Bone broth: from pre-historic drink to trendy beverage!
In fact, media outlets like Huffington Post and The New York Times are touting bone broth as the hottest health trend.
This delicious drink has gained even more popularity in recent years since the emergence of new diets like Paleo and Gap.
Bone broth is an ancient food touted for many health benefits
An ancient, traditional food; bone broth is touted for its health benefits. Many trained chefs and Michelin Star restaurants even use it as a base for fine cuisines. It’s extremely healthy, delicious, and turns many dishes into a real treat!
I’m not one to follow trends — I was drinking bone broth long before the hype. In fact, it’s been part of my daily routine for almost eight years.
Bone broth was my ally when I was chronically ill and exhausted
I started drinking broth after becoming chronically ill and exhausted. I was introduced to the Gaps diet*** by one of the many people I worked with during my search to recover from these health issues. To me, this bouillon was a medicine to heal my body.
Being introduced to bone broth really changed my life. I had a lot of collagen issues in my body and bone broth kept it under control somehow. I now consider it a food staple that I’ll continue to have for the rest of my life.
Recover gut and intestinal problems with bone broth
***The gaps diet, by Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride, is a diet derived from the SCD diet. Dr Campbell-Mc Bride adjusted her protocol to fit the health care urgencies of each particular patient, whether they suffered from neurological or intestinal conditions. She worked to restore imbalanced bacterial ecosystem within the gastrointestinal tract. I have read that this also helped many children with Autism.
Later down the line, I switched from the Gap diet to the Paleo diet. I quit all dairy, soy and ghee products and I was already following a gluten-free diet.
Get strong with bone-broth healing superfood
Bone broth is one of those super foods that you begin to appreciate with time. You suddenly realise the powerful benefits for your body, beauty, and wellness. It’s extremely nutrient-dense and also an excellent way to soothe your stomach during the day when you experience a little hunger. It is also great when you suffer from low glycaemia as I often do. Bone broth is the perfect drink to get energised again.
It’s important not to confuse homemade bone broth with store-bought, boxed soups, which are often toxic. They may contain gluten and are often full of bad salt, msg, and other preservatives you should not ingest.
Healthy bone broth: what our grandmothers and ancestors knew…
Before the industrial revolution and the invention of bouillon cubes, many families kept broth simmering on the stove all the time. This provided a natural base for soups and quick medicine when a family member was under the weather. In pre-industrial society, the preparation of the whole animal, including the use of bones for broth, was customary.
Our great-grandmothers would probably laugh at the idea that bone broth is a popular drink today since they’ve been using it for decades. They knew how easy, healthy, inexpensive and tasty broth was, and what a versatile source of nutrients it is. This nutrient dense liquid is rich in proteins, gelatine and contains trace amounts of minerals too.
There are so many different kinds of bone broth including fish, beef, chicken, lamb and more, which are the basis of many fine cuisines. They have been staples of traditional diets in every culture.
Best way to make bone broth
The best way to eat fresh broth is by making it yourself from organic grass-fed beef, bison, lamb, beef feet (excellent for gelatine) or chicken. Other animal parts (that you can’t eat directly) may also be added. Bones with marrow, skin, feet, tendons and ligaments can simmer over a period of days. The long-simmering process allows easier assimilation and digestion of protein-rich collagen, vital minerals, amino acids, glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate and other compounds. I simmer my broth on a very low fire, with lots of garlic and Himalayan salts, for approximately 48 hours.
Bones can usually be purchased at a low cost. Some butchers even offer it for free.
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