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Give Your Baby a Gut-Healthy Start
As you know, infants receive many health benefits when their Moms are able to make some simple gut-smart health choices via breastfeeding and vaginal delivery. But how does natural childbirth and breastfeeding really benefit an infant and why? It’s very possible those beneficial bacteria introduced first into the gut have a head start and make
Eating Dietary Fiber Protects Your Brain
Eating a diet rich in dietary fiber — the parts of plant-based foods that can’t be digested — is very beneficial for your health. It’s pretty easy to do too, especially if you like nuts, fruits, legumes like chickpeas and lentils, popcorn (skip the movie theater butter), oats, seeds and even dark chocolate. However, these
The Best Weapon Against C. Diff: Probiotics
Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infections are the most common superbug pathogens patients face in American healthcare settings (hospitals and long-term care facilities), largely due to doctors overprescribing antibiotics. Some 500,000 patients are sickened by C. diff infections annually in America and nearly 30,000 lives (largely seniors) are lost as a result. Fortunately, medical experts are
Did Your Pet Store Puppy Give You an Antibiotic-Resistant Infection?
Recently, we’ve talked about how a dog’s gut health may be very similar to our own, a great boon to researchers examining the human gut. Unfortunately, one of the greatest problems in human health — the overuse of antibiotics — may be affecting the health of our canine friends and sicken us too, based on
Do Fermented Foods Really Help Your Gut?
You’ve probably read the same stories I have online and in other places promoting the value of fermented foods, from the familiar (yogurt, kombucha tea, pickles, cottage cheese, sourdough bread, soy sauce and sauerkraut) to the more exotic (tempeh and miso) to give your gut health an extra boost. Does this mean eating fermented foods
Can Probiotics Reduce the Need for Antibiotics?
If you follow our blog regularly, you’re very aware of the many problems associated with antibiotics. Patients have leaned on antibiotics so much over the years as go-to drugs to feel better in a hurry that doctors have tended to over-prescribe them. All too often, doctors will give in to their patients, even for relatively
