Heal Your Gut with Lydia Shatney (KYF036)

In this episode of Know Your Food with Wardee, I’m visiting with my friend Lydia Shatney, a nutritional therapist and teacher of the online class, Heal Your Gut. We’re talking about the prevalence of gut and digestion issues (they encompass A LOT) and her top three suggestions for improving gut health and digestion. Below you’ll find some really helpful links to supplement the info shared in this podcast.

About Lydia

Lydia, blogger at Divine Health From The Inside Out and teacher of Heal Your Gut, is a single mom of four fabulous boys, on a mission to share her passion for whole, healthy, real foods with the world. Lydia believes that good health is a choice and a gift that we cannot take for granted — and in this day and age, we must fight for it. Lydia is a certified as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner through the Nutritional Therapy Association. Additionally, she’s a co-chapter leader for the Weston A. Price Foundation in Delaware County, Pa.

3 Things You Can Do To Improve Digestion

In this episode, Lydia shared three tips for improving digestion. Anyone can do them — they’re really simple and they’re really helpful. Follow the linked text for more information from Lydia’s blog.

1. Learn to eat in a relaxed state.
2. Chew your food! It’s the first step in digestion and really important.
3. Eat something raw or fermented with every meal to provide enzymes for digestion.

For more info on homemade fermented foods, refer to my book The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Fermenting Foods, my online class Lacto-Fermentation eCourse, or my Lacto-Fermentation eBook.

Anything to Add?

How is your gut health? What tips would you share for improving gut health and digestion?