Happy New Year, my dearies!
Every Monday, I pop on here to post about a food to add to your grocery list. How do I come to choose this food? It’s typically linked in to the topic we’re covering for the month. Let’s start 2021 with a brand new topic - that of SUPPORTING YOUR DIGESTIVE FIRE.
aka Digesting Like a Champ. Go on, add this to your list:
REAL FOOD.
Shocker, I know.
I’ll tell you three reasons why Real Food will always support enhanced digestion, mon ami(e).
TO REDUCE NEFARIOUS DIGESTION-KIBOSHING INGREDIENTS
See, those ‘food-like’ ingredients you tend to find in packaged foods negatively impact your gut’s overall function. Things like hydrogenated oils fan the flames of inflammation; preservatives tend to mess with your microbiome; BHA and BHT (additives), emulsifiers (carrageenan, guar gum, etc) wreak havoc and influence the junctions between your intestinal cells to grow apart. This is truly Ground Zero, honey pie.
When all of this happens, you fan the flames of INFLAMMATION. What does inflammation do? Turns off your digestion. Yeaaaahhhhh. Good times.
Blarg.
FOR THE LOVE OF YOUR METABOLISM
See, when digestion is hampered, it is most typically a sign that a person’s metabolism isn’t up to snuff. What do you need to support a healthy metabolism? NUTRIENTS. Your body’s metabolic work (digesting + assimilating foods + nutrients, and turning it into ingredients for your body to use for the production of energy) relies on INGREDIENTS for all of these biochemical processes to function.
Where do you find these ingredients? IN REAL FOOD.
FOR THE LOVE OF YOUR LIVER
The ingredients found in packaged and prepared foods will often contribute to your liver’s workload. Poor quality ingredients, rancid and over-processed ingredients are now fanning the flames of inflammation, further short-circuiting your body’s digestive prowess. The not-so-simple switch to the concept of JERF (Just Eat Real Food) can single-handedly be one of the biggest needle movers here: take a load off of your liver, and you now can better move inflammation out. Take a load off of your liver, and now you can better tend to the work of metabolism (mostly orchestrated by your liver, thyroid, pituitary).
Anything you do to support your liver will inherently improve your body’s ability to digest.
Fresh ingredients - gets my mouth watering!
Real Food. That’s where you start. New to this concept? Start with one meal a week. Prepared at home. From scratch. With simple ingredients.
Need a leg up to get more real food on the dinner table, more often? And a bit easier? Or need inspo to get this going? Join us for an online group class that gets underway on January 16th: Meal Planning Like a Boss. Registration opens tomorrow, January 5th. Find full info here. We’d love to have you along!
Aiming for a return to digestive prowess? Looking to fire this important function up? Need some help in achieving it?
Get in touch by clicking here. Let’s meet up to start drawing up your road map to support you in both quantity and quality of life.