![]() Gelatin helps seal the colon so that nutrients may be absorbed. (Research from Gotthoffer, NR, Gelatin in Nutrition and Medicine.) When your body can effectively break down and absorb the food you’re eating, you reduce the amount of inflammation in the gut and get more out of every bite. It helps heal the gut lining by enhancing gastric acid secretion and restoring a healthy mucosal lining in the stomach.Gelatin contains two anti-inflammatory amino acids, thus balancing, completing, and complementing the other meat sources. Muscle meats contain elevated levels of certain amino acids, which can be inflammatory over time. PLUS: Gelatin balances out your meat intake. It contains 18 amino acids, many of which are “essential”, meaning they must be acquired as part of our diet. Gelatin is a fast and furious source of protein.I’m going to post a recipe or two shortly. (PS, If you want to know more about what to look for in a gelatin powder this link is great.) I’ve also heard Bernard Jensen gelatin is great too. To that end, since you’ll ask, I use Great Lakes gelatin which is available online. Click here to order some in Australia or here to order elsewhere. I’m talking the stuff that comes from pasture-raised cows. I’m not talking crappy commercial gelatin. But, of course, not everyone’s freezers are over-flowing with the stuff. I’ve shared before how the gelatin in bone broth is a boon. It comes as a powder that can be used to make jelly/jello, panna cotta, marshmallows, gummie bears and… other gut-giving goodnesses. Gelatin makes up almost one-third of all the protein in the human body and not having enough of it affects our joints, our skin, and our guts. Gelatin is basically cooked collagen and comes form the bones, hides and connective tissues of animals. We can take charge now.Īnd, so I introduce gelatin. I write about this often and about how food really is the best medicine (not just a jaded slogan). The boon is this: It’s also something we can do now to fix our various compromised situations. ![]() Well, you’d really have to agree that that would make fixing your gut our number one health priority. You know how a growing number of modern ills particularly autoimmune diseases are now deemed to stem from the gut? And how more of us are suffering with crook guts that are leaky, nervous and cranky? Yeah? The simplest gut-healing breakfast a girl can eat: coffee almond milk gelatin chews (two ingredients: grass-fed beef gelatin with coffee almond milk), recipe to come soon.
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