A Complete Guide to Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Your Microbiome

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Welcome to Episode 5 of the Be Organic Podcast
The majority of our health problems, from depression and anxiety to constipation, bloating and weight gain, can boil down to the health of our gut microbiome. In today’s episodes, guest Dr. Marvin Singh dives into what our gut microbiome is and what is causing it to become unhealthy. Plus, he gives a comprehensive guide on how to use probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics to not only heal our gut but maintain a healthy gut microbiome long term. You’ll also get a deep understanding of what probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics are and exactly how to include more into your daily diet.
Dr. Marvin Singh is an Integrative Gastroenterologist whose wellness philosophy is that each human being has a unique blueprint that is affected by a variety of factors such as DNA, microbiome, diet, immune system, hormones, and environmental exposures. He strives to decode that blueprint to find the answers we seek regarding health, wellness, longevity, autoimmunity, inflammation, and weight loss. When decoded, you have the key to understanding what you’re made up of, helping you determine how to eat, exercise, and take care of yourself in the best way possible. What You’ll Learn:
  • What your gut microbiome is
  • Why it’s important to have a healthy microbiome
  • The relationship between your gut microbiome and your weight
  • The correlation between your gut microbiome and your brain, and how it affects your mood, depression, anxiety, and energy levels
  • Symptoms and effects of an unhealthy gut microbiome
  • What is causing an unhealthy gut microbiome
  • What probiotics are and how they benefit your gut
  • The best way to consume probiotics
  • Foods that contain probiotics
  • What to look for when choosing a probiotic supplement and how to select the right probiotic for you
  • The best time of day to take a probiotic
  • Hacks for getting the most out of your probiotics supplement
  • What prebiotics are and why they are beneficial
  • Foods that contain prebiotics
  • How to know you are getting enough prebiotics daily
  • How to include more prebiotics in your daily diet
  • What diet is best for building a healthy gut microbiome

Find more from Dr. Marvin Singh:

Website: https://drmarvinsingh.com

Instagram: @drmarvinsingh Podcast: Precisione: the Healthcast

Balance Your Hormones Naturally With Seed Cycling

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Welcome to Episode 4 of the Be Organic Podcast

It’s common for women to complain about their hormones being out of whack. And doctors love to use birth control as the solution to the problem. But birth control is merely covering the symptoms and not actually treating it.

So if you feel your hormones are all over the place, or you are struggling with PMS, PCOS, irregular periods, acne, breast tenderness and maybe even post-birth control syndrome, you may want to consider seed cycling. It’s a natural remedy used for bringing your hormones back into balance.

How it works? The first half of your menstrual cycle, focus on consuming 1-2 tablespoons of flax seeds and raw pumpkin seeds daily. And for the second half, focus on consuming 1-2 tablespoons of sunflower seeds and sesame seeds.

To learn more, tune into the full episode where host Kat Eckles gives you a quick breakdown on seed cycling–sharing all the amazing health benefits, as well as how to get started.

What you’ll learn:

  • What it means to seed cycle
  • Why your menstrual cycle causes hormonal imbalances
  • How seed cycling works to balance your hormones
  • What seeds you need to cycle for optimum hormone balance
  • How to get started with seed cycling
  • How to easily incorporate these seeds into your daily diet


For more information, check out this post by Dr. Jolene Brighten.

 
**While we absolutely love discussing wellness and nutrition with our expert guests, you should talk to your physician or other medical professional before making any dietary changes.  They can assess your specific needs and come up with a plan that works best for you.**

Optimizing your Metabolism and Digestion, and the Negative Effects of Over-Exercising with Courtney Bursich

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Welcome to Episode 3 of the Be Organic Podcast
 
How many times have you heard the secret to weight loss is eating less calories than you burn? Now let us ask you this: How successful has this tactic been for helping you not only lose weight, but helping you keep the weight off long-term? Most likely your answer is not very successful. That’s because weight loss is much more complex than simply burning more calories than you consume. Long-term, this approach will kill your metabolism, disrupt your digestion, and prevent you from losing weight.
 
In this episode of Be Organic, hosts Kat and Landon Eckles chat with Courtney Burisch on the important factors that play into weight loss–most importantly your metabolism and digestion. Courtney dives into what is causing your slow metabolism and digestion, the serious roll over-exercising plays, and what you can do to ensure the two are optimized.
 
Courtney Bursich is a certified health coach who has an obsession with finding the best ways to beat disease and live our best lives. If you are tired of the modern-day approach to healthcare, and the limiting mindset of “diet” culture, then Courtney is your girl!
 
