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IBD, Antibiotics, and Microbiome Reset Studies

IBD, Antibiotics, and Microbiome Reset Studies

Antibiotics can help treat infections, but they can also disrupt the gut in ways that matter for IBD. In the research covered here, antibiotic exposure is linked with about 52%...

IBD, Antibiotics, and Microbiome Reset Studies

Antibiotics can help treat infections, but they can also disrupt the gut in ways that matter for IBD. In the research covered here, antibiotic exposure is linked with about 52%...

Prebiotics, Probiotics, Postbiotics in IBD Care

Prebiotics, Probiotics, Postbiotics in IBD Care

If I have IBD, the short answer is this: these products do different jobs, and the best fit depends on UC vs. Crohn’s vs. pouchitis, flare vs. remission, and how...

Prebiotics, Probiotics, Postbiotics in IBD Care

If I have IBD, the short answer is this: these products do different jobs, and the best fit depends on UC vs. Crohn’s vs. pouchitis, flare vs. remission, and how...

Psychobiotics and Sleep Quality: Study Roundup

Psychobiotics and Sleep Quality: Study Roundup

Here’s the short answer: psychobiotics may help sleep, but the effect is usually small, strain-specific, and more clear on self-reported sleep scores than on device-based sleep data. When I look...

Psychobiotics and Sleep Quality: Study Roundup

Here’s the short answer: psychobiotics may help sleep, but the effect is usually small, strain-specific, and more clear on self-reported sleep scores than on device-based sleep data. When I look...

Air Pollution and Gut Barrier Damage: Guide

Air Pollution and Gut Barrier Damage: Guide

Air pollution can affect your gut, not just your lungs. If you breathe traffic fumes, wildfire smoke, cooking smoke, or dust, some of those particles can end up in your...

Air Pollution and Gut Barrier Damage: Guide

Air pollution can affect your gut, not just your lungs. If you breathe traffic fumes, wildfire smoke, cooking smoke, or dust, some of those particles can end up in your...

Prebiotics in C-Section Microbiome Recovery

Prebiotics in C-Section Microbiome Recovery

If your baby was born by C-section, prebiotics may help support gut bacteria like Bifidobacterium in the first 12 weeks, but they do not “replace” vaginal birth microbes. Here’s the...

Prebiotics in C-Section Microbiome Recovery

If your baby was born by C-section, prebiotics may help support gut bacteria like Bifidobacterium in the first 12 weeks, but they do not “replace” vaginal birth microbes. Here’s the...

How Chronic Stress Drives Gut Dysbiosis

How Chronic Stress Drives Gut Dysbiosis

Chronic stress can upset your gut in a very direct way. If stress stays high for weeks or months, it can change gut movement, weaken the gut lining, lower microbe...

How Chronic Stress Drives Gut Dysbiosis

Chronic stress can upset your gut in a very direct way. If stress stays high for weeks or months, it can change gut movement, weaken the gut lining, lower microbe...