Having determined what could potentially go wrong with your digestive system here are five tips for fixing your gut:
1. REMOVE ANY POTENTIAL ALLERGENS FROM THE DIET AND/OR INFECTIONS FROM THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
Your first step to achieving a healthy digestive system must be a clean-up of your diet. Avoid processed, convenience, baked and fast foods, eliminate sugar from your diet, and reduce your intake of omega-6 fatty acids.
It's also important to understand how your body reacts after ingesting certain foods and eliminate those foods or food groups that cause digestive discomfort. Some of the most common allergens in modern diets include soy, wheat, gluten and dairy. That's not to say that any of these are necessarily ‘bad’ foods, but the overconsumption of these products and the processing methods used often result in an individual's inability to optimally digest and assimilate these foods. Limit your intake of meat and nuts, too, but don't avoid them, and ensure a suitable intake of saturated fat.
It's also pertinent to consider the way you're eating. While it's important to eat more raw organic fibrous and leafy green vegetables, preferably freshly picked and unwashed, moving over to this way of eating may cause a few digestive issues. If that's the case, consider steaming or blanching your vegetables to help remove oxalates, increase nutrient bioavailability and help prevent distress to your digestive microbiome.
This story is from the March - April 2018 edition of Fitness His Edition.
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