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How Good Gut Health Accelerates Your Weight-loss and Wellness goals.

How Good Gut Health Accelerates Your Weight-loss and Wellness goals.

When making a move to a cleaner, healthier lifestyle that improves mental clarity, boosts energy, stimulates healthy weight-loss and builds a stronger, leaner body, many people neglect their gut health. The quality of your gut bacteria has a significant impact on your wellness goals. Being intentional about maintaining good gut health aids efficient digestion, elimination, detoxification and puts you on an accelerated path towards better health and quality of life.

Here’s why… 

Our bodies need a whole host of good microorganisms to function properly and stay healthy. Most of these microorganisms live in your mouth and gut, like the gut bacteria that helps form vitamin K for blood clotting and wound repair. Contrary to those commercials about disinfectant, a healthy body is not free of microorganisms. It is not a sterile environment meant to be kept pristine. Instead of asking, “How do I get rid of all bacteria?”, your question should be, “How can I make the bacteria thrive?”

  • Limit your intake of Antibiotics: While antibiotics are a medical miracle, misuse of antibiotics is detrimental for your gut bacteria and your overall health. Antibiotics are used to treat several infectious diseases but some people abuse it and start taking them for the wrong reasons, or for ailments that antibiotics can’t fix. Excessive use of antibiotics disturbs your normal gut flora and replaces the normal microorganisms in your gut with opportunistic microorganisms and resistant bacteria.

        Opportunistic microorganisms can cause superimposed infections while resistant         microorganisms are those bacteria with an altered structure and altered virulence.         These resistant bacteria take up residence in your body and begin working against your         body the next time you take an antibiotic, making these drugs less and less effective.

        If you must take antibiotics, try taking a good probiotic at the same time to minimize the         impact of antibiotics on your gut health.

  • Consume Probiotics: Probiotics help maintain a healthy level of gut flora. You can take one orally over the counter, but you can also find many foods that pack a great probiotic punch. Pickled vegetables, beans, oats, onions, and asparagus are great examples. Yogurt is also a great probiotic; it improves your gut health and can relieve symptoms of diarrhea and irritable bowel syndrome.

  • Consume Prebiotics: Supplement your meal with prebiotics, which are non-digestible carbohydrates that boost the effects of the probiotics. Foods rich in prebiotics include bananas, asparagus, garlic, onions, and tomatoes.

  • Consume vegetables: A diet rich in vegetables is beneficial for gut microorganisms. Vegetables are a rich source of antioxidants and clear you gut of toxins and noxious products.

        Reducing meat in your diet is a good move to healthy gut bacteria. Limit your meat         intake, and substitute vegetables when you can. According to research,

        “The microorganisms present in gut change dramatically within few days to a healthy         flora once the subjects switched from a meat rich to a plant-rich diet."

  • REDUCE SUGAR: Cut sugars and processed meals from your diet. Processed meals especially contain excessive amounts of sugar, salt, and artificial ingredients that are no help to your gut.

        “Sugar rich diets can cause negative changes in the gut bacteria and can lead to an         intolerant digestive system.”

So be kind to your gut! Make all that healthy bacteria feel at home and they will serve you well.

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