hello :) i’m trying to improve my gut health so i was wondering if you know what i should eat / take to have a healthy gut? thank you ♡

Hi angel <3

Eat foods like whole grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes, and nuts are high in fiber, which can promote the growth of beneficial gut bacteria.

Fermented foods like yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, olives, pickles, kimchi, and kombucha contain probiotics that can help balance your gut flora.

Prebiotic foods feed the good bacteria in your gut. Examples include garlic, onions, leeks, asparagus, bananas, berries, tomatoes.

Drinking enough water helps keep your digestive system working well. Add some lemon in your water too.

High-sugar and low-fiber processed foods can negatively impact gut health. Limit the amount of processed foods you eat.

Stress can affect your gut health, so try meditation or yoga.

Try to get 7-9 hours of quality sleep per night.

Exercising regularly also helps support a healthy gut.

Eat less sugar and artificial sweeteners.

Drink bone broth daily. It helps with intestinal healing and prevents diseases.

Make sure you are taking enough magnesium.

I will write a gut healthy grocery list on a separate post :)

Our immune system is made up of multiple smart defenses built into our bodies – but if those defenses go haywire, it can lead to diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). Scientists may have found a new way to control potentially dangerous autoimmune responses. A team from Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women's Hospital in the US developed a special probiotic that was able to regulate the activity of dendritic cells. These cells play a crucial role in managing immune cell responses. When the probiotics were placed into the guts of mice with induced conditions similar to MS, autoimmunity was suppressed in key regions in the brain. If the treatment works in humans, it could help with some of the most damaging diseases that currently exist.

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Gut health 101

The Holidays are here, and so are delicious meals. Let's give our gut some extra love and support for processing these delicous foods for us and keeping our digestive system optimal and healthy 💛

Wanted to share my health haul with y’all. ❤️

Cordyceps and k12 probiotics have been helpful for my ME/CFS to at least some extent. Something I notice is that I wake up feeling a bit less gross most mornings (today was an exception). Waking up feeling absolutely disgusting and awful is one of the worst parts of this disease. So if you can access it I say it's probably worth a try

What's the deal with fermented food? Well, the new thing all over the Internet is the importance of gut health. Your microbiome diversity. Fermented foods can give your body a dose of healthful probiotics — live microorganisms crucial to good digestion. So this is my first attempt at sauerkraut.

Easy peasy. Cabbage and salt. Yhinly slice the cabbage, add salt. Knead it all together til it goes soft and juicy.

Put it in a sealable jar.

Push it down as tightly packed as you can.

Leave it in a cupboard for a few weeks. Job done. I've never had it, so (slightly stained) fingers crossed!

Pickled Strawberry Toast (Vegan)

My co-resident told me about a prebiotic that can prevent diarrhea in patients you're giving antibiotics to. It's saccharomyces boulardii.

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Potential Pathogen

These yellow spheres are Staphylococcus aureus bacteria on the surface of a human immune cell (blue). They are found in, and on, about a third of the human population and are generally harmless except, that is, for when they’re not. S. aureus can cause severe and potentially fatal infections of the skin, soft tissues, bone and blood, and especially dangerous are the drug-resistant strains – so called, methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). The bacteria were thought to mainly inhabit the skin and nose, but recent research shows they are most abundant in the gut. This discovery led researchers to test whether probiotics – oral doses of friendly bacteria – could suppress S. aureus colonisation. And they could – by around ninety-five percent. Probiotics work more slowly than traditional antibiotics for tackling infections, but they can be taken for much longer without harm, and will likely be able to tackle MRSA strains when regular drugs cannot.

