In this video you'll discover how to improve your digestion naturally.
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life. Now, in this video I'll uncover how to improve
your digestion naturally with fermented foods. Fermented foods are really important to our
overall health. And the reason that we want to include fermented foods into our daily
diet is because they have beneficial bacteria. These beneficial bacteria play a huge role
in your overall health when it comes to digestive health, gut health hormone health, brain health,
skin health, and in so many other areas of your health.
We want to make sure that we're getting these beneficial bacteria into our daily food regimen.
But the other thing that we have to realize is that most people are not. When we look
at the food supply today it’s very clean. There's a huge benefit to that, but one of
the problems is, because we're not going out to our gardens and grabbing food from it on
a daily basis, essentially, we are not getting the proper amount of probiotics that we need
to sustain proper health. There's a sufficient amount of research out
there that shows the amount of beneficial bacteria that we have in our diet today versus
what there used to be is drastically different, it's drastically declined. What we'll do is
talk about some different really great fermented foods that can naturally help you improve
your digestion. Let's go ahead and start with sauerkraut,
and by the way at the end of this video I'll teach you which ones are going to be the heavy
hitters which ones are going to going to offer you the most
benefit. Sauerkraut right here is basically a fermented cabbage, really easy to make,
we love making this in our home because you just dice up some cabbage, put it in a mason
jar, put some salt in it and it's very simple. But the benefits
are, first of all it's going to have digestive enzymes, it's going to contain probiotics,
and then lastly, it's also going to be rich in vitamin C. Really, really, great fermented
food here. Kombucha is another one that we love. Now
this came from the Asian culture and essentially what you're doing is, you're taking a tea
and you're putting a bacterial culture in it and then you're allowing it to ferment.
This is going to not only have some beneficial bacteria and enzymes in it, but the other
thing it’s going to help do is support liver detox. Really love kombucha because it's something
other than water. If you want to have a good fermented drink and you don't want to drink
soda, kombucha is a really great alternative. Water kefir is also great. Now what you do
is you take kefir grains, you put it within water, and then you can make some really delicious
tasting fizzy beverages that are flavored to whatever flavor you prefer. My wife is
always making, like, a cream soda one and different flavors for the kids and they love
it. Once again, a really healthy alternative to soda.
Pickles, now pickles are great because they're going to be loaded with vitamin K and they're
also going to have that fermented benefit. Now one of the things we have to be careful
about when we look at pickles, is not all pickles are created equally. We want to make
sure that we're getting fermented pickles and not just vinegar based pickles. In this
whole process of making pickles, they'll use vinegar in many cases because it's easier,
less expensive, but you just don't get the benefit when it has a vinegar base versus
a good fermented base. We want to look for the fermented pickles over the vinegar-based
pickles. Next here is kimchi. Now kimchi is a lot like
sauerkraut, just a little bit different. This is a spicy Korean dish and essentially, it's
going to have the lactobacillus kimchi, which is a very beneficial bacteria, which is proven
to help digestion quite a bit. Kimchi is another thing that you can make at home, very simple
to make, very delicious. Check that out. Next on our list here is cheese. Now cheese
is something that mostly everybody loves, as long as you don't have a problem with dairy.
When we look at cheese, first thing that we want to do is, we want to make sure when it
comes to any of our dairy, that we're getting a good grass-fed source, we're getting it
from a healthy sustainable farm, but the other thing that we want to really watch when it
comes to cheese, is to make sure that we're getting the cheese that actually is rich in
probiotics, because not all cheese is rich in probiotics, just because the probiotics
don't always survive the cheese making process. Some of
these cheese's include cottage cheese, cheddar cheese, Gouda cheese, and mozzarella cheese.
Those are going to be the four best cheese's that you need to use if you want to get the
most probiotics out of them. And cheeses also are loaded with digestive enzymes and lots
of different nutrients, so very beneficial for your overall health.
Next is yogurt. Same thing want to make sure that we're getting good, whole fat yogurt
that is from grass-fed cows, sustainable source, and yogurt’s awesome. And first of all,
kids love yogurt and, that's one of the things that we love to give our kids because when
it comes to children you want to make sure that you're constantly pushing that good bacteria,
the good probiotics into their gut. Now a lot of children out there are on multiple
rounds of antibiotics throughout their childhood, through ear infections, and flus, and things
like that. The parents are taking them to the doctor, they're putting them on antibiotics,
but one of the things that most parents fail to do is actually go in and get the good beneficial
probiotics back to their children. Okay? So, you're wiping them out, but you're not putting
anything else back in, and this can be really devastating to a child's overall health. It
can create allergy issues, it can create gut issues, and can create a lot of different
imbalances for children. It's very important, not only yogurt, but all these different fermented
foods, it's good to make sure that you're adding it to your whole family's daily regimen.
Yogurt’s awesome, lots of probiotics within that.
Kefir, now kefir is basically where you take a milk and then you put kefir grains in it,
almost like the process of making kefir water. Now
kefir milk is going to be really beneficial, because not only can you use cow's milk, but
you can use goat's milk, you can use coconut milk, there's a lot of different ones out
there. You can make this at your home, or you can buy it.
Now, I will tell you when you look at buying any of the stuff in stores, it tends to be
a little bit more expensive. Now you can make some of it very easily and very inexpensively
in your own home. When it comes to things like kombucha, very easy. Water kefir, kefir
yogurt, you can make these things in your home. They're very, very simple, so don't
think that you have to go to the store and spend a whole bunch of money on it. Or you
can just go and make it in your home and save a boatload of cash. Remember that. Kefir’s
great. Now which ones are the best? If we're looking
for the heavy hitters that are going to offer you the most digestive enzymes, the most probiotics,
and the most bang for the buck, we're going to want to think water kefir. Right here,
this is very simple and inexpensive to make in your home. Yogurt, and also regular kefirs.
They're going to be the heavy hitters that you can utilize.
Now of course for me, not only do I use these as much as I can, but I also take probiotics
daily, because I think that it’s very beneficial to take a probiotic supplement. I'll go ahead
and put a link to the one that I use in the description below. Now I don't take a probiotic
and do this on a daily basis, but the days that I'm not focused, and I don't particularly
put the effort into getting these fermented foods into my daily life, I do use a probiotic.
There are over 55,000 articles stating in our PubMed research database, that
you are going to benefit greatly from adding probiotics into your daily health regimen.
You want to do that. The other thing I'll do, is I'll put a link
to an eBook where we talk about some of the top ones that I love to make and how you go
about making them. I’ll put that in the description below, it's going to teach you
how to make things like sauerkraut and kombucha, some of these different fermented foods that
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