Happy focus Friday!
Recent studies show the balance or imbalance of bacteria in your digestive system is linked to overall health and disease. A healthy gut contains healthy bacteria and immune cells that ward off infectious agents like bacteria, viruses and fungi. A healthy gut also communicates with the brain through nerves and hormones, which helps maintain your general physical health and mental well-being.
Set a goal this month to be intensional with your gut health and see how it affects every part of your health journey!
Gut Health Info and Facts!
It is essential to maintain a healthy balance of good and bad bacteria in the gut. There are many reasons how the delicate balance of a healthy gut is compromised. We eat diets of sugar, processed foods, and alcohol. We consume antibiotics and have too much stress. These areas create an imbalance causing the bad bacteria to shift from a single cell of yeast into a mycelial fungus. Thus, causing gut diseases and other problems in our bodies.
Here are FIVE tips to help your GUT HEALTH which can also reduce bloating and stomach tension!
1). Cutting back on sugar, processed foods, antibiotics, steroids, and synthetic hormones.
2). Cut back on stress. Stress is harmful to our health and is actually the second cause of unbalanced gut flora. Take more deep breathes, meditate, try yoga, and use physical exercise to de-stress.
3). Read food labels to decrease added sugar and processed foods.
4). Eat whole, live, raw foods.
5). Supplement with a quality probiotic (kombucha, supplement, or fermented foods)
The colon (gut) has at least 500 different kinds of bacteria! One of the bacteria is the bifidobacteria making up the majority of the "good" bacteria that is in your gut. This good bacteria is benefited by the intake of probiotics.
Probiotics can help your digestive tract and help take up space in your stomach that could be taken over by a less healthful product or organism. Probiotics can be found in foods that have live and active cultures. A great source of probiotics is found in yogurt, kefir, cottage cheese, Kombucha, and sauerkraut. Add in one today!
The Benefits of Probiotics
Probiotics can help prevent or treat diarrhea caused by infections or antibiotics.
Probiotics can improve systems of irritable bowel syndrome.
Probiotics can boost the immune system.
Probiotics can reduce inflammation and allergies.
Gut Health Fact From Integrated Health Coach Lea Wallace:
The number 1 predictor of a healthy microbiome in your gut is DIVERSITY of PLANTS in your diet! Stop counting calories and start counting the number of unique plants on your plate. When you prioritize 30+ servings of different plants during your week, you’ll notice better digestion, clearer skin, potential weight loss, and overall health improvement. You can also add in a prebiotic in the morning to jumpstart your gut healing! Here is a highly recommended book!
Try this delicious super green salad recipe to add in extra greens to your nutrition plan today!
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