Leaky Gut Diet Restaurant Tips – What to Eat and What to Avoid

 

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Leaky Gut Diet – Restaurant Tips

Just because you need to stick to your leaky gut diet plan doesn’t mean that you have to lock yourself in your home in fear of eating the wrong the thing. But that is exactly what I did when I discovered that I had leaky gut.

After I discovered my underlying gut problem I spent years being so afraid of food that I refused to eat out at any restaurant in fear of eating something that would trigger my symptoms. Living in fear of food is not living at all and I don’t want you to follow that same path.

You can still enjoy getting out of the house and eating at restaurants. You just have to be a little more careful about what you order. It isn’t that hard it just takes a little getting used to.

Follow these simple rules and you won’t have worry about or wonder what you’re eating and whether or not it will impact your chronic symptoms.

Leaky Gut Diet Restaurant Tips

1. Stick to Meat and Vegetables

Meat and vegetables should make up the bulk of your leaky gut diet so it is best to stick with them when eating at a restaurant as well. Look for fish, chicken, turkey, beef, and lamb menu items. These menu items typically served with vegetables.

Make sure you are getting an adequate amount of protein. Try to stick to less starchy vegetables like ordering a sweet potato instead of a white potato.

2. Get it Grilled, Poached, or Sautéed

When ordering your meat, it is best to order it grilled, poached, or sautéed. Many restaurants fry their foods in trans-fats and/or vegetable oil which cause massive amounts of inflammation and should be avoided at all costs.

3. Forget the Bread and Pastas

Our culture has become very accustomed to bread and pasta with every meal. Restaurants love to give them to you because they are cheap filler foods with no real nutritional value. When avoiding gluten, these foods should be avoided. Don’t be afraid to ask the waiter/waitress to not bring the complimentary bread basket so it doesn’t become tempting.

4. Don’t be Afraid to Ask or Order Off Menu

If you aren’t sure how a particular dish is prepared, then ask the waiter/waitress. Food allergies are a big issue and liability for restaurants so if they don’t know, they should go to the kitchen and get the answers for you.

Also, don’t be afraid to order something that isn’t on the menu. If you want something simple like a grilled chicken breast with vegetables, almost any restaurant will accommodate you.

5. Watch Out for Hidden Gluten

Hidden flours are in many menu items. They are typically used as a thickening agent for sauces and flavorings. Stay away from thick, creamy, and cheese sauces as much as possible.

6. Nicer Restaurants = Better Ingredients

Nicer restaurants know that better and fresher ingredients taste better. They typically use organic ingredients as much as possible. They also typically cook in healthier oils that don’t go rancid. Nice restaurants will never sacrifice quality for price.

7. Pass on the Alcohol

Alcohol is one of the driving factors behind intestinal permeability. Because of this, it should be avoided entirely on your leaky gut diet. You should love yourself enough to not give into the peer pressure.

Odds are if you are out with others who are heavy drinkers, there is a good chance that they are suffering from chronic symptoms as well but they just aren’t ready or willing to deal with them yet.

Now that you have your leaky gut diet restaurant tips in hand you can enjoy a night out on the town without having to sacrifice your health or gut healing process.

If you haven’t already, be sure to check out these leaky gut diet tips to help you kick start the gut healing process.

To get some more leaky gut diet restaurant tips, watch this video – The Leaky Gut Diet Plan: What to Eat What to Avoid

Author Bio:

Karen Brimeyer is a nutritionist, functional medicine practitioner, and health consultant. She has helped over a hundred personal clients heal their leaky gut, digestive problems, lose weight, and resolve their chronic symptoms and conditions.

She is the owner of Optimal Self-Healing in Tampa Bay Florida, a private nutrition and health consultation business and author of the Leaky Gut Cure program.

Karen has worked with a wide variety of populations from new moms to athletes overcome their health problems and achieve optimal health.

Karen found her passion for nutrition as a teenager. While striving to achieve optimal health by following the widely accepted diet and nutrition tips of the media and conventional medicine, she found her own health declining rapidly with the development leaky gut which led to digestive problems and chronic fatigue.

Unwilling to accept her situation, she set out to determine the truth about health which led her through her own research as well as studying and working with some of the best holistic doctors and holistic practitioners in the fields of nutrition, functional medicine, and life coaching.

She has since applied her knowledge with herself to overcome her own leaky gut and achieve an unprecedented level of health and wellbeing. Her happy and healthy pregnancy and now two-year old son, TJ, are a testament to the health she has achieved.

To find out more about this program, click on Leaky Gut Cure

How to End Gluten Intolerance by Curing Your Leaky Gut?

 

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Gluten Intolerance – 1 of My Leaky Gut Secrets

I want to talk to you today about a single topic that pretty much revolutionized the success I get with my clients. When I started doing this with my clients, the effects were typically immediate. Not only was I getting better results, I was getting much faster results.

