5 GUT-HEALING FOODS AND RECIPES

Hello my beautiful friends and welcome back to my channel. My name is Isowali. I'm a registered nutritionist and a wellness coach. And today we're talking about my favorite, the gut, gut health. I love talking about gut health because I have myself struggled with gut health for many, many years. I'm on a healing journey. I feel much better. Thank God. But also that's also why I specialize in my nutrition practice. So today I want to share with you five foods to incorporate in your diet that will support your gut healing journey. Before we start, I want to tell you something. When it comes to consuming content online, especially health and wellness content, you've got to go there with an open mind and open heart. The most important thing is to stay tuned with your body because people that share that content, me included, we don't know why you have, we know your symptoms, right? We know your diagnosis, but we don't know why you have it. I don't know why you're constantly constipated or bloated or burping and flatulence and diarrhea and X and Y and Z and reflux. I do not know why. Is it an untreated infection? Or do we have hormonal imbalance? It can be so many things, right? So take my advice as a general guidance. Always, always as a general guidance, right? All right, let's dive into it. Number one, first food first is garlic. She's a queen. She's a boss. I know it's tiny little food, but it's a power food that's full of nutrients and more importantly, it's an antimicrobial. So it helps you kill the bad guys, the pathogenic bacteria. We do not want pathogenic bacteria because they cause trouble in the long term, right? So incorporate garlic in your diet daily if you want, or as often as you want. Garlic is also a prebiotic, right? And what prebiotics do is that they support the healthy bacteria. They bring in new bacteria and bring healthy bacteria into our gut. So we definitely want to have that little boy in our little boy, little girl. I don't know. I'm calling her queen. Anyway, it's a food. We want it in our diet. Okay? So make sure you have garlic in your diet. Now, who shouldn't be having garlic? A lot of people are that actually have got issues, cannot tolerate garlic. I couldn't tolerate garlic for a while because I had small intestinal bacteria overgrowth. That may be the case for you as well, but you might still be able to tolerate it. So again, listen to your body. If you eat garlic and you'll keep going burping or having gas or having indigestion or pain, do not eat it. Even if it's healthy, it's just not right for you. Now my little garlic power drink that I have on my website as recipe is just, I love it so much. I often have it in the weekend, in the winter, but also because I struggle with candida on and off. It's a great one. It's really, really good one. So I use one garlic clove. I use water or coconut water. I'll put a little cinnamon, a little clove in there and I'll just blitz it. So water, coconut water, and then that's it. Right? So go check my website for the exact, exact measurements. Okay. Food number two is ginger. We love ginger. Now I'm sure you know ginger. It's a root vegetable and as a plant, it's been used for years for nausea when traveling, when pregnant, but also for indigestion. So it's a great food again to have in your diet as often as you can. I always recommend having it in its natural form as opposed to the powder or, you know, any, any other option, just because you get other when you use a food in its natural form, especially plants, you get the polyphenols and nutrients, all these good things, right? So with ginger, what is good for is to stimulate your bowel, right? So if you're struggling with constipation and you just need a gentle little help with things, ginger is your friend. My drink, I grate about maybe two tablespoon. Yeah, about two tablespoon in water, boiling water, once it's boiled, plus a few peppermint leaves. And I'm going to let it steep for about five to seven minutes. And once that done, I'm going to pour it through the sieve and just sip it. You can do that in the morning, or you can do that half an hour after your meal and in the morning is great. If you're struggling with constipation again, to get things moving slowly and gently without having to take any medication or anything like that, that could definitely help you. So give me, give it a try and let me know how you get on. Number three is cabbage juice. Not many people know about cabbage juice, you know, listen, cabbage is a great food for us because it's a cruciferous vegetables. We love vegetables. It brings, it supports liver detoxification, but it's also fiber. So really any food that's rich in fiber, it's going to support detoxification because it's going to stimulate your bowel movement, get rid