There’s a big piece of the weight loss puzzle that you may not have considered: your gut bugs, also known as your microbiome. More and more studies are linking an unhealthy microbiome to being overweight.
Our bodies aren’t build for the near-constant, low-level stress that seems unavoidable in modern life, and our gut in particular suffers as a result. We dive into 7 effective strategies that can help you turn things around.
Pharmaceutical antibiotics cause a huge amount of collateral damage to our microbiome. But did you know there are also many natural antibiotics? They offer similar potency but without any of the same problems.
You might think it’s a statement of the blindingly obvious to say that the food we eat affects our microbiome. But then consider that doctors in the UK, US and similar countries receive no training in nutrition, the most important way to care for our microbiome.
Autoimmune conditions bring misery to an estimated 20% of the population. Conventional wisdom is that they are incurable but many people are beating these conditions by healing their gut. Let’s see how they’re doing it.
On the face of it there is no obvious connection between the microbes in our gut and being able to lose weight. We know these bacteria help us digest food but so what?
