🥺😁😫🤣💩From Bowel - To - Behaviour 💩🤣😫😁🥺

Most of us know that the microbes in our gut play a much more vital role in our health than previously known. Research has confirmed the ability of our gut flora to communicate with the brain and influence behaviour through a two way street of communication transmitted via the enteric nervous system, the vagus nerve and the central nervous system. This is known as the gut-brain axis. 

When we consider that the most urgent health problems we face globally are mental and emotional health, immunity-based diseases and diet related diseases, the gut sits among all of them as a part of the cause. In the last 15 years, a good deal of research has indicated that certain types of depression can have a link to gut flora imbalances, inflammation and therein may lie the cure as well. 

The link between high-sugar diets and alterations in gut bacteria has been established in research conducted by Dr Joseph Mercola, who found tat microbial changes leg to cognitive impairments such as learning difficulties and worsened memory. 

A study published in PLOS ONE has found that autistic children have a distinctly different gut microbiome compared to children of similar age. Notably, they tend to have fewer beneficial bacteria such as bifidobacterium. 

🍏WAYS TO OPTIMISE YOUR GUT FLORA 🍎

***Remove Processed foods, sugar enhanced foods, and grains from your diet

*** Replace grains with lots of seeds and sprouted legumes

***Consume 4 servings of probiotic enhancing foods per day (Kombucha, Saur Kraut, Kimchi, Kefir)

***Sip on Hot Bone Broth to heal and seal the gut lining so that probiotics and microbiota have a healthy, sealed and inflammation-free environment to set up a home. 

***Consume Pre Biotics and Fibrous foods to continue to feed your microbiome and keep them full and happy. 

🍠SUPER FOODS FOR DIGESTIVE HEALTH🥭

***Cultured Coconut Yoghurt

***Apple Cider Vinegar

***Fermented Vegetables and Pickles

***SauerKraut 

***Kefir

***Miso

***Tempeh

😍SEROTONIN😍

It is also now known that serotonin - a neurochemical chiefly responsible for maintaining a positive mood, among other things - is made in the brain and remarkably IN THE GUT TOO. Although 80-90% is actually made in your intestines. 
Not surprisingly, serotonin also affects your digestion, bowel movements and appetite. 

In contrast, dopamine, another happy neurochemical, makes you feel proud and elated when you accomplish and achieve, thus causing a feeling of self-gratification. Signs of serotonin deficiency include depression, sugar cravings, low self-esteem and insomnia. 

🥣HOW TO MAKE SEROTONIN🥣

To manufacture serotonin in our bodies, we need adequate amounts of the amino acid tryptophan, which is found in most protein-based foods or dietary proteins. it is particularly plentiful in:
***Eggs
***Chickpeas
***Buckwheat
***Spriulina
***Pineapple
***Chocolate
***Oats
***Dried Dates
***Seeds and Nuts.

Source: SARAH NANCLARES - psychobiologist, Business life coach, chronic illness nutrition specialist - equilibrio.com.au NATURAL HEALTH MAGAZINE