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Fermented Food and Kombucha

 















Fermented Food and Kombucha

Fermented food has been around for decades and can be very helpful when rebuilding the microbiome. What about Kombucha? If one is drinking them as a probiotic, there are better ways to get in the bacteria; Kombucha is a great healthy drink; yes, they contain some healthy bacteria and sugar. Too much sugar can feed fungi and cause an imbalance in our microbiome.
Studies show that cultured food has improved the microbiome and digestion. Yes! Eating fermented food such as kefir, saurekraut, and kimchi has value and helps improve gut health. A quality probiotic is recommended. Visbiome or other quality probiotics that are clinically tested. These have been studied and clinically proven to improve the bacteria in our gut.

Visbiome has over 72 clinical studies on people with Gastrointestinal issues. There are a couple of other companies I like. Orthomolecular is another excellent company. The value of a probiotic is the capsule, releasing the bacteria in the colon, ensuring the bacteria have a better chance of survival. Food has to travel through the digestive and contends with HCI in the stomach, which is a powerful tool. These sensitive little bugs are bacteria, and only the fittest will survive. They have a long way to travel. Like sperm, they do not always make it to their destination alive.

We encourage everyone to get those bugs in; the more, the merrier! A buggy gut is a happy gut!


Bell, V., Ferrão, J., Pimentel, L., Pintado, M., & Fernandes, T. (2018). One Health, Fermented Foods, and Gut Microbiota. Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 7(12), 195. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods7120195

Parvez, S., Malik, K. A., Ah Kang, S., & Kim, H. Y. (2006). Probiotics and their fermented food products are beneficial for health. Journal of applied microbiology, 100(6), 1171–1185. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2006.02963.x

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