One classic piece of diet orthodoxy is that we need to eat 3 square meals a day or our blood sugar will plummet, we’ll get irritable and unable to focus, we’ll enter ‘starvation mode’ and our body will begin breaking itself down. But what if this is completely wrong?
Inflammation is the body’s natural response to damage or trauma. But inflammation has a dark side: it can turn chronic, and the root cause may lie in our gut.
Our microbiome is the collection of bacteria and other microscopic critters that live on and inside us (mostly in the gut). The surprising thing is that the majority of these critters are actually friendly and help us in many ways!
With a little knowledge and some changes to our diet, we can hack our gut brain connection, making us more positive and resilient in the face of life’s challenges.
When our gut stops working and we feel like crap, we hunt for solutions but only find unclear or conflicting advice. We have no clue what to do. So does a quick solution exist?
If we’re looking to fix our gut – and keep it healthy in the long run – we must restore our balance of friendly gut bugs while simultaneously healing our gut lining. Here are some simple ideas to help with this process.
