Let’s move on to the 4th food you’ll want to add to your grocery list, especially if you’re focusing on this month’s topic: DIGESTING LIKE A CHAMP.
Honey, I’m a broken record when it comes to this food. It really is your very best food-as-medicine thing you can add on the daily.
MEAT STOCK.
My homemade chicken meat stock. Feet included.
For those who wish to know the ‘why’ behind this idea, I’ll give you three things to think about.
TO HELP ENHANCE YOUR DIGESTIVE FIRE
Meat Stock (+ Bone Broth) are rich sources of glycine, an amino acid needed for everyday function. In the case of digestion, glycine enhances the secretion of hydrochloric acid, thereby revving up your digestive fire.
Meat Stock is of good support to the pancreas, one of the organs that plays a crucial role in producing enzymes + digestive substances. It specifically helps the pancreas enhance the production of enzymes that you need for digestion, as well as metabolic work in the body.
FOR THE LOVE OF REDUCING INFLAMMATION
This is code for gut lovin. Where is ground zero for inflammation? THE GUT. How do you reduce inflammation then? You give the ground zero (GUT) its favourite food (MEAT STOCK) so that it can help reduce the inflammation.
When you reduce this inflammation, you now reduce the stress response in the body. This stress response is what thwarts your own digestive fire. In times of stress — whether external, internal such as when there is inflammation, or emotional stress — digestion gets shut down.
Reducing that internal stress? Why that is gold in helping to, in a round-about way, enhance your body’s digestive prowess and stop shutting it off. Good work, kitten.
FOR THE LOVE OF EASE OF NUTRIENT DELIVERY
Meat Stock provides easy-to-assimilate nutrients that are sometimes lacking in our modern day diets. When someone is convalescing, or recouping from injury, surgery, or long term illness, Meat Stock is one of the very best ways to nourish the body on a deep level with those harder-to-find nutrients. Included are nutrients that help reduce the incidence of heartburn, ulcers, nausea, bloating and flatulence.
Gelatin is one of the main ingredients in Meat Stock - this nutrient has been found to reduce irritation in the stomach lining, and enhance the cells at the gut lining to be more robust.
Meat Stock provides glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) which enhance your body’s ability to produce mucous in the gut lining, further protecting you. Robust mucosal production is a key in protecting your digestive tract and maintaining its integrity!
Soup on the regular, friend.
Listen. I go on and on about Meat Stock all the time.
If you need a leg up on how to make it —> head over to this blog post for a video Malcolm Saunders and I did on the subject of Meat Stock. We’ll even take you through how to make it yourself.
And work it in on the almost-daily, if not daily should you wish to rev up your own digestive prowess.
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