are you curious how you can improve your gut health to lose more weight and feel
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so if you've been following along the channel you saw we posted a video about how gut health
impacts weight loss why it's so crucial to get your gut health in check if you're working on
losing weight and so in this video i wanted to go through five simple and sweet ways to improve
your gut health so that you can start seeing more results and more progress with your weight
so number one we're just gonna get these out of the way because these are the most obvious
i preach these in it pretty much every single video i post nutrition sleep and exercise this
means less processed food more health food more fiber is another good thing to add on top of here
less processed sugar less carbohydrates that are processed and avoiding antibiotics too for
working out working out actually increases species diversity in the gut and sleep is going to help
you recover better which is going to help with gut health as well now that the obvious is out
of the way let's get into some cool specifics so the second way that we can improve gut health is
actually through reducing stress now we did a full video series on this on stress which you
can check out here you can check out in the link in the description but in human beings a variety
of stressors can actually negatively impact gut health these include things like emotional stress
like psychological stress this could also be physical stress right sleep deprivation which
we just talked about environmental stress like extreme heat cold or noise or disruption of the
circadian rhythm so stress is one of those things where we also know it's negatively impacting our
health but a lot of people don't do anything about it they think they're kind of just a victim to
their environment and if things are stressful at work if their relationship is stressful that they
have no choice but to be stressed and it's not true go check out the video we posted and we will
move on the third way to improve gut health and you guys know if you've been following my stuff
you're gonna love this is fasting now fasting is the strategy we use to help our clients see
really incredible results with fat loss but it's also good for the health of the gut
there's a study that found that fasting also increased microbial richness which is basically
the number of different species in the microbiome and diversity which is how diverse and evenly
spread out the species are and it increased levels of the beneficial short-chain fatty acid butyrates
which if you've been following my stuff you know is awesome it's found in grass-fed butter which
are all generally associated with a healthy gut microbiome so i will say fasting is like
the magic thing for me i've seen this in so many different things in terms of improvements and how
it can help health how it can help your body your mind your spirit and so if you are interested in
learning more about fasting check the link in the description of this video we got a free training
there for you it lays out our process step by step and if you're working on losing weight
start fasting fourth way that you can increase the health of your gut are probiotics now i would
recommend getting probiotics from a natural source rather than a pill so natural source being kefir
that has no sugar you can get sauerkraut kimchi or you can buy a probiotic i would just be very
careful make sure you're getting it from a good source i've heard not only do a lot of probiotics
not even make it to the gut they kind of just get damaged on the way there i've also heard that if
your gut health isn't that good and it's not in a good place that probiotics can actually negatively
impact the gut they can actually cause the bad bacteria to thrive so definitely don't overdo
it here i would just say get a natural probiotic just get a sauerkraut i love my sauerkraut you
can just take a scoop of the sauerkraut and eat a scoop and eat a forkful right after a meal you're
good to go and then the fifth way to improve gut health is one of my favorite and it's also one
of the most unconventional which is to upgrade all the other items in your house so i'm talking
cleaning products i'm talking beauty products i'm talking cooking wear tupperware and basically any
other products throughout your house that you come in contact with and you may think that's
weird but what we're finding research-wise is that a lot of these artificial ingredients a lot of the
ingredients such as parabens phthalates and a lot more that are typically put in general use
products do have a negative health on your gut even if nothing goes in your mouth even if you're
just touching things you're putting things on your skin it does have a negative impact so there's a
2018 research study that analyzed the gut flora of over 700 infants aged three to four months
so right at the beginning of their life and the researchers found that those who lived in homes
where people used disinfecting cleaning products at least weekly were twice as likely to have a
higher level of bacteria called lac no spirocy and this is a type of bacteria that's associated with
type 2 diabetes and obesity now i know that's a little broad that may not be enough to sway your
decision but please understand that your skin is the largest organ in your body and that anything
you put on it it gets absorbed into the body and if there is man-made ingredients toxic ingredients
things that don't go well with your body in those products they can be absorbed into the body and
they can negatively impact the health of your body and in this case obviously the gut and so this is
kind of the hidden things that most people won't address you know they'll change the nutrition
they'll change the exercise routine they'll change the sleep but they're still using all these
products with terrible terrible ingredients i remember a few years ago i met a woman who owned a
business that would basically send people to your home and they would go through and they would look
for ingredients that were negatively impacting your body and they would swap it out and i asked
her why right like why would we do that that's such an interesting business to start and she
said she literally had multiple sclerosis and she said that a few years back literally she was in
a wheelchair because she couldn't control muscle spasms her body just had this extremely extremely
uh detrimental issue that she was working through and come to find out that the ingredients that
were in her cleaning products beauty products things that she were using around the home
was actually causing those spasms literally putting her in a wheelchair and when she swapped
out these ingredients her muscle use came back and she's now walking and fully functional so stories
like that that really shows me the power and the impact that actually making sure that you're
putting good things in your body has so this is my encouragement to you to make some lifestyle
changes to improve your gut health get better gut health because it's going to make fat loss
easier and again if you're looking for help if you're looking to plug into a step-by-step system
check the free training in the description of this video we got that laid out there for you step by
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make sure to eat small move more sleep deep and be grateful for this moment i'll see you next time