A practical, tier-by-tier guide to eating for the Blood body type: a protein-forward type whose anchor foods are chicken, white fish, and basmati rice. Which foods stay ‘Frequently’ even under stress, what slides when you’re run-down, and how the Healthy and Sensitive lists differ across proteins, grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy, and fats.
A practical, tier-by-tier guide to eating for the Intestinal body type: the anchor foods that stay ‘Frequently’ even under stress, what slides when you’re run-down, and how the Healthy and Sensitive lists differ across proteins, grains, vegetables, fruits, fats, and sweeteners.
An Intestinal-body-type breakfast granola built on amaranth and basmati rice, sweetened with date sugar and sorghum syrup, and browned with grass-fed butter—every swap chosen to land in the type’s top-tier ‘Frequently’ foods.
A weekly-batch pinto bean method built for digestibility: a long alkaline soak, a pressure cook, discarding the cooking liquid, then fresh vegetables and Indian digestive spices.
Good intentions to eat clean tend to die at 5 o’clock, when the plan is empty and takeout is easy. The Barefoot Betters meal planner fixes that: a full week of whole-food meals at a glance, a grocery list that assembles and totals itself by aisle (copy or download it), and recipes you can rescale, cook hands-free, and time from your phone. Here’s how it all works.
Bake a batch of these Functional Baked Nut Butter Protein Bars — a peanut butter and almond butter powerhouse built on rolled oats, almond flour, eggs, and real protein. Loaded with gut-supporting inulin, psyllium, and ginger, plus grass-fed gelatin and dark chocolate, these chewy bars hold together beautifully and give you clean, whole-food fuel without the wrappers, fillers, or mystery ingredients of store-bought protein bars.
Healthy hair starts at the scalp. Here’s Bare to Hair Oil: a make-it-yourself blend of four nourishing carrier oils and a few stimulating essential oils — including rosemary, which held its own against minoxidil in a head-to-head trial — that you massage in and let work.
Sweat out a hard workout and you lose more than water — you lose potassium, the electrolyte most people never replace. Here’s Bare One K: a blended, whole-food recovery drink built on Dr. Eric Berg’s homemade electrolyte recipe, scaled up to ~2,400 mg of potassium with soaked seeds, greens, and recovery cofactors.
In Carolyn Mein’s 25 Body Type System, the Intestinal type grows by experience — and when that growth gets stuck, it tends to show up on the body. Here’s the type explained in plain terms, plus a make-it-yourself Daily Joy Blend — bergamot, ylang ylang, geranium, and sunny citrus — you wear over the thymus as a two-minute lift.
A whole-food pre-workout: soaked-or-sprouted fenugreek, collagen with its vitamin C cofactor, turmeric, ginger, coconut water, and electrolytes, blended and taken 30–60 minutes before you train. Built to support recovery, connective tissue, and a healthy inflammatory response.