In a world filled with diet fads, conflicting advice, and quick fixes, it’s easy to feel lost about what to eat. But at Monisha’s Mantra, we believe:
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
Food isn’t just about satisfying your cravings or even weight loss. It’s about healing chronic inflammation, improving gut health, balancing hormones, and even managing conditions like diabetes, thyroid disorders, and PCOS.
What Is Nutritional Healing?
Nutritional healing asks a very important question:
‘What does your body need to maintain energy, feel better, and restore balance?’
It does not promote a ‘diet plan for weight loss’ or the latest ‘keto diet plan’. It is about correcting internal imbalances, be it hormonal, digestive, metabolic, or mental. It’s about listening to your body and feeding it what it needs to feel better.
At Monisha’s Mantra, we approach nutritional healing with:
- Personalized nutrition plans, because we believe not one-size-fits-all
- Food choices aligned with your energy pathways
- Seasonal, local, and sattvic foods that support sustainable wellness
This approach doesn’t focus on eating less, but on eating better. It focuses on food that supports your gut, calms your inflammation, balances your hormones, and sharpens your mind.
The Gut: The First Step in Any Nutritional Healing Plan
Your gut not only digests your food, but also plays a role in your immunity, your mood, your energy levels, even your skin. No medicine or supplements will work if your gut is inflamed or imbalanced.
Why the gut is important:
- Breaks down nutrients for your body to function
- Contains beneficial bacteria (your gut microbiome) that affect mood, metabolism, and immunity
- Produces serotonin, a hormone that regulates sleep, stress, and emotions
- Influences chronic conditions like acne, PCOS, thyroid, diabetes, and autoimmune diseases
How to support gut health naturally:
- Eat more fiber-rich food like vegetables, dals, and fruits
- Homemade pickles
- Sip warm jeera, dhaniya, and saunf water (antacid water) to support digestion
- Cook with spices like ajwain and hing that keep your gut calm
- Give your gut time to rest overnight, and start with 12-hour intermittent fasting and go up to 16 hours of fasting
We get asked about gut health supplements all the time. But often, it’s your kitchen that is the answer, and not your medicine cabinet.
Inflammation & Autoimmune: The Invisible Root Cause of Diseases
You can feel fine and still be inflamed. Over time, inflammation can lead to conditions like PCOS, thyroid issues, joint pain, cancer, diabetes, and autoimmune disorders.
This inflammation could be because of:
- Excess sugar, fried foods, processed snacks
- Nutrient deficiencies (like zinc, magnesium)
- Gut imbalance
- Chronic stress and late-night eating
Why is inflammation so dangerous?
It keeps your immune system on constant alert, leading to:
- Fatigue and brain fog
- Hormonal disruption
- Autoimmune flare-ups
- Poor digestion
Nutritional healing tips for inflammation:
- Switch to cold-pressed oils
- Use turmeric, ginger, and cinnamon in your meals
- Include anti-inflammatory foods like greens, berries, ghee, and soaked nuts
- Eat dinner at least 4 hours before sleeping
- If hungry at night after dinner, have green tea
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Food & Mental Health: What is the Connection?
You might have heard the phrase: ‘You are what you eat’. However, there is another saying:
‘You feel what you eat’
This might not be very common, but it’s definitely true. There’s a strong connection between what you eat and how you feel.
Many people don’t realize that their anxiety, mood swings, low energy levels, or irritability could be linked to what’s on their plate. Over 90% of serotonin – the “feel-good” hormone – is produced in the gut. Skipping meals, living on chai, or eating junk food can make your system off balance. Your brain needs steady blood sugar and essential nutrients like magnesium, B vitamins, and zinc to function well.
Try this instead:
- Start your day with soaked almonds, walnuts, and a bowl of seasonal fruits
- Make sure your meals have some protein — dal, sprouts, seeds
- Switch your evening snack to makhana, seeds, chana, herbal tea, or any fruit
- Focus on grounding meals like moong dal, jeera rice, or stir-fried veggies
This isn’t about perfect meals. It’s about foods that help you feel calmer, clearer, healthier, and full of energy!
Healing Diabetes, Thyroid, and PCOS with Food Naturally
These conditions are increasingly common, but they can be avoided and reversed.
Nutritional healing for diabetes management:
- Choose low glycemic grains like millets and brown rice
- Eat bitter foods: karela, methi, jamun
- Use functional hydration: cinnamon-infused water, methi tea
- Avoid fruit juices as they spike blood sugar instantly
For thyroid & PCOS:
- Include selenium and zinc-rich foods: pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds
- Switch to iodized salt and iodine-balanced meals
- Eat smaller, frequent meals if you often feel low energy
- Avoid gluten, dairy, processed and packaged foods
These are the kinds of personalized food protocols used in our holistic nutritional healing diet plans. No restrictive weight loss diet plan or keto trend can provide this depth of nourishment.
Why You Don’t Need a Diet But a Ritual
Most people jump from one diet trend to another – calorie counting, intermittent fasting, keto plans – looking for quick fixes. But diets often come with rules. Rituals come with long-term sustainability and your body rhythm.
What do we mean by “ritual”?
- Eating before sunset to support detox and better sleep
- Sitting down to eat without screens or distractions
- Having one healing drink daily: methi water, saunf tea, ajwain kadha
- Observing one light-eating day per week with soups, fruits, or vegetable khichdi
Diets come and go. What remains is how you feel in your body every day. And that’s shaped more by your habits than by a meal plan.
Final Thoughts: Heal One Meal at a Time
You don’t need more restrictions. You need sustainability.
Start small. Stay consistent.
At Monisha’s Mantra, we don’t hand out one-size-fits-all charts or trendy weight loss programs. We teach you to reconnect with your body’s wisdom – using real, local, seasonal food as your primary medicine.
