08/03/2026
If you’re regularly drinking cold drinks and eating cold foods: this is for you!
In Chinese Medicine, cold foods and drinks are ideally only something we have rarely (even in the warmer months).
Why?
Because when we consume cold things, the body has to heat them up to body temperature BEFORE digestion can happen.
This costs energy on top of the energy is costs to digest the food in the first place.
A once-off occurrence is no big deal - your digestive fire can handle this!
The bigger problem is when we put our digestive fire under pressure by eating and drinking cold things most of the time.
Think about it like adding something cold to an already simmering post - it stops the simmering and takes a bit to get going again. If you keep adding cold things, it takes a lot for the simmering to start again.
This is the same as your digestive system.
Overtime, if the digestive fire is weakened, its much harder to do much good with the food we eat at all - hello absorption issues/bloating after eating/poor appetite!
So if you’re a smoothie for breakfast, salad for lunch kind of person, start to make some swaps and get some warm food into you especially at breakfast time.
And if you need extra support, we love supporting our patient’s digestion to be 10/10. Book in that appointment and let’s get started!
Dr Emily xx