People often ask me: What is the optimal diet to resolve chronic conditions such as leaky gut?
As we discussed in the last article, leaky gut doesn’t only affect your digestion as it might sound. Since leaky gut essentially means that toxins and undigested food particles can escape the gut and enter the bloodstream, it understandably can cause a hoard of other issues.
The good news though is that you can take steps on your own to heal your leaky gut, and consequently, alleviate the widespread symptoms it causes. The biggest thing you can change right now is your diet. I won’t say it is easy! It takes willpower, but it’s not too complicated.
There are a host of foods that irritate your gut causing inflammation and eventually leaky gut. Simply by removing these foods from your diet, you’ll see an improvement over time in your symptoms because the chronic irritation is removed! Our bodies have the power to heal themselves if we can remove the obstacles.
You will want to remove:
Some general tips for lessening gut irritation are to eat healthy good fat and grass-fed protein, while consuming smaller meals and chewing food thoroughly.
Chewing your food thoroughly?! YES! Something as simple as that can help. Chewing breaks down your food creating less work for your gut when digesting, plus your saliva will create more digestive enzymes.
Additionally, if you eat the following foods regularly, you can speed up your healing process by feeding your gut probiotics that promote healthy bacteria growth, reducing inflammation, and giving your gut what it needs to boost healing the permeability (like collagen, proline, and glycine):
Prebiotic foods promote the growth of good gut bacteria by providing soluble fiber. Things like dandelion greens, chicory root, jicama, Jerusalem artichoke, garlic, onion, and leeks are excellent choices.
It takes time to heal leaky gut, so it also takes patience and consistency. If you don’t see improvement right away, take heart and stick with it. You are also welcome to reach out to me for additional guidance into regaining your health. Call my office at 831-373-6204 if you need some support! That’s why I am here, after all.
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I have been diagnosed with stage 4 neuroendcrine carcinoma a year ago and I am doing well my tumors are shrinking I too only try to eat organic and juice too. But I was reading briefly about the diet but have questions thank you
Hi Laura,
I’m happy to hear that the tumors are shrinking! That’s great news. If you would like to ask your questions in a 15 minute chat, we can do that. If you’d like to set something up, please email info@trinahammack.com and my team will set things up. Thanks! 🙂