Can the right summer foods actually help ease your joint and knee pain? While most people turn to pills or physical therapy, there’s a natural and often overlooked solution sitting right in your kitchen.

In this episode, we dive into how seasonal fruits and vegetables can help reduce inflammation in your joints and spine. Whether you're struggling with achy knees after a walk or stiff shoulders from daily stress, what you eat this summer could make all the difference. No gimmicks, just real food with real benefits.

Curious which foods made the list and how to add them to your daily routine without much fuss? Tune in now and discover how summer’s harvest could be your secret weapon against joint pain.

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Summer's here, and it's the perfect time to eat healthfully.

Did you know that the food you eat can directly impact the pain

you're feeling in your spine or in your joints? Today we're

going to talk about five of the top summer foods that we could

all be eating to give you those knees and shoulders and back a

little break. I'm Dr Tammy Penhollow, a joint and spine

specialist. Today we're going to introduce and reintroduce some

fruits and vegetables that are at the peak in the summertime,

and they can also provide much needed relief from this heat. If

you, based on how you prepare them, eating them, for example,

at room temperature, or freezing them in a smoothie, freezing

them in a granita, a popsicle, etc. So let's get started.

First of all, we're going to talk a lot about antioxidants.

We're going to talk about the acanthocyanins. We're going to

talk about lycopene. In general, know that what we get from our

food can either be pro inflammatory or anti

inflammatory. Pro inflammatory are things like simple sugars,

alcohols, some people say red meat. It depends on the amount

of fat in the meat, honestly, and it depends on how the meat

was grown, hormone free, grass fed, etc. Totally different than

corn fed, pumped full of antibiotics and hormones. So

let's talk though about the summer because it's summer and

it's hot. I'm going to start with berries right now. I have

blueberries here, but we're including the raspberries, the

boysenberries, the blackberries, all these berries are super high

in antioxidants and the acampocyanins, that's basically

what gives them their color. And I aim for one half cup of

blueberries per day to reduce inflammation. It's so easy to

achieve if you simply eat them by the handful. I include I'm in

my smoothies. I put three cups in the blender because I make

six smoothies for the week. On Sundays, I do something

different, but that's one way you can also mix it with the

other things we're going to talk about.

The second is cherries. Cherries are in season right now, and

they are amazing on their own just eating cherries. Also super

high in antioxidants and same color family, the

acanthocyanins, which are anti inflammatory. Cherries, can be

pitted and frozen. You can then cup one of these in your mouth

from the freezer and just suck on it until they kind of

defrost, and then chew that for a cooling, refreshing treat. You

can eat them at room temperature or right out of the refrigerator

as they are. Just watch for those pits. You can blend them

into a smoothie. They're also fantastic on a salad. They

really hold up nicely. I tend to cut them in half and use them

like you would maybe use a tomato. So it can be your

greens, some cherries, they might be nice with some feta

cheese, maybe some mint, something that brings that out,

and maybe a nice balsamic.

Watermelon, water is one of the words in watermelon, and if you

can get an amazing watermelon, it can be so refreshing on a hot

day. It's got a huge amount of water, so therefore, it can help

replenish you after a long workout, such as a long walk, or

as hard workout similar to any of these other fruits. You can

freeze these cubes, and then you could take them out of the

little ice block, for example, and ice cube tray, and then you

can suck on them until they become nice and moist. And you

can chew that. You can put this into a blender and do a little

slurry and make a granita. Also fantastic with just the spike of

mint and possibly a drizzle of honey. Although watermelon is

sweet enough, I don't think you need it. Unless you're looking

for the propolis or something like you'd put the droppers of

propolis in for the antibacterial and antifungal

effects of honey that is super concentrated in propolis.

Watermelon is also fantastic in a salad with feta and mint as

the three ingredients.

Then we'll move on to the stone fruits. Right now, I have

peaches already cut and ready for an adventure here, but we've

got apricots, nectarines, peaches, plums. They are

fantastic on their own. They're pretty portable. Of course, they

have the pit in the middle, so you have to be careful with that

if you're feeding them to kids. But they are also juicy and

nutritious. They also have a lot of antioxidants in them. I

forgot to mention, watermelon has lycopene. Lycopene, like

tomatoes, but a lot of people are avoiding tomatoes because

they are a nightshade and they may not be best for their

particular constitution. So you can get lycopene in the

watermelon, but antioxidants in the stone fruits. These can be

eaten on their own. They can be used with any of these other

foods, mixed into a granita mixed into a sorbet. Toppings

for fruits and vegetable salads. You can mix them all together. I

like sliced peaches on my salads. Another thing I love to

do is slice the peach in half, take the pit out and put it on

the grill, open side down, get some grill marks, nice little

ones, not a big char, not a big flame, flip them over and let

them continue to caramelize. At that point, I'm likely to put

them on a tray so that the juices stay on the pan and don't

flame up and cause any of the carcinogens to come up and get

on your fruit by you can drizzle that with a little bit of honey,

if you like. You can put a scoop of your fruit sorbet in it, a

scoop of yogurt in it, and it's a beautiful dessert.

Finally, the fifth one is a vegetable I couldn't get through

without making a vegetable. And this is zucchini. It's truly

called summer squash. So zucchinis are very high in

antioxidants as well. It's got the vitamin C and the beta

carotene. They are wonderful on their own. They're a nice room

temperature vegetable, so you can do ahead set out a room

temperature on their beautiful side. I typically tend to slice

them on the round, approximately one half inch thick, so they can

hold up to the grill. You could slice them a lot thinner and put

them in the oven with some olive oil, which is also anti

inflammatory. If you cut these lengthwise, also fairly thick,

so they can hold up to the grill, then that's nice. You can

use the yellow squash, the zucchini squash, in combination,

and again, a little bit of tossing with olive oil, little

glaze of balsamic or just plain olive oil, salt and pepper.

These five summer fruits and vegetables are fantastic for

reducing your body's inflammation, for making your

muscles feel good, for making your joint and spine feel good,

and it's just one of the few things that we can do to help

reduce our overall pain by watching what we put in our

mouth. So which of these summer fruits or vegetables are you

going to start with? Please leave your comments in the

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