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Your Best Foods For A Healthy Digestive System

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Channel: CanXida · 2018 · Education

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Hi there, Eric Bakker, thank you for coming back. I often get asked this question, it's a common question, and I'm going to give a common reply to it. The reason why I'm doing this question again is because it's quite apparent, from the correspondence I get, that many people don't know the answer to this question. So, please bear with me if you know the answer to question because many people don't. 

So, the question is, what are the best foods to support a healthy digestive system? I've made seven points here I'm going to discuss. These points are very relevant. Follow this kind of plan, you're going to end up with a great, healthy gut. 

So, the first one, obviously, is we need to eat plenty of vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, seeds, grains into our diet. These really support excellent health because they contain lots of different fibers in them. Many fibers that are partially digestible, and many fibers that are non-digestible. 

So, your digestive system loves this kind of a load. It's going to be able to break these things down, some of them a little bit more rapidly, to give you more energy. Some more slowly, and some of these vegetables in particular will not get broken down much at all.

They'll get busted down to a fiber, which then the bacteria further down the digestive tract can act on, and probably break down and convert that into fuel for good bacteria. That's why it's important to avoid junk, and sugar, and ice cream, and crap like that. It will not support good cellular growth in the bowel. 

All it'll support is production of gas and you get bloating out of that and weight gain, which you don't want.

So, plenty of vegetables, legumes, beans, fruits. I've written down raspberries, green beans, and peas. Broccoli, lentils, whole grains, asparagus, almonds. There are so many foods that fit into this category. You guys out there will know these kind of goods.

These are the best foods to eat. So, eat plenty of that category. The second one, which you'll probably know about, are the fermented and cultured foods. So, what's the difference between a ferment and a culture, some people will ask me. How do I know that one is what? It doesn't really matter.

I've written down here, ferments with a culture include wine, yogurt, and bread for example. We add cultures to that and we let that go through a fermentation process.

So, if you look at kimchi and sauerkraut, they didn't have anything added to them, per se. With sauerkraut, you're going to pound that and put the juice from that ... You're going to be attracting wild yeast from the air, which are going to help create that fermentation process. 

But, you don't need to add the salt to the sauerkraut. So, these foods are also naturally good to support healthy digestive system health, providing you can tolerate them. Okay? Many people say to me, "I can't tolerate yogurt." "Well, I've put kimchi into my diet or I've put some sauerkraut in and I'm getting bloated and gassy, it's not working for me." And lots of people will go onto different sites and read about fermenting for example. They'll make kimchi up and they'll be drinking gallons of this stuff. 

And they'll get sick. And they can't work out why they're getting sick. It's because the bacteria in their gut is not balanced yet. You need to pull these foods out and wait. Keep working on chewing, keep working on relaxing, you might need to work more with enzymes or probiotics. You may have some microbes that need to be cleaned out the gut. And eventually you'll be able to tolerate these foods again.  


I've also put bifidobacteria in there. Two species are in here. We put the bifido longum and the bifido bifidum. So five types of probiotics in the one capsule. Now, that's in a special capsule that goes through the gut. So it's not gonna open up in the stomach. It'll start opening up further down and putting that load where you want it. 

In the intestines. So there you have it. That's a bit of a summary for me on some of the good things that you can do to support bacteria in the digestive tract. I hope that answers a few questions for some people out there. And thank you for the question. Always appreciated.

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