The food you eat plays an integral role in your digestive health, but it’s only one part of a larger picture. You know that regular physical activity is good for your heart, weight, and muscles, but exercise is also an important component for your gut and digestive health. Let’s take a closer look at digestive…
Curb Your Cravings: How to Choose Better Food for Your Gut When Eating Out
Whether it’s large, greasy burgers or chocolate-covered sweets, we all have our occasional food cravings. While these foods can be satisfying in the moment, giving in to your cravings too often can contribute to growing health issues, including gut issues. Let’s take a closer look at the importance of gut health and how you can…
How to Maintain Your Gut Health During the Holidays
With the holidays right around the corner, it’s time to ready your heart, mind, and body for the festivities, from family time to bountiful feasts. While you should by all means enjoy the holidays, it’s also important to keep your gut in check. Read on to learn more about how you can maintain good gut…
Why You Should Take Bovine Colostrum on a Daily Basis
Bovine colostrum is a foundational food packed with a diverse array of essential growth factors, immune factors, vitamins and minerals. Essentially, colostrum is a food, and a superfood at that. Unfortunately, many people don’t realize the importance of taking it every day and opt only to take it when they believe they have a serious…
How an Anti-Inflammatory Diet Benefits Your Health
The human immune system provides a natural defense against bacteria, viruses, and illness related to infection. The process known as inflammation is triggered whenever you injure tissue or whenever the body detects any invading microbes. Inflammation aims to control and prevent infections while the associated tissue is healing. While intermittent, short-term inflammation is necessary to…
Do I Have a Cold or the Flu?
With the cold weather coming, cold and flu season is on the way. While the two illnesses present many of the same symptoms, they are significantly different in nature, which means that they cannot be treated the same. Let’s take a closer look at the differences between the common cold and the flu and the most effective ways…
Top 5 Inflammatory Foods That Can Damage Your Gut
When you get hurt or take on some suspicious bacteria, your body responds by sending cells to the affected site. These cells help to protect your body, prevent the spread of infection, and repair any damaged tissue. This process results in inflammation, which is often characterized by redness and swelling. Inflammation is a natural immune…
How to Improve the Health of Your Gut Microbiome
Your digestive system is home to a diverse array of bacteria. Some of these bacteria are good, some are bad, and some have no real effect at all. However, the gentle balance of these bacteria is necessary to the ecosystem in your gut known as the microbiome, and a healthy gut microbiome contributes a variety…
5 Gluten Intolerance Symptoms: How to Know If You are Sensitive to Gluten
Gluten, the protein found in wheat, rye, and barley, generally does not present any problems for most people, but it can result in some serious health issues for those with celiac disease or gluten intolerance. Celiac disease is reported to affect about 1 percent of the population, but up to 13 percent of the population…
The Kids Have Gone Back to School & Cold and Flu Season is Just Around the Corner
Cold and flu bugs just love it when kids return to school or daycare because youngsters love to touch every contaminated surface in their environment (including their peers). And then, they touch their eyes, nose, and mouth, and then they come home and sneeze on Mommy, give Daddy a big kiss, and cough on their…