GUT HEALTH 101 | How to Heal Your Gut

Will your course be a good fit for those who have histamine issues? Fermented foods make me feel worse.

Great tips, especially which are prebiotic and probiotic foods.

Just going to say something speculatively from personal experience... I could not get a well gut balance as a teen, and on and off into my early twenties. My GP said my vegan diet was harming me, so I integrated things they advised like eggs, but nothing improved. I'd been taking The Pill for acne at a young age, though it didn't help and GP said I needed to take it for longer than 6 months to see improvements, which didn't happen, then they put me on different hormone pills across years... 9 different ones that all didn't help! I had said I felt like the pill made my tummy awful, like IBS symptoms, and they said that couldn't be the cause. Eventually after 9 years of mostly taking the pill I just felt I really needed a break, so I stopped it, and my gut was much better, and my whole body felt more well. I was then tentatively shifting back to veganism to see how it was.. and I felt even better then! :) I put this partly down to similar synthetic hormones existing in animals, and partly down to the increase in nuts and seeds and fibre in general once going 100% plant-based again. That was more than a decade ago and it's consistently solved all my body issues :) I had balance on the pill too, and that left when going vegan, before it was just puberty.


Now these synthetic hormones were obviously something that didn't suit my body and they might be ok for someone else, but if it's something that anyone's not looked at that could be a factor, it might be worth seeing how your body feels without the pill / animals. 

I've read that because synthetic hormones are so widely used they are in our drinking water, and I haven't tried this but know people who use a water distiller on all their water before drinking or cooking, which removes hormones and microplastics, chlorine and whatever chemicals so you've got literally just water, and after distilling there is a big thick tar-like goo at the bottom of the machine showing all the stuff that was in there. Another option might be bottled spring water, as I don't know exactly how much hormones get into everything, although I read they're in the rain and rivers etc. Has anyone else heard of this?

Sorry I touched into a few side topics there, as you said there can be so many rabbit holes! but I hope that helps someone who's stuck wondering what's going on.

I recently came across the theory that mouth bacteria and gut bacteria are one and the same (which makes sense, all part of digestive system) and so you need to take care of both together, and that xylitol is good for mouth bacteria - have you heard anything about this, or what do you think as a nutritionist?

From personal experience I had toothache while pregnant then started taking an iron mouth-spray supplement, which just happened to contain xylitol, and my tooth issue went away... so I feel like that is what helped and I accidentally sorted it out :)

So interesting and helpful! Thanks Ann 😊

Really hope this helps you, friends! If it does, please do me the honor of sharing it with someone who could use these tips. Remember: Investigate and invest - don't accept! 💕