The Healing Benefits Of Bone Broth

One of the many warming and nourishing foods in my diet is Bone broth. Even during the summer I make this healthy broth. There are many healing benefits of bone broth from supporting your hormones to helping you recover from a cold. Now is the perfect time to make a bunch and freeze it for anytime you’re feeling under the weather, want some extra hormone support or just want to support your digestion.

Broth is a traditional food that your grandmother or great-grandmother used to make for it’s amazing healing properties. This is the original chicken soup! Bone broth is one staple we should all keep in our freezer to use when we are feeling a little under the weather and to sip on throughout the year to help support our hormones.

The Health Benefits of Bone Broth For Hormones

• Bone broth is very high in the anti-inflammatory amino acids glycine and proline. Amino acids are essential for hormone production and for the hormone detoxification process
• Bone broth helps support your digestive health which is essential to your hormonal health
• The calcium in bone broth is necessary for hormone balancing and liver detoxifying and collagen repairs our cells and tissues

The Health Benefits of Bone Broth For Digestion

• The gelatin in bone broth protects and heals the mucosal lining of the digestive tract and helps aid in the digestion of nutrients which is why it helps a leaky gut. (Leaky gut is a condition affecting the lining of the intestines which overtime untreated can cause digestion issues)

The Health Benefits of Bone Broth For Immunity

• By drinking this broth you can fight infections such as colds and flu
• Bone broth is of an excellent source of minerals which helps to boosts the immune system, improve digestion and allergies

The Health Benefits of Bone Broth

• The broth has a calming effect on our body which helps us have a better night’s sleep and more mindful day
• Bone broth is high in calcium, phosphorus and magnesium so it creates beautiful, strong and shiny hair, skin and nails
• It helps to reduce joint pain due to the glucosamine in bone broth, which can actually stimulate the growth of new collagen
• The calcium, magnesium, collagen, and phosphorus in bone broth help bones to grow and repair — the perfect weapon against osteoporosis

Healthy Bone Broth Recipe

Ingredients

• The biggest pot you own or a crockpot
• Two big bones from a beef or bison cut (you can use smaller bones if you have poultry)
• 2 Tablespoons of Apple Cider Vinegar
• 8-10 cups of filtered water (depending on the size of your pot)
• A few cloves of garlic
• 1 onion
• 2-3 organic carrots
• 2-3 stalks of organic celery
• Fresh parsley, rosemary or your favorite spices
• A dash of sea salt
• A dash of pepper
• 1 medium size ginger root

Directions

1. Cook the bones on 350 degrees for 15 minutes and then add them to the pot or crockpot
2. Add water almost to the top of the pot or crockpot along with the apple cider vinegar, spices, carrots, onion, ginger and garlic
3. Bring Broth to a boil and then reduce to a simmer and cook for 12-24 hours or cook on low for 24 hours in the crockpot
4. Within the first few hours of cooking the broth there might be a white film on the surface, you can use a spoon to take it off
5. Once the bone broth has finished cooking strain the broth and put the broth into mason jars. Once broth has cooled place the jars in the fridge or freezer. You can also put the bone broth into ice trays

Bones to Use for Homemade Broth

Always use high quality bones from organic grass fed cattle or bison and or pastured poultry. The quality of the bones is super important because you are basically pulling all of the nutrients from the bones to drink so you want to make sure you are using healthy bones from healthy animals.

Many local farmer’s markets sell high quality bones. If you live somewhere where there isn’t a market open right now, you can visit your local supermarket or butcher and request organic bones. It is always important to know that you are eating high quality foods, especially animal products.

If this is your first time making bone broth, I suggest starting with chicken or turkey bones. The broth will taste similar to your favorite chicken soup and is a good way to ease into drinking broth. This is usually the way that I make mine, but if you are comfortable with eating red meat then go for it with your broths. If you roast a chicken or turkey for dinner you can use those bones for your broth, which is what I do after Thanksgiving dinner.

You can freeze the bone broth in a mason jar, just don’t fill it to the top since liquid expands when it freezes and can break the jar, or pour the broth into ice trays and just reheat on the store.

I like to use the bone broth as an afternoon drink or in my soups and sometimes use the leftover veggies from making the broth in a soup.

Why Make Your Own Bone Broth?

Homemade bone broths are more nutritious than store-bought varieties. Many store bought broths are often highly processed, and high in sodium and additives and may also contain MSG and other additives. Plus, homemade bone broth simply just tastes better than anything you can find in the store. I make my bone broth in our crockpot by cooking it on low for 24 hours. If you just don’t have the time you can check out the only bone broth I buy the Kettle & Fire brand. You can try Kettle & Fire for 15% off using code KatieBressack.

I encourage you to try my recipe this week and start feeling the amazing healing benefits of bone broth. As always if you have any questions please reach out!

Blog post updated September 2021

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