Paying heed to one’s gut health is the latest in a slew of healthy practices. Be it shifting to a better diet or practising a daily Yoga routine, being healthy has become the ‘it-thing’. Most people are now paying attention to their bodies and are increasingly concerned about their health. The pandemic has changed a number of things. Instead, include more seasonal fruits and vegetables to your diet.ģ. Reduce consuming heavy proteins and raw fibre. It is important to cut down on anti-inflammatory foods such as fried and spicy food.Ģ. Stressing on the importance of gut health, Sharma concludes, “I like to say ‘We are what we eat, but more importantly, we are what we digest’. While Kochar shares that simple lifestyle changes such as an early dinner (followed by a regulated sleep time and 12 hours of fasting) along with a few dietary changes can help one improve their gut health, Kalra and Sethi add that a few simple exercises can also be beneficial. After a diet change, I can now eat more freely and sensibly.” I had developed a fear of food, thinking that it is harming my body. Healthy fat and proteins were also added to balance my diet.
Having curd and other probiotic supplements as well as fresh, seasonal fruits and vegetables daily are essential.Ĭhandan Sharma from Bengaluru, who had been suffering from Crohn’s Disease, shares, “Many things had to be changed in my diet-shifting to cold-press coconut oil, removing gluten, and dairy except ghee, etc. All three practitioners talk about shifting to fibrous carbohydrates such as jowar (sorghum) and bajra (millet) and fats like ghee. “Gut health affects everything from chronic arthritis, constipation, gerd refluxes,” she mentions, adding that the best way to improve the gut is to avoid inflammatory foods as much as possible. Silver Sethi, a dietician and wellness coach from Gurugram, mentions how it is important to first address the gut problem. While healthy food affects good bacteria, junk food increases the bad ones. The food you consume, therefore, strengthens the bacteria.
That is why it is important that one takes care of it.”Īs the seat of digestion, the gut is filled with different types of bacteria-both good and bad. With a healthy gut, all the nutrients being absorbed are enriching. It is there that the body absorbs all its immunity.” Comparing the gut to a water jar, Kalra explains, “If the water pot is dirty, the water that you drink out of it will also be unhealthy. If one of them becomes imbalanced, the others will be affected too.” In a similar vein, Gurugram-based dietician and founder of a wellness clinic named Nutriapt, Manpreet Kalra, adds, “Digestion happens in the gut. There are seven systems in our body and all of them work in cohesion. Functional medicine practitioner and health coach Smriti Kochar from Gurugram mentions how a person’s gut houses their entire immune system.
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