Why is Gut Health Important?

With around 40 trillion bacteria in your body, most of which are found in your gut, your gut microbiome can be the difference between a healthy or diseased life. Regulating your overall wellness, your gut microbiome stays balanced through a rich, diverse diet – often hard to achieve in these busy, modern times.

What is Your Gut?

Let’s start with the basics. Your gut, or gastrointestinal tract, includes your mouth, pharynx (throat), oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, and anus. With over 100 trillion different microorganisms active, including 70% of your immune cells, these bacterial microorganisms play a whole host of crucial roles, from breaking down foods such as carbohydrates to supporting your metabolism. 

As your second brain with its own nervous system (the Enteric Nervous System), the gut regulates feel good hormones called neurotransmitters. When your gut microbiome is out of sync or compromised it can cause a domino effect of health issues ranging from feeling down to much more serious diseases.

What is Your Gut Microbiome?

Also known as your “gut flora”, this supporting organ plays several key roles in promoting the daily operations of your body. Including bacteria and fungi, both the good and bad, these microbes mostly exist peacefully in your gut.

This tightly regulated system can be likened to a bicycle. A flat tyre will make you struggle – and while you can get off and push, it’s less than ideal and by no means a fun ride! Similarly, when your gut microbiome is imbalanced, your whole system is compromised, impacting your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing.

How does Your Gut Microbiome Affect Your Health?

Gut microbes stimulate your immune system, breaking down potentially toxic food compounds while producing certain vital vitamins and amino acids, including the B vitamins and vitamin K. It’s obvious then that when your gut is sick, your immune system is immediately impacted, putting your health in danger. The vitamins produced in your gut have the following benefits: 

• Vitamin B – All B vitamins play a role in converting food into energy in the body. Interestingly the key enzymes needed to form vitamin B12 are only found in gut bacteria.
• Vitamin K – Helps to make various proteins that are needed for blood clotting and the building of bones.
• Vitamin 12 – Vitamin B-12 (cobalamin) plays an essential role in red blood cell formation, cell metabolism, nerve function, and DNA production

Five Signs Your Gut is Unhealthy

• Upset stomach including bloating, constipation, or diarrhoea
• Unintentional weight changes
• Reflux and indiscretion
• Low immune with frequent colds and viruses
• Sleep disturbances or chronic fatigue

Five Ways To Improve Your Gut Health

• Eat slowly and chew properly
• Stay hydrated, drink at least 2l of water per day
• Take a prebiotic and probiotic
• Increase your fibre intake daily
• Move your body

How Can Fire Cider Serve Your Gut?

Now that you’ve discovered that your microbiome is filled with organisms that are alive, they need food and water to stay healthy – just like you. As a quick solution in one shot, Fire Cider is exactly what your gut need for next-level results. Since it’s packed with prebiotic fermented over time and microbe probiotics, your gut stays healthy and fired up. Fire Cider also reduces inflammation, doing wonders at reducing your PH levels while neutralising gut acid to help relieve reflux and digestion.

Let’s Bust Some Myths

• Myth: Fire Cider (apple cider vinegar) is acidic
• Fact: Fire Cider converts to an alkaline once ingested
  
  
• Myth: I can get all the probiotics I need from a breakfast cereal sachet or dehydrated tablet
• Fact: Probiotics are living organisms, and therefore need to be alive when consumed. You need between 300 and 500 different bacterial species in order to help your gut, not one strain from a cereal sachet
  
  
• Myth: Prebiotics are the same as probiotics
• Fact: Prebiotics are insoluble fibres and probiotics are living organisms, therefore completely different
  
  
• Myth: Gut health has nothing to do with mental health 
• Fact: Gut health has everything to do with mental health since its directly linked to your brain on the gut-brain axis 

Proven to be an effective gut-health tonic and immune booster, Fire Cider offers you a world of wellness when taken consistently. Trusting nature’s intelligence, all the ingredients are from the earth straight into your body, ensuring your gut health stays optimal for a life of true wellbeing.

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