GutGeek

Woop Woop! Our new topic is gut health and skin! 👏 A subject close to my heart 🤓 How strong is the gut-skin connection and how does it work? Might skin problems originate in the gut? What's the latest science on this? What are the best natural options for skin care? 💚

The Skin Microbiome + Psoriasis go.nature.com/2JAnLgW 🤓 Patches of psoriasis have less microbial diversity than normal skin. This means rich, abundant ecosystem of bacteria has become poor + limited to few species 😕 We see this across the board from obesity to Crohn's

"Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most" ✊ #nosugar

The vast majority of sugar we consume isn't from table sugar or honey added at home. It's actually from sugar added to processed food.🧐🍫🍰🍬🍡 Food manufacturers add whatever quantity it takes to reach the 'bliss point' where the food becomes almost impossible to resist!🤤

I'm so tired from the weekend I hardly have the strength to ignore my work emails 💤😴😝🤪 #guthealing #microbiome #weightloss #mentalhealth #autoimmune #quote

3 Simple Steps to Reduce Your Child's Sugar Cravings bit.ly/47R18Nv Step 2: Choose good quality fats from foods like bio-live yoghurt, avocado, nuts, oily fish, pasture-reared animal meats, coconut oil. Your child’s brain is 60% fat! 🤓🤩🚸

Check ingredient labels for hidden added sugar! It hides under a multitude of different names 😲 If we're eating processed food, it's easy to consume a lot more sugar than we realise 😬🍪🍮 Manufacturers would prefer not to draw attention to the sugar levels in their products.

7 Steps To Shake Off Sugar 🍬🍰🍩 bit.ly/3A4iTXy Gut-healing diets such as Paleo or GAPS involve cutting right back on sugar + they are effective for many people👏 Step 7 is watch your booze intake! We sometimes forget how much sugar alcoholic drinks contain 😬🍷🍹🍸🍺🍾

Gut Health Begins With Cutting Back Sugar 🚫🍩🍭🚫 This helps to support our friendly gut bugs🤓 Click/tap to read on! bit.ly/3AZXKS0

How much sugar is in your drink? It's not just the effect of the alcohol on our gut that we need to consider. It's also the sugar! High sugar consumption does our microbiome no favours at all 🍹🍸😫 #microbiome #sugar #alcohol

How well do you know sugar? 🤔 The glycemic index (GI) is a ranking that measures how different carbs affect our blood sugar levels. Honey's there in the middle 🍯🐝🍯 It's sweet but also comes with gut-healing probiotics + enzymes, unlike others on the list 👏 Glucose is worst!

What's the link between sugar and gut health? It's food for the dodgy bacteria!😔 Studies on mice found that too much sugar + unhealthy fats encourage potentially harmful bacteria to overgrow, leading to 'dysbiosis' (imbalance of the ecosystem that is our microbiome) 🍰🍫🍬

Gut Health Begins With Cutting Back Sugar 🍦🍩🍭 The amount of sugar we consume can be a big factor in the health of our microbiome and, as we now know, anything that harms our friendly gut bugs harms us too! 🤓💩🧐 bit.ly/3sL9aoP

This week we're geeking out on sugar again! 🤓 We'll focus on the effect of sugar on our gut, how to spot added sugars and how to choose healthy alternatives. Also, what is the glycemic index (GI) and are some types of sugar worse than others? 🤔🍭🍯🍦

Is It the “Terrible Twos”? Or Is It a Disrupted Gut Microbiome? bit.ly/3OSE3jb Why are so many kids on Ritalin?! It may be a disrupted gut that's to blame for our toddlers' tantrums! 😭👿😩 A happy gut makes for a healthy child 🤓

How are you kids' microbiomes (gut bugs) right now? 🤔 Fantastic and lovely or failing and problematic?

Gut health is even MORE important for kids than for adults as a healthy microbiome sets them up FOR LIFE!

How To Feed Your Child's Gut Microbiome bit.ly/3ONZ7HN Top of the list is REAL FOOD! Try to avoid sugar + processed food. Also outdoor play + fresh air 🌤🌞⛅️🌬 are great for their little developing microbiomes!

Sugar-free Choco Green Smoothie bit.ly/3OLtJJZ with spinach 😁 but kids like it anyway! If you're gonna use a granulated sweetener, the only one that's GG-approved is stevia! All artificial sweeteners are bad news for our friendly gut bugs 😬

Health Benefits of Probiotics for Children bit.ly/3ykBC3x Studies show probios help with kiddies' immune system and reduce colic, diarrhea + eczema. Sounds like a decent recipe for more sleep for the parents! 😁💤🛌