That brief, beautiful stint of hot vax summer gave us so much. Namely, the ability to decadently and urgently consume whatever we could imagine prepared by talented strangers in settings calibrated for our pleasure. There were beach burgers, complex cocktails, unbridled desserts and an extra bottle of wine to linger just a little longer at the table. No longer bound by the square footage of our kitchens or the contents of our grocery stores, our daily diets have boomeranged dramatically to the salty sweet, butter-glistening shores of indulgence. While necessary, it has not been without its repercussions. For those of us enjoying the company of friends we haven’t seen in a year while fighting through brain fog, blaming the humidity for our lingering fatigue, or wearing our newly earned sun-kissed skin with our bloat, a recalibration might be in order. “No matter what diet you have, your system may tend to become dysfunctional,” says Dr. Valter Longo, director of the Longevity Institute, who has been studying the link between diet and long-term health for 30 years. Even for the cleanest eaters, a reset, his research has found, is a necessary rebooting agent, like the oil change for a car.
“Reset” is the new word of choice in what was once the diet market, carving out value propositions quite different from those once-popular extreme and rigorous cleanses that promised to make us thinner overnight. The new leaders in this space are focused on the long game, applying decades of scientific research to form methodologies with clinically proven impacts on rates of disease, mental clarity, happiness, and yes, BMIs; programs that teach us how to eat not only for that week, but every day thereafter and why. “…a lot of the things that have been sold in those [old] programs are short term effects,” says Dr. Uma Naidoo, director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and pioneer of the gut-brain connection. “People fall into these programs that are very rigid, cutting out things like alcohol and carbohydrates completely. I don’t demonize them, but people are not able to sustain eating that way. That is the opposite of the goal.”
Now, six new approaches are helping us redefine not only the cleanse, but our own daily nutritional habits with the energizing, mind-clearing, and cheekbone-carving benefits to prove it. Better yet, they just might actually feel good while you’re trying them.
The Most Delicious Non-Perishable Reset on the Market: Kroma
The new Gwyneth Paltrow-, Jessica Seinfeld-, Amy Schumer- backed and approved reset is designed for everywhere you go—whether you’re a jet setting CEO or a rural stay at home parent unable to order Moon Juice and Souen to your door. If the methodology feels triggering—packets of dehydrated powder meant to be blended with water or non-dairy milk—rest assured nothing in the Kroma lineup will result in a gag reflex. The five-day meal plan’s 10 daily dehydrated packets open with a caffeinated green tea latte and move into a truly delicious menu of porridge, smoothies, soups, and teas. The range is designed as much for subtracting common inflammatory agents (alcohol, refined carbohydrates and sugars), as it is about adding a supercharged nutritional spectrum to your diet. Each packet is brimming with the kind of super nutrients (MCT Oil, Ashwaganda, turmeric, and L-theanine) that you might otherwise have trouble fitting into your culinary repertoire along with a daily intake of food-based vitamins and minerals in meals that will never leave you hungry. With the invitation to add whole foods, fish, and chicken at your discretion, Kroma serves between 1,200 and 2,000 calories per day. Once you’ve completed the energy- and mood-boosting, mind-clearing, and ab-carving week, you also walk away with an easy, replicable routine (golden milk lattes for your four o’clock sugar craving, bone-broth based soups for deeply satisfying and digestive-soothing dinners). And, if you just can’t live without Kroma’s versions—despite being married to a chef, Schumer regularly texts Kroma founder, Lisa Odenweller for more orders of porridge—the brand sells jars and packets of your favorite blends to stock in your pantry and stuff into your purse to take with you wherever life leads.
Get more out of fruits and vegetables, quite literally, with a regenerative agriculture CSA. For the uninitiated, regenerative farms prioritize the health of their soil over their yield, which in turn cultivates produce that boasts increased vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals (think: antioxidants, beta carotene, flavonoids) per bite. A 2019 study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed that vitamins and minerals with clinically proven longevity and disease prevention benefits only provided those benefits when they were delivered via food, not supplements.
For New York City residents, AAPI-owned Local Roots Harvest Club features three levels of CSA boxes based on diet and number of people in the household, offering seasonal fruits, veggies, legumes, mushrooms, eggs, and meat grown on regenerative farms within a 500-mile radius of the city. If the still-life-worthy harvest weren’t inspiring enough, weekly online recipes encourage culinary creativity. And, on the days when you just can’t bring yourself to so much as press an Instant Pot button, this summer Local Roots opened a veggie-focused cafe in Boerum Hill featuring a rainbow of deeply nutritious and exciting grab and go meal options.
The Almost-Fast Everyone’s Raving About: ProLon
Dr. Valter Longo has been studying the anti-aging and regenerative effects of fasting since the early ‘90s at UCLA. Three decades of research has led to ProLon, Longo’s co-founded fasting-mimicking cleanse that has been clinically proven to trigger the self-regulating process of autophagy (when the body removes worn out cells to create smoother, more optimal functionality), to target visceral fat (the fat most closely linked to serious health problems like Alzheimer’s, stroke, and type 2 diabetes), and to kickstart weight loss. The five-day vegan meal kit favored by Jennifer Aniston and Kate Hudson is designed to resemble a fast in your body while providing essential nutrients—and much appreciated snacks. Though ProLon will significantly decrease your daily intake, a slim menu of almond butter bars, olives, kale crackers, and nourishing soups offers some relief with proven benefits.
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