Nourishing THE TEMPLE

If you're reading this, something led you here. Maybe it was a health scare. Maybe it was years of digestive issues that nobody could fully explain. Maybe you just knew, somewhere deep down, that the way you were eating was not serving your body, or your faith.

I know that feeling. In 2020, I nearly died from a post-surgical infection after a ventral hernia repair. What followed were seven debridement surgeries, ten months on a wound VAC, and eight months of IV antibiotics. What saved my life, beyond the medical team that kept me breathing, was eventually learning to heal from the inside out. Gut health. Nutrition. Inflammation reduction. The things nobody in a hospital had ever told me mattered.

The longer I researched, the more I kept finding the same thing: the foods that modern functional medicine identifies as healing are the same foods described throughout Scripture. Olive oil. Fish. Fermented foods. Figs. Pomegranates. Honey. These are not ancient coincidences. They are God's design.

This book is my way of connecting those two worlds, faith and functional medicine, and putting the tools in your hands. You don't have to be a theologian or a nutritionist to benefit from what's in these pages. You just have to be willing to start.