Metabolism

Understanding the Gut Microbiome: Your Key to Metabolic Health

Our gut bacteria significantly impact our metabolic health, making the gut microbiome a potential tool for managing weight. But do our food choices influence our gut bacteria, or do our gut bacteria influence our food choices? It’s actually both! The relationship is bidirectional, meaning our diet influences our gut bacteria and vice versa.

Benefits of Tea for a Healthy Gut Diet Plan

We all love tea! Tea is excellent sipped with some shade. While throwing shade may make you feel better, tea might also actually help feel you better! The benefits of drinking tea far exceed more processed beverages, such as sodas or juices. Research suggests tea may relieve symptoms associated with gastrointestinal illness and mental health […]

How to Prevent Poor Nutrition Through Healthy Eating Habits

One-third of Americans are at risk for a nutrient deficiency. Get better nutrition from your meals with these tips.

Oxalates: A Silent Gut Health Killer?

Healthy foods can be rich in anti-nutrients named oxalates. Learn about high oxalate foods and how they might cause low energy and GI problems.

Spirulina: Health Benefits of This Blue-Green Algae Superfood

Spirulina powder is a blue-green algae that may improve heart health, weight loss, and allergic rhinitis. Let's look at the science behind these health claims!

Best Food Combinations to Boost Nutrient Absorption

Some foods bring the best out in each other. Optimize your health by meal-planning with the best food combinations for digestion and absorption of nutrients.

Plastic Ingestion by Humans & The Plastificaton of Our Microbiome

An alarming image went viral on the internet over the last couple of years. It was the insides of a dead bird and the picture horrifically showed that the aviator’s gut biome was laden with plastic. Unfortunately for humans, we’re not much different. Sure, we haven’t swallowed whole Poland Spring caps, but plastic ingestion by […]

The Keto Diet

At first glance, the ketogenic diet is a scene straight out of a nutritionist’s nightmare. A diet high in saturated fat and very low in carbohydrates. The ketogenic diet essentially allows your body to burn fat as its primary fuel source. To to be more precise, when the body is deprived of dietary carbohydrates […]

The Role Of Short-Chain Fatty Acids

By Jun Kim Ph.D. One of the most frequently mentioned groups of molecules in the gut microbiome studies is probably short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs). SCFAs are a group of molecules that result from the fermentation of dietary fibers by the gut microbiota. Dietary fibers are carbohydrates that are not digestible by human cells […]