text: 10 Natural Remedies To Heal Your Gut | Home Remedies - Natural Remedy
  Posted on March 20, 2017 April 24, 2017 by ritamehta
  Gut health is highly important for our overall health. It exerts influence over our immunity, body weight, cognitive function, hormonal balance and many other functions of our body. An unhealthy gut can therefore lead to wide range of diseases like obesity, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, allergies, inflammatory bowel disease; depression etc. Enhancing the gut health can improve your overall health drastically and reduce the risk of these diseases. Our gut is the home of more than 100 trillion microorganisms. (Both good and bad). These gut flora's plays a significant role in human health and disease.
  For a healthy gut we must have more of good bacteria than bad. Good bacteria, known as probiotics helps to promote normal gastrointestinal function, regulate metabolism, digest food, absorb nutrients and killing bad bacteria provides protection against infection. Unfortunately, our unhealthy life-style like eating too much refined carbohydrates, processed foods, frequent dose of antibiotics, and diets low in fiber, dietary toxins and chronic stress contributes to unhealthy gut flora.
  Now To Heal Your Gut And Boost Your Digestive Health, Here Are 10 Natural Remedies:
  1. Support Your Gut With Glutamine:
  Glutamine is an amino acid that is an important nutrient that helps to repair and heal the intestinal lining and sooth inflammation [1]. The best food sources of glutamine are meat, eggs, fish, dairy products, spinach, beets, parsley, beans etc. you can also take glutamine supplement to prevent leaky gut syndrome.
  2. Eat Probiotic Rich Foods:
  For a healthy gut, it is necessary have right amount of good bacteria in the gut [2]. Aright balance of good and bad bacteria will help to build the immune system, allow better absorption of nutrients. Probiotic rich foods are naturally fermented. They are high in good bacteria and eating them will help to restore gut flora naturally and maintain healthy gut function. Try incorporating variety of fermented foods like kimchi, fermented vegetables, sauerkraut, Kombucha, kefir, miso, tempeh, plain natural yogurt and apple cider vinegar in your regular diet. Start slowly, if you are suffering from gut disorder. Your digestive system will soon become stronger and healthier balancing healthy bacteria levels that have been destroyed due to leaky gut syndrome.
  3. Nourish Your Gut With Prebiotics:
  To increase the effectiveness of probiotic foods, try consuming some prebiotics [3]. Prebiotic are natural soluble fiber that feed probiotics (good bacteria) and encourage them to multiply. This helps to maintain the balance of gut flora and promote healthy bowel function. When the good bacteria in the intestine eat prebiotic fiber, they are able to produce short chain fatty acids that prevents the growth of bacteria that causes disease and keeps the intestinal lining healthy. Some prebiotic rich food includes asparagus, artichoke, bananas, garlic, onions, whole grains and tomatoes.
  4. Cut Out Sugar & Processed Foods:
  Bad bacteria increases in our gut when we eat high fat highly processed sugary foods [4]. They do not have any nutritional value and are also difficult to digest. Focus on eating high fiber, plant based food.
  Dehydration is another major cause of digestive disorder [5]. Try increasing your water and fluid intake. Drinking fresh lemon water or apple cider vinegar drink are also good options to hydrate your body. Many herbal teas are very soothing to your stomach and aids in promoting good digestion. Ginger, fennel, peppermint and fenugreek are best herbal teas for improving gut health.
  6. Detox Your System:
  A gentle detox at regular interval can be an effective way to keep your digestive system function optimally [6]. It will help to flush out toxins and help your liver work efficiently. Incorporate liver cleansing foods like carrots, beetroot and leafy greens and herbs like dandelion and milk thistle to boost your gut health.
  Bone broth is an excellent for gut health [7]. It contains fat soluble vitamins and minerals to boost your digestion or immune health. Being rich in gelatin, it heals the gut lining.
  Coconut oil is an excellent super food to heal the damage caused to gut lining as it contains medium chain fatty acids like Lauric, capric and caprylic acids [8]. Coconut oil also has antimicrobial, anti-fungal and antiviral properties which help to get rid of unhealthy bacteria and repair the protective barrier of your gut and gently clean it.
  Take steps to manage stress. Your gut is very vulnerable to stress [9]. When you are stressed out, it can affect your gastric secretion and the gut bacteria can also affect the production of hormones including the one which controls your appetite. Prolonged stress can even lead to stomach ulcers, GERD, IBS and sometimes food allergies. Try to de-stress your by regular exercise, mediation and massage.
  10. Use Probiotic Supplements:
  Fermented foods are best natural sources of probiotics, but if you are not getting enough of them, taking probiotic supplements can be a better solution [10]. They are available both in liquid and capsule form.