
• Dandelion Tea

Module 2: The Spring Diet

Foods That Move & Activate the Body

In spring, your body’s energy is waking up and renewing itself, after winter’s time of contemplation and rest. It’s when we often began to clean our house to create a fresh space for something new to happen. This is also the case with our body — spring foods are geared toward supporting liver health and refreshing the body.

During this session, you’ll discover:

• Healing green foods and how to sprout seeds, nuts, grains, and beans
• What foods support your liver and help it to filter toxins out of your blood
• How intermittent fasting can help your digestion reset
• An introduction to the healing properties of mushrooms and how you can use them simply and easily in your kitchen

Kitchen Recipes to Support Liver Health & Detox:

• Sprouted Almond & Nut Milk With Extracted Mushrooms
• Sprouted Mung Bean Salad With Ginger Lemon Dressing
• Rejuvelac & Fermented Nut Cheese
• Basic Green Blender Drink
• Fermented Turmeric Ginger Beer

Module 3: The Summer Diet

Foods That Nourish the Heart

The healing foods of summer remind us of our heart opening to the world. Food and herb gardens are stunningly beautiful, full of color and amazing fragrances. It’s a time for being open, as we witness the season’s energetic movements, reaching out as succulent, ripe fruit — a perfect time to discover the joys of eating more raw foods.

During this session, you’ll discover:

• Which foods are rich in which enzymes, and how these nutrients are like fire for your digestive system
• How to dehydrate food to preserve their enzymes
• The health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, which are a great support for heart health
• Healing with lemon balm and everyday garden herbs

Kitchen Recipes to Support Digestive Enzymes & Heart Health:

• Garden Salad With Creamy Garlic Dressing
• Chia Pudding With Vanilla & Cardamom
• Fermented Fruit Chutney
• Sprouted Curry Garbanzo Beans
• Lemon Balm & Goji Berry Sun Tea

Module 4: The Late Summer Diet

Foods to Nourish Digestion

In Chinese medicine, late summer is associated with the Earth element and with digestion itself. The taste associated with the season is sweet; however, this does not refer to our modern idea of refined sugar. In fact, in this module, you’ll learn how sugar is destructive to digestion and significantly sabotages your overall health and wellbeing.

In this session, you’ll discover;

• How the flavor “sweet” nourishes and lubricates the body AND neutralizes the toxic effects of other foods
• The most effective herbal support tools for regulating blood sugar
• The role grains, glutens, and lectins play in our diets
• The relationship between the Earth element and blood building in Chinese medicine
• Foods that strengthen blood, thereby increasing energy and stamina

Kitchen Recipes for Late Summer:

• Grapefruit Salad With Avocado & Dried Cherries
• Sprouted Quinoa & Broccoli Salad
• Raw Kale Salad
• Bee Pollen Wild Fermented Soda

Module 5: The Autumn Diet

Fermentations

In fall, we increase our consumption of sour foods to help us align with the energy of condensation within. This helps tighten up our bodies’ pores and tissues in preparation for the cold to come.

Fermented food satisfies this fundamental nutritional need this time of year as a traditional way to access “sour.” It’s been a dietary aid throughout all of human history, and has just regained popularity again over the past decade or so.

In this session, we’ll renew our relationship with the fabulous world of fermentations and experience the delights of eating sour foods.

During this session, you’ll discover:

• Tools and guidelines to make your own fermentations successfully
• The history and traditions around fermented foods and how they feed your gut’s microbiome and support its health
• The healing properties of apple cider vinegar and how easy it is to make
• Demystifying kombucha — how to create this natural probiotic from a Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast (SCOBY) culture that turns tea into a digestive wonder

Kitchen Recipes for the Fall:

• Apple Cider Vinegar & How to Make a Shrub (acidulated beverage)
• Traditional & Mushroom Kombucha
• Asian Style Vegetables Pickles
• Basic Sauerkraut

Module 6: The Winter Diet

Food to Nourish the Kidney Essence

Winter is when eating foods that are warming, deeply nutritious, and tonifying are vital for maintaining health and wellness.

In this session, we’ll focus on foods that nourish the kidneys, such as bones, marrow, eggs, and seaweed. Making bone stock is one of the strongest super foods to heal our entire body!

We’ll also explore the Five Phase theory in which winter is connected to Water, including an overview of water’s healing properties.

During this session, you’ll discover:

• How important winter foods and herbs are in supporting your health through the cold months
• Herbal traditions that use bones and gelatin to deeply replenish the body and how to work with these ingredients in the kitchen
• How to make bone stock and various medicinal ingredients you can add to customize
• How bone stock helps improve skin conditions, diabetes, leaky gut, osteoporosis, arthritis, allergies, autoimmune diseases, and digestive issues

Kitchen Recipes for the Winter:

• Bone Stocks, Roots & Stews
• Working With Gelatin — The Traditional Egg Aspic
• Roasted Bone Marrow

Module 7: The Everyday Diet

Working With the 5 Flavors

Food and herbs can help you to transform your health goals into successful realities. What are your health goals and what plan can you put into place to reach those goals? This class will review the traditional medicine model of the “ideal meal,” and help you in creating this based on your unique constitutional imbalances, dietary requirements, and health concerns.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• Your personal constitution and what foods can best support it
• Constitutional patterns according to traditional Chinese medicine and the foods that can support and injure those conditions
• Remedial dietary therapy as it pertains to imbalances in the body, such as dampness, congestion, heat, and cold
• Digestive support herbs and how to utilize them to strengthen digestion

Here’s What You’ll Receive

Seven Recorded 90-minute Class Sessions With Tamara Wolfson

Experience a rare opportunity to be mentored and learn with pioneering natural medicine practitioner Tamara Wolfson — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a streaming video option and guides you to learn the specific skills and abilities to promote your optimal health, healing, and longevity.

Seven PDF Transcripts of Class Sessions

In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.

Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson

After each lesson, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each session.

The Kitchen Medicine Bonus Collection

• Kitchen Medicine – Tools for Radiant Health
  Juicing and the Benefits of Eating Both Raw & Living Foods 
  PDF Guide From Tamara Wolfson

• Rise & Shine Morning Smoothies
  Recipe Series From Tamara Wolfson

• Top 10 Adaptogenic Herbs for Longevity
  Audio Teaching From Tamara Wolfson

An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Kitchen Medicine Virtual Training

We feel honored Tamara Wolfson has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. This is a rare opportunity to learn from an experienced acupuncturist, natural medicine practitioner and apitherapist whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.

Through this powerful online format, you’ll not only save time and money on workshop costs (plus travel, accommodations and meals — which would cost thousands of dollars), you’ll be able to benefit from Tamara’s incredible teachings and exercises from the comfort of your home — and at your own pace!

If you’re serious about transforming your relationship to food as medicine and improving your gut health and overall wellbeing, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.

If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.