Stomach healing bone broth

I have now been doing the Paleo diet since August of 2014; almost a year. At some point along the way I ate food with gluten in it, which is clearly not Paleo, I want to say around the 3 month mark. Within 5 minutes of finishing my bowl of wonderful baked ziti, my stomach cramped up so bad and hurt so much I can't even begin to describe it. It was worse than having contractions, I thought I was going to die. Lets just say after that I stayed clear of pasta.

Pasta, bread, cereal... gluten, gluten, gluten. How can you avoid it indefinitely? And why do you want to when it tastes so good?

Around the 6 month mark of my diet, I started to look into why my stomach cramped up so bad with pasta and sugars. I self diagnosed myself with there being an issue with my stomach lining; like having diverticulitis in my stomach. So I decided to find a way to heal it Paleo style and it couldnt hurt me even if I misdiagnosed myself.

Paleo diet has you eating 100% grass fed organic meat. To heal my stomach I made broth with the bones from the meat I was already eating. (Cooking directions at bottom) I am already taking dietary plant cholesterol pills to help to lower my insanely high hereditary cholesterol (total of 339). I also started taking probiotic pills from Vitamin World. To heal my stomach I drank the bone broth for breakfast, took a probiotic pill, and drank more bone broth for lunch. Then I would have a Paleo meal for dinner. I did this for 2 days. ONLY 2 days! The next day I ate a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast and waited. And waited. And waited. The stomach pain never came.

After that I cheated a lot and the pain started to come back after a month of eating tons of foods not on the paleo diet. I made a determination to store bone broth in the fridge and substitute that for recipes that call for water, like when cooking vegetables I use bone broth instead of oil or water. This also gets my family to ingest it as well.



Simple Bone Broth Recipe:

4 bones from 100% grass fed organic meat (should have at least 1 marrow bone)
2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
salt to taste after cooked
pepper to taste after cooked

1. Set up your crock pot with 2 bones and fill with cold water. 
2. Add 1 Tbsp vinegar.
3. Set your crock pot on high for 1 hour after which time it should be on warm.
4. Let crock pot stay on warm for 24 hours.
5. Remove 3/4 of the liquid and use or store in fridge/freezer.
6. To the remaining 1/4 of liquid in the crock pot, add 1 more bone and 1/2 Tbsp vinegar and fill the pot up with water again.
7. Set your crock pot on high for 1 hour after which time it should be on warm.
8. Let crock pot stay on warm for another 24 hours.
9. Remove 3/4 of the liquid again and use or store in fridge/freezer.
10. To the remaining 1/4 of liquid in the crock pot, add the last bone and 1/2 Tbsp vinegar and fill the pot up with water again.
11. Set your crock pot on high for 1 hour after which time it should be on warm.
12. Let crock pot stay on warm for another 24 hours.
13. Throw out bones, remove all liquid and use/store.

I always make broth over 3 days to get the most out of the bones. Use your judgement on how many bones you use. A marrow bone can count for your first 2 bones since its so big.