Blog — gut health

 

Written by Dr Kellyann Petrucci The other day, someone online called me “pretentious” for using the term bone broth instead of simply saying stock or broth. I have to say, it made me laugh. Opinionated, I may be. Stubborn, sure. And sometimes I’m even a little crazy. But pretentious? Uh uh. I don’t call green beans haricots verts, or say courgettes when I mean zucchini. I don’t refer to my pot roast recipe as rustic instead of saying that it’s simple. And I don’t call myself a locavore just because I buy tomatoes at the vegetable stand down the road. I’m...

Written by Kelly Brogan, MD.  "We barely know what we are doing when it comes to probiotic supplementation,” I admitted to my patient, “but we do know that we are on the verge of the most sophisticated understanding of human health and disease since the dawn of medicine, and it comes down to our symbiotic relationship to our body’s microbes.” The abuses we have brought upon our gut flora are largely obvious – we have been eating loads of sugar, processed vegetable oils, pesticides, genetically modified foods, and living in a bath of and industrial chemicals. But what should our microbiome look...

I was recently interviewed by the lovely Mandy Dos Santos of Little People Nutrition, and thought perhaps there were some insights into our family that our own fans may wish to hear. So this inspiring interview is with ... myself!  HAHA! You have a company, Broth of Life, where you make dehydrated broth, tell me about it and why you chose to dehydrate broth? I’m just like you. A real person with a real family full of struggles, triumphs and tragedies. And those experiences led my partner and I down the path of making dehydrated bone broth. It can be hard to...