Raw diets & digestive health

You’ve heard about the risks of bacteria in raw food, BUT what about the risks with “STERILE” processed foods? 🔬🦠

We’ve been raised to fear germs, yet we pay billions of dollars a year to add them back into our bodies! 💰 Probiotic supplements, Greek Yogurt, Kombucha, Kefir, Kraut—all of these are praised as living, bacteria laden foods that help our bodies thrive! 🌿

Now there are “good” and “bad” bacteria, but bacteria is necessary for a healthy immune system and ESPECIALLY a healthy gut! ❣️There are several aspects of raw, fresh foods that promote a healthy gut, including:

👉🏻 Live Enzymes— Beneficial in SO many crucial aspects, enzymes are denatured (“killed”) at a low temperature and are nonexistent in all processed/cooked foods. 🔥

👉🏻 Whole Proteins— When proteins are cooked, they change structure drastically. This can make them unrecognizable to the body, and very difficult to digest. ❗️In fact, many animals that have intolerances to cooked proteins have no reaction to the raw form!

👉🏻 Live Probiotics!!- Human and animal bodies thrive only because of colonies of symbiotic “good” bacteria, Probiotics! 🦠The healthier that colony, the stronger the immune system and the lower the chance of “bad” bacteria getting a foothold. These bacteria also digest foods and produce essential nutrients!

Foods aren’t meant to be sterile! Sterile foods have long shelf lives, and are “safer” in the eyes of the FDA. But the truth is that Salmonella and other “bad” bacteria are living in you and your pets’ bodies right now, and have just balanced symbiotically without the chance to cause harm. 💞

Fresh, Raw foods are live foods! There are risks for bacterial contamination— but as long as you take the proper measures, then feeding your pets a raw food diet is no more dangerous than making yourself dinner 🌞

Get Fresh, Go Raw 🥩

Lauren Becks