Sub-Clinical Gluten Intolerance

Many people are aware of gluten intolerance in the traditional sense of Celiac Disease which is a severe genetic autoimmune condition where gluten (found in wheat, barley, and rye) cannot be properly digested. This results in severe inflammation within the digestive tract that not only causes Leaky Gut Syndrome but also results in severe diarrhea, digestive pain, and fatigue.

But not many people are aware of a much lesser known problem referred to as Sub-Clinical Gluten Intolerance. The term “sub-clinical” means that there are no obvious signs and symptoms.

But while there are no obvious signs and symptoms, inflammation is still present but on a lesser scale. But this low grade inflammation can cause damage over years causing Leaky Gut and for your chronic symptoms to occur.

In fact, there was a large scale medical study run in the US on chronically ill patients that were unresponsive to medical treatments. The researchers believed that there could be a dietary connection and thus used saliva testing for sub-clinical gluten intolerance on several hundreds of these patients of which 85% tested positive.

Many times you can see a common pattern with people who suffer from sub-clinical gluten intolerance. Typically, as children they will suffer from allergies, asthma, reoccurring infections, a constant upset stomach, and milk intolerance. Then as they get older their symptoms will subside until they reappear later in life.

But don’t expect your doctor to diagnose you or to even understand what leaky gut and sub-clinical gluten intolerance really is. This is not widely known yet in the traditional medical community. And unfortunately, most doctors these days are not well educated when it comes to nutrition.

Gluten Intolerance Treatment

The only long term treatment for gluten intolerance is to avoid gluten. This is a genetic condition that cannot be healed or fixed so the only real option is avoidance.

And while avoidance of gluten is key, you will also need to heal your leaky gut in the process to reverse this long term damage so that your symptoms go away.

Eat This, Not That

Eat: Rice, corn, millet, quinoa, amaranth, oats (for most people), and buckwheat are all safe to eat.

Not: Gluten containing foods such as wheat, rye, barley, kamut, spelt, teff, and couscous that are typically found in bread, pasta, bagels, and cereals.

Bonus Tip

You can conduct your own test at home by completely removing gluten from your diet for a minimum of 2 weeks (longer is better) noting any improvements in your symptoms.

After your gluten-free trial period is over, re-introduce gluten containing foods in large amounts and note all adverse reactions. If any of your symptoms reoccur or worsen, you are likely exhibiting an intolerance to gluten.

If you find that you are intolerant to gluten and you want to start getting relief immediately then my program will reverse the damage and put an end to your symptoms.

For more ideas on how to end gluten intolerance by curing your leaky gut, watch this video – How Do You Heal From Gluten Damage and Leaky Gut?

Author Bio:

Karen Brimeyer is a nutritionist, functional medicine practitioner, and health consultant. She has helped over a hundred personal clients heal their leaky gut, digestive problems, lose weight, and resolve their chronic symptoms and conditions.

She is the owner of Optimal Self-Healing in Tampa Bay Florida, a private nutrition and health consultation business and author of the Leaky Gut Cure program.

Karen has worked with a wide variety of populations from new moms to athletes overcome their health problems and achieve optimal health.

Karen found her passion for nutrition as a teenager. While striving to achieve optimal health by following the widely accepted diet and nutrition tips of the media and conventional medicine, she found her own health declining rapidly with the development leaky gut which led to digestive problems and chronic fatigue.

Unwilling to accept her situation, she set out to determine the truth about health which led her through her own research as well as studying and working with some of the best holistic doctors and holistic practitioners in the fields of nutrition, functional medicine, and life coaching.

She has since applied her knowledge with herself to overcome her own leaky gut and achieve an unprecedented level of health and wellbeing. Her happy and healthy pregnancy and now two-year old son, TJ, are a testament to the health she has achieved.

To find out more about this program, click on Leaky Gut Cure

Gluten Sensitivity and Leaky Gut – Hidden Sources of Gluten

 

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Are you aware that there are a number of hidden sources of gluten in many of the foods you probably consider safe to eat?

The whole gluten-free movement is gaining a lot of ground lately and for good reason. People are beginning to see for themselves the positive effects that they experience just by removing gluten from their diet.

But are you truly gluten-free?

The sad truth is that gluten is still in many foods that you believe are gluten-free which is a big problem for many suffering from Leaky Gut Syndrome. And I’m only going to give you few here so keep in mind that there many more.

And if you have a sensitivity or allergy to gluten and you find yourself still reacting to certain grains or packaged foods then be sure consider the following hidden sources of gluten and remove them from your diet.

Hidden Sources of Gluten in All Grains

Probably one of the biggest hidden sources of gluten is grains. But I’m not just talking about wheat, barley, and rye which are the most commonly associated grains tied to gluten.

