In this blog post, we'll discuss different factors that form the backbone of your immune system: the gut microbiome and your diet. We’ll also look into how antibiotic treatments might alter your gut microbiome and share effective ways to support your immune system with diet and probiotics after a course of antibiotics.
Probiotics and the immune system work hand in hand to support gut health and robust immunity. Your gastrointestinal tract is teeming with trillions of microorganisms, collectively known as the gut microbiota, helping you digest food, produce vitamins, develop and mature immune cells, and train your immune system.
While cabbage has many health benefits on its own, such as immune support and antioxidants that can help reduce inflammation, it's even more nutritious when fermented. The probiotic qualities help your body absorb nutrients and can support microbiome health, better digestion, and immune health.
Mannitol is a sugar substitute, often used to help relieve brain and eye swelling and to protect kidney function during surgery. But the potential benefits aren’t limited to just these uses. Come along as we explore the scope of mannitol as a dietary supplement, its potential as a prebiotic and subsequent health benefits, and the role it might play in maintaining the integrity of a healthy gut.
How might sugar consumption wreak havoc on your health by instigating gut and systemic inflammation? How does chronic inflammation stimulate a cascade of events that eventually show up as metabolic and autoimmune diseases such as type 2 diabetes and irritable bowel syndrome? Let’s dive in and find out ways to redirect your gut health and strive towards a healthier life.
The answers you’ve been looking for - ways to reduce sugar cravings - might just lie within your gut. In this article, we explore your gut microbiome's fascinating role in influencing your sweet tooth, delve into the science behind probiotics, and how you can support your gut health by adding fermented foods, plus the best probiotic for sugar cravings.
Today most people don’t give much thought to nutrient deficiency. However, it could be a more significant issue now, because our soils are so depleted from our monocrop, large scale, depletive agricultural practices. B vitamins are essential for properly functioning mitochondria and energy metabolism, and any loss or deficiency may have an impact on the mitochondria.
To understand how sugar impacts your health, let's dive into how different types of sweeteners interact with the gut microbiome and impact the gut barrier, and how a cascade of metabolic events might result in metabolic disorders.