How to Eat for True Gut Health | Ep 129
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Promoting Gut Health With CCP and Giveaways
Learn about the CCP project and how it promotes gut health by feeding beneficial bacteria and eliminating harmful sugar sources. Plus, stay tuned for an upcoming giveaway and program on gut health.
Dissecting the question, “How do we feed our gut?” is the topic of this episode, and it’s one of the most potent/most powerful in terms of content. If you’ve listened to this episode before, we recommend you listen again because it is that important! Erin breaks down the role of our microbiome, dietary and environmental factors that nourish or harm it, antibiotic-use and get into the nitty gritty of how to truly use food as medicine. You might want to take notes for this one! Originally aired December 2019.
In this episode:
-Big announcements for 2021 [1:40]
-Day 3 Giveaway details, featuring show sponsors Bio-Kult and Organifi [2:44]
-Why Erin suggests people start with Carb Compatibility or Eat to Achieve before diving into higher level lab testing/functional medicine work, plus some updates about the programs (as of Jan 2020) [6:00]
-What the gut microbiome is and what it does [11:06]
-Why diversity is important for our gut [17:21]
-Why the U.S. has the worst guts [18:20]
-Factors that negatively influence our guts [21:24]
-All about antibiotic use & how it affects our long-term gut health [25:20]
-The best sleep schedule for your gut, plus other beneficial behaviors [27:25]
-Common medications that impact the gut [29:44]
-Less-talked about things that can harm the microbiota [33:03]
-A surprising fact about glyphosate/Roundup [34:00]
-Dietary risk factors for dysbiosis [37:55]
-Is your healthy diet actually causing harm to your gut? [39:35]
-Why you can’t “reinoculate” your gut with probiotics [43:05]
-Why eating for a healthy gut goes WAY beyond probiotics and fermented foods [44:11]
-All about prebiotics and resistant starch [46:42]
-How short-chain fatty acids are created in our gut, and how they help protect us from food sensitivities [50:52]
-What polyphenols are, their health benefits, and how our gut bacteria uses them [56:35]
-Specific foods, herbs and spices that nourish our gut microbiome [57:37]
-Prebiotic-rich foods [1:02:03]
-What is resistant starch, and how to get a variety of it in your diet [1:05:41]
Resources mentioned in this episode:
BioKult Boosted probiotic supplement (enter code FUNK20 for 20% off one box) https://www.bio-kult.com/bio-kult-boosted/p9
Organifi powders (enter code FUNK for 20% off your order) https://www.organifi.com/funk
Carb Compatibility Project™ (next round starts Jan 4th) https://www.erinholthealth.com/carb-compatibility-project
Eat to Achieve™ https://www.erinholthealth.com/eat-to-achieve
Your Hormone Revival™ (feb) https://www.erinholthealth.com/hormones
Free Digestive Guide: https://mailchi.mp/erinholthealth/digestiveguide
Find Erin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.funktional.nutritionist/
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