How to make your own Bone Broth

Why should we even bother to boil our bones? This may sound like something our grandparents did, but there are benefits of boiling bones. Slowly cooking bones, releases many of the nutrients that would otherwise be thrown away. Our hunter gatherer ancestors even developed tools to crack open the bones on animal carcases. Cooking bones releases amino acids, vitamins, minerals, collagen, keratin and glucosamine. These nutrients are often used structurally in the body and are believed to be especially healing to the gut lining.

Try to source your bones well. They can be from a joint of meat that you have cooked, but can also be purchased cheaply from butchers and farm shops. Organic, grass fed animal bones are the best.

The lemon juice or vinegar helps to raise the acidity, which may help to leach more minerals out of the bones.