Since at one point the Ancient Persian empire, under Cyrus the Great, stretched all the way from Egypt to India and parts of Greece, its culinary influence lives on in many of the world’s traditional ancestral cuisines. A pinch of...

Hara Hachi Bu is a Confucian teaching that invites people to eat until they are around 80% full. The principle originates from the Blue Zone region of Okinawa, where inhabitants experience comparatively low rates of heart disease, cancer and stroke....

Have you ever heard of, or maybe even tried, the Kousmine Method? Introduced in the 1930s by Dr. Catherine “Katia” Kousmine (1904–1992), a Swiss general practitioner with Russian roots, this nutritional methodology promotes a diet composed largely of whole grains; legumes; raw, organic,...

Traditional Chinese Medicine, in its most basic sense, posits that a vital energy, called qi, must flow freely throughout the body in order to prevent disease. An imbalance or obstruction of qi—and, by extension, illness—is thought to be indicative of asymmetry between...

At Laroot, we source our ingredients from farms and suppliers right in our backyard. But long before we relied on the fertile soil beneath our feet, Native Americans called the same land home. Over thousands of years, they developed a...

Ayurveda is an ancient Indian medical system based on ancient writings that rely on natural and holistic approaches to physical and mental health. The Ayurvedic diet we feature here at Laroot is based on these very principles that have been around for thousands of years.