5 WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR GUT HEALTH

"All disease begins in the gut" - Hippocrates. Hippocrates said it many years ago - having a healthy gut is essential for our overall health and well-being. Therefore, I want to share 5 ways to improve your gut health today

If you don't already know about the importance of gut health, then I will recommend you to first read this blogpost I've shared a while ago.

But today I want to get straight into how you can improve your gut health, so here you go - 5 ways you can improve your gut health

• Eat prebiotic food
  Prebiotics are a type of fiber that the human body can't digest. Probiotics serve as food for probiotics (the good bacteria in your gut). You can find prebiotics in many different kind of foods, fx artichoke, asparagus, bananas, garlic, onion, parsnips, wholegrain, rye, oats, leeks.
  
• Eat fermented food
  Fermented foods contain those good bacteria that you want more of. So try to incorporate more fermented food into your diet, this include things such as sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, kefir, yoghurt.
  
• Take a probiotic supplement
  If you have suffered with digestive problems in any kind of way, or if you have been on antibiotics, it can be highly recommended to take a good probiotic supplement, to rebalance your gut bacteria again. Antibiotics can of course be essential if you've been infected with a virus, but antibiotics kill both the good and the bad bacteria in your gut, and since the majority of your immune system is located in your gut, your immune system can become very weakened after having been on antibiotics. It is therefore important to get some of the good bacteria back into your gut again 
  
• Exercise
  New studies are also starting to show that exercising is linked to increases in the number of beneficial microbial species in your gut. So another good reason to exercise is that it will help you get more of those good bacteria in your gut!
  
• Eat a wide range of foods
  By eating lots of different vegetables with all sorts of different colours, you are eating a diverse range of nutrients, which all helps to create a broader and more diverse gut micro biome. So eat the rainbow! Try new veggies, switch it up from time to time, so you don't just eat cucumbers and potatoes.