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But why?
To understand why bone broth is such a powerful healing tool, you need to know exactly how it works its magic.
Bone broth provides you an incredibly concentrated source of the vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and vital proteins your body needs to thrive (in fact, there may be nothing else on earth providing you such a powerfully concentrated source of these nutrients!)
Meanwhile…
When nasty microbes and other toxins — in everything from so many foods these days to environmental pollution — get too much control of your gut, it creates chronic inflammation that damages the lining of your stomach.
This allows all that toxic junk to leak into your bloodstream and body.
Your white blood cells then attack these intruders to try to stop them from further damaging your body.
If this “leaky gut” goes on for a long time, your body continues to overproduce white blood cells to try to keep the toxins at bay.
This leads to all of the chronic diseases and conditions mentioned above!
So here’s one of the most amazing things about high-quality bone broth:
It immediately starts to line your stomach with those concentrated vital nutrients and quickly begins the “protection process”…
It enables your body to start to heal rapidly and shut down the over-production of white blood cells!
But what’s the reality behind bone broth?
Is it just another fad like “low fat” or “fat free,” or is there something more that makes bone broth a legitimate health powerhouse?
Here’s where bone broth really starts to shine.
It’s not just some made up, corporate, committee-approved “health buzz word”
Not by a long shot.
In fact, bone broth has some amazing origins leading all the way back to the beginning of human-kind.
Bone Broth has been around since the very beginning… and for good reason.
You gotta give it to our ancestors, they really had their stuff together.
Archeologists have discovered evidence of man using hot rocks to crush and cook the bones of the animals they hunted for food.
This is the earliest indication we have that the nutrients contained in the bones themselves are crucial to our body’s overall health and well being.
With the advent of modern cooking, bone broths became staples in kitchens around the world.
From beef to lamb to chicken, every culture around the globe has some variation on a bone broth used not only in every day cooking, but also as a medicinal elixir to help heal sickness.
This is exactly why we’re so quick to make some chicken soup when we have a cold!
It’s not an old wives tale, it’s a proven healing liquid handed down over many centuries.
Chicken bones in particular have some interesting properties…
In 2000, Dr. Stephen Renard from the University of Nebraska did a study which confirmed that chicken soup reduced the movement of something called “neutrophils.” These are a type of white blood cell in your immune system.
By stopping the movement of these white blood cells, he noted that chicken soup actually can help decrease upper respiratory cold symptoms.
Of course, store bought “chicken soup” sure doesn’t cut it when it comes to actual healing. You have to make the real deal.
As with any other bone broth, chicken bones should be simmered for hours to pull out all the amazing nutrients, proteins, and amino acids hiding inside. (And they should come from healthy, naturally raised chickens!)
Take a look at the additional benefits of consuming bone broth on a regular basis:
REFERENCES
1). Bone Broth and Your Gut Health
As mentioned, gut health is emerging as key to your overall health and wellbeing, including protecting you from most of today’s most dangerous diseases. Bone broth contains some incredibly essential elements that make it very powerful in healing gut issues you may have. One of the main compounds that help gut health is the specific type of gelatin found in bone broth called a “hydrophilic colloid.” Studies have shown that gelatin in combination with collagen help line your stomach and create a barrier against toxins, allowing your stomach and intestinal lining to heal and reverse leaky gut syndrome.
Ref: Gelatin tannate reduces the proinflammatory effects of lipopolysaccharide in human intestinal epithelial cells http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358810/
2). Bone Broth Fights Inflammation
Grandma was right. Hearty homemade chicken soup, using a whole healthy chicken, bones and all, is considered “medicine” by many people for good reason. It’s also a bone broth, and scientific studies have actually proven that the ingredients in chicken soup not only have healing properties, they also act as an anti-inflammatory, reducing and minimizing the effects of chronic inflammation on your body.
Ref: Chicken soup inhibits neutrophil chemotaxis in vitro. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11035691/
3). Bone Broth Reduces Joint Pain
One of the main ingredients in bone broth that helps joint pain is collagen. For example, a study was conducted on people suffering from severe rheumatoid arthritis. Of the group that received type 2 collagen (from chicken), all participants reported a decrease in their joint pain and 4 of the subjects went into full remission after just 3 months. (Meanwhile, no subjects in the placebo group had any change in symptoms.)
Ref: 24-Week study on the use of collagen hydrolysate as a dietary supplement in athletes with activity-related joint pain. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18416885
4). Bone Broth Helps Keep Your Bones Healthy
The high quantity of calcium and magnesium in bone broth make it a home run for promoting healthy bones in your body. The slow cooking releases each of its vital minerals for bone health in a highly digestible and bio-available manner, making it ideal for strengthening your bones and protecting them from disease.
Ref: Taking Stock: Soup for Healing Body, Mind, Mood, and Soul https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/naughty-nutrition/201202/taking-stock-soup-healing-body-mind-mood-and-soul
5). Bone Broth Fights Food Sensitivities & Allergies
Bone broth is a true “natural wonder” for people with food sensitivities and allergies. Food allergies and sensitivities are tied to overall gut health. When the digestive system is leaking toxins into the bloodstream, it contains tiny particles of food as well. The body sees these foods as additional toxins to fight, and over time will react with more widespread and dangerous allergies. The gelatin in bone broth effectively blocks these particles from entering the bloodstream and reduces the occurrences of allergic reactions.
Ref: Gelatin: A protein rich superfood that conquers food allergies, insomnia, arthritis — plus much more http://healingthebody.ca/gelatin-a-protein-rich-superfood-that-conquers-food-allergies-insomnia-arthritis-plus-much-more/
3 Critical Factors to Get the Most Out of Bone Broth
Critical Factor #1: Here’s the most important factor: bone broth is NOT something that you can buy off the grocery shelf and expect to have any health benefits at all. Any so called “broth” you see on store shelves likely contains a large amount of preservatives, such as MSG — and zero of the nutrients — contained in the healthy form of bone broth.
Critical Factor #2: If you are going to make bone broth at home, it takes many hours and careful preparation to make properly. One thing that many people miss in the process is roasting the bones you’re using. This step not only adds flavor, but helps release the vital nutrients like proline, glucosamine, glycine and chondroitin sulfate. All of these are needed by the body to maintain optimal health.
Critical Factor #3: If you make your own bone broth, not adding vegetables and herbs will decrease the potency of your broth. One critical mistake many people make when starting to use bone broth is not adding a variety of herbs and vegetables to their broth while cooking. Adding beneficial herbs like turmeric, ginger, black peppercorns, rosemary and even cinnamon help leverage all the great healing power of your bone broth and enhance the potency (and the taste) of your broth.