Alternative Cures

Continuing on from the last post in the series, Keep Your Gut Healthy Part 4, where we looked at working on reducing stress, here we’ll look at a couple of things you can drink that will help to keep your gut healthy.

The first and foremost is to drink plenty of water. Water not only re-hydrates the body, but it also helps your digestive system to do its job properly as well as softening stools to make passing them easier. When your digestive system is not lubricated sufficiently, then problems will begin to occur.

This doesn’t mean you can glug a six-pack of fizzy, sugary soft drinks either. They contain too many harmful chemicals that cause problems for your digestive system. Especially harmful are the low-calorie or sugar-free soft drinks that are loaded with artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sorbitol and saccharine, all of which are harmful to the body - and I don’t care what any so-called experts says to the contrary, in my eyes they are lying. If you want to stay on the safe side -leave soft drinks of ALL kinds well alone.

Better for you in many ways is cranberry juice. It has already been proved to protect the urinary tract from bacteria that cause infections like cystitis. Further studies have shown that drinking a glass of cranberry juice a day helps protect you from viral infections of the intestines. It does this by preventing the virus from attaching to red blood cells.

Good news in the prevention of disease of the gut and helping to keep it healthy!

Terry Didcott
Alternative Cures