Adding extra EPA to your diet will minimize this transitory effect. The best source of EPA is fish, but another good source are fish oil capsules as long as the fish oil has gone through a molecular distillation process. The best indication that a fish oil capsule containing EPA has been molecularly distilled is that is it cholesterol-free. This means that any residual PCB's that might be found in crude fish oil have been removed. Ideal choices would be firm and extra firm tofu and isolated soybean protein powder.
Vitamins are extraordinarily sensitive to heat.
And minerals can be leached out of food when cooking with water. Therefore, we recommend steaming vegetables to retain micronutrients and make the vegetables more digestible. This is the best time to eat to maintain hormonal equilibrium from one meal to the next. The body has a remarkable ability to repair itself given the appropriate tools. The best of those tools is a diet which orchestrates the appropriate hormonal responses that accelerate the repair process.