Prebiotic
Is Our Cleanliness Making Us Sick?
Stop taking showers. Keep the dirt under your fingernails. Say “No” to hand sanitizer and antibiotics. These are words I‘ve heard and read recently from people who have embraced the “Hygiene Hypothesis.” Is cleanliness making us sick? This hypothesis states that lack of early childhood exposure to good bacteria suppresses the development of one’s immune […]
RESTORE on the “Shelves” at Relay Foods
Reposted from Relay Foods blog: Does your gut ever hurt? Have you ever eaten something that didn’t sit well with your stomach? For some, this occurs more frequently than they’d like to admit. If you don’t have gut issues, you likely know someone who does. You see, the gut (stomach, small intestines and large intestines) […]
10 Spring Cleaning Steps … For Your Gut
I ate out a week and a half ago with my family. My wife took the kids out to our local outdoor mall to run around and then eat. She loves the local burger place where she can get a vegan beet burger. I had spent the day at a conference on gut health (ironically), […]
Gut Bacteria Key to Dark Chocolate Benefit
I love dark chocolate. I’ve loved it more over the years knowing that its good for me. Dark chocolate is, by definition, chocolate comprised of over 60% cocoa and sometimes called “semisweet”. It has been touted as a food rich in the tannins or flavanoids, which are polyphenol antioxidants similar to those in green tea, […]
