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Eating Disorder Recovery, Healing from UC, Reintroducing Dairy in Your Diet, and Optimizing Your Gut Microbiome | Alexis Cowan

Digest This

Digest This

Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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126: In todays' episode we dive deep into what it means to be metabolically healthy, what fat inflammation is, what glutamine does for the body, how to optimize certain foods to create your best gut microbiome, the ketogenic, vegan, and carnivore diets and how each can be beneficial and also have downsides.....plus how to reintroduce dairy into your diet if you can't tolerate it and so much more! Topics Discussed: → How to reintroduce dairy into your diet → Human milk oligosaccharides → Healing from an eating disorder → Healing from UC → Foods and supplements to help heal from UC → Fermented foods > high fiber foods → Resistant starch → Foods containing resistant starch → Benefits of L-Glutamine for the body → Keto diet → Vegan diet → Carnivore diet → Why metabolic flexibility is important → Fat inflammation Connect with Alexis: → Instagram → Website → Podcast (spotify) → YouTube Sponsored By: → Bethany's Pantry L-glutamine + Protein Powder | Use Code DIGEST For a discount! → Equip Foods | Go to https://www.equipfoods.com/digest Code DIGEST gets you 20% off → ARMRA | ARMRA Colostrum Use code DIGEST for a discount → Seed® | Go to seed.com/digest and use code DIGEST for 30% off your first month of Seed's DS-01® Daily Synbiotic Check Out Bethany: → Bethany's Pantry → Bethany’s Instagram: @lilsipper → Bethany’s Website → My Digestive Support Protein Powder → Gut Reset Book → Subscribe to my weekly newsletter (Friday Finds) → www.lilsipper.com/subscribe As always, if you have any questions for the show please email us at digestthispod@gmail.com. And if you like this show, please share it, rate it, review it and subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So I would say that any restrictive diet in the long term is unhealthy. A lot of times we get

0:06.0

locked into one way of doing things and thinking about diet as like a dogma. Our body's needs are

0:11.5

changing dynamically from day to day, week to week, season to season. We need to be flexible to these

0:17.3

changes and honest with ourselves about what our needs are instead of locking into like,

0:21.4

this is the way to do things, this is what's healthy. And then over time, a lot of times we get

0:26.3

diminishing returns with these.

0:30.1

Hey guys, happy Wednesday. This episode was fire. I literally just got done recording the episode with Alexis Cohen and she graduated from

0:40.8

Princeton University with a PhD in molecular biology with a focus on the effects of nutritional

0:46.2

and exercise interventions on metabolism. And in today's episode, we dive deep into what it means

0:52.6

to be metabolically healthy, what fat inflammation

0:55.6

is, what glutamine does for the body, how to optimize certain foods to create your best gut microbiome,

1:02.7

the ketogenic, vegan, and carnivore diet, and how each can be beneficial and also have its downsides.

1:09.3

Plus, how to reintroduce dairy into your diet if you can't tolerate it and so much more.

1:15.9

This is just the tip of the iceberg and it's intense until the very end.

1:20.3

You're listening to The Digest This Podcast.

1:23.2

And I'm your host, Bethany Cameron.

1:25.8

Let's get right into it.

1:27.6

Colostrum is the first form of nutrients, mammals, including humans, receive after birth.

1:33.2

It's often considered liquid gold due to its wide array of health-promoting properties,

1:38.6

including immune and gut support.

1:41.0

It's incredibly nutritious and contains high levels of antibodies that fight infections

1:46.0

and bacteria for the newborn. But us as grown adults can also benefit from these outstanding

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