Prebiotics for your microbiome

There is a lot of focus on taking probiotics to help get the good balance back in your gut with your micro-organisms. Sometimes specific probiotics are very helpful for different things, but sometimes they are not going to do so much as we have so many bacteria in our digestive tract that even a multi strain capsule can’t replace or increase.

Eating prebiotic foods is going to help you increase those good bacteria as they love these foods. The main prebiotic foods are garlic, onion, leeks and globe artichoke. But many other vegies are also great prebiotics such as your root vegetables like sweet potato, carrots, turnip, swede, parsnip and the old white potato. Having just one root vegetable every day is going to help feed and increase your good bacteria in your gut. If you haven’t really had anything besides potato and carrot, then play around with all the other ones as diversity is also the key to keeping your microbiome the best it can be.

Click here for some info I shared a while back on the sweet potato.