Why Is Bone Broth One Of The Best Gut Healing Foods?

• It increases digestive enzymes, bile, and stomach acid
• Therefore increasing digestive function
• It increases nutrient absorption
• Heals and seals gut lining
• Decreases acid reflux
• Decreases stomach ulcers
• Increases fluid drawn to bowels leading to regular bowel movements
• Decreases intestinal inflammation

Bone broth is one of the most effective gut healing foods out there. Its gut healing properties are thanks to the high content of collagen and the amino acid glycine.

Collagen helps the digestive system in many ways. Firstly, it attracts more digestive juices, enzymes, and bile to the food and increases stomach acid production.

All of these improve the breakdown of the food and therefore lead to greater nutrient absorption. Higher stomach acid also prevents acid reflux. Collagen consumption is also believed to protect against stomach ulcers.

Collagen plays a key role in maintaining the integrity and tightness of the gut lining. Collagen is comprised of several amino acids (such as glycine and glutamine) that help build the gut lining.

This makes collagen rich foods like bone broth particularly helpful for resealing and repairing the gut lining in cases like leaky gut and IBD.

Collagen also absorbs and retains water and therefore increases fluid in the intestines. This helps to encourage regular bowel movements.

Bone broth also helps to decrease intestinal inflammation due to its unique amino acid profile, containing high amounts of the anti-inflammatory amino acids alanine, hydroxyproline, proline, glutamic acid, and especially glycine.

It also lacks the amino acids cysteinre, methionine, and histidine, all of which can become pro-inflammatory in excess. On top of that excess methionine reduces glycine stores.

So if you want to heal and support your gut, I recommend you drink at least 1 cup of bone broth a day!

And if you want a good recipe for bone broth, you can find mine here!