It seems not a day goes by in the clinic when I haven’t espoused the benefits of incorporating fermented foods into my patients’ diet. Given my outspoken passion for home fermenting, I sometimes wonder if my patients think I might bubble and explode from all the probiotic rich foods and beverages I consume on a […]
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Home Remedy: Sauerkraut
Teeming with life and full of bubbly deliciousness, sauerkraut is digestive vigor in a jar. Cheap to make and easy to prepare, one head of cabbage yields about a quart of sauerkraut and trillions of beneficial bacteria to supplement your gut flora. In addition, cabbage is high in the amino acid glutamine which is the […]
Home Remedy: Gut Remodeling
“All disease begins in the gut.” These famous words spoken by Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, are more important than ever for us to observe. Gut integrity and the health of the microbiome determine how our internal world is influenced by the external world. The gut processes food and drink into the building blocks […]
Home Remedy: Cooking Oils
When it comes to choosing a cooking oil, it is best to stick with the fats and oils that have been in the human diet for hundreds of years. Ask yourself, what did my great-grandmother cook with in her kitchen? If she would recognize and use that oil or fat, chances are your body would […]