Should You Get a Stool Test?

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With all the research on gut health, should you submit to a stool test to see how you’re doing? 'What’s the next best step toward optimal wellness after you’ve made positive changes to your diet, added super foods, started a nutritional supplement plan, and taken blood tests to assure that your food and supplements are working? 

If you guessed gut health, you’re right. 

For decades, naturopaths have emphasized the importance of a healthy colon, also called the human gut. Whether it’s with colonic irrigation, Dr. Jensen’s colema boards, herbal laxatives, probiotics, and coffee enemas—you name it—people have been trying to fix their guts forever.' 


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Probiotics Can Help You Stay Sexy

 

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'Are you looking for a natural way to stay sexy? Here’s a good idea: get enough probiotics. According to recent studies, probiotic-rich foods may give “sexiness” to people who consume them.
Dr. Joseph Mercola agrees and says: “One of the major results of eating a healthy diet like the one described in my nutrition plan is that you stimulate your beneficial gut bacteria to flourish naturally, and they secondarily perform the real ‘magic’ of restoring your health and also, perhaps, your ‘sexiness.’”

The Impact of Probiotics on Your Weight

When it comes to being sexy, one of the first things that come to people’s mind is weight loss. If you are struggling to lose weight, you must make sure that you have optimal gut flora. Studies say that the makeup of gut bacteria in lean people is different from those in obese people.'

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4 Ways to Drastically Improve Gut Health

 

 'All disease begins in the gut.'-- Hippocrates 

 'Hippocrates said this more than 2,000 years ago, but we’re only now coming to understand just how right he was. Research over the past two decades has revealed that gut health is critical to overall health, and that an unhealthy gut contributes to a wide range of diseases including diabetes, obesity, rheumatoid arthritis, autism spectrum disorder, depression and chronic fatigue syndrome.

In fact, many researchers (including myself) believe that supporting intestinal health and restoring the integrity of the gut barrier will be one of the most important goals of medicine in the 21st century.'

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How GMO Farming and Food Is Making Our Gut Flora UNFRIENDLY

 

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'Two studies published in the past six months reveal a disturbing finding: glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup® appear to suppress the growth of beneficial gut bacteria, leading to the overgrowth of extremely pathogenic bacteria. 

Late last year, in an article titled Roundup Herbicide Linked to Overgrowth of Deadly Bacteria, we reported on new research indicating that glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup® may be contributing to the overgrowth of harmful bacteria, both in GM-produced food and our own bodies.  By suppressing the growth of beneficial bacteria and encouraging the growth of pathogenic ones..."

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How Stress Affects Your Heart and Gut Health

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By Dr. Mercola

'As much as you may try to ignore it, you cannot separate your wellness from your emotions. Every feeling you have affects some part of your body, and stress can wreak havoc on your physical health even if you’re doing everything else “right.”

The classic definition of stress is “any real or imagined threat, and your body’s response to it.” Celebrations and tragedies alike can cause a stress response in your body. 

All of your feelings, positive or negative, create physiological changes. Your skin, heart rate, digestion, joints, muscle energy levels, the hair on your head, and countless cells and systems you don't even know about change with every emotion. 

Stress plays a major role in your immune system, and can impact your blood pressure, cholesterol levels, brain chemistry, blood sugar levels, and hormonal balance. It can even “break” your heart, and is increasingly being viewed as a cardiovascular risk marker.'

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How Vegetables Support Gut Immunity

 

'In case you didn’t already know it, most of your immune system is located in your gut.

That’s why if your gut isn’t healthy, neither is your immune system.
For instance, people with inflammatory bowel disease often suffer from immune hypersensitivities and other allergies as well.

Fortunately, new research shows that eating more cruciferous and leafy green vegetables is a great way to boost your gut immune system and improve your overall immune function throughout your entire body.

Let’s dive into the details!'

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