It’s important to take good care of your gut as it maintains your immune system. Drinking beverages that are unsuitable for your gut can have damaging side effects. Artificial sweeteners, sugar, acid, and many other unhealthy ingredients can disrupt your digestion.
Here are some drinks that can help maintain a healthy gut.
Sweet Ice Tea
Sweetened iced tea and lemonade are examples of drinks with added sugar that are terrible for the health of your gut. A high-sugar diet promotes inflammation and disrupts the balance between the good and bad microbiome in your gut. Both of which are detrimental to your health.
Sugary Juice
Juice produced with added sugar is something you should moderate to keep your gut healthy. Most of these drinks are packed full of sugar, but have no nutritional value. This affects your gut microbiome balance and makes it favor bad bacteria.
Energy Drinks
Energy drinks are high in caffeine, which causes gastritis, diarrhea, inflammation, and increased gut motility.
Coffee
Coffee increases your gut motility, thereby triggering diarrhea and dehydration. Coffee can also have you dashing for the toilet, as it’s a mild diuretic.
Soda
If you have IBD or IBS, you shouldn’t drink the refined sugars found in sodas, as this can cause gastrointestinal distress. High sugar consumption negatively affects the gut microbiome.
Alcohol
Drinking too much alcohol on a regular basis will create an imbalance with your gut bacteria, promoting an overgrowth of bad bacteria, which causes inflammation.
