The Importance of Gut Health

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Healthy gut bacteria are a crucial component for digestive health, and they also affect how your body processes all kinds of toxins and hormones. Without gut bacteria, you wouldn’t be able to extract nutrients from food, and you certainly wouldn’t be able to drink alcohol without your system being thrown seriously off balance. Researchers didn’t really understand the full importance of the microbes in your gut until they started searching for answers to the sudden spike in autoimmune diseases. What they found was that the health of these microbes has a huge impact on all kinds of things in the body. And starving these microbes of vital nutrients can have disastrous, far-reaching consequences. Recent research suggests that gut bacteria may even have a very significant role in regulating your brain function; specifically, an imbalance in gut bacteria may lead to mood swings or an overall unstable emotional state.… Read More

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