Herbal Water

Drinking a lot of your fluids with your meals affects your digestion and hinders your digestive capacity.

Let’s make some herbal water. What we’re doing here is we’re setting up your herbal kitchen. There’s going to be so many little junctures and spaces of where people are going to get herbs into their body; that when they walk into your kitchen, they’re going to be “herbified.”

Check out the video where we make 3 different herbal waters and talk about why this is a foundational herbal kitchen tactic.

I’m really into super simple, easy actions that over time add up. This one, you got to get it started so people get used to it. It’s basically, really simple. It’s about adding herbs and maybe some seasonal fruit to your water. You might think like, “Okay, what’s the big deal about that?”

Setting up your herbal water station does two very important things.

It gets people used to having green chunks of things in their drinks. If you’re one of those people that you still get the eye rolls and everybody in your family is like, “Oh, God, the herbal thing again,” you’ve got to get them on board.

By having a hydration station or a refreshment station where day after day, they are going to be served water with herbs in it. They get used to it. They get used to having green stuff in their tea. They get used to the idea of, “We decorate our water with herbs.”

The other purpose that this serves, is that we are setting up a hydration station in your kitchen. As I start talking about this, I want you to think about where you can set this up in your house

What is rhythmic drinking?

What this does is it helps to create “rhythmic drinking.” What do I mean by that? What most people do is they sit down to lunch or dinner, and 2 or 3 or 4 glasses water later, they’re like, “Good. I’m not thirsty anymore.”

You see, you don’t want to get your major liquid hydration while you’re eating. You want to think of your stomach like a pot of soup. Your stomach is cooking all the food in it. If you keep pouring water into it, it just keeps diluting the digestive enzymes. It keeps diluting the stomach’s ability to really cook your food and prepare your food for the rest of the body to use it. Up to one glass of liquid with your meals– that’s really optimum.

What this does is it helps train your family, the people you live with, and YOU, to drink your fluids, your water, in between meals. So, you walk into the kitchen. You’ve got one of these herbed water and you’re like, “It’s time to hydrate.”

Drinking a lot of your fluids with your meals affects your digestion and hinders your digestive capacity. Being trained to hydrate in between meals over time has a positive impact on your health.

What I do is I usually set up the water the night before unless it’s really hot and it kind of goes bad the next day. I’ll either set it up the night before or I’ll set it up first thing in the morning, so that it’s just there all day. It just consists of putting a few leaves of fresh herbs and whatever seasonal fruit you have.

This is just a really nice way to get people used to having herbs around that they can see in the kitchen every day.

What are your favorite herbal water combinations?