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What are postbiotics?
Probiotics, postbiotics, synbiotics: differences, similarities, and uniquenesses Postbiotics are the compounds left by the gut bacteria and supplemental probiotics when they grow and metabolize food components and other substances in the gut. Bacterial metabolic by-products are not the only type of postbiotics. Chemicals and non-viable cell components also comprise postbiotics. Postbiotics produced as bacterial metabolic…
What Are Bacteroidetes And Firmicutes? How Can You Optimize Their Ratios?
If you’re taking probiotics and working on your gut health, you may have heard about Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes, or that high Firmicutes can cause weight gain. In this article, we’ll explain to you what these are and discuss common misconceptions about these groups of bacteria.
Everything You Need To Know About Gut Biofilm And Biofilm Disruptors
As a gut health-conscious consumer, you may be taking probiotics and doing things to support the gut flora. But do you ever wonder what the gut flora actually looks like?
What’s In Your Belly Fat?
Every year, millions of people hope to lose their unsightly belly fat with diets, abdominal exercises, and weight loss gimmicks. Yet, it’s often the most stubborn fat to lose, the first one to come back with weight regain, and the most unhealthy fat to have.
How To Increase Good Bacteria In The Gut Naturally
Gut bacteria have a two-way relationship with your body and your health. Your body provides the environment for your bacteria to develop.
How To Avoid Fat Gain During Thanksgiving And Other Holidays
With the holidays on the horizon, you may be feeling excited about all the upcoming celebrations. You might also be worrying about how you will possibly be able to achieve or maintain your physique goals.
5 Ways To Optimize Your Immune System For Back To School
One of the few things kids don’t mind sharing is germs. They go to school, pick up germs, and bring them home. On top of that, as the weather turns colder, we spend more time in close contact with others indoors, making it harder to avoid exposure to others who are sick. As a result,…
Bioptimizers Annual Essay Contest Scholarship Winning Essays First Place How Improving the Microbiome Will Be the Medicine of the Future By Enobong Ukpong, University of Calgary, Canada Fungi, bacteria, virus. When the average person hears words like this, they might immediately conclude these are bad things to be avoided. And this is not an absurd…
Pros And Cons Of a Raw Food Diet
The raw food diet is high in all plant-based nutrients, phytonutrients, enzymes, probiotics, antioxidants and fiber. By focusing on organic or naturally grown fruits and vegetables, the diet is also lower in pesticides, antibiotics, and other toxins you can find in foods.
How To Keep Your Gut Healthy While Traveling
It’s about that time of year again. Holiday season. With it comes the joy of seeing family and going on adventures. Inevitably, traveling, especially to warmer destinations, can tend to come with travel stomach issues. Some gut infections can create long-term digestive problems
What Is The Gut-Brain-Microbiota Axis?
Our body has various connections. Every organ, organ system, and tissue is connected somehow. One of those connections is between the brain and gut, also called the gut-brain axis. The relationship between the brain and the gut is two-way. Your brain can affect your gut health, and vice versa. If you ever felt those butterflies…
Why Every Diet Fails
The smartest path to success is understanding other people’s mistakes and learning from them. Insanity is ignoring them and repeating the same mistakes over and over again.
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