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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Can supplements actually make a difference to our health? Registered associate nutritionist Róisín Pichon joins Liz on this podcast to share how food, vitamins and supplements can help you beat any winter blues.
Róisín and Liz discuss how short and dark days are impacting our immunity. Plus, they talk through the key nutrients that contribute to immune health and how we get ensure we’re getting enough of these.
Brought to you in partnership with Bimuno, this episode also covers the link between our gut health and immunity, and shares with simple and cost-effective ways to support our good gut bugs.
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0:00.0 | Fiber is one of the key nutrients for our gut health. Our gut bugs absolutely love fiber and so by consuming plenty of fiber in the diet |
0:08.1 | We're also helping to feed those good gut bugs so that they can actually influence lots of other areas of our health and importantly |
0:14.4 | our immune health as well because we know that 70% of our immune cells are actually found in the |
0:19.6 | gut so by looking after the gut we're also supporting our immune health as well. |
0:25.4 | Well that's Rachine Pichon. She is a registered associate nutritionist who knows just |
0:30.4 | how important vitamin supplementation can be, especially at this time of year. |
0:35.7 | I'm Liz Earl and this is the Liz Earl Well-being show, the podcast that looks for ways for us |
0:40.4 | all to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today. |
0:45.2 | And this episode is brought to you in partnership with Biemuno. |
0:48.9 | Now I'm quite big on supplements and I'm especially focusing on Vitamin D at the moment as this is such an important nutrient for supporting our immune system. |
0:57.3 | And also we're not getting so much sunshine now during the winter months at least here in the UK. |
1:02.2 | Well I also top up on my zinc and during the winter months, at least here in the UK. |
1:02.6 | Well, I also top up on my zinc and vitamin C to better support me through the cough and cold season, |
1:08.5 | and also better protect me against winter bugs. |
1:11.6 | I also like topping up on my good gut bacteria and |
1:14.8 | yeah sorted probiotic supplements as well as healthy swigs of kefir |
1:19.6 | kombucha and lots of other gut-friendly fermented foods and drinks. But having got our good gut bugs into place, |
1:27.5 | we then need to think about how we can keep them there and in good shape. |
1:32.3 | Well, by Muno believes that the key to a healthy life starts with supporting the gut. |
1:37.6 | So you can see why I'm personally a fan. I think that is absolutely true. |
1:43.0 | Bimino's powders offer a really easy way of increasing levels of good bacteria in our gut. |
1:49.0 | You just pop your daily sache into some food or drink, |
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