Due to When it’s cold out it may be obvious to cook up some warm broth. After reading this, you may consider adding broth to your diet, rain or shine. It is a stock made from boiling animal bones and connective tissue. This is done to extract the vitamins and minerals and create a concentrated broth to drink for nutritional benefits. This is the power of bone broth.

Promotes Joint Health

Animal bones and connective tissue contain a protein called collagen. When bone broth is made, the collagen breaks down and creates gelatin. Gelatin is incredibly important in joint health. It can help your body repair your joints and tendons, as well as prevent issues like osteoarthritis.

Improves Digestion

The gelatin in bone broth also helps support healthy digestion. Many people credit it as helping with their leaky gut, IBS, and some chronic food intolerances. Even if you don’t have serious digestive issues, drinking bone broth can help improve gut health. This helps overall health and wellness!

Fights Inflammation

Bone broth is loaded with amino acids that reduce inflammation. It has proline, lysine, arginine, glutamate, and hydroxyproline. If left untreated, chronic inflammation can lead to Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, fatty liver disease, and even cancer.

Supports Healthy Immunity

Those amino acids also serve another purpose in your wellness. By helping your organs like your liver, or producing proper sleep hormones, they will overall help build your immune system. A healthy immune system is the foundation to overall health and wellness!

Keeps Skin Youthful

Due to it’s high levels of collagen, bone broth is renowned for its benefits in appearing the quality of your skin. Your body stops naturally producing collagen at a certain point, so drinking it can help promote elasticity and youth to aging skin.

At Organic Roots, we sell dozens of different varieties. From shelf stable to frozen, as well as bones in our meat department to make your own. We also have supplements in our vitamin department made with bone broth! Check them out in store or look through some of the selection here!