Benefit of Eating Fermented Vegetable

Have you heard this quote: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT?

Is it true?

Have you ever wonder why I’m eating all the healthy organic food, a balanced diet, exercise,  have good spiritual health,  taking vitamin supplements,  I still have a problem with brain fog, constipation, and a heart problem? 

I was one of them. Why doesn’t the entire regular healthy rule work for me? It took me a long time to find out, using my scientific background, doing detective research to locate the answers, and to restore my health.

I would say: YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU EAT, BUT  WHAT YOU CAN ABSORB. The gastrointestinal health is important for our health.

I would like to talk about why Fermented Vegetables may help you improve and restore your health.

       STIMULATE THE SECRETION OF DIGESTIVE ENZYMES

Well, fermented vegetables naturally have organic acids, lactic acid, acetic acid. When eaten raw, the sour taste instantly stimulates secretion of saliva in the mouth, gastric acid in the stomach, and digestive enzymes from the gallbladder. All these digestive enzymes help to break down the food we eat into small units, which can absorb entirely inside our gut.

For example, Protein breaks down into amino acids, the building block of muscle. Fat and oil break down to essential fatty acids, which are the building block for our hormones, cholesterol, and blood vessels membranes.

FERMENTED VEGETABLES  CONTAIN  HIGH QUALITY,  EASY TO BE ABSORBED NUTRIENTS:

A human can’t digest cellulose, the outer layer of vegetable cells. Raw vegetables contain a high amount of phytic acid and oxalic acid, which bind minerals and may cause kidney stones. Fermentation helping break these membranes, and also break down phytic, and oxalic compound to turn these essential minerals into bioavailable form, easy to digest. These good microbes can digest the food humans cannot and produce vitamins: vitamin B complex, especially vitamin B12, and many another vitamin  A, D, E, and some amino acids. 

The most important vitamin in the fermented vegetable is vitamin K2.  It is essential for regulation of vitamin D for muscle, bone and heart health. Raw vegetables only have vitamin K1, which is also necessary, but we also need vitamin K2. Some amino acids produced by microbe are critical for mental health.  The fermented vegetable contains the much higher quality of nutrients than the raw vegetable.  With the fermentation process, we can increase the nutrient value of vegetables significantly.

 PROVIDE GOOD PROBIOTICS, WHICH HELP FURTHER DIGESTION AND SYNTHESIZE VITAMINS AND AMINOACIDS INSIDE HUMAN GUT

Our ancestors have been using fermented vegetables as a primary mean of food preservation. They don’t have to take any vitamins or special diets to stay healthy. Why we, in modern life, take a ton of vitamins and still don’t feel well? Why fiber foods and grains make us constipated instead of helping us? The answer can be very complex about MICROBIOME SYSTEM.  But I can say shortly:  IN OUR MODERN LIFESTYLE, WE INNOCENTLY OR ACCIDENTLY  DESTROY MOST OF THE GOOD HEALTHY PROBIOTICS INSIDE OUR GUT, by taking sterilized food, food with artificial colors& preservatives, taking antacids, proton inhibitors, antibiotics,  and GMOs food, etc.

When we ingest fermented foods, we also ingest raw bacteria.  which can stand high acid in stomach and small intestine, until they come to the dark, warm, neutral pH in our large bowel, the microbes thrive and start consume the waste we cannot digest and turn these scraps into these wonderful nutrients as we mentioned above. The most important part is that these wonderful vitamins and nutrients synthetizing inside our gut, and directly absorbed through the intestines to use immediately.

Therefore, taking fermented vegetables can save you a lot of money. Vitamin K2 supplement is very expensive.

Furthermore, these probiotics keep us healthy by balance our Microbiome system, keeping the harmful bacteria like H.Pylori, E.Coli, Botulism, Streptococcus, and Candida under control, and be useful.

For women health, fermented food with lactobacillus will keep the urinary tract from infection. A douche make from fermented vegetable juice can help clear Candida yeast infection better than an antibiotic. 

“Let food be your medicine” – the father of medicine Hippocrates had said 2000 year ago, still, works today in the view of the discovery of microbiology science.