Any digestion issue is an inconvenience, troublesome and interferes with your true enjoyment of your food.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be really confusing and really frustrating. Unraveling what food choices cause what symptoms may seem like the correct approach, it is not. Go to my page on IBS for more really interesting and easily understood information.
Let me introduce you to a quick and easy way to start the healing process of your very important digestive tract:
1. What you think you may be sensitive to, when it comes to Irritable Bowel, is not always the key to healing.
Irritable bowel is a compromised digestive tract.
Irritable bowel is malabsorption period.
Irritable bowel is an injured intestinal tract that requires healing.
Is your injured digestive system a life time achievement award of less than stellar food choices and even less than stellar attention to eating your less than stellar food choices?
Is your digestive system circumstances a diagnosis? Perhaps Colitis, Celiac or Crohn’s?
Healing starts at the same place:
A hypoallergenic diet that is nutrient dense, easily digested and well chewed.
Your teeth are in your mouth, not in your stomache! I recall the first time I read that sentence. Did you know that 90% of ‘food sensitivities’ can be avoided by properly chewing your food. Go to Nutrition 101 and my other material on the digestion, for more details.
Generally speaking compromised digestion often means intolerance to dairy. If you are not sensitive to dairy, then consider Organic:
Yogurt – plain and no less than 2% milk fat
Cottage cheese
Kefir
Organic milk
Sometimes referred as fermented dairy, meaning they contain a fabulous amount of healthy probiotics and flora.
A hypoallergenic diet is rich with fermented dairy like yogurt, cottage cheese, kefir, kombucha.
A hypoallergenic diet is rich with homemade or at least organic soup broths, filled with an abundance of vegetables and if desired: rice or gluten free pasta or sweet potatoes.
Today you can purchase organic soup broths, very convenient. Make time to start making your own. On a cool and blustery Fall day, get out the 16L Soup pot and follow my Family’s Broth recipe. Then tweak it to make it your own. No bone goes unused. All bones go in the freezer for that awesome day the broth gets made.
A hypoallergenic diet is rich in healthy intestinal flora. You can do that a few ways:
a) A smoothie with organic yogurt of no less than 2% mf.
Add pineapple, banana, blueberries. Generally I add about 3 – 4 fruits, makes a great tasting and nutrient filled smoothie.
b) Oatmeal, unless you experience bloating with oatmeal. If you do and you wish to try this method, it may help:
One cup of organic yogurt to 1 cup good quality oatmeal, not the instant. Mix well and cover with a wrap and let sit overnight or at least a few hours. Overnight is best, it is ready the next day. Heat and serve. Add one quarter 1/4 to one half, 1/2 tablespoon of raw or cane sugar and/or cinnamon if you love those favours and want a little sweetness. Otherwise, keep covered and in the fridge till you are ready to enjoy. You might or should find the oatmeal easier to digest but if not, put the oatmeal option aside for a month or so and try later.
Probiotic supplements. Another great way to build your intestinal flora. My recommendations for probiotic supplements:
- BioK – you can purchase as diary or non diary. I purchase the plain and add to my Smoothie. Start with 1 bottle every 3 days for 2 months and following, 1 bottle every 4 or 5 days should be sufficient
- Purchasing probiotics is challenging. Natren is one of the most trusted sources. They can be purchased online. Search natren.com
- Another source is PipingRock.com Be sure to look for a bottle with a high concentration of probiotics. Once opened, keep refridgerated.
c) Focus on building up your healthy intestinal flora. Healthy intestinal flora, a front line Immune defense.
Yeast overgrowth is almost epidemic in our Society. They symptoms are broad and impacting. Eliminating processed sugars, bleached flours, processed foods, Adding rich, nutritious Smoothies, broths, gluten reduced and perhaps gluten free, to begin, will add immensely to you sense of well being and vitality.
d) Suffering cravings? Yeah, that is the call of the wild from within. Unhealthy flora, imbalance of blood sugar, processed foods, all unfortunately come with their own camp of unhealthy flora calling to be fed. If you are suffering cravings, cold turkey is not a good idea. You will experience unnecessary frustration. Instead, change processed sugars to:
Organic cane sugar
Demerara sugar
Black strap molasses
Coconut based deserts
Semi or dark chocolate to help you through.
Your cravings will subside when your intestinal flora balance changes and you control your goal of craving control in the a.m.
e) Fresh juicing is also a brilliant way to increase and add easily absorbed super nutrients and live enzymes to your healing. To start, vegetable juices are the obvious choice. Add a bit of sweet with an apple or pear. Delicious invigorating and nutrient dense.
Stay committed – Shop the outer aisles of the Grocery Store
Do some fresh juicing – vegetable fresh
Back to basics – Chew your food for goodness sake!
Remember: 
Everything you eat has an impact. Nothing is neutral. You add to your good healthy, sense of well being and vitality and you will crave health, delicious, interesting food your body was built for.
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