The Graves' Disease Chef

"The Graves' Disease Chef Cookbook – How to Master Simple to Gourmet Plant-Based Flavors from Around the World" was written to help fill the void for the Graves' Disease community of patients looking for healthy, organic, whole food, plant-centered alternatives, and natural ways to get better, feel better and stay better through food and lifestyle choices. Plant-Based Island Chef, Mina Grace was diagnosed with Graves' Disease in 2015. She restored her health without radiation nor surgery. Mina's Cookbook features the very recipes she created in her Breaking Daily Bread Test Kitchen that brought her from illness to wellness – when she decided that traditional Western medicine wasn't for her. The 77 creative recipes that Chef Mina features was developed to help patients find hope again and discover that there is a healthier and happier – GOOD, BETTER, BEST – version of themselves through food and healthier options. It's a game changer.

When you get told that diet and food have nothing to do with Graves' Disease. When you get told that the only way to treat your condition is through medication + radiation and surgery – to have your thyroid removed. When you get told that only a very small percentage of patients go into remission and stay there – you take that as a challenge. You search in vain for more natural solutions to wellness, only to discover there's little to no information out there to help guide you – especially when it comes to diet and food. "What should I eat?" "What should I cut out?" "Where do I even begin?!" Plant-based Chef, Mina Grace was diagnosed with Graves' Disease in 2015. She restored her health without radiation nor surgery. Mina's Cookbook features the very recipes she created in her Breaking Daily Bread Test Kitchen from California to the Philippines that brought her from illness to wellness – when she decided that traditional Western medicine wasn't for her. She's developed over 700+ recipes from salads, soups, sauces and sides to rice dishes, pastas, noodles, and main courses. The 77 creative recipes that Chef Mina features from simple and modern to indulgent, gourmet and fancy plus classic, cozy and comfy family favorites with a plant-based twist was developed to help patients find hope again and discover that there is a healthier and happier – GOOD, BETTER, BEST – version of themselves through food and healthier options. Mina's Cookbook meets you where you're at and lays out in each chapter simple, moderate, and advanced level recipes to help jumpstart your journey to wellness. It's a game changer.

On a leap of faith, Mina Grace left California during the height of the pandemic to live on a remote island in the heart of the Philippines. She's Momma to four grown sons and Grammy to one. She's also the impassioned plant-based Graves' Disease Chef and social media influencer behind @breakingdailybreadwithMina. She's a lifestyle and health food columnist for Tangled Silver Magazine, a magazine for women by women, who've embraced the beauty of aging and their natural hair color. Her featured column "Silver and Salt" is where she shares many of her tested and perfected plant-based recipes that contributed to her health and wellness, after having suffered from Graves' Disease for so long. In her former life, before retirement, she enjoyed a colorful and illustrious career in politics - interviewing and working with three U.S. Presidents, Cabinet Secretaries, a movie star Governor, Senators, and Dignitaries. She was Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of nationally awarded, California Schools Magazine – seven years in a row. Mina is passionate about cooking for Graves' Disease and sharing creative, often unconventional plant-based dishes from around the world that brought her to healing and eventually remission. She hosts daily Cooking Demos for her loyal followers direct from her Breaking Daily Bread Test Kitchen on the island. Her zest for life is contagious. She lives each day knowing it's a gift of time. She loves food, faith and family and sharing happy and healthy ways to wellness with everyone she meets. Above all, she loves God.