
What you eat, mediated primarily by your gut microbiome, can have a profound impact on your physical and mental health
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It’s 9:30 am. I feel a little depressed. You just finished a round of antibiotics and you know your gut microbiome has taken a hit. Pop the pills and go out safe knowing that the health benefits they give will reverse much sooner. Welcome to the postbiotic world.
As the evidence piles up about the importance of the microbiome to our health, so does the desire to give it a boost. Then there were prebiotics, or the foods these microbes need to thrive on.
It turns out that postbiotics do a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to the relationship between your gut microbiome, which consists of bacteria, fungi, and viruses, and your health. It avoids many of the problems associated with trying to optimize gut health by other means. I will.” “We feel like we’re in a nexus where the sector could explode.” Indeed, lifestyle magazines and health food stores rave about all the benefits…