Plus, the best way to ease symptoms.

Got a gut feeling something’s off? You could be right — and the culprit isn’t necessarily Taco Tuesday. “When your gut microbiome is off, think of it like a garden,” gut health expert, author and ...

Your GI tract houses trillions (yes, with a T) of microbes: bacteria, viruses, fungi, and more. The swarm of microscopic critters living in your intestines makes up the gut microbiome and influences ...

In A Nutshell Scientists have agreed on the first widely adopted definition of gut health: normal digestive function without active disease or symptoms that affect quality of life. Having a gut ...

Turns out, gut health goes beyond what you eat.

A study published in eGastroenterology investigated the role of cannabinoid receptor 1 (CBR1) in intestinal permeability, commonly called “leaky gut.” In particular, the study focused on CBR1’s ...

Anxiety affects gut motility, causing diarrhea or constipation, and can exacerbate conditions like IBS by altering intestinal contractions. Stress increases intestinal inflammation by weakening the ...

For much of modern medicine, inflammation was viewed as a localized response. Swelling, redness, and pain were understood as targeted reactions to injury or infection. Over time, however, researchers ...