Looking after your gut health – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Website: www.Doctorharold.com Modern lifestyle harms our digestion, causing health issues. But, we can improve our gut health and overall well-being by making smarter food choices and simple lifestyle changes. Gut health is often overlooked in our daily lives. The healthy gut’s primary function is to break down the food we eat and absorb nutrients that keep our body functioning correctly. Research in the medical community has shown that the gut plays a crucial role in our overall health. Specifically, the gut microbiome in our large intestines is essential for maintaining good gut health and can impact every organ in our body. Further, the gut connects with the brain through the long vagus nerve. Hence, the gut is referred to as the second brain. Hidden in the walls of our digestive system are marshalling neurons and supporting cells. The Enteric Nervous ...

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Lacto-Fermentation Foods & Health-By Dr Harold Gunatillake   Fermented Foods are a hot topic, today Let’s talk about it. We wonder why our mothers always kept a bottle of onion pickle and lime pickle(lunu-dehi) on the dining table, and we used to nickname them, as ‘rice pullers’What are Lacto-fermented foods, also called lactic acid fermentation foods? Lacto does not refer here to milk, but refers to lactic acid, produced by lacto-bacillus bacteria. These bacilli are present in yogurt, cheese and the skin of most veggies and fruits among others. It is starches and sugars in your veggies and fruits that is converted into lactic acid by friendly bacteria -lactobacilli during fermentation Fermentation was used in the ancient times to preserve food, and making alcohol, Cheese, salami and more. Fermentation is a common practice which was performed from thousands of years ago. fermentation was generally performed to produce alcohol and wine. ...

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