Many readers have asked for a user’s guide to improving gut health. Putting together all the research I’ve reviewed to date, here is my checklist for building a healthy gut. Obviously you can’t [...]
Our microbes need us to move. Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered that the composition of our gut microbes can be improved by exercise alone. How? The first experiment [...]
When we talk about ‘gut health’ we’re talking about a complex system with three inseparable components. the gut cells themselves that make up the gastrointestinal tract from our mouth to our anus [...]
In response to last month’s Health-e-Byte about Caesarean births increasing the risk of obesity, diabetes, asthma, autoimmune diseases and gut disorders, I’ve received a deluge of questions about [...]
What does birth have to do with girth? Almost one third of Australian babies are delivered by Caesarean section. In some cases the procedure is life-saving and therefore imperative. In other [...]
Our gut bacteria – also referred to as our gut flora or our microbiota – have many diverse and important roles in the body. The more we learn about these trillions of inhabitants, the [...]
Your body is like a planet. It is inhabited by trillions of creatures adapted to the various environments provided by different parts of your anatomy. Every surface of the body exposed to the [...]
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