High Vibrational Foods – The Complete Guide

When it comes to incorporating high vibrational foods in your diet, it’s helpful to have an idea of what that means in tangible terms.

As a nutritionist, I like to define my high vibrational foods as whole foods that are nutrient-dense and packed with the nourishment I need to support my body’s health.

In today’s article, I’m going to dig into this concept in more detail and outline some of my favorites.

So, what are some of the best high vibrational foods? The absolute best high vibrational foods tend to be olives, matcha tea, blueberries, coconut, fermented foods, hemp seeds, avocados, legumes, salmon, bone broth, and grass-fed butter or ghee.

Read on to discover more about high vibrational foods and how to incorporate them into your life!

What Are High Vibrational Foods?

While some folks might have a definition of high vibrational foods that is a little more esoteric, as a nutritionist, I like to focus my definition on something a bit more tangible.

When I talk about high vibrational foods, I’m referring to foods that have high nutritional value.

My definition includes:

• Their nutrient density: that is whether they contain a well-rounded selection of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and sometimes complex carbohydrates, fiber, protein, and healthy fats depending on the food.
• How unprocessed they are: now I know that all cooking is a form of processing, but on this list, I’m going to be focusing on specific foods as opposed to prepared products. You can certainly look for these foods on labels or prepare them in special ways in your own home.

The main thing I look at is whether eating these foods is going to help you build healthy cells in the body, fill you up, keep your blood sugars stable, and otherwise be beneficial to add to your life.

Generally speaking, fruits, vegetables, high-quality proteins (plant, animal, or seafood), whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds are all going to have a place in a well-rounded diet.

I’m just going to shed some light on some of my favorites.

While there are never guarantees when it comes to health, we can try to stack the deck in our favor by eating a diet rich in whole foods, anti-inflammatory compounds, and nutrients.

Plant-Based High Vibrational Foods

Plant foods are generally packed with vitamins, minerals, healthy fats, proteins, complex carbohydrates, fiber, and loads of phytonutrients.

These compounds all go a long way towards nourishing the body, which can make you feel like you’re vibrating at a higher frequency.

Olives

Olives are packed with a healthy monounsaturated fat called oleic acid. This fat has been shown to have anti-inflammatory effects on the body and it tastes great.

The other benefit of olives comes from their polyphenolic compounds, such as oleuropein and hydroxytyrosol.

These plant compounds are antioxidants that are highly anti-inflammatory and may have other health benefits. However, they are quite delicate.

So you will want to avoid heating your olive oil too much to preserve these potent plant antioxidants.

Matcha Tea

Matcha is a type of green tea. Technically it’s the stone-ground tea leaves that become a bright green powder. That means you’re consuming the whole leaf, instead of brewing it and throwing it away once steeped.

Matcha is high in a catechin called EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate), which has some promising antioxidant and overall health benefits.

This tea also contains an amino acid called L-theanine, which can help calm the mind and reduce anxiety. Some studies have also shown that this tea can even help boost metabolism and increase fat burning.

Blueberries

These berries are high in flavonoid antioxidants that have powerful anti-inflammatory and brain-protective effects. They may help reduce stress-related inflammation and protect against stress-related cellular damage.

What’s more, studies have shown that eating flavonoid-rich foods like blueberries may safeguard against depression and boost your mood.

Add them to your morning smoothie, throw them in salads, or enjoy them with a handful of nuts as an afternoon snack.

If you’re not a fan of blueberries, other berries have amazing benefits as well so try out a few different kinds to find your favorite.

I’m a big fan of strawberries and cherries. But you can’t go wrong with blackberries, raspberries, haskap berries, or whatever berry you can find locally.

Coconut

Coconut products, whether the oil, milk, or shredded meat, are great sources of medium-chain triglycerides, a type of fat that can be absorbed directly in the bloodstream and used for energy.

I love these fats because they don’t require bile for absorption, so most people can absorb them.

These medium-chain triglycerides fats are used as a primary fuel source for the liver, making them very helpful for cleansing, since this is mostly done through our livers.

Coconut oil also contains lauric and caprylic acid, which are types of fat with anti-fungal and anti-bacterial effects in the body. These fats are great for helping manage candida or bacterial overgrowth in the digestive tract.

Medium-chain triglycerides are also a powerful brain fuel and can help with focus and attention. That’s why you may see people putting it in their morning coffees.

While this may be helpful for some folks, I suggest incorporating whole sources of coconut into your diet to enjoy the benefits.

Fermented Foods

I could dedicate an entire article to the health benefits of fermented foods. Throughout human history, cultures have been fermenting foods to preserve them.

This process also makes them more easily digestible and increases the nutrient density of whatever food has been fermented.

Incorporating a small spoonful of probiotic foods with your meals can help with immediate digestion. That’s because they’ve already been partially digested by helpful bacteria.

Incorporating some fermented foods like kimchi, sauerkraut, yogurt, kombucha, and so on is a great way to support digestion and help balance out the microbiome in your digestive tract, which can have big health payoffs.

