Can treats heal your gut?

Can you have your cake and heal your gut too?

Yes!

I’ve spent the last year creating recipes for people with digestive issues. Working with my IBS clients, I realized there was a need for a cook book that addresses eating for biome support, foods that boost digestion, what foods are safe foods (and for who) and what ingredients encourage digestive healing.

Food can be medicinal if you use it right. In addition to more than 60 recipes, I’ve written a digestive guidebook that explains more about nutrition for specific gut conditions.

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Not your typical cookbook

Treats that heal is for people who suffer with digestive issues, diabetes, food intolerances and inflammatory conditions. It offers ways to celebrate and treat yourself when you’re not quite sure what to eat.

This goes far beyond a typical low FODMAP cookbook. While most of the recipes are FODMAP-friendly or contain FODMAP substitutions, I use the recipes to educate on how to support the gut with food, lower inflammation and even ease a digestive flare.

There’s no one size fits all diet, but understanding how different spices, flours and fibers interact with the gut will replace food anxiety with food knowledge. Anxiety around food can compromises digestion so it’s an important piece of the healing puzzle.

I’ve developed recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert that are free of gluten, dairy, peanuts, corn, soy and most grains. And will help you to eat your veggies painlessly. Great for kids (of all ages).

Solutions to under eating and restricting

Clients come to me confused about what to eat and fearing food. Sometimes people cut out foods after reading that they could be bad. As a result, they under eat or restrict too many foods, which can cause problems with hormones, the adrenals and thyroid, as well as stressing and starving beneficial bacteria, which decreases immunity. Your biome directly supports immunity, which protects from pathogenic invasion and overgrowths.

Treats that Heal encourages you to eat more food and the right ones.

Deprivation can also lead to binging. Discipline requires massive energy, which can often run out. My recipes offer healthy replacements for foods you miss. Substituting can be your best bet against binging.

For example, substitutions like my grain free English muffins (two versions) and Paleo sandwich bread.

If your food restrictions have you thinking “What’s left to eat?” This book will provide options.

There are lots of recipe options for people who don’t tolerate sugar, FODMAPS, grains and common allergens like corn, peanuts and soy. There are also many egg free options. And great treats for people struggling with candida (yeast overgrowth).

Have a problem with nuts? I have recipes with cassava, tiger nuts or homemade seed flours.

Food is social and emotional

Food is social. The holidays are a particularly tough time for people. Now you can bring your own treats to the party, so you can celebrate with compliant treats.

Gut healing protocols typically require a commitment of between 6 to 18 months, so making your diet sustainable instead of restrictive will keep you from living up or giving in.

No more food fear and deprivation

This cookbook is part recipe ideas, part food therapy.

And my remedy for deprivation, fear and confusion around food. A way to find pleasure from food again without increasing inflammation.

Food increases inflammation or helps tame it. Pleasure around eating lowers stress and boosts digestion.

This book is coming out during the strange and scary time of the corona virus, with a world wide focus on immune health. Many of my recipes are geared towards supporting immunity.

Coconut is great at fight pathogens. It is antibacterial, antiviral and anti fungal, with good fats for hormone support. It’s tolerated in small amounts by some FODMAP folks.

My elderberry compote is a great way to keep your immune system strong all winter.

And yummy energy balls protect from parasitic invasion and add immune-supporting zinc with pumpkin seeds. There’s a vitamin C-rich orange bar (both a regular and egg free version). And I teach you how to add collagen to your treats.

Most of the treat are very low to no sugar and did not spike my diabetic husband’s blood sugar.

Sugar disrupts immune function. The immune cells that attack pathogenic bacteria are compromised for a few hours after consuming sugar. Sugary drinks like juice are some of the worst offenders.

My treat book offers immune and digestion supporting beverages that tame inflammation, supports digestion and hit the spot. Stress busting hot chocolate, liver supporting detox drinks and creamy tea lattes teeming with polyphenols to feed the beneficial bacteria.

I explain the benefits of each ingredient, like ginger, cinnamon, coconut, green tea, prebiotic fibers, cocoa, collagen, carob, elderberry, cranberries and resistant starch.

There are even a few no-bake recipes, including a low FODMAP Lara Bara and two-ingredient cookies with no sugar added.

yesThere are even healthy breakfast replacements for people who miss standard fare like toast, donuts, pancakes and cereal. Yes, food and breakfast can be fun again.

My favorite antiviral breakfast recipes is mycoconut bars/bites that can be prepped in minutes.

Below is a sneak peak of the table of contents.

The cookbook also comes with a 29-page digestive guide to expand your knowledge of gut friendly, biome-building nutrition and how to support digestion and fight pathogens with food-based ingredients.

Happy to answer any questions about the cookbook, recipes or substitutions and eager to hear you feedback .

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