Category: Prebiotic

5 Common Holiday Practices That Are Making You Sick

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Scott Anderson

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”–Aesop. Ah, the holidays are upon us! Such a relaxing and carefree time. We get to spend some quality time with our creepy uncle and mischievous cousins. Okay, maybe there is a little stress. But it isn’t just these external influences that stress us out.…
Flavonoids Keep Your Brain Young

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Scott Anderson

“Wisdom is wasted on the old, and youth is wasted on the young.” ― George Bernard Shaw. The gut-brain connection is a story that just keeps giving. The idea that gut microbes could affect your mood and cognition is startling and potentially very useful. The microbes that improve your mood are called psychobiotics. Microbes eat prebiotics, which include…
Do Microbes Make Us Social?

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Scott Anderson

“Microbes may have influenced the evolution of the social brain and behavior as a means to propagate their own genetic material.” —John Cryan. Do our gut microbes make us party animals? It sounds preposterous, but nothing beats socializing when it comes to spreading microbes. And, perhaps, nothing beats microbes when it comes to making us…