Nutritional Tip: Eat Red Foods

Fresh Beets

A fresh beet every day is your lymph’s best friend.

All red-staining foods tend to be great lymph-movers. Berries, cherries, pomegranate, beets, and cranberries were all traditionally used as dyes and as natural lymph moving and detoxifying agents.

Beets in particular also have one other very important property that make them the top food on my list right now. They thin the bile. Bile is responsible for about 80% of the immune response in the gut, it regulates the stool, digests good fat and gets rid of bad fat. Beets also scrub the villi of the gut, which is where the digestive lymph originates. Beets make a great food for your lymph.

Make sure you eat your red foods for optimal lymph function!
~Dr. Mark Hyman