Mum who lost 6st after concocting her own ‘weight loss broth’ shares her recipe – and turns it into a thriving business

A MUM-of 2 mislaid six chromatic and transformed her beingness – by drinking home-made broth.

Rachel Down deed 15st and became depressed aft 2 hard pregnancies.

Nothing she tried helped her to lose weight until she did her ain probe and cooked up her ain broth - made from conscionable carnal bones, h2o and pome cider vinegar.

Combined with home-made kefir water, and switching to eating a diet of full foods, Rachel mislaid an astonishing 6st implicit 2 years.

She has developed her health footwear into a thriving business, and she present has 10,000 customers, supplying some quality and favored broth to much than 17 countries worldwide.

Rachel, 44, from Dorset, says: "I’m thrilled astatine the translation successful myself, and I privation to stock it with others.

"It’s not conscionable astir however I look, I consciousness healthier wrong too."

Rachel was acceptable and steadfast and weighed astir 10st erstwhile she fell large with her archetypal child, Jack, who was calved successful June 2014.

She says: "I was delighted to beryllium pregnant, but I had 1 wellness contented aft another.

"I suffered with thrush and a drawstring of UTIs and I seemed to beryllium connected antibiotics constantly.

"I was backmost and distant from the doctor, and I felt mostly precise unwell."

By the clip Jack was born, Rachel weighed 15st, and contempt breastfeeding and diets, she could not displacement the other pounds.

"I was backmost and distant from the GP, inactive struggling with infections, yet their lone proposal was to instrumentality either antibiotics, anti-fungal attraction oregon the contraceptive pill," she says.

"I felt much medicine was the occupation and not the answer."

Rachel had a 2nd child, Skarlette, successful January 2016, but her wellness problems continued.

She says: "I had digestive issues, and horrendous thrush, which I felt definite were linked to each the antibiotics I was taking."

Rachel, who had antecedently worked successful selling and arsenic a idiosyncratic trainer, began her ain research.

"I work astir gut wellness and however antibiotics tin impact the gut microbiome," she says.

"I was definite I had a information called Candida overgrowth, caused by excessively overmuch sweetener and excessively galore antibiotics.

"I came crossed an past broth look – truthful aged it was adjacent mentioned successful the Bible – to assistance with gut health.

"By now, I was desperate. I was sick of being overweight and feeling sluggish each the clip with small vigor to bask my children."

SECRET RECIPE

In 2017, Rachel began boiling her ain broth, made from carnal bones, h2o and a small apple cider vinegar.

She besides fermented her ain kefir h2o (similar to kombucha) and switched to eating lone full foods - nary sugar.

She says: "I drank my broth and kefir each time and followed a debased sweetener full foods diet.

"Within 3 months, I’d mislaid 2 and a fractional stones.

"Better than that, I felt amazing. My wellness issues vanished. 

"People started asking however I was losing value and if I could marque broth for them too.

"I had radical knocking connected my beforehand doorway and taking broth distant successful aged crystal pick tubs."

Rachel realised she had the cleanable thought for a caller concern and successful 2018, she launched her ain institution - The British Broth Company (formerly Boil and Broth).

She besides began a wellness science degree.

"At first, it was conscionable a section business, astir Dorset, but past I got an bid from London," she says.

"I was truthful excited, but panicking astir however I would vessel the broth, and however it would each work.

"I had 9 dilatory cookers bubbling distant successful our conservatory whilst I coped with the increasing demand."

In 2019, Rachel obtained a favored licence and present supplies broth for dogs, which is said to beryllium beneficial for issues with digestion, joints and ligaments, oregon for play maintenance.

A caller survey showed important improvements successful gut health for dogs who person the broth.

'TRANSFORMED MY LIFE'

As the concern grew, Rachel and her husband, Simon, 56, moved location 3 times.

She present works retired of a commercialized unit.

Rachel employs six staff, including her husband, and the institution has thousands of customers from astir the world.

Rachel says: "It’s large that I person a thriving business, but the existent reward is helping people, their dogs and different household members.

"I retrieve however hopeless I felt astatine 15st, with 2 babies and incapable to suffer weight.

"Gut wellness has transformed my life, and I privation to bash the aforesaid for others."