This week's episode focuses on functional food for optimizing microbiome balance. Our guest, Steph Jackson, is an expert in gut health and fermented foods. Lovingly called the “gut whisper” by members of our community, Steph is changing the way we think about holistic digestive health. Tune in to our discussion to learn how to ensure your clients know how to incorporate a variety of carbohydrates needed for a healthy microbiome, the vital nutrients necessary for butyrate production, and how to use fermentation to change everyday foods for a variety of gut healing benefits. By working with all of our bacteria, we’re able to achieve dynamic and lasting wellness.

 

IN THIS EPISODE:

 

•     [05:00] The reasons resistant starch is good for you.
•     [09:00] Eating more fiber produces more butyrate, specifically in the gut.
•     [15:00] Liver enzymes, and multiple other things that help us to tolerate foods.
•     [24:00] Many clients are taking zinc supplements but not drinking enough water.
•     [28:00] It's not only a matter of taking a probiotic, it’s a matter of having the right environment as well.
•     [32:00] The benefits of including ginger in your diet.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

 

• If the Microbiome is out of balance, symptoms are produced from bacteria processing the food for you.
• We need to look at improving stomach acid and gut and microbiome health to ensure we make proper changes to our health.
• Several studies show that we can increase our bifidobacterium by eating more fiber. But, what those studies have not been able to find is that eating more fiber produces more butyrate, specifically in the gut. 

 

BIO: 

My name is Steph Jackson and together with you I'm changing the way we think about holistic digestive health...

Yes I’m a little hard core. I hike barefoot. I’ve done water fasts, juice fasts and pumpkin fasts. I’ve quit jobs, left partners and relocated for my health. I’ve read everything from Spiritual Nutrition to Chinese Medicine Formulations to Advanced Phytotherapy to the Textbook of Clinical and Functional Medicine. I’ve studied Herbalism, Aromatherapy, Color therapy, Functional Nutrition, Nutritional Endocrinology… 

And I STILL got sick! 

And I got better…

Not by fighting with my biochemistry but by harnessing the power of my own body to heal itself with the help of the microbiome. 

I created a yogurt so that there would be a product in the store I was willing to buy.At the time I didn’t realize the tremendous healing potential of probiotic rich, living foods. Since applying everything I learned through designing my own yogurt to MYSELF my life has completely changed.

After decades of searching for a community of like minded individuals I’ve come to realize… I am so FAR from the mainstream most “normal” people couldn’t begin to understand what I do, who I am and how I heal. So I’m creating my own community.

Thank goodness for you. Or I’d be here alone.

I believe it is through working with ALL of our bacteria that we will achieve dynamic, lasting health. I don’t believe in homeostasis. I believe we are adaptable, changeable and beautiful beings through which wellness can manifest if we get out of WAR with OURSELVES and our internal/external environment.

I believe that without addressing the DIVERSITY of the microbiome we will never achieve lasting and robust health.

 

Resources:

 

Plant Powered Probiotics

 

Friendly Flora Collective

 

Functional Food Guide

 

 Free ticket to the microbiome mission 

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