What is discussed in this episode: 
Why weight loss more than just calories in/calories out
  • The damage “calories in/calories out” mentality does to your body
  • What causes a slow metabolism and poor digestion
  • Why exercising more is preventing you from losing weight
  • The problem with the keto diet
  • Why it’s okay to eat more carbs
  • How fasting boosts your metabolism and improved digestion
  • Lifestyle changes you can make for optimizing your metabolism and digestion
Find more from Courtney:
 
Instagram: @organic_blondie

5 Surprising Things Disturbing Your Sleep

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Welcome to Episode 2 of the Be Organic Podcast  Most of us feel like we aren’t getting enough sleep. Regardless of how tired we may feel, we can’t seem to get our mind to stop racing or our body to wind down. If this sounds like you, you’ve most likely already tried cutting out caffeine in the afternoon, exercising more to tire out your body, and probably all the other generic fixes that are recommended to us that just don’t seem to work. So what are your next steps? It’s time for you to think about what else you’re doing in your day-to-day life that might be affecting sleep. In this episode of Be Organic, Clean Juice’s founder, Kat, shares five things that may be affecting your sleep that you’ve probably never thought of before!  In this episode you’ll learn:
  • The ingredient in your skincare products that’s keeping you awake at night
  • The problem with today’s technology and what to do about it 
  • The supplement you shouldn’t be taking at night 
  • The vitamin deficiency you may have that’s altering your sleep 
  • Why you need to reduce your exposure to a certain type of radiation and how to do it

How Inflammation Causes Weight Gain, Anxiety, and Gut Issues

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Welcome to Episode 1 of the Be Organic Podcast Did you know symptoms like IBS, bloating, constipation, difficulty losing weight, hormonal imbalances, depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, frail hair and nails, skin issues, and brain fog are all linked to inflammation? Most often when someone chronically experiences these symptoms, they work to treat the symptom itself, rather than treating the root cause of the symptom–which most often is inflammation. In this episode of Be Organic, Dr. Will Cole chats with us on what’s causing our inflammation and also provides us with a step-by-step process on how to heal, including what foods to avoid, supplements to use, lifestyle practices to adopt, and ways of eating to explore. Dr. Will Cole is a leading functional-medicine expert and a Doctor of Chiropractic. Dr. Cole specializes in clinically investigating underlying factors of chronic disease and customizing a functional- medicine approach for thyroid issues, autoimmune conditions, hormonal imbalances, digestive disorders, and brain problems. Dr. Cole was named one of the top 50 functional-medicine and integrative doctors in the nation and is a health expert and course instructor for the world’s largest wellness brands such as Mindbodygreen and Goop. Plus, he is the author of two outstanding books: “The Inflammation Spectrum” and “Ketotarian.” What’s discussed in this episode: 
  • The most common symptoms of inflammation
  • How inflammation is deteriorating your health
  • How gut inflammation is stopping you from losing weight
  • The four main foods that trigger inflammation
  • Other common health foods that can lead to gut inflammation
  • What to look out for when eating certain health foods to avoid inflammation
  • Specific vitamins and supplements that will calm your inflammation and help your gut heal
  • Dr. Will Cole’s plant-based approach to the Keto diet which is beneficial for reducing inflammation
  • How intermittent fasting can help calm your gut inflammation and the benefits for your overall health
Find more from Dr. Will Cole: Website: drwillcole.com Instagram: @drwillcole Books: Ketotarian, The Inflammation Spectrum  

Not Feeling Yourself? We’ve Got the Juice For You!

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Feeling down or sick? We’ve got fruit + veggie power that is calling your name!

To prevent reduced nutrient levels and preserve our ingredients’ natural nutrition, Clean Juice uses a cold-pressed juicing technique that crushes and gently presses our fresh, organic produce into refreshing juices. Because Clean Juice’s cold-pressed juices are intended to deliver as much nutrition as possible, we don’t use HPP or any other pasteurization method that will alter the integrity of the nutrition in our juices. This means that all of those powerful nutrients can provide the maximum benefits to your body!

Tired?

There are many reasons for feeling drained: bad sleep, low blood sugar and even a lack of exercise. Chronic fatigue may be an indicator of a nutrient deficiency that can easily be remedied by following a clean diet with well-rounded ingredients. Cashew Milk Latte and Cacao Milk are our favorite cold-pressed juices to beat the sleep! 

