5 Ways you can improve your gut health with things you likely already have in your kitchen!

These 10 recipes prioritise key nutritional properties to help your gut thrive!

Gut health is imperative to our overall health and wellbeing so today I wanted to jump into five of the best habits you can adopt, as well as touching on five of the worst habits that could in fact be affecting your gut health.

Take this gut health quiz to see if you might need to do a bit of gut loving…

You may have noticed that I LOVE kefir and use it all the time and I get asked a lot of questions about kefir, what is it, why is it good for us, is it better than yoghurt, how do you use it etc - so I wanted to answer all of your questions in one article that you can refer back to whenever you need!

Just in case you haven’t heard by now (although I’m not sure where you’ve been if you haven’t!) gut health is kind of a big deal in the nutrition world.

There are foods and supplements that are now in the ‘gut health’ category and you will see these listed as probiotic, cultured or fermented foods/products. So what is the difference and which should we be using?  

In the Winter I get asked a lot what the best foods are for boosting immunity and most of the time the people asking are already unwell. The trick is to start eating immune supporting foods right now so that you’re better able to prevent illness instead of being stuck just treating it.

If there is one aspect to nutrition that I think is underrated..it is fibre. Fibre can come in many different forms but essentially it is the indigestible part of plant foods, such as vegetables, fruits, grains, beans, legumes, nuts and seeds.

Gut health has become extremely popular recently and for good reason with research suggesting it is related to many things from immunity, how we store fat, regulating glucose levels, controlling appetite, digestion, mental health, hormone and neurotransmitter production and determining our disease risk.