Your 'gut' refers to your gastrointestinal system, which includes your stomach, small and large intestine. Gut health is the balance of good and bad bacteria in your digestive system, also known as gastrointestinal system. It breaks down food and liquids into substances the body can use for energy, growth, and tissue repair.
Gut Health is important for your overall health and can impact your physical and mental wellbeing. or how you feel right now. A healthy gut can be achieved through diet, lifestyle, and other factors.
Eat a variety of fresh, whole foods and fermented food products. Avoid processed foods which are high in refined sugars, unhealthy salt, additives, and unhealthy fats. Regular cardiovascular exercise, like walking or cycling, can stimulate your abdominal muscles to help move waste through your body. Try to limit how much you eat after dark and get enough sleep. Manage stress as it can make it harder to digest food - meditation, mindfulness or exercise. Drink at least eight glasses of water each day to support digestion and prevent constipation.
PROBIOTICS healthful bacteria that helps keep gut healthy, helps balance the microbiome. Fermented foods are excellent for good gut health. Probiotics are foods that contain live bacteria in sufficient quantities to provide a health benefit, usually homemade probiotics remain 'living'.
The sugars/carbohydrate content has been broken down by bacteria or yeast. Fermented foods are high in probiotics, such as: yoghurt, sauerkraut, jun,and kvass. Di's Kvass and sauerkraut contain probiotics and prebiotics.
Prebiotics are a type of fibre that feed the good bacteria - probiotics in your gut, the body can't digest this type of fibre but they pass through the gut undigested. Prebiotics alter the composition of organisms in the gut microbiome. Remember, a healthy gut is a happy gut.
If probiotics were the flowers in the garden, prebiotics would be the soil those flowers thrive in.