Healing the gut and keeping it flourishing with microbymes is essential for good health.

A lot of research shows that it all starts from birth. If you have leaky gut or IBS then that can affect your health in a massive way.

When a baby is being born, coming through the birth canal, that baby takes on some of the fluid from the moms' birth canal it’s coming through during a natural birth. This becomes the babies first probiotic. The babies immunity is tied to the mothers immunity. Once the baby is born he/she now will form its own immunity. There has been a lot of studies showing how babies that are born naturally with a mom having healthy gut flora in her, the baby decreases the chances of getting infection by a lot. This just shows how important the gut is in terms of health right from birth.

Now Let’s look at the top ways we can support gut health on a daily basis.

1. Remove irritants and allergens (fried foods, processed foods, animal products, chemical products)

2. probiotics - both probiotics and prebiotics are part of the balance of our good bacteria and play important roles in our gut health, so it's vital to consume both on a daily basis.

3. celery juice -is one of the most powerful and healing juices we can drink. Just 16 ounces of fresh celery juice every morning on an empty stomach can transform your health and digestion in as little as one week.The discomforts of indigestion, bloating, and even acid reflux are often caused by low stomach acid. Studies have shown that people with Hashimoto’s (the autoimmune thyroid condition) and hypothyroidism (low thyroid) often have low, or lack of, stomach acid, and low stomach acid sets off a wheel of undesirable health consequences. Many of us are all too familiar with the fact that when we’re stressed one of the first things to go out of whack can be our digestion. This is where the superhero of celery juice steps in, as its natural sodium content raises stomach acid, and when drunk first thing in the morning primes you for easy digestion for the rest of the day. Stomach acid is essential for breaking down food, particularly protein. If your stomach acid is lowered, the body then has to step in using more resources to try to digest that food, thus making you tired. This also leads to liver backlog, so there’s less chance your liver will be able to keep up with the onslaught of toxins it has to process from mere everyday life, as well as its job of balancing blood sugar and recycling and producing new hormones, among its many other tasks. The liver is a heavy-duty organ—and as you can see, this is where the cycle continues, continually overwhelming the body so it never has a chance to reset, heal, and thrive. Every once in a while this may be OK (we all get stressed from time to time!), but if this is happening continually, it can lead to more chronic and serious diseases. Once I started drinking celery juice, I noticed that my food digested easier. Instead of uncomfortable feelings of fullness and heaviness after meals, I instead felt satiated but still light and could go on with my activities easily.

4. plant based Whole Foods

Anything we bring into our body could have the potential to irritate our gut especially foods that are very acidic like

* Dairy

* soda

* coffee

* alcohol

* animal products

* processed food

* fried food

and other factors like...

* medication

* imbalanced hormones

* lack of sleep

All of these can inflam the gut and affect our microbyme, our good bacteria to keep us healthy.

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