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06/05/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Gut microbes can fight parasites: Probiotics may reduce infections, and severity of infections, in developing countries

Your ability to fight off parasitic worms may be aided by your gut microbiota. This was the conclusion that researchers from Washington University in St. Louis reached in their study, published in Microbiome. Studying the guts of people from Liberia and Indonesia revealed that their gut microbiomes were remarkably similar, regardless of the distance between […]

05/26/2018 / By Vicki Batts

Best diet to heal cancer? Try the Budwig Diet, the meal plan that has been proven to work for more than 50 years

The Budwig diet has been around for more than 50 years — and it may be the best anti-cancer diet you’ve never heard of before. Developed by the late Dr. Johanna Budwig, an esteemed chemist from Germany and a 7-time Nobel prize nominee, the diet centers on two key health-boosting foods. Is that all it […]

05/13/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

Kimchi is one of the most powerful probiotic foods you can eat

Kimchi, the spicy, salted and fermented vegetables staple in Korean cuisine, is so much more than a side dish. In a comprehensive review of 130 studies, researchers in Korea looked at its health benefits as a probiotic. Probiotics in general are the good bacteria populating the gut. The human gut has more than 400 strains […]

04/18/2018 / By Derek Henry

4 reasons people are flocking to fermented foods

There have been many trends through the years for health enthusiasts, and although many of these ideas are half-baked, every once in a while one comes along that has some teeth to it and can actually legitimately change a person’s life. Fermented foods, or perhaps more accurately, cultured foods, are one of those rare trends that can […]

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