What is the best way to cleanse the gut while also supporting your microbiome while on a budget?

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Rosanne Rust,MS,RDN · Answer

What is the best way to cleanse the gut while also supporting your microbiome while on a budget? So this question is about budget-friendly ways to cleanse your gut. The first simple answer is I do not recommend any kind of cleanse. Our guts are Missy business, but our microbiome is important. And what I recommend in terms of supporting a healthy microbiome, is eating foods that do that for you, unfortunately, all of the products that you see marketed as cleanse or gut cleanse or detox don't work, and they can be harmful. What I'd like to see you do is take a look at your diet. Eat more whole grains. Fruits and vegetables, Probiotic foods like yogurt with probiotics probiotics bacteria in them. So it's the fiber and the Probiotic foods. The idea of a gut cleanse is just a myth. It's really more complicated than that at any more questions to the comments and I'll answer them.

Dr. Emily Werner, PhD, RD, CSSD · Answer

What's the best way to cleanse the gut while also supporting your microbiome while on a budget? So the first thing to consider is that what are you currently eating and drinking? Because everything that we eat and drink is going to have an effect on the gut microbiome. So if you are eating a lot of saturated fats or highly processed foods, those are going to negatively impact the gut microbiome. So if you're looking for a cleanse, which I don't love the word cleanse, I think there's ways to optimize or get better at what we're doing. But the premise of a cleanse has the context of those juice cleanses that I just think are totally bogus. But the best way to, for lack of a better word, cleanse the gut and support your gut microbiome is to eat a variety of lean meats, whole grains, fruits and vegetables that have polyphenols and L-getanins and some probiotic foods like kombucha and kefir and fermented foods like sauerkraut. Those are the kinds of foods that are going to help your gut microbiome. And if you're on a budget, you don't need to be spending money on probiotic pills and those kinds of things. Try the naturally probiotic foods first.

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