Daily 5 By Tricia Williams

The Daily Five is your dose of healthy inspiration for the week from our favorite experts and thought leaders in the fields of nutrition, functional medicine, fitness and more! Starting with our founder @itstriciawilliams – we are talking foods you can use for common aliments:

1. Kudzu Root: Anxiety

This root is commonly use as a pie thickener in the US. It can have a calming effect on the body. Daily Dose customers often refer the kudzu turmeric pudding we make as Xanax pudding.

2. Tart Cherry Extract: Sports Recovery

Either in season or frozen, cherries are high in quercetin, a flavonoid that reduces inflammation. Can’t find cherries, look for tart cherry extract. Enjoy it by the spoonful or mix it with sparkling water for a cherry soda!

3. Black Seed Oil: Inflammation

Black seed oil made from nigella seeds, is three times more anti-inflammatory than turmeric.

4. Sea Salt: Acid Reflux

Add your favorite mineral rich sea salt to a glass of water and say good bye to your acid reflux.

5. Ceylon Cinnamon: Regulate Blood Sugar

Add cinnamon as part of your regular diet to help regulate blood sugar. Studies show that 1-6 grams a day may help regulate blood sugar.

Tricia Williams

Tricia Williams is passionate about the power of food and personal wellbeing. Tricia is an accomplished celebrity chef, nutrition educator and consultant who has left her mark as a chef on some of New York’s best restaurants. Her love of the culinary arts and the power of food surfaced after she gave birth to her first son. She returned to school to study holistic nutrition and earned a Food Therapy Certification from Annemarie Colbin at the Natural Gourmet Institute. She then founded Food Matters, a custom health supportive meal service, to share her passion for food and its effects on physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing. Daily Dose is the culmination of a lifelong passion to bring the joy of eating healthy back to the kitchen table, to use kitchen as pharmacy, to promote the wellbeing of individuals, and to help restore the earth. Tricia has built an ever-expanding team of like-minded practitioners in health, science, fitness, and farming to bring these goals to fruition.

Today, in addition to running Daily Dose, Tricia consults for a variety of brands in the health and wellness space. You can find her recipes in Bon Appetit’s popular Junk Food Makeover and Yahoo Health. Her latest recipes will be published in Dr. David Perlmutter’s upcoming book, Drop Acid. She is also a recurring judge on Food Network’s Beat Bobby Flay.