background preloader

Digestive health

Facebook Twitter

The 5 Big Mistakes People Make When Taking L-Glutamine for Leaky Gut. For those people with leaky gut syndrome, finding a good treatment plan can lead to both natural and prescription remedies.

The 5 Big Mistakes People Make When Taking L-Glutamine for Leaky Gut

So, can L-Glutamine help treat leaky gut syndrome? If you take it correctly, the answer is yes. This supplement can potentially help with your leaky gut syndrome. We’re going to go over what leaky gut syndrome and L-Glutamine are, as well as how it can heal your leaky gut. Histamine release from gut mast cells from patients with inflammatory bowel diseases. Candida and Yeast Infection Education Center. Episode 15 - Dr. Paul Jaminet on chronic infections, depression & more. Microbial Diversity: sometimes you have it, sometimes you don't. This past January I wanted to see what would happen to my gut flora if I adopted a hunter-gatherer diet for a week – eating the plants, animals and drinking the same water as the Hadza hunter-gatherers of east Africa that I was working with.

Microbial Diversity: sometimes you have it, sometimes you don't

Among other hypothesis I wanted to test, would immersing myself in this microbial-rich lifestyle increase the diversity of microbes in my tattered western gut? Below is a PCoA plot of what happened. Think of a PCoA plot as one of those Christmas snow globes you shake up and watch the snow sink to the bottom of the globe. Since you can turn the globe and watch the snow sink from different angles, it’s 3D – and so is the PCoA plot below though flattened (2D) and view from one angle. In short, the closer the dots are together there more similar the bacteria are in those two or more samples. The plot below is an animated GIF showing the timeline of my little experiment. Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth, Part Eight: Treatment Options For SIBO. Leaping for joy because his SIBO is gone!

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth, Part Eight: Treatment Options For SIBO

(Revised 10/25/2015) This is the eighth and last installment of the Syontix series on small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). Resistant Starch - Friend, Foe or Lover ? - Digestive Health Institute. Resistant Starch – a concise guide to the biohack of the decade. Amylose.

Resistant Starch – a concise guide to the biohack of the decade

You Are What Your Bacteria Eat: The Importance of Feeding Your Microbiome - With Jeff Leach. The Resistant Starch Challenge: Is It The Key We've Been Looking For? The Resistant Starch Challenge: Is It The Key We've Been Looking For? Are Vegetarian Diets Better for the Microbiome? Maps. Prebiotics. Part 2: When Fermentable Substrates Aren’t Digested Properly.

How Resistant Starch Will Help to Make You Healthier and Thinner. How Resistant Starch Will Help to Make You Healthier and Thinner. Answers to your burning questions about digestion. Treating SIBO, Cold Thermogenesis, and When to Take Probiotics. The Healthiest Resistant Starch For Your Gut. How Resistant Starch Will Help to Make You Healthier and Thinner. Top 4 Mistakes People Make When Treating Candida Overgrowth. FAQ Health Consumption of Water Kefir. How is kefir consumed in other cultures?

FAQ Health Consumption of Water Kefir

Water kefir is primarily used in the Latin culture to make a popular drink known as Tepache (which has grown in popularity recently) and also as the traditional water kefir recipe. Water kefir grains are usually known as Tibicos within the Latin community. It is also popular amongst those who are familiar with the Ginger Beer Plant, a very similar culture that has possible origins from Tibet.

Home. Wise Choice Market: Organic Fermented Foods (Vegetables), Sprouted Breads, Bone Broths & The Finest Real Food – Right to Your Home. Prescript Assist Probiotic Prebiotic Complex - 60 Caps - magneticclay.com. What is Prescript Assist?

Prescript Assist Probiotic Prebiotic Complex - 60 Caps - magneticclay.com

Prescript-Assist® (P-A) is a next-generation combination of 29 probiotic microflora “Soil-Based-Organisms (SBOs)” uniquely combined with a humic/fulvic acid prebiotic that enhances SBO proliferation. Die-off Symptoms and How to Handle Them. © Copyright Bee Wilder, Revised August 12, 2011 to clarify taking Epsom Salt Baths.

