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We recently hosted an exclusive webinar, “Navigating the Importance of Nutrition After a Cancer Diagnosis” with Rachel Beller, MS, RDN, an established registered dietitian, best-selling author, and founder of The Beller Nutritional Institute, specializing in oncology nutrition and weight management.
Rachel has been featured on TV programs including The Biggest Loser, Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show, and more. In this discussion, Rachel shares the latest research on how nutrition can support your treatment outcomes, recovery, and overall health after a cancer diagnosis. She provides practical strategies for creating a balanced diet, explore advancements in oncology nutrition, and address common challenges that cancer patients face. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to learn directly from a leading registered nutritionist.
**Transcript below**
I actually decided to go all out and I started to do some research with my team about a concept called Spice Synergy™. How you pair certain spices makes a difference. When certain spices, like parsley and turmeric, and all these different spices when they’re combined together, like cacao, turmeric, all these different things. They boost each other’s effect in a natural way. Not an isolated way. Not like supplements. In a natural way and with just a pinch or few pinches you can dramatically elevate the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of every meal.
So I took it a step further. I wrote two books, two best-selling books. One is called Power Spicing and then Spice Rack is my latest one that focuses on breast cancer risk reduction and utilizing spices. Then I just had some more fun with it and created a product line and it’s been fun. It’s good spices. There’s lots of research on it’s helping us reduce inflammation
I’m not going to bore you with too many of the details here but this is just just one example. They gave half a teaspoon a day of a spice combination. It was Rosemary, Ginger, Turmeric, and Clove and they saw a measurable change in antioxidant anti-inflammatory activity after seven days of these people ingesting it. So, you know, think about it logically. Just with a short week they saw a little bit of a difference. Imagine you’re consistent with this what it could do for you and again you already have this. You have this your pantries right now.
They also support our gut microbiome. A lot of people ask me questions about like how you know we’re done with antibiotics. How do we support our gut microbiome, our gut health? What can we do? Well spices is one thing that you could do. UCLA did a study and it was very interesting, that spices had a dual effect. Number one, it increase the good bacteria in our gut, but it also reduces the bad bacteria.
This is something I’m I was so excited about. This is an analysis that was done. They took 3,100 different foods and they analyzed using what’s called a frap assay. They figured out the antioxidant value among 3,100 different foods and spices were coming up really, really high. Which is fun, which is fun. It’s great! it just shows more about the impact right. For me, it was fun because I could take this data and because I have my own spice line I could actually be and because I have ownership of my formulations I could do an analysis on a spice blend and its impact when it comes to typical meal.
This is an average, keep in mind, and the point isn’t that this is my spice blend. Nothing to do with it. It’s a combination of Salon Organic. Cinnamon, cacao, and turmeric. You could do this on your own. I just have the information on this so if you have something, like overnight oats say, with soy milk, based on that analysis the antioxidant value ranged at about 136. If you add a teaspoon of this combination of Salon cinnamon, well this was cinnamon actually cacao and tumeric then it climbed all the way up to 1,292, just with spices.
Again you don’t have to use this. I just have the information on it. You can do your own and in my book I actually give you substitutions in case you don’t have my products. That’s not the point. Look at tofu, the antioxidant value is increased almost by 52%. We did this utilizing our customary blend of a a blend called Everything Savory that has paprika, cumin, turmeric, black pepper and a very gentle hint of cayenne.
Chickpeas, 61% increase, with a blend that we have that’s called Power that is garlic, onion, turmeric, dried parsley, and black pepper. Notice turmeric is like third or fourth item we are all obsessed of turmeric thinking that’s the it spice. No, there’s there’s so much more than that.
Simple ways to add spicing to everyday foods. You can buy a jar of marinara and add some Italian blend to it. You can get, like on my desk, I have a super sumach blend that you can sprinkle into your hummus or stir it in nut butters. You can stir spices into that coffee. Interestingly there’s a synergistic effect between ginger and cinnamon to enhance the antioxidant value that you’re getting from the coffee. Popcorn, you can add spices to it. Lentils, beans, it’s very easy and simple to do to elevate your meals and enjoy feeling empowered with spices.