Many people suffer an energy crash in the mid-afternoon and may lose concentration and begin to feel tired. One key contributor to the dreaded afternoon slump is a caffeine crash. Coffee has a temporary energy-boosting effect that can make you feel super productive and focused in the morning, but when the caffeine wears off, you could be left feeling lethargic, and your mood might even suffer.

Cashew Milk Latte and Cacao Milk are two healthy and nutritious coffee alternatives that won’t cause you to crash. In addition to their energy-boosting benefits, they both contain antioxidant-rich nutrients, which are beneficial to your long-term health. The cacao nibs found in both Cashew Milk Latte and Cacao Milk are rich in iron, an essential trace mineral needed to produce hemoglobin, which is what your red blood cells use to deliver oxygen throughout the body. One of the key symptoms of iron deficiency is fatigue. Drinking a Cacao Milk cold-pressed juice can quickly give you the surge in iron you need to combat your sleepy state!

Similarly, cashews are also a natural fatigue-fighting food. Cashews are rich in copper, a trace mineral needed for the metabolization of iron. Cashews can help boost energy and even improve blood vessel strength, which improves circulation and helps keep you alert and active. (1)

Sinus Trouble?

Feeling congested? Sinus trouble be gone with an Orange, Yellow, or Green cold-pressed juice!

Whether you’ve got a cold or flu or you’ve come down with a sinus infection, your immune system needs all the support it can get. As you start to get sick, many people find sinus issues as the first symptom. Getting these signs under control can help prevent full-blown sinusitis!

When you feel congested, the tissues along your sinuses are inflamed or swollen, which leads to an infection. The more inflamed these tissues become, the more mucus builds up, as the sinuses are unable to be drained thoroughly. If you’re feeling stuffed up, drink lots of fluids to stimulate the thinning of mucus and the draining of your sinuses.

There are also natural ways to reduce the inflammation and boost your immune system so you can breathe again and prevent a severe infection. Orange, Yellow and Green cold-pressed juices have immune-enhancing and anti-inflammatory ingredients that will target your troubled sinuses and encourage decongestion!

Yellow and Green both have lemon—a major source of the immune-boosting nutrient, vitamin C. Green has ginger, which not only helps with immune support, but it can reduce inflammation in your sinuses too. Similarly, the cayenne in Yellow is another powerful natural decongestant that will help clear your nasal cavities.

Orange is another reliable source of vitamin C, but this cold-pressed juice also contains turmeric, one of mother nature’s best anti-inflammatories that can reduce sinus swelling and clear up your stuffy nose. (2)

Headaches?

Headaches can be painful and debilitating, especially when they don’t seem to want to let up. Healthy diet and lifestyle practices may help prevent headaches and our mineral-rich Cashew Milk Latte may help as well!

Headaches are a highly personal condition, triggered for different reasons in different people. Primary headaches (those that aren’t a symptom of another underlying condition) can be caused by muscles strains in the head and neck or dilated blood vessels around that skull. Both of these add pressure to the head, resulting in a pounding sensation. Stress, caffeine, diet and many other factors may contribute to headaches.

Cashew Milk Latte cold-pressed juice is a magnesium-rich drink that can relieve and prevent headaches. Both cashews and cacao nibs in the Cashew Milk latte contain high amounts of magnesium, which can give you the mineral boost you might need to relieve your headaches. Our Cashew Milk Latte cold-pressed milk contains cinnamon. Many studies have shown that cinnamon has powerful anti-inflammatory benefits, including potentially reducing inflammation that causes headaches!

Stomach Unrest?

Experiencing digestive issues? You can regulate your gut health with one of our Pink or Orange cold-pressed juices.

Stomach unrest may be attributed to an imbalance in your gut microbiome. Within your intestines, there are hundreds of different bacteria, and having a proper balance between the good and bad ones is critical. A healthy gut microbiome keeps your immune system in check. An over-stock of bad bacteria is linked to mental health issues, mood, autoimmune diseases, skin disorders and much more.

Balancing your gut health is dependent on what you do and don’t eat. Diets rich in probiotics, fiber and antioxidants can help promote gut health by balancing gut bacteria, eliminating more waste and repairing and healing damaged cells in the digestive tract.

Clean Juice’s Orange and Pink juices can help achieve exactly this. Our Orange juice is a blend of oranges, carrots and turmeric. Both oranges and carrots are high in fiber to help promote healthy bowel movements and the elimination of toxins. Turmeric is an anti-inflammatory that may help address inflamed digestive tract tissues. Pink juice is made with pitaya—dragon fruit powder—which is a natural prebiotic to help bring a balance in your gut microbiome.

