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Seasonal & Lifestyle
Travel Gut: How to Protect Your Microbiome When You’re on the Move
Anyone who’s travelled knows the feeling. You’re two days into a trip and your stomach decides to go on strike. Maybe it’s full-blown traveller’s diarrhoea. Maybe it’s stubborn…
Seasonal & Lifestyle
Post-Festival Gut Recovery: A Realistic, Science-Based Reset
You ate too much during the festival season. Maybe it was Diwali, boxes of mithai from every relative and neighbour, fried namkeen, gulab jamun after every meal for…
Seasonal & Lifestyle
Monsoon Gut Health: Why Infections Spike and How to Protect Your Microbiome
Every year, like clockwork, the monsoon arrives and half of India collectively starts dealing with stomach problems. Loose motions, food poisoning, mysterious stomach cramps, that weird nausea that…
Common Myths & Mistakes
The Problem With Gut Health Influencers: How to Spot Bad Advice
Open Instagram or YouTube and search "gut health." Within five minutes, you’ll find someone telling you that leaky gut is the root cause of every disease, someone else…
Common Myths & Mistakes
Kombucha: Probiotic Powerhouse or Expensive Flavoured Water?
A bottle of kombucha costs between Rs 150 and Rs 350 in India, which is roughly what two full meals of dal-chawal cost. The label asks you to…
Common Myths & Mistakes
Apple Cider Vinegar and Gut Health: Separating Evidence from Hype
The same forward circles through every Indian WhatsApp group: a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in warm water each morning, and the acidity, the bloating, the stubborn weight,…
Common Myths & Mistakes
"Detox" Is Not a Real Thing, Here’s What Actually Helps Your Gut Reset
Someone you follow on Instagram is probably doing a "detox" right now. Green juice for three days. No solid food. Maybe some overpriced herbal tea that promises to…
Women's & Life Stage Health
The Aging Gut: How Your Microbiome Changes After 50 and What to Do About It
There’s a version of aging that most people accept as inevitable. After 50, you get more digestive complaints. You catch infections more easily. Your energy drops. Your joints…
Women's & Life Stage Health
PCOS and the Gut Microbiome: An Emerging Connection
If you have PCOS, you’ve probably been told some version of the following: lose weight, take metformin, maybe go on birth control pills, and manage your symptoms. You’ve…
