Nourish-ed Fermenting Foods Guide - HELEN PADARIN

Become the master of your own health with this fabulous, step by step guide to everything you need to know about making your own fermented foods at home! Written by two leading naturopaths and nutritionists Helen Padarin and Heidi East, who have extensive knowledge of healing the gut 'using food as medicine'.Cultured, or fermented foods have been part of most ancient cultures for many centuries. In times gone by, fermenting foods was a way to preserve them, so that one would have supplies of food during the sparse cold months. Fermented foods were revered as having healing properties. The word “kefir”, Turkish in origin, actually translates to “feel good”. We now understand why these foods are so beneficial to us. They are packed full of vitamins and minerals, enzymes to aid digestion (particularly proteins), beneficial bacteria (your homemade probiotic) and they have an alkalising effect on the body. I personally have had huge clinical success stories with patients with hayfever and allergies by using kefir as part of my prescription.

Al diseases begin in the gut - including the ever increasing amount of depression and anxiety. So make your kitchen a pharmacy and learn to use fermented food as your first medicine!