We’re sure that you’ve been hearing a lot recently about the importance of your gut and your microbiome in maintaining your health and helping your weight loss. It can be confusing to know exactly what that means, so we’ve decided to write this blog post to help explain your microbiome and teach you how to lose weight fast by keeping it healthy!
To introduce the issue, let’s start with a quote from Dr Zachary Bush- “A diet high in heavily processed foods filled with chemicals, GMOs, gluten, and environmental toxins such as herbicides and animal antibiotics (the typical american diet) can significantly harm the health of the immune system. A weakened immune system permits these toxins to penetrate the gut wall and enter the bloodstream, creating havoc.”
Did you know that 99% of your genes are made of bacteria, and that about 5 million of those bacteria are in your gut area? A lot of the processed foods that we eat and the environmental toxins that leak into our food have the unintended effect of decreasing our gut bacteria diversity, hindering our weight loss, and causing belly fat. By killing off these bacteria that maintain our gut health, we are creating our own health problems! Without even knowing it, the chemicals and processed foods that you inadvertently include in your diet can enter your bloodstream and cause disease, belly fat, and discomfort. It’s extremely important to know how to maintain the diversity of your gut bacteria in order to stop this from happening.
Now that you understand the basic issue, you’re probably wondering what you can do to maintain your gut diversity. Want to know how to lose weight fast? We cannot stress enough the importance of biotic supplements to balance your gut. Prebiotics stimulate and promote activity of beneficial gut bacteria like probiotics, which survive digestion and cause health benefits from within your body, even leading to weight loss. Both of them together “create a symbiotic relationship that profoundly benefit your microbiome and your health… To achieve maximum benefit, you need both kinds of food: probiotics and prebiotics, and new research is finding the health benefits may be vast… Research is finding that a healthy microbiome may play a role in reducing inflammation, a risk factor involved in illnesses ranging from colds to cancer, heart disease, arthritis and cognitive decline… These bacteria may also help burn belly fat and reduce insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes” (6 Tips to a Healthy Gut)
The one extremely important take-away for how to lose weight fast- restore your gut diversity! The easiest way is to start is to-
- Eat probiotics like yogurt or kefir
- Eat prebiotics (from Hattner’s article) such as:
- fruits like apples, bananas, berries, raisins and kiwifruit
- agave
- greens, onions, garlic and leeks
- lentils, chickpeas and beans
- brown rice, corn, buckwheat, flaxseed, whole wheat, whole rye, barley
- almonds
- honey
- green tea
You can also learn more about how your genetic makeup is influencing your health in unseen ways. Adding these insights to a diet full of pre- and probiotics could teach you how to lose weight fast and lead you to the healthy lifestyle you’ve been looking for! Learn more at www.geneticdirection.com.
Ps. Feel free to also listen to George DiGianni’s Train Station Fitness Show about this exact subject. It’s extremely educational!
Tune in next Saturday at 6:50am to 96.7 FM, 1310 AM, or www.theticket.com to hear next week’s Fitness Show.
