Want To Improve Your Gut Health? Follow These 4 Simple Food Hacks By A Fitness Coach

“Gut great, toh sab great,” could be a mantra we need to live by. After all, there is a proven gut-mind connection where your unhealthy gut health could impact your immunity and even mental health. So, it’s essential to load your body with probiotics, light, home-cooked food, sufficient protein and lots of nutrients. And if you suffer from poor gut health, then a fitness coach has shared four simple food hacks you can incorporate into your food routine.

Fitness Coach Shares 4 Simple Food Hacks

Fitness coach Ralston D’Souza, often takes to his Instagram handle to share useful food hacks and healthy lifestyle habits. His recent reel targets people who wish to improve their gut health in simple ways. Ralston’s first hack talks about adding a pinch of hing to dal. Asafoetida breaks down the complex carbs present in lentils, thereby reducing gas and bloating.

 

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Moreover, tempering mustard seeds and cumin seeds in hot oil before cooking is beneficial for your gut health too. How? Ralston explains that it releases thymol, which supports digestion. Also, thymol has anti-microbial properties. Another hack involves squeezing lime on cooked dal. Just as you guessed, which in turn leads to a 300% rise in iron absorption.

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Netizens Connect With Gut-Friendly Advice

Coming to South Indian cuisine fans, Ralston D’Souza advises them to ferment their idli batter for a longer time. The fitness coach explains that it increases the vitamin B and folate content of the dish. At the same time, it reduces anti-nutrients. So, this means consuming such long-fermented idlis would improve your gut health and nutrient absorption. More importantly, it’s easier to digest such food.

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Netizens agreed with Ralston D’Souza’s hacks and even exclaimed that they were aware of many of them thanks to their grandmothers. A commenter even exclaimed that hing needed to be added in the tadka instead of directly into the dal. Others wanted more clarity on the time needed to ferment idli batter. For that, we’d wait for the fitness coach’s next reel.

Meanwhile, how many of his hacks are you already following?

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