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Welcome to this weeks Healing Stack! Your go-to guide for gut health, metabolic repair, and anti-inflammatory living.​
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Each week, get trusted low-carb tips, healing food swaps, and science-backed insights from the world of nutrition, wellness, and longevity.

From the Eat to Heal Guide:​
🥑 1 healing food
🔁 1 smart swap
⚡ 1 high-impact tip

Designed to help you:​
✅ Balance blood sugar (no more crashes)
✅ Reduce bloating, brain fog + inflammation
✅ Sleep deeper, focus better, feel calmer
✅ Regain control of your energy and mood - naturally

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🧈 Healing Food: Butter

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For decades, we were told to swap natural butter for margarine and “low-fat spreads.” That advice was built on flawed science and food industry marketing- not true health data.

Margarine is a highly processed, synthetic fat, usually made from cheap seed oils that are chemically altered through hydrogenation.
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This creates unstable, inflammatory fats your body doesn’t recognise- a far cry from real food.

The low-fat diet push of the 70s and 80s convinced millions that saturated fat was dangerous.
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But modern research shows the opposite: natural saturated fats are essential for hormone production, brain health, cell integrity, and stable energy.

✅ Butter’s Benefits:

• Rich in fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E & K2
• Contains butyrate — a powerful compound for gut + brain health
• Provides stable energy without blood sugar spikes
• Free from the industrial processing of margarine

Next week, I’ll be releasing a full video on butter vs. margarine, diving into the history, myths, and benefits in more detail.
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🔄 This Week's Smart Swap: Processed Sandwich Meats ➡️ Home-Cooked Sliced Meat / Tinned Wild Fish
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Most cheap sandwich meats (think ham, chicken slices, wafer-thin turkey) are highly processed.

They often contain:

• Nitrates and nitrites, which can form harmful nitrosamines in the body (linked to gut irritation and certain cancers).
• Seed oils and sugars, added to extend shelf life and improve taste- at the expense of your metabolic health.
• Fillers, preservatives, and flavour enhancers that keep the price low but can burden your gut and immune system.

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👉 A smarter, cleaner alternative is to buy a large joint of meat (like a whole chicken, beef joint, or pork shoulder) cook it yourself, then slice it for the week.

✅ Why it’s better:

• Fresher and minimally processed
• Free from additives and industrial seed oils
• Far better value per portion
• Higher nutrient density and cleaner fats
• Supports stable energy and gut health

🥫 You can also keep tinned wild fish (like sardines, salmon, or mackerel) on hand for quick, clean lunches packed with powerful omega-3s.
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💰 Energising your families bodies and saving you money at the checkout.
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⚡ 1 High-Impact Tip: When is it TOO much fruit?
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🍇 Not all fruit is your friend.

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Fruits high in fructose hit the liver hard- your body has to convert that fructose into glucose, and excess can drive fatty liver, insulin resistance, and inflammation.
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Stick to seasonal, low-sugar fruits (berries, citrus, kiwi) as your go-to.
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Treat the high-sugar ones (mango, grapes, bananas, pineapples) as rare extras.
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You don’t need fruit for antioxidants- you’ll find them in veg, herbs, spices, meats, fish, and even olive oil.
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Less sugar. More healing. 🌱