Is it true that … eating yoghurt can heal your gut?
Fermented foods like yoghurt, kefir and kimchi can help improve gut health, but for healing, you might need to see a dietician‘Healing the gut” is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot. Some people use it to refer to improving gut microbiome health – balancing the microorganisms in the digestive system that, when off kilter, can leave us with digestion and immune problems. Others link it to “leaky gut syndrome”, a condition associated with intestinal permeability and said to cause nausea and fatigue.Whichever definition you’re using, Bethan Crouse, a performance nutritionist from Loughborough University, says it is unlikely that yoghurt alone can give you a total gut makeover. “But some types of yoghurt products could help with gut health,” she says. Continue reading...
Fermented foods like yoghurt, kefir and kimchi can help improve gut health, but for healing, you might need to see a dietician
‘Healing the gut” is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot. Some people use it to refer to improving gut microbiome health – balancing the microorganisms in the digestive system that, when off kilter, can leave us with digestion and immune problems. Others link it to “leaky gut syndrome”, a condition associated with intestinal permeability and said to cause nausea and fatigue.
Whichever definition you’re using, Bethan Crouse, a performance nutritionist from Loughborough University, says it is unlikely that yoghurt alone can give you a total gut makeover. “But some types of yoghurt products could help with gut health,” she says. Continue reading...
