Tag: Gut health
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How Stress Affects Good Gut Health
We all know that good gut health is key to longevity. Dietary factors such as refined carbohydrates, dairy, caffeine and certain medications may act as triggers. However, did you know that there is a definite emotional component to gut health which needs to be recognized as part of any treatment program? Your mood and gut…
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How Good Gut Health Helps Prevent Diabetes
Did you know that the development of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes has a direct correlation to gut health? What we put into our bodies is entirely up to us. However, it’s no easy task to ensure we are eating a well-balanced and healthy diet. While grocery shopping, it’s easy to fill the cart with…
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Is Mood Food A Strong Line of Defence Against COVID Stress?
The constant updates surrounding coronavirus can be overwhelming. Even the most realistic person is going to feel the strain of this invisible enemy that has seen nearly a quarter of the world’s population living in lockdown conditions and disrupting everybody’s mood. What are the effects of living in such tense conditions? For many, the emotional…
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Why We Need To Buy Food From Regenerative Farming
The trends and new bits of health advice bombarding us daily can be quite daunting, even for the most well-read. For example, the awareness of pesticides – more specifically, glyphosate – has increased over the last two years. But staples like corn, also known as maize, are a GMO crop, and the use of pesticides…
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Use These 8 Natural Remedies To Beat Bloating in 2020
We’ve all had that uncomfortable feeling when our jeans feel just a bit too tight, digestion seems almost impossible and our stomachs feel much larger than normal. What’s more, research has found that a woman’s colon is 10 centimeters longer than a man’s, and coupled with the added space of the bladder, uterus, ovaries, and…
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Mushroom Fungi Extracts And Skincare Are ‘It’ For Beauty
Mushroom fungi extracts are most likely the missing ingredient that you haven’t tried in your beauty routine yet. In fact, there is probably no other naturally-occurring substance on earth as complex and versatile as the humble mushroom. It boasts so many unique characteristics from being able to kill you, to making food taste incredible, to…
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Changing Hormones And Why You Should Know About Them From Age 20
Changing hormones is a reality that every individual need to face. That’s the thing, you’re going to experience changing hormones at every milestone. And they don’t always happen in an orderly way. Doctors refer to changing hormones as a symphony of music. However, they don’t always happen in harmony. This is because we all have…
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Here’s To Getting The Healthiest Gut With The Hadza Tribe
Your gut is home to an incredibly large community of bacteria/microbes that have a profound influence on every aspect of your health. This ranges from mood to immune system, to metabolism and weight. Therefore, it’s important to always maintain the health of the gut. An effective way to do this is through dietary means. Unfortunately,…
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The Link Between The Gut, Food Allergies and IBS
We are what we eat – if there’s one thing you need to understand about nutrition and food allergies, it’s this. In this day and age, we face a big increase in negative ecological conditions. These include global warming, air, water, and soil pollution, climate change and other problems. As a result, we can expect…
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How Your Gut Microbes Affect Your Mental Well-Being
This is Longevity Partner Content. When your gut is healthy, the rest of you also tends to be healthy – by now we accept that as fact. We also know that there are approximately one hundred trillion microbes in your digestive system – both good and bad ones. And just like your fingerprints, your system…