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Health Revolution
Maria Borelius
The five-step anti-inflammatory plan that will change your life.At the age of 52, I was experiencing menopause symptoms, back pain, fatigue, and a general feeling of melancholy about my life. I felt that everything was beginning to go downhill.But after just a few months with a new lifestyle, my life had changed. I was happier, stronger, and pain-free – what had happened?Through a series of remarkable coincidences, I realised that I had stumbled on something completely new – anti-inflammatory food – that could cure and prevent illness, and even put the brakes on ageing.That’s how my journey of research began and the contours of a whole new lifestyle emerged. This is my story, and I’m sharing it with you in the hope that you will find inspiration, healing, and strength.Bringing together groundbreaking research, brand new studies and a lifetime of experimentation, Maria Borelius’ Health Revolution presents a simple five step program to bring out the best version of all of us.
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FOR RITA AND ANNIE, PATHFINDERS. SISTERS.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
– T. S. Eliot
CONTENTS
Cover (#u96808580-8649-5ed1-946b-84809f260906)
Title Page (#ua1d484dc-b827-54bd-b1e3-bf6fe1b7282c)
Copyright (#u763c18d0-758f-5010-891e-bbaf8d0874f3)
Dedication (#u21d80798-affb-5bb0-afee-2a6b882b7dc6)
THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT MY JOURNEY (#ulink_3b829c20-4cb6-534d-b118-7ec9d42e0413)
1. A NEW YEAR (#ulink_81e3d2e7-5aaf-5e2b-a02f-2d990bd29a32)
2. MY BODY JOURNEY (#ulink_b9e6edca-c90d-5de3-9488-a425d3212c83)
3. INSIGHT (#ulink_f945959f-64a0-556f-a604-d8eefedb0433)
4. HEAL (#ulink_91ac3a3c-4f3c-5855-bcfc-bdafe5ef7489)
5. SALMON AND LINGONBERRIES (#litres_trial_promo)
6. GUT FEELING (#litres_trial_promo)
7. BREATHE (#litres_trial_promo)
8. GLOW (#litres_trial_promo)
9. BLUE ZONE (#litres_trial_promo)
10. AWE (#litres_trial_promo)
11. BLISS (#litres_trial_promo)
12. PEACE (#litres_trial_promo)
13. ROOTS (#litres_trial_promo)
14. ONE VAULT AFTER ANOTHER (#litres_trial_promo)
15. THE JOURNEY TO AN ANTI-INFLAMMATORY LIFESTYLE (#litres_trial_promo)
16. SOFT START (#litres_trial_promo)
BREAKFAST RECIPES FOR AN ANTI-INFLAMMATORY SOFT START (#litres_trial_promo)
Smart, Good-Looking Smoothies (#litres_trial_promo)
Classic with a Twist (#litres_trial_promo)
Rita’s Seed Bowl (#litres_trial_promo)
17. THE THREE-DAY CURE (#litres_trial_promo)
Breakfast Smoothie (#litres_trial_promo)
18. MY NEW LIFE IN THE KITCHEN (#litres_trial_promo)
BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER AND SNACKS (#litres_trial_promo)
Jessica’s Pancakes (#litres_trial_promo)
‘Bread’ (#litres_trial_promo)
African Curry (#litres_trial_promo)
Veggie Box (#litres_trial_promo)
ANTI-INFLAMMATORY SAUCES (#litres_trial_promo)
Creative Pesto (or Gustaf’s Sauce) (#litres_trial_promo)
Harissa (#litres_trial_promo)
Sauce Xipister (#litres_trial_promo)
Caper and Dill Sauce (#litres_trial_promo)
Emily’s Tahini (#litres_trial_promo)
DRINKS (#litres_trial_promo)
Lisa’s Bulletproof Coffee (#litres_trial_promo)
Healing Water (#litres_trial_promo)
Greger’s Morning Tea (#litres_trial_promo)
Blue Zone Tea (#litres_trial_promo)
Emily’s Great-Skin Tea (#litres_trial_promo)
Power Matcha (#litres_trial_promo)
THIS IS WHAT I AVOID (#litres_trial_promo)
THANK YOU FROM THE AUTHOR (#litres_trial_promo)
REFERENCES (#litres_trial_promo)
LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT MY JOURNEY (#ulink_dd4f0911-c8d4-5b61-83ac-cc474e6a9f6a)
At the age of fifty-two, I was experiencing menopause symptoms, back pain, fatigue and a general feeling of melancholy about my life. I felt that everything was beginning to go downhill.
