New Year Good Gut Intentions: Mineralise Your Water

If the festive season has left you feeling a little over-indulged and your gut in need of a little TLC, why not start the New Year with some good gut intentions.

Here, Emma Bullock-Lynch, Nutritionist for Wassen, shares her top tips to help beat the post-Christmas bloat and get your gut health back on track.

Keeping Your Gut Happy: 5 Top Tips

  • Fibre Up: Fibre is found in plant-based foods and when eaten, it helps to keep things moving and nourishes the bacteria within your gut. Recent research found that eating 30 plants per week is beneficial for your gut health (this may seem like a lot, but it includes coffee, spices, nuts and seeds as well as fruit and vegetables).
  • Hydrate: Water is essential for digestion and helps prevent constipation. The NHS recommends 6-8 glasses of water a day. Keeping a water bottle always on hand will help you sip throughout the day!
  • Mindful Eating: Slow down and savour your food, making sure to chew it properly. This allows for better digestion and helps prevent overeating.
  • Befriend Bacteria: Fermented foods like yoghurt, kefir, kimchi, sauerkraut and kombucha are loaded with gut-friendly probiotics (live bacteria and yeasts) that promote a healthy gut microbiome.
  • Manage Stress: Chronic stress can really impact your digestion! Practice relaxation techniques like yoga or meditation.
  • Give your gut some added good vibes: Formulated with digestive health in mind, Wassen Digest + Balance, is an all-in-one digestive health supplement containing a blend of minerals, digestive enzymes, and probiotics. Available in a convenient powder sachet format, simply add the powder to your water for three-way digestive support when you need it most. This refreshing lemon and ginger drink contains digestive enzymes from DigeZyme®, plus calcium, to help keep the digestive system functioning as it should. Boosted with 3 probiotic strains, LactoSpore® (Bacillus coagulans), Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium bifidum, as well as fibre from FOS, this formula offers targeted support for daily digestive health.  From sea to supplement, each sachet contains marine-derived minerals, including magnesium, which helps by contributing to electrolyte balance, as well as normal energy-yielding metabolism and muscle function (e.g. peristalsis which takes place in the gut). Calcium supports the normal function of digestive enzymes, whilst vitamin D helps to absorb calcium, as well as contributing to the normal function of the immune system. 

Wassen Digest + Balance, £16.99 for 14 x 5.5g sachets from www.wassen.com and Amazon.

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