The Gut Health Plate: How to eat fibre & probiotic foods without digestion problems

There's this specific kind of annoying meal. It looks like it should help your gut. But it's deceiving.

Eat more fibre, they said. (It will be fun, they said.)

So you load the plate, beans, a raw veg salad, a fibre bar, a fibre drink.

Then your stomach spends the evening feeling... triggered, is one word for it.

But you ate the right foods. They're supposed to be healthy. So why?

Here's the issue:

• A few different types of fibre exist, and they behave differently in the body, sometimes going exactly against what you're trying to do.
• We all have a different personal fibre tolerance level. If you're transitioning from processed foods to whole foods, the gut can react even to a small amount of fibre quite strongly.
• When we load on too many probiotic foods without context, the gut can get too overwhelmed rather than nourished.

Most of fibre related digestion problems start when your gut is not yet ready for that much work.

This can be for a number of reasons.

You can check your Fibre Tolerance level here:

💚 Fibre & Digestion: Not working as it should?

Fibre is supposed to help. So why does it so often make things worse? If you’ve ever: * Felt bloated, heavy, or uncomfortable after healthy meals * Noticed that beans, raw vegetables, salads, fruits or wholegrains don’t always sit well * Been told to “just eat more fibre”, and felt confused

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Next, the Advanced Gut Health Plate formula fixes the structure.

The goal

The goal is to give your gut the fibre and probiotics it needs to be healthy, without overwhelming it.

A nourishing gut health plate should do 5 things:

• Give you one main fibre source gentle enough to meet your current tolerance,
• Provide one prebiotic food,
• Provide one probiotic food,
• Add specific "carrier" elements to the meal that help support and carry the fibre.