27/11/2025
✨“Healthy” Isn’t Always Healing ~ Especially With PCOS, Endometriosis & Chronic Dampness (the TCM root cause) ✨
We’re so conditioned to believe that a pretty breakfast bowl = a healthy breakfast. Smoothie bowls, banana, Greek yogurt, crunchy granola… it looks nourishing, it feels clean, and Instagram LOVES the aesthetic. But here’s the truth through the Traditional Chinese Medicine lens (and why so many women with PCOS, endo & chronic inflammation struggle even when they’re “doing everything right”):
Cold food + Damp-creating ingredients = blocked metabolism.
In TCM, PCOS and endometriosis often sit under Dampness, Cold, and Yang deficiency.
And what makes Dampness worse…?
→ Cold smoothies
→ Cold fruit
→ Bananas
→ Greek yogurt
→ Ice cold drinks
→ Raw, cold meals first thing in the morning
So that “healthy” smoothie bowl is actually fueling the exact imbalance you’re trying to heal 🥲
Your body doesn’t just need healthy food - it needs the right temperature, energetics, and ingredients for your constitution.
🔸 Banana → extremely Damp-forming
🔸 Greek yogurt → Damp-Cold
🔸 Smoothie bowls → Cold + weaken your Spleen Qi
🔸 Granola → hard to digest when Spleen Qi is low
This combination will slow digestion, worsen bloating, stagnation, water retention, cravings, period pain, and make weight loss feel impossible… even if you’re eating “clean.” As someone who’s done all of “typical” healthy and clean methods aswell as excersise to try lose weight for years and still kept gaining throughout that… I finally understood why. Some things are just not a match for YOUR personal imbalances.
So what does support PCOS, endometriosis & chronic inflammation? 🤔
Your body wants warmth, circulation and digestion support.
Try starting your day with:
🔥 Warm porridge/oats (soaked is even better)
✨ Add cinnamon to support blood sugar + warm the womb
🫙 Add chia or flax for hormone balance
🫖 Ginger tea or warm lemon water to ignite digestion
🍵 Herbal teas like cinnamon, ginger, raspberry leaf, or nettle
🥣 Cooked foods > cold/raw foods
✨ Warm, grounding breakfasts = less inflammation, less pain, easier weight loss
Your womb LOVES warmth.
Your digestion LOVES warmth.
Your hormones LOVE warmth.
This is why so many PCOS and hormonally imbalanced women still struggle to lose weight…
Because the issue was never “eat healthy.”
The issue is:
Is your food energetically right for your diagnosis?
You can eat clean and still inflame your womb.
You can diet and still gain weight.
You can restrict and still feel puffy, bloated, cold, or stuck.
TCM reminds us that healing comes from working with your constitution, not against it.
When you begin eating for your Qi, Yang, Blood, and Spleen
your entire body shifts.
• Your cycle shifts.
• Your digestion shifts.
• Your weight finally responds.
• Your womb softens.
• Your energy becomes yours again.
✨Healing is in the details — even the temperature of your breakfast. ✨
This is why getting to the root cause matters.
Not trends. Not aesthetics.
True body healing is personalised.
If you want to learn how to heal your body using TCM, womb wisdom, and intuitive nutrition ~ this is your sign. 💛
