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The foods you consume can have a powerful impact on your gut health. Certain foods feed your gut’s healthy bacteria, allowing you to enjoy optimal gut health. Other foods may irritate and inflame your gut, enabling “bad” bacteria to overtake the good. While everyone’s body is different, some foods are known to cause more gut issues than others. Below, we’ll review some of the worst foods for gut health and offer some healthy alternatives.  Why Does Gut Health Matter? The health condition of your gut is more important than you may think. It’s even been called the body’s “second brain,” denoting...

Has your digestion been sluggish recently? If so, a colon cleanse may be just what you need.By clearing out the toxins from your gut, you can improve your digestion and your overall health. After all, your gut health is closely linked to your immune system, nutrient absorption, metabolism, and mood regulation (1).Cleansing your gut doesn’t mean that you have to go on a restrictive juice diet. Your body knows how to naturally detox itself when you give it the right foods. To that end, let’s review ten of the best foods you can use to cleanse your gut. What Does...

Your body is its own unique ecosystem that helps support you throughout every moment of your day from the inside out. At the center of that ecosystem is your gut microbiome, a complex environment that helps turn food into fuel to help you thrive.But if your gut microbiome is disrupted, your whole body may feel out of balance. So what are the signs of an unhealthy gut? And what are the steps that can be taken to ensure proper gut health for a fully balanced body?Let’s dive in. What is Gut Health? Your gut’s job is to break down food so...

I’m sure we’ve all heard the quote “you can’t love someone else until you love yourself” before, but this can be extremely disheartening for many people who may not know where to start to cultivate their own self love… and this way of thinking is simply not the truth! We are always evolving and reinventing ourselves, and with this may come some hard times, but no matter what-- we are always deserving of our own love as well as receiving it from those around us.  Oftentimes, many people get wrapped up in things like their work, family life, finances, or...