But after just a few months with a new lifestyle, my life had changed. I was happier, stronger and pain-free – what had happened?
Through a series of remarkable coincidences, I realised that I had stumbled on something completely new – anti-inflammatory food – that could cure and prevent illness and even mysteriously put the brakes on ageing.
That’s how my journey of knowledge began, a journey during which, filled with wonder, I began to research this new landscape and discovered that it encompassed much more than diet. The contours of a whole new lifestyle emerged, and the clues came to me from many different people, each one amazing in his or her own way.
I encountered, among others, an innovative and inspiring fitness model in Canada; a professor in Lund, Sweden, working at the very forefront of research; an Indian health spa with a punishing enema treatment; a prehistoric hominid in Addis Ababa by the name of Lucy; one of London’s most visionary dermatologists; unusually long-lived members of a religious sect in the outskirts of Los Angeles; a Danish TV celebrity who turned out to be fifteen years older than I thought; a gut group in the English countryside; a top geneticist at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, with a weakness for riddles; a hip-swinging yoga instructor at a New Age meeting in California; and an ethereal detective searching for human wonder.
Each of them has played a role in this drama.
And so has my own experimentation. I have poked around among omega-3 fatty acids, probiotics, gluten, lactose, meditation, bone broth, Ayurvedic nose diagnosis, HIIT training, yoga, sunsets, inflammation markers and spirituality apps. I have set out filled with curiosity but have often encountered failures and had to find a different path.
Step by step, I’ve felt my way forward as I worked to solve the puzzle of how low-degree systemic inflammation causes illness and what we can do to make ourselves stronger, happier and healthier.
All of this has resulted in a five-point programme to bring out the best version of all of us, a programme that combines everything I’ve learned with the conviction that a lifestyle has to work on the practical level, in everyday life, and in our lives together with other people.
There’s a health revolution happening right now, where a whole new way of thinking about food, exercise, rest, awe and health is being constructed – and through this process, we are discovering new tools for living in a lighter and stronger way.
This is my story, and I’m sharing it with you in the hope that you will find inspiration, healing and your path to empowerment.
Maria Borelius
London, November 2017
The unexamined life is not worth living.
– Socrates
1. A NEW YEAR (#ulink_321c662b-196f-54f7-a936-f8f86a5585c4)
It’s a new year, 2013.
I’m fifty-two years old, and I’m feeling puffy and washed out. Christmas has brought way too much of everything: pickled herring, gingerbread, cheese sandwiches on raisin-studded Christmas bread, schnapps, toffee and boxes of chocolates devoured at lightning speed. And on the heels of this festive excess came a New Year’s trip to the shores of Kenya, with cocktails at sunset and three-course dinners with wine in the velvety African night.
The trip back takes twenty-four hours. When we get home and I have to carry my bag upstairs, I feel like I’m eighty years old, even though I’ve just spent a week in the sun. There’s a dull ache in my lower back and my joints hurt. I’m in the throes of perimenopause, and my period shows up fitfully, on its own schedule. My feet are sore and swollen.
And then there’s my belly. Or my ‘muffin top’, as the women’s magazines like to call it: a jiggling roll that desperately wants to spill out over the waistband of my jeans. These days, every visit to a clothing shop ends the same way. After admiring all the figure-hugging pieces, I’m drawn like a magnet to long tops that cover and disguise.
I also have constant little infections and keep coming down with colds and sore throats. An ongoing low-grade urinary tract infection has led to repeated courses of antibiotics, which make me feel tired and a little sick.
This is what it’s like to start ageing. Sigh.
I guess there’s only one direction to go now, and that’s downhill.
So thinks a melancholic part of me.
Another part of me snorts. ‘Don’t be so pretentious. Be happy you’re alive! You have healthy children and can work. Get on with life.’
Fair enough.
But a third side of me is looking for something more.
It’s part of human nature to want to improve yourself. You don’t always have to accept the cards that life deals you. We want to shape our own destiny. The questions burn in me – because it’s more than just my back, my belly and my infections.
Whatever happened to that strong and happy younger woman?
She may still be strong and happy, but there are longer stretches between the bright days. More and more often, I wake up feeling melancholy, or ‘blue’, as people say. I feel blue all over . . . or grey.
I regret all the things that I didn’t have time to do with the children when they were younger. I grieve for my dead father and brother and for my mother, who is ill. I become annoyed more easily when I run into problems at work, and I see obstacles as personal defeats, instead of seeing them as challenges that can be solved with creativity and willpower, the way I would have done in the past.
I make a mental checklist.