Hemp Seeds

The oil that comes from hemp seeds contains a ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 oil of 4:1, which is an optimal ratio to prevent a dysfunctional inflammatory response.

Eating too much omega-6 fats in the diet can predispose you towards creating more inflammatory prostaglandins.

However, incorporating lots of omega-3 sources of fat in the diet can help balance out the ratio. These fats help calm the inflammatory response.

So maintaining a proper balance of these fats by avoiding non-organic, overly processed vegetable oils is a good place to start.

Then you can add healthy omega-3 fats like hemp seeds to the diet to start getting the benefits.

Because this oil contains mostly polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) you want to avoid cooking with it to preserve its health benefits and prevent rancidity.

Avocados

Chock full of nutrients and healthy fats, avocados are essentially nature’s multivitamin.

They are full of B vitamins which can support brain health, metabolism, and adrenal gland functions.

If you’re someone who has a lot of stress in their lives, then supporting your adrenal glands is a great way to help improve resilience and manage symptoms of stress.

Avocados also contain a wonderful type of monounsaturated fat called oleic acid (the same fat found in olives). Studies looked at the role of oleic acid and found that it helped lower body-wide inflammation.

Since inflammation can be a root for various health conditions, eating anti-inflammatory foods is a great way to give your body the tools it needs to find balance.

Research has also shown that eating avocados can help women balance hormones, a crucial factor in creating energy.

Legumes

To help balance blood sugar, provide protein & fiber, and more vitamins and minerals to your life you try incorporating some form of legume into your diet on a daily basis.

Specifically, they contain B vitamins, iron, copper, magnesium, manganese, zinc, potassium, and phosphorus.

Some examples of delicious legumes you can try include:

• Lentils: Red, French, Beluga, Split Peas, Green
• Beans: White, Black, Kidney, Adzuki, Chickpeas, Fava

You can make baked goods, bean salads, stews, dips, and spreads out of various beans. They are a great addition to hearty salads, stews, wraps, and dips!

Animal Sources Of High Vibrational Foods

If you eat animal foods, these are some of my favorite high vibrational, nutrient-dense selections:

Salmon

I don’t think I need to go into too much detail with salmon, since it makes almost all “healthiest foods lists.” However, there’s a good reason for that!

It’s loaded with anti-inflammatory omega-3 fats, incredibly high in protein, and contains a compound called astaxanthin.

This antioxidant gives salmon its orange color and provides lots of anti-inflammatory benefits to the body. So look for wild-caught, deep orange salmon for the best benefits.

Grass-Fed Butter or Ghee

Grass-fed butter and ghee (clarified butter with all milk solids removed) contain a plethora of fat-soluble nutrients such as vitamins A, D, E, & K, minerals such as selenium, copper, zinc, and chromium (key for blood sugar balance!).

This high vibrational food is also a great source of healthy short-chain fatty acids, such as butyric acid, that can help heal the gut.

I always add this food to my digestive supporting plans because it is delicious and nutritious!

Bone Broth

Some benefits of a good homemade bone broth include:

• Improved digestion and assimilation
• Healthier skin
• Stronger, more flexible joints
• Stronger bones
• Increased immune function
• Improved wound healing

This food contains a selection of amazing nutrients that deserve their own focus.

Gelatin

This nutrient comes from the breakdown of collagen in bone marrow, cartilage, tendons, and ligaments and is great for healing the digestive tract.

Gelatin is classified as a hydrophilic colloid, which means that it loves to attract and hold liquids.

This function helps attract the juices to the foods you’re eating, thereby helping improve overall digestive function.

And you know what they say: You are not what you eat, you are what you absorb!

Minerals

Since bones are full of trace minerals, it makes sense that when you simmer them to make a broth, some of those minerals are going to be released into the liquid.

A few that you can find in a good bone broth include calcium, magnesium, phosphorous, sulfur, potassium, and trace minerals. They are all necessary for the growth and maintenance of healthy bones and muscles.

Glycine And Proline

These nutrients are amino acids that are not commonly found in abundance in muscle meats, so we may be deficient in them if we aren’t eating nose to tail.

In particular, they help with digestion, immunity, muscle growth and repair, and balancing the nervous system.

They are also crucial for producing collagen, which is one of the most abundant proteins in our body. It makes up our hair, skin, and nails (amongst other things) and the production of collagen begins to decline after age 25.

Our cartilage is also made of a combination of collagen and other compounds and we need healthy cartilage for joint health and mobility.

Another quick shout-out that goes to glycine is its role in enhancing the secretion of stomach acid.

As a nutritionist, one of the most common imbalances I see in my clients is low stomach acid secretion that can cause a lot of digestive issues down the line.

If you’re not producing enough stomach acid to properly break down your food, then you may end up with nutrient deficiencies in the long term since you’re not absorbing all the great foods you eat.

Glucosamine And Chondroitin

You may have heard of these nutrients before or seen them in supplements at the grocery store and wondered about what they were for. Well, they are both super helpful for alleviating arthritis aches and pains.

When you make your own bone broth, the cartilage and tendons in the bones break down and are released into the liquid. That means that your broth will contain these nutrients in an easily absorbable and delicious form.

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