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Gut Health The 3 Keys to Maintaing a Good Gut
The gut microbiome affects the body from birth and throughout life by controlling the digestion of food, immune system, central nervous system and other bodily processes.
What Is the Gut Microbiome?
Bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microscopic living things are referred to as microorganisms, or microbes, for short.
Trillions of these microbes exist mainly inside your intestines and on your skin.
Most of the microbes in your intestines are found in a “pocket” of your large intestine called the cecum, and they are referred to as the gut microbiome.
Although many different types of microbes live inside you, bacteria are the most studied.
In fact, there are more bacterial cells in your body than human cells. There are roughly 40 trillion bacterial cells in your body and only 30 trillion human cells. That means you are more bacteria than human (1Trusted Source, 2Trusted Source).
What’s more, there are up to 1,000 species of bacteria in the human gut microbiome, and each of them plays a different role in your body.
So we have come up with out top suggestions for Managing a Healthy Gut.
1. Eat high fibre foods that fuel your gut
These inclide a wide range of items from
1. Vegetables: these include Garlic onions, peas and Cabbage
2. Legumes: these include chickpeas to baked beans
3. Fruit: From apples & banana's all the way through to dried fruits
4. Bread / cereals / snacks: As long as they are rich in unprocessed items like rye and barely they are good as well
5. Nuts and seeds: like pistachios and cashews
6.Eat fermented foods: Fermented foods such as yogurt, sauerkraut and kefir all contain healthy bacteria, mainly Lactobacilli, and can reduce the amount of disease-causing species in the gut
2. Stress can change your gut. Take time to unwind.
There is a relationship between what you eat, your gut, and your mental health and wellbeing. So how exactly does food affect your mood and how can you feed your happiness?
Food isn’t the only factor to consider when keeping stress levels down. Exercise, sleep and mindfulness also play a key role. Aim to get at least 30 minutes of exercise a day, either in one hit or broken up into short intervals throughout the day. When it comes to sleep, aiming to get around 8 to 9 hours of sleep will ensure your body gets long term benefits.
3. Take a probiotic supplement:
Probiotics are live bacteria that can help restore the gut to a healthy state after dysbiosis. They do this by “reseeding” it with healthy microbes, while theres limited evidence of huge improvements, there is evidence that it does help people with bloating and other gut health issues repair their gut and loose some wieght related to the gut issues.
So there you have it, we have briefly explained the guts and how the bacteria interacts with it, then we have 3 suggestions for better gut health which include a healthy diet good for your gut. Managing Stress and sleep and finally our recommend probiotic to help you maintain your gut health. Do Enjoy.
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