There’s actually some form of gluten found in all grains.

For example, the type of gluten found in wheat is called Gliadin. And it’s actually the Gliadin that is responsible for causing the food allergy and inflammation for those who are sensitive to wheat.

But all other grains still contain some type of gluten however most people are typically less sensitive to them. And notice that I said “less sensitive” because many people still do react to these other types of gluten even if they aren’t as severe.

Here’s a list of some grains and the type of gluten that they contain:

Grain	Type of Gluten
Wheat	Gliadin
Barley	Hordein
Oats	Avenin
Corn	Zien
Millet	Panicin

Hidden Sources of Gluten from Cross Contamination

Another very common problem with grains is that most are also cross contaminated with wheat gluten.

Most grains are all processed in the same facilities as wheat. And during the processing, there is always going to be cross contamination from left over residue.

This is also why most grains such as oats aren’t allowed to be labeled gluten-free unless they’ve been processed in a facility that does not process wheat.

Hidden Sources of Gluten in Sauces

Sauces are notorious for containing gluten and some you would never suspect.

The obvious sauces that contain hidden sources of gluten are those that have been thickened because wheat flour has been used as a thickener for a long time. A good example of this is with almost any homemade gravy recipe.

And you have to be careful when reading ingredients these days. Gluten is being hidden under different ingredients and thickening agents such as “dextrin” or “modified food starch” on many food labels.

But there are also other sauces that aren’t thickened that are still known to contain gluten because wheat was used at some stage during the processing and manufacturing.

Two good examples of this are most Soy Sauce and most Worcestershire Sauce.

Hidden Sources of Gluten in Seasonings

If you cook with herbs or spices, then you most likely have nothing to worry about. Well, besides some of the toxic compounds they put in spices but that’s a whole different discussion.

The much bigger problem is with seasonings which are a blend of herbs, spicing, and other agents. And it’s really the other agents that are the problem.

Most seasonings and seasoning packets contain some sort of thickening agent which as mentioned above, typically contains hidden sources of gluten.

So it’s always a good idea to make your own seasonings from scratch.

Hidden Sources of Gluten in Meats

I know what you’re thinking… Meat in general does not contain gluten however there are many different sources of packaged or processed meats that have hidden sources of gluten in them as additives.

In fact, many different deli meats are now beginning to carry the gluten-free label because so many are being found to contain gluten.

And the problem extends much further than just deli meats alone. Almost all processed meats are being found to contain added or hidden sources of gluten in the form of a filler or seasoning which is all the more reason to avoid anything that has been processed.

To know more about gluten sensitivity and leaky gut, watch this video – How to Heal Gluten Sensitivity | Gut Health

Author Bio:

Karen Brimeyer is a nutritionist, functional medicine practitioner, and health consultant. She has helped over a hundred personal clients heal their leaky gut, digestive problems, lose weight, and resolve their chronic symptoms and conditions.

She is the owner of Optimal Self-Healing in Tampa Bay Florida, a private nutrition and health consultation business and author of the Leaky Gut Cure program.

Karen has worked with a wide variety of populations from new moms to athletes overcome their health problems and achieve optimal health.

Karen found her passion for nutrition as a teenager. While striving to achieve optimal health by following the widely accepted diet and nutrition tips of the media and conventional medicine, she found her own health declining rapidly with the development leaky gut which led to digestive problems and chronic fatigue.

Unwilling to accept her situation, she set out to determine the truth about health which led her through her own research as well as studying and working with some of the best holistic doctors and holistic practitioners in the fields of nutrition, functional medicine, and life coaching.

She has since applied her knowledge with herself to overcome her own leaky gut and achieve an unprecedented level of health and wellbeing. Her happy and healthy pregnancy and now two-year old son, TJ, are a testament to the health she has achieved.

To find out more about this program, click on Leaky Gut Cure

Here is What You Can Do to Stop Constant Gas and Bloating

 

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Constant Gas and Bloating – Are You Tired of it Yet?

Odds are that you’re one of millions of people in the world that suffer from constant gas and bloating.

The first thing you have to understand is that this is in no way normal and actually one of the major contributing factors to poor health.

But the vast majority of people don’t quite get it. They continue to live through all of the embarrassing moments and discomfort without ever considering the impact that it is having on their health.

What’s the Cause of Constant Gas and Bloating?

The truth is that your body does need to produce a little bit of gas in order to maintain enough pressure to keep your intestines from collapsing. That’s just the way your digestive system was designed. But constant gas and bloating is a whole other story.

If your gut was healthy then every bit of food you eat is completely broken down by both stomach acid and the enzymes that you produce in your small intestines. Then your small intestines would also do the job of absorbing all of the nutrients.