Die-off Symptoms and How to Handle Them

Table of Contents Here are the main candida articles you should have read, that have links to food and supplement lists: The Many Benefits of Hydrogen Peroxide By Dr. David G. Williams.

Recipes

Baking flours. Comparing Salt, Whey and Starter Cultures for Fermenting Vegetables, Fruits and Condiments. When making naturally cultured vegetables, fruits or condiments, recipes will often call for a variety of ingredients including salt, whey and salt, or even just a freeze-dried culture.

Comparing Salt, Whey and Starter Cultures for Fermenting Vegetables, Fruits and Condiments

How do you choose the best culturing medium for your project? Purpose of Salt and Starter Cultures Salt can promote the fermenting process by inhibiting the growth of undesirable microorganisms, favoring the growth of desired Lactobacilli. Starter cultures such as whey, brine from a previous ferment, or freeze-dried starter cultures can add bacteria to the culturing process to get things going more quickly. The combination used is a personal choice. Vegetable Fermentation Methods There are a few different ways to prepare brine for fermenting vegetables, including a method for fermenting without salt. Method #1: Salt-only Vegetable Fermentation Historically, salt was used to preserve foods before refrigeration. Method #2: Salt-free Vegetable Fermentation Method #3: Salt Plus Starter Cultures.

Recipes for helping with learning disabilities, psychiatric disorders and physical problems, such as autism, hyperactivity and attention deficit, dyslexia, dyspraxia, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disor. The main list of recipes you will find in the GAPS book, as well as many SCD books and websites.

recipes for helping with learning disabilities, psychiatric disorders and physical problems, such as autism, hyperactivity and attention deficit, dyslexia, dyspraxia, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disor

In addition to those I will describe a few more recipes here. Fermented foods Fermented foods are essential to introduce, as they provide probiotic microbes in the best possible form. Supplements of probiotics settle in the upper parts of the digestive system and generally do not make it all away down to the bowel, while fermented foods will carry probiotic microbes all away down to the end of the digestive system. Fermentation predigests the food, making it easy for our digestive systems to handle, that is why fermented foods are easily digested by people with damaged gut. To Your Health Sprouted Flour Co. - Home. Slow Ferment Sourdough Bread. For 2 to 3 large loaves Start the process preferably in the evening.

Slow Ferment Sourdough Bread

Whilst 6 hours is the minimum ferment time, longer is better, allowing the activated enzymes t-i-m-e to do their priceless work. So I prefer the overnight ferment, creating the dough at sunset, which means you get a loaf of 12>16 hours’ fermentation. But at a squeeze, you can make a dough at 7am, and bake it in the evening. Remember, the longer the ferment, the more nutritious and digestible the bread. Sourdough bread recipes, lacto-fermented recipes, cultured foods, ginger beer, raw milk recipes. Got digestive problems? Take it easy on the veggies. A couple weeks ago I wrote an article called FODMAPS: Could Common Foods Be Harming Your Digestive Health?

I described how certain classes of foods, known as FODMAPs, are poorly digested in certain people and can lead to gas, bloating, pain and changes in stool frequency and consistency. Studies have shown that conditions like Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) are associated with FODMAP intolerance, and that a low-FODMAP diet offers relief in a substantial percentage of people with IBS. Today I’ve got another tip for those of you with digestive issues, including IBS, constipation, diarrhea and acid reflux: eat fewer vegetables.

Yep, that’s right. Fewer vegetables. How following mainstream advice to eat 6-8 servings of vegetables a day could hurt your gut Vegetables (as well as some fruits) are often high in insoluble fiber. Vegetables that are high in insoluble fiber include: Another helpful tip is to reduce the variety of vegetables you eat at any given meal.