Eating to support gut health
What does it really mean to heal your gut?
Gut health is such a buzz word right now. And for good reason! But what does it really mean to heal your gut?
Well, the answer is that it is different for everyone. For most it means removing inflammatory triggers and adding in more healing foods. Work with me to learn more about what that means. Unfortunately it isn’t as simple as adding a powder to a drink or just taking a probiotic. Healing our gut takes time, patience, dedication, and perseverance.
Food is the number #1 most powerful way you can improve the gut microbiome, and help the liver detoxify.
The nutrients in whole, real, nutrient dense foods make their way through the gut, into the bloodstream, to the cellular level. They stimulate and encourage the genes to be influenced. They go to the cell level and they influence the expression of your genetics. The nutrients we need to be eating every day are so important. The food we eat informs our body’s biochemical processes and cellular function.
It is important to help everyone eat a liver loving and gut loving diet. What is essential for a food plan that is foundational in gut and liver health? FIBER, FIBER, FIBER! Fiber pulls cholesterol out of the body, insoluble fiber (bulk) specifically pulls toxins out of the body, and soluble fiber feeds your gut microbiome (your good gut bugs). It is really important to make sure there is a lot of fiber in the diet.
Sometimes it’s easy to focus on elimination diets and taking things out. We should be focusing on the things we want to include and add in, like nourishing, beautiful foods that are healing for our belly and body.
The other important part of the gut is digestion. Focusing on making sure there is adequate stomach acid, that there are good digestive enzymes, the pancreas functions properly, that bile is working well from the liver. This all plays a part in the processes of digestion. A person might be eating a really healthy diet and they are eating nutrient dense foods. But if we don’t make sure their digestion is working, that food will not get absorbed and assimilated, and they won’t get the benefit of the food they are eating. They can even still end up with nutrient deficiencies.
For more information about gut health and healing, work with me! Email me if you have any questions!