Mondays, as always here on the blog, we build your grocery list with one food, focusing on this month’s main topic. New month, and so a new topic. We’re zeroing in on those foods to nourish the intestinal lining in July!
Where do you start?
BUTTER.
AS IF you need more reasons to reach for butter. In case you do, I’ll give you three things to think about:
BECAUSE BUTYRATE
Butyrate is a short chain fatty acids made by the bugs in your gut (microbiome!) and is also found in butter. Why is butyrate so good for the intestinal tract, then? Butyrate is one of the favourite foods of the cells of your colon, and has been shown to help reduce inflammation (1). Butyrate, whether from animal dairy sources or produced by your own microbial collection at the gut (provided you’re eating loads of fibre!) is an essential nutrient for gut health! (2)
BECAUSE THE TRUE VITAMIN A
Butter (+ ghee!) provide a brilliant amount of the animal version of Vitamin A, retinol. Vitamin A is a needed nutrient to support mucosal health (3), and where you have a robust mucosal lining, you work at supporting tighter junctions between cells. Where you work at tighter junctions of cells, now you work at decreasing permeability at the gut level. Butter for the musocal + intestinal win!
BECAUSE ANTI INFLAMMATION
Butter provides animal versions of the all important fat soluble vitamins like A (mentioned above), D, E and K2. You know A, and you hopefully know D. Vitamin E is an important antioxidant vitamin that helps do the clean up from low grade chronic inflammation (or a high burden of stress). Vitamin K2 is the other vitamin featured here — this one is a stellar helper in reducing inflammation + helping get calcium into your bones, and helping your brain + heart function well.
Bonus if you’re reaching for butter from cows fed on pasture: there is a solid amount of the anti-inflammatory essential fatty acid, Omega 3! Heck yeah, baby! Omega 3 is a stellar ally in reducing overall inflammation in the body.
Where is ground zero for inflammation in your body? OH YES. THE GUT. (Check out this free master class if you want to know more.)
Not sure how to bring butter in?
Start by swapping out your margarine for butter. And use butter wherever you were using margarine. Heck, don’t even finish that container of margarine. No one needs that kind of negativity in their life!
Just put it on things. On all the things. Or explore this post here for a bit more in-depth about the brilliance of butter.
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*This is not medical advice.