Ep 86 : The Top Five Tips To Improve Your Gut Health

With Stephanie Polson

“There's much more to learn and a lot of research happening on what a healthy gut actually is. What it's starting to show us is that if your gut is healthy, then your overall well-being your overall health is pretty good.”

Stephanie Polson Top Five Tips To Improve Your Gut Health

1.  Increasing fibre consumption and how to do this in a way that makes you feel good

2. Get your liquids right (stay hydrated and what about alcohol?) 

3. Prebiotic fibre & resistant starch - two components of food you need to prioritise

4. What you need to know about probiotics & fermented foods

5. Mix it up! Get variety with your food

TIME STAMP SUMMARY

01:28 Why gut health is so important

05:10 Increasing your fibre consumption is crucial for gut health

13:22 Prebiotic are a great way to increasing good bacteria

23:24 Food diversity is the key to good gut health

Where to find Stephanie?

Website                   https://linktr.ee/up_statuss

LinkedIn                  https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-polson-upstatuss

Stephanie Polson Bio

Steph Polson is the Director and Lead Nutrition Consultant at up_statuss, a contemporary nutrition consultancy. Steph is a Registered Nutritionist in Australia and New Zealand and prior to up_statuss worked in Sanitarium’s nutrition department for 5+ years. 

She is a professional speaker being a full member of the professional speakers association NZ and associate member in Australia. Steph helps individuals with their health & nutrition, speaks at corporates, hosts the up_statuss podcast, advises food companies on their nutrition marketing, plus more! 

A highlight of her career so far has been helping ex-All Blacks on the television show “Match Fit” get their health back.