Is Your Drink of Choice Hurting Your Gut Flora?
How long does it take you to decide between wines at the liquor store? 15 minutes? 20 minutes? I’ll tell you a secret… For the
How long does it take you to decide between wines at the liquor store? 15 minutes? 20 minutes? I’ll tell you a secret… For the
Someone in your office is doing “Whole30” this January, and they’re likely telling everyone about it.
And if you haven’t heard anyone talking about it…
How long does it take you to decide between wines at the liquor store? 15 minutes? 20 minutes? I’ll tell you a secret… For the
Someone in your office is doing “Whole30” this January, and they’re likely telling everyone about it.
And if you haven’t heard anyone talking about it…
Metropolitan convenience and connection seemed like a much better idea before March 2020. Although plenty of us have benefited from deliverable groceries and meals, easy
When Hippocrates famously said, “All disease begins in the gut,” he likely had no idea how right he was.
For example, could he have known that the gut contains 10 times more bacteria responsible for regulating your health than the rest of the body?
Or that the bacterial transfer that occurs at birth affects the diversity of your microbiome (collection of gastro-intestinal bacteria in the digestive tract) for life?
Is it possible that he knew the root cause of bacteria destruction in the gut flora also weakens the gut barrier and leads to leaky gut, diverticulitis, and other disorders?
Maybe not. But he was on the right track.
About Dr. Kavita Desai, Pharm. D., Revivele Founder. As an accomplished hospital-based pharmacist and the founder of the women’s health platform Revivele, Dr. Kavita Desai, Pharm.
Since 1980, America’s air pollution has been steadily reverting back to clean air. And although we’re still 10th in a global list of clear skies (behind Canada, Australia, and several European countries), we may soon be booted from the top 10.
You see, fine particulate pollution is our biggest problem.
Have you ever had a “gut feeling” about something? Or felt butterflies in your stomach? It turns out that these sensations are not just metaphors – our gut, or more specifically, our microbiome, can greatly affect both our mood and mental health.