“Give your puku some love before you change. It will love you back through your skin, movement and headspace .” - Inez

Intentional Gut Health for Beginners

• Keep your current diet the same while you ADD IN nutrients to your body

• Keep your current exercise the same, adding in one extra gentle walk per week. Just walk to the shop for crying out loud - no big gym plans or bootcamps.

• Sit down and drink your morning cup of tea quietly. Your stomach needs less stress

• Focus on feeding yourself more intentional, not less food

• Float, look up to the sky, spin around on a sunny day. The weight will drop off when the stress does

1. Month One - Cleanse the digestive system

The digestive system may be caked up, dry, tired and stressed. All of the little 'fingers' that are supposed to be absorbing your nutrients could be lying down and inefficient.

This stage is about cleaning it all out. Also giving you time to get used to it all, because you could end up crapping quite a bit. TRUST the process, your body should start to stabilise. I use these products https://modere.io/7M14cK

• Probiotic - Buy a probiotic to help populate your stomach and intestines with the good bacteria it needs to help digestion

• Fibre - Take a regular gentle fibre product to keep the encrusted food and tartar moving through your colon

• Greens - Add greens to your drink, yoghurt or smoothie. This will again move food and waste through your digestive system.

• Magnesium - this will help you sleep, relax muscle tension, help your digestive system to relax and therefore also contract better

• Drink 2 Litres of water a day plus a warm cup of tea or water first thing in the morning.

Give your body one month to get used to this cleanse. You may have sloppy poos at first because thats alot of new movement in your gut.

Allow the gut to let the probiotics populate in your stomach. Don't change anything else in your diet, except to have 2L of water.

This is me after 4 months of intentional supplementation with collagen, fats. Then I added in the cleanse stage.

I recommend starting with the cleanse stage 

2. Month Two - Continue the cleanse plus Collagen supplements

Now that your stomach is used to the first month cleanse, you can add more supplements like collagen. I use these products https://modere.io/7M14cK

• Lubricate and moisturise. Take collagen and a CLA source of fat. I use these first thing in the morning then wait 20 minutes

• The focus this month is add collagen and fats to allow your puku to absorb more 'moisturizers' and heal

• Start with just the morning, take your collagen dose plus fats. I use liquid Collagen from Modere and Shape as my source of CLA great fats including Condroitin and Hyaluronic Acid

2. Next cleanse and take your Probiotic, fibre, greens and magnesium mix plus your warm drink

3. Eat whatever you want for the day!

4. Start adding in fermented kai to your diet. Kimchi, saurkraut, rotten korn, yoghurts, kefir drinks, kombucha. Where possible start having more bone broth, boil up water, chicken soups (homemade from chicken carcasses)

3. Month Three - Increase your Collagen Supplements to twice a day

Repeat Step 1 above both in the morning and at night 2 hours after dinner and before bed. Don't repeat the Cleanse step though.

4. Month Four - Repeat everything above and now you can start thinking about changing your diet

Now that your stomach is nicely moisturised, your gut fauna is established and you're regular on the toilet - you can think about making changes to your diet and training. Your stomach is strong enough to handle the stress of change.

After 5 months I am seeing these results...

• My weight is down by 4 kilograms without even dieting, check out my little celebration video

• My joints and movement is fluid, doesn't cause me pain and my archilles tendon is no longer rupturing from walking

• This means I can now exercise so that I can get toned and lose more weight

• My skin is the best it's ever been

If you want to see my videos on making gut health a priority you can check them out HERE.

I also include dropdown lists of the kind of products you can get from the supermarket or from your food.