Microbiome 101: Understanding Gut Microbiota
What is the human microbiome? In many ways the best way to define the microbiome is to begin with the simple question, "What are we?" If you'd answer...
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EATING CLAY: LESSONS ON MEDICINE FROM WORLDWIDE CULTURES
Clay-eating, the practice known as geophagy or geophagia, has long been a puzzle to Western medical practitioners. Until recently, eating chalk, soil...
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Healthy Gut Flora: Tending Our Symbionts
The human microbiome is not only an integral part of our biology but fundamental to our individual health and the survival of our entire species....
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Healthy Weight with a Balanced Microbiome
In the past couple decades our understanding of obesity and the physiological underpinnings of why some people become obese, while others do not, has...
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Let Them Eat Dirt!
Letting your children taste their "dirt creations" might not be a bad thing! Childhood is all about exploration and play. Many of our fondest...
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Early Childhood Behavior and Gut Health
Gut Microbiota, Neurodevelopment, and Childhood Behavior Our gastrointestinal tracts harbor complex communities of microbes, collectively known as...
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Probiotics Have A Shelf Life!
Did You Know Most Probiotics Need to be Refrigerated? Unlike supplements, most probiotics have a short shelf life and should be refrigerated to...
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Top 7 Benefits of Collagen
Did you know collagen benefits go far beyond skin and joint health? Most people have heard of collagen, which is commonly used in lotions for the...
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Top 5 Foods for Leaky Gut
Guest post by Kathryn Kos of Primal Bliss Nutrition Best Nutritional Recommendations for Intestinal Permeability When I work with clients who are...
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Top Health Promoting Activities of the Microbiome
Did You Know the Microbiome Lives Outside Your Gut? The Microbiome is not limited to only the digestive tract. The microbiome exists on the skin, in...
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