This is being touted at the next super food, due to its suggested benefits including everything from improved digestion, shiny hair and decreased joint pain. As the name implies, bone broth is made by breaking down animal bones by boiling them. However, there is no research to support these benefits. So consume if you enjoy it, but don’t let unsubstantiated claims make you believe it improves your health.

That being said, Sally Fellon with the Weston A. Price Foundation2 has previously Information has been published about bone broth and it's healing benefits. So let's take a look at the nutrition facts of bone broth.

First of all, bone broth that is homemade is great for speeding up healing and aids in recuperating from illness. You've probably heard that chicken soup helps cure a cold, and there is actual scientific proof for this statement.

Chicken carries a natural amino acid known as cysteine, which can loosen the mucus in your lungs reducing it's stickiness so it can be expelled more easily. Canned and processed soups are not as good as the homemade version which is made from slowly cooking the bone broth.

For the best results, you should make up a batch yourself (or ask someone to make it for you). If trying to heal a cold, make the soup hot as well as spicy with lots of pepper (to your taste). The spices will cause a release of watery fluids into your mouth, throat, as well as your lungs, which will help the respiratory mucus to thin down making it more easy to expel.

Stock carries minerals in a form that the body can easily absorb —not just calcium but phosphorus magnesium, silicon, trace minerals and sulfur. It contains material that is broken down from tendon and cartilage--stuff such as glucosamine and chondroitin sulphates, which are now sold as supplements for the relief of arthritis and joint pain and are quite expensive to buy.

The Healing Influence of Broth for Your Gut

Medical science has discovered that health depends in large part on how healthy your intestinal tract is. Many modern diseases appear to be due to an unbalanced variety of microorganisms in the digestive system, resulting from an unhealthy and unbalanced diet being too high in sugar content and too low in healthy fats and good bacteria.

Bone broth is great for healing your gut. Broth, also known as "stock", plays a key role as it's easy to digest, helps heal the lining in your gut, and contains important nutrients. Immune system abnormalities allow for the development of almost any disease...

Healing Benefits of Bone Broth

There are a lot of reasons for including good-old bone broth in your diet. The following benefits attest to its healing properties.

It helps promote healthy digestion: The gelatin in bone broth attracts and also holds liquids, digestive juices included, thereby assisting in proper digestion.

Wards of infection caused by the cold and flu viruses, etc

Reduces inflammation and pain in the joints, due to the presence of chondroitin sulphates, glucosamine, as well as other compounds found in the the boiled down cartilage

Anti inflammation properties: Amino acids such as glycine, arginine and proline, all fight inflammation. Arginine, for instance, has been known to be beneficial for treating sepsis5 (inflammation of the whole body).

Glycine may help you sleep better due to it's calming effects

Promotes strong bones: as a result of it's high magnesium and calium content as well as other nutrients

Promotes healthy nail and hair growth, due to the presence of gelatin.

Bone broth is a health addition to any eating plan.