Written by Ruth Williams

Image from the NIH, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Bethesda MD, USA

Research by Pipat Piewngam & Sunisa Khongthong, et al, NIAID and Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya, Thailand

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Research published in Lancet Microbe, January 2023

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Understanding the powerful connection between gut health and metabolism

Did you know that your gut health plays a crucial role in your metabolism and overall well-being? A healthy gut is home to trillions of bacteria, viruses and fungi that help digest food, regulate metabolism, and even support your immune system. They also play a role in regulating your nervous system, removing toxins and affecting how drugs work. Gut microbiome has been implicated in a number of conditions such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic liver disease, cardiometabolic disease and even dementia. When your gut is happy, your metabolism functions optimally, helping you maintain a healthy weight and feel energised throughout the day. To support your gut health and boost your metabolism and microbiome we recommend you maintain a diet that consists of a diverse range of whole foods rich in fibre such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes. This should include limiting processed high-energy food. Staying hydrated by drinking plenty of water throughout the day is also recommended. If you can, try incorporating probiotic-rich foods like yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, and kimchi into your diet. Finally adding regular exercise to your weekly regime will help to keep your metabolism optimised and your gut happy. Recent advancements in technology now allow for the testing of factors that influence the gut microbiome. Blood Genius may advise on the need for such tests.

Understanding Probiotics: Benefits and How they Work

Regardless, would it be a distinct believed for us to be astounded?

Unmistakable probiotics are nowadays marketed in tablet structure.

Regardless, in tablets, there are amazingly few residing creatures considering the way that the bodyweight needed to plot the tablet raises the heat range above 50 ° C and wrongdoing a giant bit of them.

It is in this way fundamentally difficult to have capable probiotic tablets.

A several of manufacturers situation to have found a solution by offering probiotic tablets that were beginning assured by microencapsulation. The problem is that this procedure increases unnecessarily the volume handled by the probiotics. To take down the key (smallest 1 billion), you would take 100 tablets a day.

Shouldn't something be said concerning liquid based probiotics?

In a created liquid method (eg containing animal or veggie milk), probiotic harmful bacteria can not keep lengthy. The unique stresses in the locale will modify the carbs and necessary proteins in the method, traditional chemicals and bleach that little creatures won't continue through lengthy.

Obviously, it is doubtful to keep up a combination of probiotic stresses in congruity in a liquid method considering the way that each advances contrastingly among modify and most far off factor.

In the occasion that we take the example of the amazing organic yogurt, which contains just two bacterial stresses (Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus), despite the way that they are to some extent probiotics, however after verification that goes from the storing up website to your plate (two or three several weeks ), bacterial achievements and congruity between stresses are exceedingly adjusted; which does not recover the abdominal vegetation, yet truly just to keep up amazing pH circumstances in the intestinal program.

How not to spend cash with probiotics

Diverse euros are abused each year by individuals getting probiotics, however take them at the wrong time, which reduces their adequacy to nothing. Probiotics are, considering present circumstances, crammed by the causticity of a abdomen near, is to say when the last bakes an extensive way of measuring stomach juice (rich in hydrochloric ruinous) to process nutrition.

It is in like way important to take probiotics when the abdomen is void, ie in the early morning when you get up. The pH of your abdomen is so near nonappearance of inclination. Regardless, all the more for the greater level, the area that contiguous your abdomen (pylorus), and discharging nutrition to go into the intestinal structure before it is handled, is start around then.

Take probiotics in owner structure will allow them to be properly secured in the abdomen. Probiotics are released when the compartment material go into the intestinal program, where they can implement their popular growth.

You will see also that in India, we eat a particular type of created milk products known as lassi, loaded with probiotics. This created milk products consume before supper, and now you know why.

It is moreover key that your probiotics contain a higher bacterial individuals: 1 billion dollars harmful bacteria is a platform underneath which the effect is just around zero; 8 billion dollars is better and assures excellent effectiveness when your abdominal vegetation is outright lopsided. For it must be reviewed that among their fragment through the intestinal structure, when lifestyle components every year confinements (gastric pH, bile radiation) that will pound the weakest of them.

What probiotic stresses pick?

It is primary to go on probiotics with a several shifting stresses, correlative and acting in enchanting imperativeness, whose results are chronicled in the exploratory shaped perform.

Five especially probiotic stresses can create in the digestive tract, the regular liquid that covers its protecting, for most amazing statement and snappy changing of resistance: Bifidobacterium lactis, Lactobacillus acidophilus bacteria, Lb. paracasei Lb plantarum and Lactococcus lactis, which have capacities to continue generally of L (+) lactic all around metabolized. These probiotic stresses in like course go on other inhibitory ingredients wrecking micro flora.