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Here are the Top 3 things you SHOULDN’T do if you have the flu… and the three things you can do instead


Antibiotics kill your gut microbiome:
 
When you take antibiotics for an infection, they not only fight against that bacteria, but they also kill ALL the good bacteria in your...

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What Occurs Inside Your Brain When You Give Up Sugar dieting gut health health

Here’s what happens to your brain when you give up sugar

By Jordan Gaines Lewis, Neuroscience Doctoral Candidate Penn State College of Medicine

 

Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend and fellow graduate student Andrew is equally...

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Kitchen Science: The Friendly Bacteria That Live In Your Food bacteria fermentation gut health probiotic

As you sip a cup of coffee, enjoy a rich chocolate treat or savour the aroma of a piece of Roquefort cheese, have you ever considered the extraordinary contribution made by the microscopic creatures that have worked so hard for your pleasure?

 

As the French chemist Louis Pasteur...

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Don’t gain weight this holiday season- no dieting necessary brain health dieting gut health health nutrition

Food cravings are abound:  here are some tips so that you don’t have to gain weight over the holidays…

 

Do you ever wonder why so many people have food cravings? Doesn’t it seem like more and more, people are addicted to sugar? Some to carbs? And yet, a...

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