How to keep your gut microbiome healthy while doing keto
Being in a ketogenic state has many amazing health benefits. Yet overdoing it can mess with your digestion and gut microbiome (watch this short video if you missed it). In this clip I’ll walk you through how to eat while on keto without falling into that trap.
Most important: avoid going ‘dirty keto’ 🥓🧀🥓🧀. ‘Dirty keto’ mostly refers to choosing low quality fats (non-organic, processed high fat foots such as conventional meat, bacon, vegetable oils etc) and no fiber!
But- our gut microbiome (those bugs inside our gut that are needed to digest, make & absorb nutrients, keep our gut healthy and avoid both overgrowth of ‘bad guys’ (pathogenic bacteria & fungus), and avoid the gut lining becoming permeable (aka ‘leaky gut’), leading to inflammation, food intolerances to generally healthy foods, and more.
👉🏻 Solution: include plenty of low starch vegetables into your diet. Their high fiber content makes the carbohydrates contained barely accessible to the body, and as such no need to count them towards your daily carbohydrate intake.
Examples:
Cruciferous veg: broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage etc
Cucumbers, celery, avocado
But to keep it simple, I recommend even counting all other veg (and veg like fruit) towards it as long as they are raw (cooking changes how they are metabolized!): peppers, beets, carrots, tomatoes, …
👉🏻 PLUS: small amounts of nuts & seeds, for their high fiber and nutrient content. However, don’t go overboard as too much omega 6 compared to omega 3 also causes trouble 🤪😅.
Comment below with your experiences!
For a full break down on how, what and when best to eat, fast, exercise, sleep etc for health optimisation, join me on 4 week health reset program, a self-paced online course with step by step guidance in videos and pdfs on everything you need to know to upgrade your health.
As everything is pre-recorded, you can do it at your own pace 🙋🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🍌 xxx link in bio xx
Use coupon ‘precisionhealth’ for 20% off 😘
https://functionalmedicine.me.uk/cart...
#dirtyketo #highfiberketo #guthealth #gutmicrobiome #microbiome #candida # bacterialovergrowth # IBS #SIBO #highfiberdiet #foodmatters #metabolism
#weightlossjourney
#diet
#functionalmedicine
#weightloss
#naturopathicmedicine
#ketosis