of toxins, balance your hormones, all the good stuff that we want, right? So just even just for that, cabbage as a vegetable is great. So get it into your diet. Number two, the actual juice is well known to support ulcers, to heal ulcers. And actually studies have shown that cabbage juice will heal ulcers faster than standard therapy, right? So, uh, if you're struggling with ulcers, uh, maybe due to H. pylori infections or any other reasons, I definitely recommend you try cabbage juice. And again, let me know how you get on. Now, cabbage juice has a funky taste. I'm not going to lie to you. I've taken it. Um, when did I take it? Maybe a couple of years ago, I had H. pylori infection myself. And, um, and I had ulcers and I had burning and I did cabbage juice, I think for about 10 days and I mixed it. I just couldn't bear it on its own. Sorry. It's got that kind of like strong taste. So I mixed it with cucumber, a little bit of lime juice, sometimes a bit of celery. So again, play with it, but make sure 70 to 80% of the juice is actually the cabbage juice. So you really get the benefits of it. And the reason why, sorry, the reason why is that cabbage juice contains glutamine and glutamine will support the lining of your intestinal tract where you'll heal it. It's like, Oh, okay. Okay. Number four is kefir. Oh, we love kefir. I'm sure I have like a kefir recipe. Maybe I haven't shared it here yet, but I'm trying to find it and then add it to this edit into it. Uh, but kefir, you know, kefir is a fermented foods, fermented food are rich in probiotics. So they're going to support the beneficial bacteria in your gut. And as you know, your gut is important, is crucial to your health. And that's why we talk about it so much because the past 10, 20 years, so many studies have just shown the impact of our gut health on our overall health. And in here, it's got your immune system, 70% of your immune system. So this is why we want to look after it. I'm actually doing this and I realized that you can't see on camera. Anyway, jokes aside, kefir is not actually scientifically proven to heal your gut in any way, but out of personal experience for myself and with my clients in my clinical practice, I know that kefir can support you. It's just a great drink. It's not, um, you will benefit from it basically. So if it's something you've never tried and you're thinking, Ooh, this could be nice. Give it a try. Again, it's food. Give it a try. See how you feel. If it doesn't work for you, leave it to the side. If you don't like it because it's a tangy taste, you know, it's thicker than you, than, um, the milk. Um, it's kind of sour. It's, I love it. I think it's absolutely delicious. Uh, I like blending it with either berries or bananas and flax seeds. Again, that is great to get things moving, especially when I put flax seed in there. So if you struggle with constipation, it's a great one. Okay, so that was number four. That was kefir. And the last one is apple cider vinegar. Again, something else that I love that also has supported me a lot during my healing journey, my gut healing journey. I used to have a lot of burping, a lot of burping. And that's for me personally, that's because I was low in hydrochloric acid, right? Hydrochloric acid is part of your gastric acid that helps you digest and break down the food. When you don't have that, you do not digest your food. It goes rotten in there. Then you have burping, you have flatulence, you have an increase in pathogenic bacteria because the acid also helps you kill and get rid of the pathogenic bacteria. Right? So what apple cider vinegar does like many, uh, bitter foods, so Swedish bitters, um, rocket, dandelion, dandelion coffee is the one by the way, uh, they basically stimulate, right? The gastric acid, they stimulate the hydrochloric acid, right? So having that about 20 minutes to half an hour before your meal is the perfect time to help you digest the food better and break down all the nutrients. Um, apple cider vinegar has a funky taste. It's really strong. Again, it might not be your cup of tea, but having a little bit of it in water, just a tad, just to see how you get on with it. Again, it's a food that is not scientifically proven, but, um, it does stimulate your, um, your bile and your, uh, hydrochloric acid. Sorry. Uh, one of my favorite drinks with apple cider vinegar is apple cider vinegar, grated tumeric. Sometimes I put a little bit of ginger, a teaspoon of honey into warm water and you just have these delicious warm drink. Oh, it's absolutely gorgeous. Now I'd love to hear back from you what, which one of these foods you eat the most. Um, is there something you knew you want to try? Um, yeah, let me know in the comments. I always want to hear and thank you so much for watching and I will see you very, very soon.