If your skin is bad, you are dealing with inflammation. And before I get to this amazing anti-inflammatory Sorrel drink, let’s talk about inflammation.
The thing about inflammation is it is not just itself. When people say, “oh, “I’m inflamed” it’s like, well what’s inflamed?
What’s causing this inflammation?
Say I have a cold, I just have a cold. You can’t just say I just have inflammation because there is a root to that.
We have psoriasis, acne, eczema, any type of skin upset, and often there is inflammation that is living somewhere in the body system and it is up to us to reduce that inflammation. Now inflammation can come from a lot of places.
It can come from taking certain medications that overloads your liver and therefore your liver is inflamed and so your body is feeling the pinch and it’s coming out in your skin.
You can have inflammation in your gut, so your large intestine, your small intestine, your stomach potentially from food allergies that you don’t know exist or something, you can have inflammation that is stress induced. Which is simply because you are living a life that is more stress than your body is able to handle in that moment and the result is inflammation.
When we’re talking about our skin and our skin having a problem, often there is a root cause. You don’t just have acne.
- Acne is a symptom of a root cause.
- Eczema is a symptom of a root cause.
I grew up, I’m a Caribbean girl and every holiday my grandma would make a version of this sorrel drink and I hated it. I hated it so much and I grew up thinking I hated Sorrel. Then I had it one holiday season and I was like ” oh my god “ I’m obsessed with this stuff.
It’s so good, it’s so tasty; and where people say a lot of the anti-inflammation elixirs that I post and put in the Glucose Glow Up Community (and in the Skin Class) aren’t necessarily tasty.
What I can say about this is, this is less of an acquired taste, meaning a lot of people are gonna like this. So if you are looking to reduce inflammation, this can be an amazing drink for you- especially if you have eczema (what I had).
Here’s why. Sorrel is a nutritional powerhouse.
It has vitamin A, it’s good for our immune function, it’s good for our reproductive health, it is good for our skin. And when we have immunity and immunity comes from a body that has a low inflammatory response, then our skin, it’s going to reflect in our skin.
That’s the thing about skin, it is truly just a barometer of what is going on inside. And I say it almost at the top of every single piece of content I put out, if your skin is bad, there is probably inflammation going on somewhere in your body.
And so this anti-inflammatory skin juice is amazing because one, it tastes really delicious and that makes it so that you will drink more of it; and two, it helps to heal eczema!
This is seasoned with spices. There’s some raw honey in it – not a lot because we don’t want a huge blood sugar response; we just want it to be tasty. And there’s a lot of other spices in there that are classically Caribbean; which gives this a lot of like dynamic flavour and it’s also super healing. The spices in here are gonna help with your blood sugar. They’re also gonna help with your inflammatory response and the inflammation in your body and it also tastes good and it’s also just like really pretty.
I love it.
The thing that I just want to highlight for people is that inflammation, you are coming at your inflammation from many different perspectives. So you are making sure that you’re taking in anti-inflammatory foods. If you are going to be hydrating, why not boost the water that you’re drinking, hopefully filtered water and you’re adding this sorrel concentrate to it or you are adding, you know, lemon, turmeric, celery.
I highly recommend either getting GI mapping or some blood testing to really ascertain what your supplemental needs are. But supplements again, also help with inflammation. I’ll give you just like a perspective on me. After I had the thing that we were all locked up for three years, um, when I had that, when I got sick with that I had some really bad and high inflammation residually as a result of it.
And because of that I was starting to get like tiny little eczema patches that were itchy again. You know, I had to just like make sure that I was taking the right supplements to be able to address that. So things like turmeric, I eat a lot of turmeric, I eat a lot of ginger, I supplement with a lot of things as well.
In the Skin Class, I cover every single supplement that I take, um, to be able to give you just like an insight into what helped me heal and like the supplements that are really bound for skin health cuz those really matter too. So you’re eating foods that are anti-inflammatory that are gonna help your skin but you’re also making sure to supplement any gaps that you might have. Another thing that we discuss in the skin class is of course diet things to eat, what not to eat because that’s also important as well.