Healthy Gut

Healthy Guts

"All disease begins in the gut." - Hippocrates more than 2,000 years ago
Supporting intestinal health and restoring the integrity of the gut barrier is one of the most important goals of good health. What we put into our stomachs is important. There are more than 10 quadrillion things living in our intestines including 400 species of bacteria. Some good and some bad. Learn to maintain a healthy balance.

14 Steps for Healthy Guts by Pat Robinson

• The Beet Test (stomach acid)
• Digestion 101
• Inflammation
• Infection?
• Whole Foods Heal
• Toxic Water
• Folate vs. Folic Acid
• Magnesium Deficiency?
• Candida 101
• Green Smoothie Challenge
• Healthy Poop 101
• Master Tonic 101
• Nettle Leaf herbal infusions 101
• Probiotic Selection

• Overwhelmed? Where to Start?!

9 steps to health 5 for a healthy gut by Chris Kresser

Fungus

See "Fungus" (this site) for further vital considerations

Local Food and Water Locator Sites

The truth behind organic food, and organic labels you can trust

• Cornucopia offers this list of nationally available, organic brands that are currently independently owned. These brands are committed to selling only certified organic products.
• Scorecards: Your favorite brands within your local area ("Organic" Eggs, Dairy, Beef, Poultry, Yogurt, etc.)... see how your beloved favorite brands measure up!

Local Grass-fed Meats & Pasture Raised Poultry and Eggs Locator

Local Grass-fed Meat, Eggs & Dairy Eatwild's Directory of Farms lists more than 1,400 pasture-based farms, with more farms being added each week. It is the most comprehensive source for grass-fed meat and dairy products in the United States and Canada. Products include: Beef, Pork, Lamb, Veal, Goat, Elk, Venison, Yak, Chickens, Ducks, Rabbits, Turkeys, Eggs, Milk, Cheeses, Wild-Caught Salmon and more!

Farms, CSAs and Farmer's Markets Locator

Local growers and/or sellers of real food "Buying local is about enjoying real food, grown yourself or purchased from people you trust. It's about developing strong local economies and producing food on a human scale. It's about eating seasonally, practicing the art of cooking, and sitting down to enjoy meals together.

Milk Specific (Pasture-fed, Unprocessed, Full-fat)

Real, raw, milk "Real milk is milk that comes from pastured cows, that contains all the fat and that has not been processed in any way—it is raw and unhomogenized."

Mail-Order Meats and Other Food Stuffs

For rich, creamy, quality Lard US Wellness Meats’ Pork Lard is not bleached, deodorized, hydrogenated, or altered." (Also, pork and 100% grass-fed/finished beef, lamb, bison, pastured and free range poultry and duck, and wild-caught fish meats.)

Grocery Deals From Local Stores

Great grocery deals from local stores. Find Grocery Deals FAST. This search tools get you straight to the deals you are interested in. You can view deals by store, category, or item and sort them any way you like. Use the powerful QuickShop feature to find deals for items on your shopping list.

Local Natural Springs/Artesian Wells Locator

Local Natural Springs and Artesian Wells "FindaSpring.com" is a community and user created database of natural springs around the world. If you know of a spring that is not on their map or in their database, please click on 'Submit a Spring' and send as much information as you can.

Public Water Systems Nationwide

Radium contamination; zip code interactive map search for

(Note: After entering your zip or just zooming in as close as the map gets to your area, be sure to click on your actual "dot" to verify whether your city is in fact the one associated with that particular dot [can be tricky as the map doesn't zoom in for pinpoint accuracy, and so some dots are rather small]. For example, the city 7 miles north of me is named on the map, but the "dot" is located on the wrong side of a major waterway, and, when I clicked on it, the name came up of the water system that serves the town/district that I know to be on that other side of the waterway.)

The EPA's Web site - Provides directions for finding out more information about your drinking water.

(Note: The Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) contains information about public water systems and their violations of EPA's drinking water regulations, as reported to EPA by the states. These regulations establish maximum contaminant levels, treatment techniques, and monitoring and reporting requirements to ensure that water systems provide safe water to their customers. This search will help you to find your drinking water supplier and view its violations and enforcement history since 1993.)

Links

• What’s On My Food? (searchable database designed to make the public pesticide exposure visible and more understandable)

• Food Babe - Hot on the trail to investigate what's really in your food)

• Hidden Names for MSG

• Overarching Self-Help/Health Dietary Principles (This site)

Disclaimer

There is no offer of any "effective treatment or cure." This information is based on personal experiences, what people have learned, as well as what is available on web sites. It is not meant or offered as medical advice or diagnosis and the information provided does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the owners of PreparingYOU.com or the site itself, but is offered for educational purposes only.