{"id":77958,"date":"2020-03-02T10:47:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T23:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/180nutrition.com.au\/?p=77958"},"modified":"2020-03-02T10:51:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T23:51:52","slug":"2-things-that-radically-improved-my-gut-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/180nutrition.com.au\/lifestyle\/2-things-that-radically-improved-my-gut-health\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Things That Radically Improved My Gut Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past 5 years you would have heard the term ‘gut health’ being discussed by everyone from medical professions and wellness advocates to celebrity chefs and social media influencers. It seems that our gut – or at least the bacteria in our gut – directly influence a myriad of pathways that ultimately effect our health. Everything from weight management, skin health, auto-immunity and even mental health issues are linked to the state of our gut.<\/p>\n
I’ve had the good fortune of connecting with the world’s best experts in this space through our podcast The Health Sessions<\/a> where I uncover the latest thinking and share my discoveries with you. Experts like Dr Michael Ruscio<\/a>, Dr David Perlmutter<\/a> and Dr. Allison Siebecker<\/a> to name but a few have really helped me focus on improving my gut health. Before I get into the details, it’s important to note that my gut health was ok(ish) before I started to experiment, but I knew after connecting with the experts that it really was worth improving.<\/p>\n So what did I glean from the conversations and what 2 things made the biggest impact for MY gut health? …<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I had a fascinating conversation with Nicole Bijlsma<\/a>, a building biologist on creating a healthy home environment. During our conversation I asked Nicole where we should start when wanting to ‘quickly’ improve our overall health and she said a single word… water. Drink clean, filtered, unchlorinated water, in her words – “You don\u2019t want to be drinking, ingesting chlorinated water because chlorine is the strongest antibacterial”.<\/em> After many hours of podcasting with gut experts I’d never even considered the obvious:<\/p>\n Empowered with this information, I did some homework and decided to install an UltraCeram\u00ae Twin Undersink water filter that guaranteed to remove 99.9% of chlorine. When I say ‘I installed’, that’s not exactly true, I used a specialist and the unit with installation cost $500. I’ve since found out that you can pick up the same system at Bunnings for around $200. At home we only drink from the filtered tap and use it for all food prep and cooking etc, and the normal tap is used for washing dishes. I’ll fill up a 2L stainless steel drinking bottle at home and drink it throughout the day while at work.<\/p>\n
\n1) Installing A Water Filter At Home<\/h3>\n
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\n2) Consuming Collagen Every Day<\/h3>\n