Probiotic are ruining your gut

When we have gut trouble one of our first things to reach for (after antacids, laxatives, and Metamucil) are probiotics.  Secondly, we start eating lighter, healthier - reaching for the raw vegetables, the salads. 

Then everything gets worse.
 
It is not a surprise.  Our efforts to help ourselves - are actually tipping the scales further away from a healthy gut.  They are making it harder for your body to come back into balance, for your leaky gut to heal, and for good microbes to establish a hold.  
 
If you need gut help, the first step is stop the probiotics.  Next ,eat cooked food, not raw.  Take out the gluten and dairy - even if you tolerate them.  Stop grazing.
 
From there you will start to feel better already.  Now, we add in broths and periods of digestive rest throughout your day.  This is going to give your gut space and time to do the activity of repair.  Broth will deliver the nutrients to help.  Chicken bone broth, mushroom broth, or Health & Wellness broths are the best for gut healing.  
 
Your meals are going to be easy to digest, so that we speed up absorption of nutrients and digestion.  This gives both extra nourishment for repair and time for the body to repair while the digestive system is at rest.
 
Now you are on the path upward.  From here we take out most cruciferous vegetables.  While we are healing we do not want loads of broccoli, kale, cabbage, cauliflower, turnips, brussels sprouts, and related vegetables.  These are excellent for immunity and autoimmune support, but while we are healing our gut, we do not have the microbe population to properly break them down.
 
Once we’ve rested, given more space for healing, taken out foods and medicines that are making it worse, and given easily absorbed nutrients; we re-inoculate.
 
For this we need microbes and food for the microbes.  This is why food is the best probiotic.  You get the microbe inoculation PLUS (this is very important) when you have microbes from a food source they come with the food they need.  Think of it like a seed - you get the plant embryo and the food the embryo needs to thrive.  On the contrary, probiotics are the microbes in large quantities without the food for them to thrive.  

So we use pickled vegetables, plant yogurts (without gums), olives, and capers to reintroduce microbial diversity.  We do this and add easy to digest fiber rich foods to an already stronger gut.  Now you are in the gut maintenance space.  A mode of eating that will keep your gut healthy and continue to give it all it needs.
In a nutshell, this is the 10 Day Reset.  This is how we heal your gut.  And by healing your gut, we not only improve digestion, we cool inflammation, lower immune sensitivities, and set you on the road to continued gut health.
 
with light,
Julia
xo