Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Food for Staying Healthy During Flu Season

5 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Aaron Hartman, MD recommending bone broth as his preferred food for supporting health during cold and flu season. He emphasizes benefits for gut health, connective tissue, collagen, and provision of trace/minerals, and notes bone broth is a traditionally common but now-forgotten food.

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I have one absolute favorite food for keeping me healthy during cold and flu season. It's amazing for leaky gut or gut issues, it's great for fasting. Keep your gut doing well. If you have gut issues, that's great for connective tissue around your GI tract. If you're hypermobile, which 20% of Americans are, and you need rare earth minerals, trace minerals, collagen, this is packed full of that. Great for your health. So what's this mysterious, magical thing that I'm talking about? It's bone broth. Bone broth contains all the things I've mentioned, and it's one of the things that we used to eat commonly that now is almost completely forgotten. I remember when I was a kid watching a Leave of the Beaver episode and.