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What kind of beverages are you drinking throughout the day? Is it time to swap out a drink or two for something a little more nutrient dense with serious benefits for your health? After reading this post (don’t miss a word), I sure hope you’ll consider it. The drink discussed here helps to fill in some of the nutrient “holes” so to speak in the standard American diet. Who knows, you might even find it as addictive as I do!
The nutritional benefits of gelatin containing bone broth are astounding, but I will try to make this [fairly] brief.
Gelatin is the protein extracted from connective tissue of an animal’s bones, skin & cartilage. You can easily make your own gelatin at home (in the form of bone broth) by throwing chicken parts, bones, wings, feet, head, etc. into a crock pot with water and 2-4 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar left to stew for 12-48 hours. The vinegar pulls the nutrient rich gelatin out of the tissues (along with calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, sodium, & sulfur). This is why Grandma’s chicken soup has been attributed to helping a person heal (old school chicken soup was always made with gelatin rich bone broth). Traditionally, cultures around the world a focus on consuming the “whole” animal, muscle meats, organs and other tissues, creating a delicate balance of amino acids; the building blocks of protein in the body.
So why gelatin? Gelatin has a unique and very non-inflammatory amino acid profile, primarily consisting of glycine, glutamic acid, proline & alanine. These particular amino acids are lacking in the Standard American Diet, due to the heavy consumption of muscle meats and exclusion of the other 50% of the animal. Over time, this greater consumption can produce more inflammation when not balanced by non-inflammatory proteins like gelatin. Keep reading…