Gut Health Blog, Gluten Free and Grain Free recipes
GUEST POST BY ALISON BELL OF BROTH OF LIFE
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A family health crisis was the catalyst for a big change in our lives which started my desire to help others heal their families and take on the business of Broth of Life making dehydrated bone broth.…
Need I say more. It’s a winning home curative that shouldn’t be passed up. If you have any health complaint, that’s right ANY health issue, bone broth is for you. It’s likely, though, you’re on this page because you have digestive issues. Right? You possibly already know you have leaky gut. Here’s the thing, I’m convinced, over time, that bone broth is as good as putty in those leaking holes and healing can actually occur. Slowly, but surely.
I’m a broth convert. My slow cooker is cooking up a healthy brew every week. Once I began consuming broth daily, instead of once in a while, my healing really stepped up. I’ve been sipping broth almost daily for 6 months now and I know my food sensitivities have significantly diminished….
It’s also easy to make beef bone broth a habit. With a slow cooker the ingredients simply brew and broth happens.
I regard a slow cooker as good company. My house feels welcoming and alive, the smell of home cooking is love to me. At times I feel a bit witchy, for my brew is my excelsior. I leave mine on for 24 – 30 hours but you can leave it even longer.
Ever since I discovered that I needed broth to help repopulate my good bacteria I’ve been making a batch every week and drinking it daily. Beef marrow bones with this combination of healing spices is my ultimate favourite. It kind of reminds me of Vietnamese Beef Pho. This beef bone broth is so lovely you can sip it straight-up from a mug. Mix it up with an equally awesome chicken broth recipe.
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The cornerstone of my kitchen is my homemade chicken broth. With this time-honored curative in my repertoire, I feel I have a secret culinary weapon.
If you have digestive issues, an autoimmune disease or just feel run down, homemade, chicken broth should be your number one healing food. Maybe I should say, medicine! A gelatinous chicken broth helps heal the gut lining and has a soothing effect on areas of inflammation.
It’s not surprising that gut healing diets such as GAPS and SCD almost exclusively have patients drink chicken broth. There is a GAPS mantra: ‘heal and seal’. That’s the power of chicken broth! Broth can assist remedy leaky gut.
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