100 Trillion Bacteria in Your Gut: Learn How to Keep the Good KindThereBy Dr. Joseph Mercolawith Rachael DroegeYou probably don't think about your gut very often but this may makeyou start--the bacteria in your bowels outnumber the cells in yourbody by a factor of 10 to one...
In the gut microbiome, the “good” bacteria do more than just help with digestion. They help keep your “bad” bacteria in check. They multiply so often that the unhealthy kind don't have space to grow. When you have a healthy balance of bacteria in your gut, it’s called equilibrium...
How To Heal Your Aging Gut Microbiome You can heal your aging gut microbiome through diet, pure and simple. Learn why beneficial gut bacteria are essential for healthy aging, and how to feed them the right nutrition. Schematic representation of physiological, nutritional and immune targets of ...
One of their unfortunate side effects, however, is that antibiotic drugs are not selective in choosing which bacteria to kill.All the good bacterial colonies in the gut die along with the bad. Because of that, readers often write to me asking how to recover their gut health after a round ...
Wider understanding How the bacteria in your gut may be shaping your waistline Sep 14th 2013 | NEW YORK |From the print edition A CALORIE is a calorie. Eat too many and spend too few, and you will become obese and sickly. This is the conventional wisdom. But increasingly, it looks too...
A healthy gut microbiome has a rich diversity of several types of bacteria1. This permits better digestion of a wide array of foods, which helps to prevent digestive problems and food intolerances. Additionally, improving gut healthpromotes a good immune system2and helps to fight off infection. ...
bacteria in the gut. One of the risks of genetically modified food is that is can also disrupt the balance of bacteria; genetically modified foods can create their own pesticides, killing crop pests and our own microbiome. As stated earlier, eating foods that you are sensitive to can also ...
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New research reveals a cellular mechanism by which good bacteria can help the gut stay healthy. The study, which appears in the journal Immunity, shows that good bacteria, or the microbiota, interact with both the epithelial cells lining the gut and cell
Gut bacteria, food dyes, medications and rare genetic disorders can cause your pee to turn green or blue. If this continues, see a doctor as a precaution. If your pee is occasionally red or pink in hue, it could be because you ate blueberries, rhubarb or beets. If you haven’t eaten...