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Fermented foods have been given a trendy renaissance in more recent years. This is likely due to the increasing interest in gut health as well as a return to leading chefs reverting to more ancestral ways of cooking. However fermented foods are nothing new at all and feature in all cultures in every part of the world.
Creating and maintaining a healthy gut and flourishing gut microbiome starts with supporting our own ‘ecosystem’. This is why the analogy of a garden really epitomises our gut on many levels. Just like we wouldn’t plant seeds in our garden without weeding and prepping the soil, we have to think about caring for our gut in a similar way. By practising our own personal ‘horticulture’ we can realise the full potential for our gut garden to positively blossom.
Glyphosate is especially nefarious because of how it damages gut health. Exposure to glyphosate has been shown to loosen the tight junctions that make up the walls of the intestinal tract. That means everything that those cells need to do (very simply: keep good in, kick bad out) are compromised, putting not only your gut function and gut health at risk, but your immune and brain health at risk as a result.
When it comes down to it, our gut barrier is essentially what separates our internal world from the external one. In the conversation around gut health there is often a lot of chatter about nourishing the trillions of microbes that live in our gut (collectively the gut microbiome), but often less emphasis placed on gut barrier functioning even though it has such a huge amount of responsibility. Think of it like the gatekeeper of your gut!