The Importance of Gut Health Gut health plays an important role in the development of digestive diseases. A person has about 300 to 500 different species of bacteria in their digestive tract. Some of these species are beneficial while others are harmful: there’s ‘good...
How Gut Health Affects Your Immune System Introduction to the Gut Your gut is home to a massive number of microbes collectively called the gut microbiota. There are 38 trillion of these bacteria, equal to the number of cells you have in your whole body. Their total...
Anxiety Lives in Your Stomach One of the most fascinating discoveries of this age is the relationship between gut health and mental health. Colloquially, we have always known that anxiety is felt in the stomach, as a tight stomach, a knotted gut, or a fluttering...
The Beginner’s Guide to Gut Health What is the gut? The gut is the digestive system of the body, which breaks down food into nutrients that provide energy to your body. The gut is a group of organs that include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, gallbladder, small...