Want Better Gut Health? Avoid 'Malabsorping' Your Food By Doing This 1 Easy Thing
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Here's how you can begin the journey to a better gut microbiome before your next mouthful of food even reaches your stomach.
There are countless reasons to want a healthy gut. Achieving and maintaining a robust microbiome — the trillions of beneficial bacteria and the useful chemicals they’re producing — in the lower section of our gastrointestinal tracts can aid our bodies with everything from battling pathogens to bettering our mental health.
But how do we do it?
“What I get people to do is, firstly, think about diversifying their plants and trying to get 30 different kinds of plants across the week,” Megan Rossi, a Ph.D. holder and registered dietitian who is known in some circles as the “queen of gut health,” recently told us — Raj Punjabi and Noah Michelson, the co-hosts of HuffPost’s “Am I Doing It Wrong?” podcast.
Click here to listen to the full episode and learn tons of tips about improving your microbiome.
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