But typically because of poor diet and lifestyle choices your ability to produce enzymes for digesting sugars and other carbohydrates becomes impaired. So many of the simple sugars and carbohydrates that you eat pass right through your small intestine and become food for the bacteria that normally live deep down inside your gut.

This literally creates a feast for the bacteria who continue to feed and multiply while eventually moving further and further up your digestive tract and soon become overgrown throughout the small intestines and stomach. And as these bacteria continue to grow they continue to impair your digestion even more and rob your body of much needed nutrients.

This process is often referred to as fermentation dysbiosis because these bacteria are actually fermenting the foods you eat. And this process is what produces the excessive gas that you have become so used to.

And as this cycle continues you find yourself not only dealing with constant gas and bloating but also the development of major gut dysfunction such Leaky Gut Syndrome and irritable bowel syndrome along with a condition known as carbohydrate intolerance.

What Common Foods Cause Constant Gas and Bloating?

There are many foods known to worsen gas production mainly because these foods are readily fermented by the existing bacterial overgrowth. Some of the worse foods are:

1. Lactose from Dairy Products

You are probably well aware of lactose intolerance but you might not realize that lactose is nothing more than a milk sugar that is feeding the wrong bacteria in your gut. This is because you have lost your ability to produce the enzyme (lactase) that is required to digest this sugar properly. This is most often due to damage within the digestive tract.

In fact, there is a strong correlation between lactose intolerance and gluten intolerance.

2. Sugar

This should be a no brainer. If you’re eating sugar, then it should be pretty obvious that you’re feeding the bad bacteria and this is only perpetuating your problem. In fact, in most cases of gut dysfunction you are unable to break down sugar disaccharides which is the food of choice for growing bacteria.

3. Gluten Containing Grains

Aside from the fact that wheat, like most grains, is digested and broken down into sugars, gluten containing grains cause additional problems. Many people unknowingly suffer from an underlying gluten intolerance that does nothing but create inflammation within the small intestines. And this inflammation only further inhibits your ability to digest the foods you eat leaving even more for the bacteria to feast on.

4. Processed Foods

Processed foods are nothing more than processed sugar and processed grains which again are the food of choice for the harmful bacteria in your gut. Plus, processed foods contain little to no nutritional value which only leaves you further malnourished.

What You Can Do to Stop Constant Gas and Bloating?

If you are serious about putting an end to your constant gas and bloating, then the most important thing you can do is to make some positive changes to your diet. If eating the wrongs foods is what got you in this situation, then eating more of the wrong foods surely isn’t going to get you out of it.

So the first and most important step you can take is to completely remove all of the foods mentioned above from your diet. It might seem difficult but you can’t there’s no point in fighting the bacteria if you just continue to feed it. You’ll also want to monitor your reactions to all grains, fruits, and starchy vegetables and remove any from your diet that contribute to your constant gas and bloating.

The idea is that you have to starve off the bacterial overgrowth in order to get your constant gas and bloating under control. Only then can you restore proper digestive function in order to keep these bacteria where they belong.

It can also beneficial to add carbohydrates to your diet that are high in Oligosaccharides such as chickory, onions, carrots, leeks, and asparagus. These can help feed the beneficial bacteria which will help keep the harmful bacteria at bay and provide you some well deserved relief from your constant gas and bloating.

With the help of the Leaky Gut Cure program your constant gas and bloating will be a think of the past because once you balance your gut and correct your dysbiosis then you’ll be back to digesting your own food in no time.

Watch this video to stop constant gas and bloating – How to Avoid Gas and Bloating – Toilet Talk

Author Bio:

Karen Brimeyer is a nutritionist, functional medicine practitioner, and health consultant. She has helped over a hundred personal clients heal their leaky gut, digestive problems, lose weight, and resolve their chronic symptoms and conditions.

She is the owner of Optimal Self-Healing in Tampa Bay Florida, a private nutrition and health consultation business and author of the Leaky Gut Cure program.

Karen has worked with a wide variety of populations from new moms to athletes overcome their health problems and achieve optimal health.

Karen found her passion for nutrition as a teenager. While striving to achieve optimal health by following the widely accepted diet and nutrition tips of the media and conventional medicine, she found her own health declining rapidly with the development leaky gut which led to digestive problems and chronic fatigue.

Unwilling to accept her situation, she set out to determine the truth about health which led her through her own research as well as studying and working with some of the best holistic doctors and holistic practitioners in the fields of nutrition, functional medicine, and life coaching.

She has since applied her knowledge with herself to overcome her own leaky gut and achieve an unprecedented level of health and wellbeing. Her happy and healthy pregnancy and now two-year old son, TJ, are a testament to the health she has achieved.

To find out more about this program, click on Leaky Gut Cure