Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life (The Dr. Mark Hyman Library Book 11)

by Mark Hyman

Remove potential allergens and inflammatory foods. This is usually called an elimination diet. The top culprits are gluten, dairy, sugar, and alcohol. Grains and beans are next for many. Food additives, especially emulsifiers and thickeners, sugar alcohols, and artificial sweeteners are the worst. 2. Stop gut-busting drugs, including NSAIDs like ibuprofen or aspirin, antibiotics, steroids, and acid blockers. These may be needed from time to time for short-term symptom relief, but should not be taken long-term. 3. Test for and treat parasites and overgrowth of bad bacteria and yeast. See Chapter 13. 4. Replenish digestive enzymes with digestive enzyme tablets or capsules. 5. Take prebiotic supplements and eat prebiotic foods, including plantains, artichokes, asparagus, seaweed, jicama, dandelion greens, onions, and radicchio. 6. Support the microbiome with probiotics. There are many important probiotics that can help support different aspects of gut health and disease treatment. See youngforeverbook.com/resources for probiotic options. You can also increase probiotic foods such as miso, natto, tempeh, kimchi, sauerkraut, yogurt, and pickles. 7. Increase intake of polyphenols that support the microbiome: pomegranate, cranberry, green tea, curcumin, olive oil, and prickly pear—in fact, any colorful plant food. 8. Consider using bovine immunoglobulins (like colostrum) to support gut healing. There are dairy-free versions as well. 9. Try Gut Food, a product I created that conta...