26/09/2022
There really is no ‘quick fix’ or magic pill when it comes to healing the gut.For people with minor digestive issues, a few weeks to a few months of focused gut repair may bring about noticeable improvements. For people with autoimmunity, inflammatory conditions, hormonal imbalances, history of taking antibiotics or suffering from multiple food sensitivities (often unknown) gut repair may need anywhere from six months minimum to two years and beyond. The often-difficult pill to take is that this level of damage to the microbiome didn’t happen for us overnight, so it won’t heal overnight. For a lot of people, this is about committing to a complete lifestyle and dietary change that is conducive to gut health.
Prebiotics and Probiotics are both integral to developing a healthy, diverse microbiome – a diet rich in plant matter and leafy greens is a great place to start for prebiotics (other key prebiotic foods include, leeks, onions, garlic, asparagus, apples, artichokes, oats, bananas) and for probiotic food sources (yoghurt, kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi and kombucha) as well as supplementation with clinically indicated probiotic strains often being a key part of initial gut-healing protocol stages
