The Way to Better Mental Health May Go Through Your Stomach
https://bcmp.hms.harvard.edu/news/getting-how-gut-bacterias-connection-depression
https://magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/gut-microbiome-and-brain
The Way to Better Mental Health May Go Through Your Stomach
https://bcmp.hms.harvard.edu/news/getting-how-gut-bacterias-connection-depression
https://magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/gut-microbiome-and-brain
Avoiding processed food, like that high in sugars. Having probiotics and probiotics, which is things like yoghurts and fermented foods like kimchi, kombucha and sauerkraut.
Happy guts also like exercise to help move things along and most people have too little fibre from fruits vegetables and nuts. So increase fibre and get your 7 a day.
Alcohol is a general irritant and should be limited or avoided. For more complex answers, look into FODMAPs as well, which can be a problem for some people.
So, overall, less stodgy complex carbs, more fresh fruit and veg. Mostly the same as what is better for heart health, but with added probiotics!
Growing up, I learned that five a day was the magic rule (more is ok, less is uncool).
Have the guidelines changed? Damned inflation…
Do probiotics actually help?
I remember reading that once you shoot your gut, the only way to bring it back is fecal transplant.
Yes, but different probiotics seem to help different people and research is inconclusive a out which would help to be a supplement. Instead, a probiotic environment seems to be best. So, fermented foods and pickled foods can be beneficial.
The real “probiotics” are fermented foods and yes they do. The supplements you can buy… are not evaluated or regulated in any way, corpos can and do try to charge as much as they can for as little as possible. Even with the best intentions supplements are a kinda silly approach vs just eating living food. Yogurt gets recommended the most cause it doesn’t have the salt/sugar a lot of fermentation calls for, kimchi and kombucha also great imo
Separate take but I think just being a little dirtier is good for ya too. Eat stuff you dropped/left out on the counter, get a little queasy, emerge victorious. Every time you conquer a little stomach bug without antibiotics your power will grow until you are strong enough to wander the city picking at strangers leftovers
Its less about developing immunity and more about promoting the beneficial bacteria and having less harmful bacteria.
Poor diets promote bad bacteria. Probiotic and probiotic containing diets promote the good. Certainly having good immunity is beneficial, but having the beneficial bacteria promote better immunity before any toxins or infections are introduced.
The ones that you need to refrigerate are better than the ones that you store at room temp, in general, at least.