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Healthy Gut, Healthy Brain
By David Perlmutter, MDA neurologist explains the power of your microbiome to heal and protect your brain.
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Diversify Your Diet to Improve Your Health
By Craig CoxA new study suggests that increasing the variety of the foods we eat could be key to avoiding type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases.
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Gut Check
By Heidi WachterAccording to Rob Knight, PhD, the gut and its microbes — including trillions of bacteria — may be as important to who we are as our brains.
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Gut Check: How an Aging Digestive System Can Affect Your Health
By Craig CoxA new study finds that the older your gut, the more inflammation you may have.
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Users of Proton Pump Inhibitors More Likely to Suffer Heart Attacks
By Craig CoxA new study finds a greater risk of heart attacks in patients using the gastrointestinal drugs.
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What Your Skin Is Trying to Tell You
By Kristin OhlsonAcne, eczema, psoriasis, and other skin conditions can be red flags pointing to more serious health concerns. Here are six of the most common — and how they might be speaking for the rest of your body.
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Home Treatments for Your Leaky Gut
By Catherine GuthrieStrategies to repair your leaky gut at home.
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Anatomy of a Leaky Gut (Infographic)
By Experience Life TeamA quick primer on how each of your digestive organs are involved in and affected by leaky gut syndrome.
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Leaky Gut and Autoimmune Diseases: The Connection
By Catherine GuthrieScientists find that leaky gut syndrome can lead to the onset of an autoimmune disease.
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20 Common Conditions Associated With Leaky Gut
By Catherine GuthrieThe effects of a leaky gut extend far beyond the gastro-intestinal tract. As our understanding of the syndrome increases, the list of conditions related to leaky gut keeps growing. Here’s a partial list:
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Tests for Leaky Gut Syndrome
By Catherine GuthrieSome of the most valuable tests that can help identify direct and indirect signs of a leaky gut.
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How to Heal a Leaky Gut
By Catherine GuthrieYour intestines are home to a great deal of your digestive system, nervous system, and immune system. Here’s how to keep them healthy.
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The Athletic Microbiome
By Experience Life StaffResearchers at Ireland’s University College Cork set out to understand how exercise, or a lack of it, can affect the microbial diversity in our gastro-intestinal tracts.
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Study Finds Exercise May Boost Gut Health
By Maggie Fazeli FardA new study shows that exercise, along with a diverse diet that includes protein, can help the body’s multifaceted microbiome thrive.
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TAKING NOTES: Why Good Bacteria Are Our Friends
By Anjula RazdanSenior editor Anjula Razdan shares details on the important connection between the gut and the brain.
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Your Microbiome: The Ecosystem Inside
By Pamela WeintraubThe microbiome is made up of trillions of organisms that live on and within you. And they can make or break your health.
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Ghosts in Your Machine
By Dara Moskowitz GrumdahlOur bodies are haunted by millions of microbes, many of which are essential to our health. Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl discusses how fermented foods help keep those mysterious little critters happy.
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The Real Culprit Behind Your Food Intolerance or Allergy
By Sheila ViersIf you have problems digesting food, you’ve probably had one or many people tell you that you most likely have a food allergy, most likely to wheat or dairy.
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Kicking Candida
By Elizabeth LarsenSome call it an invisible epidemic. When Candida albicans, a family of yeastlike fungi that lives in our digestive tracts, multiplies out of control, it causes mysterious symptoms and serious health woes for women, men and children. Is it breeding in you?
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Overcoming Constipation
By Catherine GuthrieNo one wants to talk about constipation. But it’s a chronic problem that undermines the health of millions of Americans. Are you one of them?
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Good Bacteria Welcome
By Catherine GuthrieFind out why some internal bacteria are our friends – and why providing a happy, well-balance home for them is essential to our vitality and well-being.