Articles exploring the connection between digestive health, the gut microbiome, and overall wellbeing, with guidance grounded in clinical nutrition research.
For years, iodine has been treated as a simple story: not enough of it, and your thyroid slows down. But a growing body of research is revealing something more complicated — the mineral’s fate in your body depends heavily on what’s happening in your gut, and specifically on whether small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is […]
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For decades, boron sat quietly on the sidelines of human nutrition — a trace element scientists associated more with glass manufacturing and agricultural fertilizer than with anything happening inside the human body. That reputation is changing fast. A wave of research published in 2025 and 2026 has started describing boron as something closer to a
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Lectins have become one of the most talked-about — and most misunderstood — topics in gut health. Some corners of the wellness world treat them as a universal toxin to be avoided at all costs; others dismiss the concern entirely. The real picture, as usual, sits in between: lectins are a well-documented contributor to intestinal
Heart palpitations and a racing pulse after eating are usually the first thing that sends someone to a cardiologist — understandably so. But for a subset of patients whose cardiac workup comes back completely normal, the real driver may not be the heart at all. It may be the gut. Specifically, Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth
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Zinc rarely gets the spotlight that gut bacteria, fiber, or fermented foods get in gut health conversations. Yet this trace mineral plays a foundational role in maintaining the intestinal barrier, regulating the gut microbiome, and supporting the immune tissue that lines the digestive tract. For patients dealing with IBS, IBD, or general digestive complaints, zinc
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Your gut needs more than probiotics When people think about improving gut health, they usually think of probiotics, yogurt, fermented foods, or fiber. Rarely does anyone mention magnesium. Yet this humble mineral quietly supports hundreds of biological processes throughout the body, including many that take place inside your digestive system. Every heartbeat, every muscle contraction,
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Your gut bacteria are hungry—but not for what you think When most people think about nutrition, they focus on feeding themselves. But inside your digestive tract lives a vast community of trillions of microorganisms that also need nourishment. The foods you choose every day determine which microbes thrive and which gradually disappear. Among the many