Aches and Pains?

Aches and pains got you struggling to stay active? Orange or Gold cold-pressed juices have got you covered.

Aches and pains happen for a variety of reasons. If any of the moving ligaments, muscles, or bones become inflamed or worn out, it can cause your joints to ache. When your joints experience excessive wear-and-tear or inflammation, it’s important to nourish your body with plenty of antioxidants to help heal and repair damaged cells and tissues, preventing further deterioration in your joints.

Both Orange and Gold offer anti-inflammatory and antioxidant nourishment. Orange’s primary ingredient (you guessed it – oranges) is a super source of vitamin C—an immune-enhancing antioxidant. Researchers have linked diets high in vitamin C with reduced inflammation and healthier joints. Both of our Orange and Gold cold-pressed juices contain turmeric, a spice with anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties. Gold also contains cashews, which are a rich source of magnesium for natural relief of muscle stiffness!

Sore Muscles?

Had a hard workout and now you’re recovering? Muscle soreness is a natural byproduct of strenuous activity. But you can heal sore muscles faster with a few great cold-pressed juice options like White, Celery and Red.

The point of working out is to get stronger. And to get stronger, you need to increase the intensity of your activity and perform exercises you’re not used to. As you exercise more intensely, your muscle fibers and connective tissues develop microscopic tears, and they become inflamed. If you feel sore the next day or two following intense or strenuous activity, it’s because your body is repairing itself. This Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) is a normal and expected consequence of the physical stress you put on your body. But you can get over the soreness faster with the right nutrients that help repair stressed muscles and tissues. 

To heal sore muscles, you want to control inflammation, nourish your tissues and stay hydrated. Thankfully, nutrient-rich and hydrating cold-pressed juices can deliver all these benefits and more to help you overcome muscle soreness.  

White is a post-workout recommendation because it contains protein from cashews that help repair your muscle fibers. It also delivers lots of minerals from Himalayan pink salt to replenish your electrolytes. Celery juice also provides intense hydration and contains several phytonutrients with anti-inflammatory properties to ease muscle swelling. Finally, our Red juice is a workout recovery must-have thanks to its beet content. Beets contain nitrates, which help reduce muscle inflammation and soreness, allowing you to recover faster.

Heart Health

Protecting your heart health is critical to your longevity. The health status of your heart has a lot to do with how often you exercise and what you consume. Our Celery, Gold and Cacao Milk cold-pressed juices have the cardio-protective properties you need to keep your ticker in tip-top shape.

Certain foods are heart-healthy in that they perform functions like reducing inflammation, stabilizing blood pressure and balancing cholesterol.

Celery juice, for example, may help to lower blood pressure. Celery contains phytonutrients that promote the relaxation of arterial walls, which improves blood flow and reduces blood pressure. Celery has other nutrients that are good for blood pressure, such as magnesium, potassium and fiber.

Gold juice also has blood pressure-regulating properties, thanks to its turmeric content. Tumeric has been studied extensively for its heart health benefits, and researchers suggest that compounds in turmeric can help improve blood vessel function and even prevent clots. Gold also contains cashews, which may help to balance your good and bad cholesterol levels. Cacao Milk gives you a dose of cinnamon, which has been linked to a lower risk of heart disease. Similarly, cacao nibs are also packed with flavonoids—an antioxidant linked to heart disease prevention. (7)

Mental Clarity

Can’t seem to concentrate or feeling too overwhelmed to focus? Fuel your brain with our Green or Sweet Green cold-pressed juices.

Most people experience difficulty concentrating from time to time, either from being over- or under-stimulated. Striking that balance is critical to sharper focus and better memory retention. Mental clarity is often tied to factors like diet, exercise and stress. If any of these aspects is off, it can impact your ability to focus, sending you into a state of brain fog. Limited physical activity can decrease circulation and oxygen flow to the brain. Too much stress can overwhelm you and prevent you from being able to focus on one thing at a time. And certain foods—especially heavily processed ones—cause inflammation in the brain.

Improve your mental clarity with one of our two green juices. Both Green and Sweet Green contain two brain-boosting leafy greens—spinach and kale. Studies have found that eating leafy greens improves cognitive function. Spinach and kale are both rich in antioxidants. The nutrients found in kale and spinach help reduce oxidative stress. Both spinach and kale have been shown to help reverse age-related damage to the brain that’s associated with cognitive decline. Fueling up on both Green and Sweet Green can have anti-aging benefits for your mind to improve your mental clarity. (8)

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