Re: How I healed my leaky gut

some of the b vitamins are better absorbed in an acid environment.

my friend said she slept better when taking pb8 (nutrition now), and that some other probiotics didn't agree with her (she didn't say how).

check at your local food coop or natural food store for young coconut kefir. they probably won't have it. you can make your own. just do a google search with the name. i think it would be a good idea for someone to make and sell it.

i'm petsitting right now and some of my notes are at the last place i stayed so i can't answer the olive oil question right now (can't remember) but here's where i got that tip: http://www.betterbodycare.com/Solutions/Causes/LeakyGut.htm

that's also where i got other good advice that worked for me.

here are some good guidelines to help the poor damaged gut out:

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Fruit is in a league all by itself. It isn't even digested in the stomach. Within a few minutes of eating, fruit is passed on to the small intestine where it is digested and its nutrients are absorbed. Because fruit isn't digested in the stomach, it should be eaten when the stomach is empty. Combining fruit with starches or proteins causes it to sit in the stomach and ferment causing gas and bloating. Always eat fruit by itself and on an empty stomach!

Your body handles the food you eat in essentially three different ways:

• It digests it.
• It assimilates the nutrients.
• It eliminates the unused waste.

The body has an internal, biological clock that is set to perform each of the above functions at different times. The best time for digesting is from 12:00noon to 8:00 pm. The best time for assimilation is from 8:00 pm to 4:00 am. Elimination is ideally performed between the hours of 4:00 am and 12:00 noon. This doesn't mean that you can't do these things out of order or at different times, only that your body works and expends energy most efficiently during the above hours.

Your body also works best when it has only one major task to perform at a time. Digestion always takes priority over assimilation or elimination. If you eat while your body is supposed to be eliminating waste, you interrupt the natural process and force it to digest. If you eat in the middle of the night when your body is assimilating nutrients, you cause it to stop and digest instead.

The key to making this all work properly and provide for individual preferences is fruit. Because fruit isn't digested like other foods, it can be eaten without interrupting the other processes. The only thing to always remember is to eat it on an empty stomach. If you want a snack at 10 at night, have an apple or a grapefruit. If you're hungry at 6 in the morning, have a breakfast of different kinds of fruit. Actually, eating only fruit until as close to noon as possible helps your body during the elimination cycle, and still provides all the energy you need to get you to lunchtime.

Because your stomach is empty in the morning, breakfast is the ideal time to have fresh fruit such as: apples, oranges, melons, berries, etc. or unprocessed fruit juices. In fact, you can eat fruit off and on all morning if you like. The longer you eat only fruit, the more time your digestive tract has to clean itself out.

Lunch is the best time to eat proteins. If you eat meat it's best to eat it at lunch along with a salad, or steamed vegetables, or both.

You can eat dinner as late as 6 pm. Dinner is the time to eat starches like baked potatoes, rice, and bread. If you only add fresh or steamed vegetables, you make it easy on your stomach when you go to bed. Instead of expending a lot of energy to digest food, your body will conserve its energy for the next day and provide you a good night's sleep in the process.

good luck!
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