6 Inexpensive Ways To Improve Your Gut Health
Improving your gut health doesn’t necessarily mean taking the latest fancy, expensive probiotic or making drastic changes to your diet. While sometimes a gut healing protocol with therapeutic supplements is needed to bring your gut health back to balance, it isn’t always the case. Sometimes you can work on healing your gut by adding in a few habits or modifying some of the things you are already doing.
Why Am I Always Bloated? And What To Do About it
Simply put, bloating is just excess intestinal gas. The feeling can range from uncomfortable to pretty painful. It usually resolves on its own after a period of time after eating, but if you’ve got something going on with your digestion, it is probably coming back pretty regularly. Most of the time bloating happens because of some sort of dysfunction in the gut, but it can also happen when you have a food sensitivity or intolerance, or for women, around their menstrual cycle.
How Does Exercise Affect Gut Health?
When your gut is in a good place, exercise can play a role in maintaining microbiome diversity in the gut, promoting better energy and mood, and a stronger immune system. It can also aid in getting your digestive fire moving, supporting the entire digestive process so that you are moving out toxins and pooping daily.
Is It Healthy To Eat Fat?
Simply put, fat is essential to the proper function of our hormones, our immune system, and our cells. It is the main building block in the production of each and every hormone in our body. This is so important! Hormones are key messengers that control our mood, energy levels, brain function, appetite, satiety, stress response, balance organ function, inflammation, immune function, and repair signals all across the body.
Nutrition Tips For More Energy and Stable Mood
So many of my clients come to me with complaints of daily energy issues and mood imbalances. Stress plays a massive role in how we feel and while it is definitely challenging to reduce ALL of the stress in our lives, there are definitely some things we can do to help support our body in how it deals with stress. Here are some helpful strategies that you can implement on the nutrition side that can also help with stable blood sugar and cortisol, leading to better energy and a more stable mood throughout the day.
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All About Constipation
Constipation is SUPER common, but it isn’t normal. I was always told that a bowel movement every day isn’t that important, but once I learned about how digestion works and what the body’s objective is in pooping (removing waste and toxins from the body!) I realized that we really should be pooping every day, at least once a day and up to two or three times.
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The Case for Consuming Collagen
Collagen is one of the most abundant proteins in the human body and the amino acids that make it up are essential building blocks in supporting the integrity and structure of our skin, bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles, blood vessels, and teeth as well as the entire gastrointestinal tract lining. As we age, our body gradually produces less. It is pretty different for everyone, but genetics, stress level, diet, smoking, age, and sun exposure may all influence how much we are producing.
Lifestyle Habits to Improve Gut Health
The health of your digestive tract isn’t just about the food and drink we are consuming. Digestion is one of the most important and resource-intensive processes our body goes through on a daily basis and requires a lot more than just eating the right foods. A lot of things have to be going right for our gut to be strong and functioning how it should.
Give Your Body An Oil Change
Using the right oils for cooking and consumption can make a big impact on your overall health. Oils and fats are not all created equal. Some are natural and nutrient-dense. Others are man-made and toxic to our bodies. Some are robust and can stand up to high heat, others are fragile and break down easily, causing them to lose all of their nutritional properties. Read on to learn how you can make sure you are consuming the right fats and oils for the best health.
Are Carbs Bad For You?
There is a ton of fear and villainization of carbohydrates (“carbs”) out there and a lot of conflicting information. Some label all carbs as bad and others differentiate between “good” carbs and “bad” carbs. The purpose of this post is to cut through the dogma and get to the real truth about whether or not you should be eating them.
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Benefits of Eating Fermented Foods
One of the easiest and BEST ways to improve your digestion and overall health is to consume fermented foods daily. I recommend eating fermented foods to all of my clients. Depending on what you’ve got going on digestively, you may have trouble with them at first. If this is the case for you, let’s work together to see what is going on and get you to a place where you can tolerate and enjoy these magical superfoods.
3 Steps to Connect To Your Food + Your Mind +Your Body
The practice of being mindful while eating allows us to pay attention not only to our food but ourselves. When we eat under stress, we are robbing our bodies of nourishment and the nutrients we need to thrive. I say this all the time, it isn't always about what we eat, but how we eat that can make a difference in your health.