If Your Gut Is Sick, You Are Sick

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Replenish the good bacteria in your gut

You can supplement with high quality (preferably human strain) probiotic supplements. You can also help to populate good bacteria in your gut with foods that naturally contain good bacteria – fermented foods.

Cut back on sugar

Sugar feeds the bad bacteria in our bodies, and starving them out will only help you! It also increases inflammation, and inflammation is never good. Other “bad” things that generally weaken your body – like alcohol or saturated fats, are also detrimental to your gut. Cut WAY back on these.

Cut out difficult to digest foods

Allow internal sores to heal.  If you are not careful, you may find that you end up with a condition you need to manage... You can avoid this, however, if you want to.

Steam broccoli, cauliflower, carrots etc. before eating, leave grains (including corn) out all together (phytic acid – found in grains – can irritate an already suffering gut even more), and limit red meats. These changes don’t necessarily HAVE to be forever. But you do want to let yourself heal.

Take good quality nutritional supplements

…until your body is able to absorb vitamins and minerals from food. Your body needs these nutrients to heal, but struggles to get them from food if your digestive system is really badly damaged.

Take a liquid B vitamin, a liquid magnesium, a liquid mineral supplement, and L-glutamine. L-glutamine, an amino acid, is especially powerful in helping to heal the gut. Studies have shown that it is essential to repairing damage in the intestines. It also has some other pretty awesome benefits, like muscle growth promotion, curbing cravings for sugar and alcohol, improving blood sugar and fighting cancer, just to name a few.

Try bone broth and aloe vera juice to sooth & heal

Neither one is necessarily going to be your favorite food – but these two things are incredibly soothing and healing to a digestive system that needs some love. Bone broth is packed full of healing, good-for-you things.

Aloe vera juice is the other one – particularly good for bad stomach ache caused by IBS, Crohn's, Colitis etc. It’s very soothing, but it also has a host of other benefits – it’s a natural anti-inflammatory (if your gut is damaged, you can bet that inflammation is a problem for you), it encourages the growth of good bacteria, and it helps to keep you regular (something you REALLY want while healing your gut – or anytime). Having food just hanging around in your digestive tract fermenting is NEVER GOOD!).

Borrowed From mommyonpurpose