Sugar is everywhere! It’s such a huge part of modern life that we don’t even notice it. The amount we consume can be a big factor in the health of our microbiome and, as we now know, anything that harms our friendly gut bugs harms us too.
When food is processed the result is a nasty hodge-podge of chemicals, many of which are harmful to the body, which is then wrapped in brightly-coloured packaging and presented to us as ‘food’.
Depending on the current state of your gut, you may need to stop eating dairy products, but ideally this is only a temporary measure while our gut heals. In the long run, dairy is not only delish but also offers real health benefits, particularly when fermented.
A freshly-made juice contains a valuable payload of nutrients, much more so than a pasteurised, packaged juice. Our body uses these nutrients to heal and repair itself, bringing down inflammation.
One classic piece of diet orthodoxy is that we need to eat 3 square meals a day or our blood sugar will plummet, we’ll get irritable and unable to focus, we’ll enter ‘starvation mode’ and our body will begin breaking itself down. But what if this is completely wrong?
Inflammation is the body’s natural response to damage or trauma. But inflammation has a dark side: it can turn chronic, and the root cause may lie in our gut.
