Gorgeous 35 year old actress Michelle Rodriguez is nobody’s fool despite her disarmingly sweet nature, warm smile and delicate boned 5’5″ frame.
She’s forged a highly successful film career playing the tough gal, and she’s got the jaw dropping box office of $5.2 billion to prove it.
From her 2000 breakout role as a boxer in the Sundance favorite Girlfight to prominent roles in Lost, Avatar and the Fast & Furious franchise, Michelle is currently one of the most visible Latinas in Hollywood in addition to the quintessential actress within the action genre.
Born in Texas to a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father, Michelle learned young to buck convention and do as she pleased. This includes her unique food philosophy.
By her own admission, Michelle enjoys lunches of salad combined with fat loaded bone marrow. Bone marrow is not a typical food in the western diet, but is frequently consumed in her parent’s ancestral Caribbean cultures, most notably as Sopa de mondongo, a soup made with diced tripe (the stomach of a cow), vegetables, and bone marrow.
Not much nutritional analysis of bone marrow has been done to date, but it is more than likely loaded with Vitamin K2 and other fat soluble nutrients due to its importance in the diets of healthy Traditional Cultures and because it is comprised almost entirely of fat.
Bone marrow contains the immune stimulating lipids alkyglycerols which may explain why some children suffering from leukemia quickly experience a return to normal white blood cell counts and significantly improved energy when they consumed this sacred food under the care of Swedish oncologist Dr. Astrid Brohult.
Is this nutrient dense sacred food Michelle’s secret “to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life” as suggested by author Henry David Thoreau?
Perhaps.  But one thing is for sure – millions of people are waiting in anticipation to see what antics she’s up to in her next film release, Machete Kills, due out October 11.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
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HI Sarah,
I pretty new here, and have been really enjoying your healthy Topics.
Since I’m older then most here, (it seems) I have Osteoporosis..I will not take the meds , so even though I know how healthy bone marrow is for my bones, I have yet to really find a healthy soup or any good recipes using bonesmarrow..
I buy grass fed meat, etc. That said, I cannot stand to eat anytype of meat Fat!!
How would I incorporate Bone marrow into my food?
Thank you,
Annie
Hi Sarah
Could you please give me a link to how I cook and use bonemarrow. I use it in my beef stock but how do I eat it or add it to vegetables?
Thank you again
That is one of the many things I love about Latin America! They love to keep it traditional – esp with food! I lived in Mexico for a while, and the food was 100x better than it was here! It was fresh and REAL! Even at some of the American fast food places (the ones that I DID go to), the food didn’t taste like it came from a can or was pre-packaged.
That is so true. When I go to Mexico the food and produce tastes better. I cannot replicate the same dishes here in the United States because the food is not raised or grown the same way. I assume it’s like that in every country.
Im glad to see there is still hope for Hollywood. Thanks for highlighting this!
Sarah, I just want to say I am so sorry that you are now being subjected to such mean comments. I have used your website for the last three years to get vital information for my health and the health of extended family and friends. I have noticed MORE recently the ignorance of people is on the rise. I just don’t understand why people believe more and more frequently that they have a right to show themselves as uneduated and disrepectful. Gone are the days when/if a person didn’t agree with what a person wrote they would just move onto another site. Now… so different. I hope you continue to be a wealth of information for me.
People are trolling everywhere! From what I have been seeing, if it has anything to do with an alternative view to health (esp. dealing w/ vaccines!), politics, or anything like that, it gets bombarded with trolls, ignorant and somewhat misinformed people. It’s horrible on FB and YouTube! Even people who make good, reasonable comments get flagged, or attacked.
I agree 100%, Joyce! They’re everywhere!
Calling bone marrow sacred is stretching a touch isn’t it?
Poor people in every country and culture have always used all of an animal
for protein etc
Tripe was widely eaten in Scotland
Is that scared too
Didn’t think so
Every THING in the Infinite Universe(s) is sacred.
When I use the term “sacred food” it was in reference to how Traditional Cultures viewed certain special foods that were revered for their ability to bestow vibrant health, healthy babies and fertility … this is the term used by Dr. Price with regard to his research published in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
When can I start giving little (for te taste) bone marrow to my little girl who is 7 months old?
I give her egg yolk n banana.
She can have it right now! It is wonderful blended right into homemade soups. Or, it is very soft so you can mash it up with her veggies to make them extra delish.
I don’t understand where or how to get bone marrow. When I simmer my bones am I getting bone marrow? Sorry for my ignorance.
Bone marrow is the fat inside the bones. Click through to the source above on bone marrow boosting to the immune system and you can see a picture of bone marrow.
It’s “feisty” not “fiesty”
Thank you 🙂 Don’t you just hate typos! I know I do!
Oh, I do! 🙂 One of the reasons I like reading your blog is because I so rarely see any typos! Of course, the content is great and I’ve learned a ton, but if there are typos and grammatical errors, I’m just not going to keep reading.
wow deborah, you seem to have way too much time in your hands to care about a typo. I bet you are old and grumpy with nothing to do. I needed a good laugh this morning. thank you
Can someone who has allergie to red meat eating bone marrow?
Where do get your red meat? I’ve seen on several occasions that folks who are allergic to red meat – it is from the GMO feed the animals are getting … get grassfed beef and you may just be fine. With regard to bone marrow, not sure. You may have to try it and see how your body responds.
thank you,yes i will try grass fed