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Tips To Protect Your Microbiome When You’re Sick

The majority of colds and flus are viral, and taking antibiotics can actually increase your susceptibility to future infections (both viral and bacterial) by depleting your body of its microbial defenses. So what’s the best way to heal when you’re sick while also protecting your microbiome? Not only does spending time outside protect against viral […]

Things to Do if You’ve Recently Taken an Antibiotic

On today’s show: the 10 most important steps to restore your gut health after taking antibiotics. Although it’s true that your microbiome will take a hit after antibiotics and may even be permanently altered, it’s still possible to offset some of the damage by supporting your gut during and after. Find out how in this episode.

10 Questions to Ask Before Taking an Antibiotic

A one-week course of antibiotics can remove up to 1/3 of your gut bacteria - and that damage can’t be undone by just taking a probiotic, so you need to be absolutely certain that you really need that antibiotic. In today’s episode, I’m going to share ten critical questions to ask your health care provider if you’ve been prescribed an antibiotic that can help you limit the damage to your gut microbiome.

American Gut Project: Why 30 Is the Number You Need to Know

The largest study ever done on the human microbiome set out to understand the impact of diet, lifestyle and disease. The results provide an important roadmap for what to do to cultivate a healthy microbiome.

Getting Regular: In the Gym and the Bathroom!

On today's show, we are talking regularity, how consistent habits and training pay off in the gym - and the bathroom! What you need to do the day before to make sure that morning poo arrives on time.

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Your Gut Garden: How Exposure to Nature Improves Your Microbiome

Exposure to nature strengthens your immune system, activating natural killer cells that protect you from cancer & infection. In this episode we explore the scientifically proven benefits of being outside.

Aging, Frailty, and Your Microbiome

Sixty is the new forty! We’ve all heard it. And for some aging individuals, this saying couldn’t be truer. Have you ever seen pictures that compare two different people of the same age? One image the face of health with a body that could hike Kilimanjaro; the other frail, withered, and on the brink of […]

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