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 – Following our mantra, reach for the kitchen cabinet before the medicine cabinet, here are my top ingredients to help reduce inflammation:

1. Dark Leafy Greens

The salad bowl is the best place to look when it comes to fighting inflammation. Swiss chard, Tuscan Kale, Spinach, Arugula and Dandelion Greens are filled with vitamin E, an inflammation fighting anti-oxidant.

2. Tart Cherries

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!

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3. Fresh Turmeric

We love to ferment fresh turmeric into a slaw and serve it over wild salmon. Curcumin is what gives turmeric it’s deep yellow color and fights inflammation.

4. Raw Walnuts

High in Omega-3s. Add them to a dark leafy green salad or snack on them. For plant based diets walnuts are a great way to add both omega-3s and protein.

5. Wild Salmon

One of the sources of Omega-3s on the planet. This ultimate fatty fish is great pan seared or slow roasted in the oven.

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.

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