Boosting your Gut Microbiome:
With the help from our 7/14 day Gut flora tea cleanse. Our organic tea blend has all the essential ingredients to put you on track to a healthier digestive tract.
Having 1 brewed tea bag a day will evaluate to your 2 week cleanse and 2 brewed tea bags a day as your 1 week cleanse.
Why consider a cleanse?
A cleanse is a great starting point to altering bad habits to good habits. Making a 7/14 day commitment gives you a target with expectations of reaching a desired goal. Keeping on track of this cleanse will have a positive effect both physically and psychologically.
Combine Gut flora tea with a detox diet… this is not as daunting as you think it is, don't worry. The tea is cleansing the digestive tract making sure that all digestive enzymes are repairing and working in sync.
A detox diet includes 3 meals a day with drinks including vegetable and lemon water in replace of snacks. In a detox diet you will be decreasing animal fats and proteins and eliminating damaging substances, such as caffeine alcohol, nicotine, refined sugar, and food chemicals. There are detox diets that come with special guidelines that may include (example):
1. Chewing food thoroughly and taking your time when eating.
If we chew our food thoroughly there will be less chance of bloating as our food has already been broken down meaning that it is more easily digestible putting less stress on the digestive tract. Breaking down food in this manner will allow macro and micronutrients to be synthesised.
2. Relaxing a few minutes before and after eating a meal.
When in a relaxed state and not under stress our digestive enzymes work at the optimal capacity. How? Taking them few minutes to relax before eating will bring down our stress levels. When our body is under stress we are in a fight or flight state of awareness. The body is telling itself we need energy to our whole body and consequently effects our ability to properly digest food which in fact requires a lot of energy.
3. Eating in a comfortable seated position.
Sitting upright in a seated position helps with the flow of digestion as gravity is apparent. Making sure you are comfortable is important for relaxation, bringing attention to our breath which can help with oxygen and blood flow for digestion.
4. Consuming plenty of steamed fresh vegetables.
Steamed veggies in particular can bring more nutritional value to our plate due to minerals and nutrients being retained.
5. Drinking only herbal teas after dinner.
Drinking a hot cup of herbal tea especially our gut flora tea which hold all the key ingredients to aid and support a healthy digestive tract which you can find more info in our shop on gut flora tea. Not only do the ingredients help but drinking hot water will have its own wide array of benefits, focusing on digestion the benefits are; dilates blood vessels in the gut, furthermore it emulsifies fats.
I have suggested this idea of a detox diet as you have already taken into consideration improving one's health. You are at the first stage of behavioural changes pre-contemplation/contemplation (Check out our blog post on behavioural changes).