Functional Fridays with Kombucha Kev and Kirsty Brown Cookery
Meet your Hosts
Kirsty Brown
Kirsty Brown is a freelance, private chef and writer. Currently, the executive chef for an independent nursery chain and forest school, The Railway Children.
Kirsty also runs her own pop-ups, supper clubs, cooking classes and micro-bakery, specialising in sourdough and global cuisine. Kirsty previously owned the acclaimed French-Yorkshire street food van, café and event company, Très Bon Raymond.
Kombucha Kev
Kevin Gillespie is the founder and owner of Functional Drinks Club, a Kombucha and non-alcoholic bottle shop in Otley.
He runs the number one Kombucha Tasting event in Yorkshire and enjoys nothing more than helping people transform their life by improving their gut health.
Passionate about educating people on what a good Kombucha looks like, and it's not what you find on the supermarket shelves or online at Amazon.
Often referred to as the Sober Sommelier, and more recently, the big, jolly Scotsman.
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Improving your Gut Health
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Boost your Immune Sysytem
Always coming down with one bug or another regardless of the time of year? Well, having a healthy gut could help you fight back against the dreaded lurgy. There's nothing worse than having a cold or sniffle while you're trying to be the best version of yourself. It's time to fight back by making your microbiome a superheroes playground.
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Improve your Heart Health
It doesn't matter what age you are, a bad diet will always catch up with you. I'm now 43. I remember when the actor John Candy died of a heart attack at 43 and thought he was old. Now I know that 43 is no age to die at all. He had his whole life ahead of him. What you do in your 40's dictates the health you'll have in the second half of your life.
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Improve your Mental Health
By now you will have heard or read about how food impacts on your mental health. It's more than that. Your gut is known as the "Second Brain". It fuels your mental health by powering your brain. So, if you have a petrol car and you fill it with diesel, what happens? The same applies here. If you fuel your body with crap, then it impacts on everything. Including your mood.
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Healthy Digestive System
A healthy gut filled with good bacteria means your waste system will work more efficiently. If you're struggling to poo, constipated, then adding a fermented food and drinks to your daily diet will help. It can be Kombucha, Kimchi, Kefir or Kraut. I like to stack the 4Ks during the day and I am clockwork baby.
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Weight Management
I've lost 2 stone since I started drinking Kombucha daily 11 months ago. And I've kept it off. Everyone is different, but what I will say is this. Yes fermented food and drink can help you lose weight, but only if your diet doesn't consist of pizza and kebabs or other ultra processed foods.
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Reduce Inflammation
I suffer from psoriasis and drinking Kombucha every day has reduced it drastically. Like I always say, everyone is different, but for me it's made a massive difference. Yes, I still have to daily moisturise, but I'm not having to rub steroid cream all over my body as much as I used to and that is a big win in my eyes.
Location
We run the Friday Night in Functional Drinks Club and keep the numbers to 10 per event.
The address is:
Functional Drinks Club
17 Manor Square
Otley
LS21 1JQ