How to garden YOUR GUT
About six years ago, Peter Kearns lay in a hospital bed wondering if he would ever be able to eat a normal diet again. He had been diagnosed with mild acute pancreatitis, triggered by years of fatty food, alcohol and an acidic diet. Antacid tablets were his friend, and he chewed them regularly throughout the day. That health scare made him review his diet and his lifestyle, to search for cures to enable him to live the life and eat the food he wanted to.
“I really thought I’d never be able to eat a lamb chop again,’’ he recalls.
In London, where he lived at the time, Peter searched the internet for ways to improve his gut health. He found that the only way was to have a diet that was as alkaline as possible. The answer? Fermented foods, especially sauerkraut, which is one of the most alkaline foods and is also high in the good bacteria known as probiotics (which, derived from Latin and Greek, means “for life”).
