Insights, science, and real stories to help you understand your gut — and transform your health.
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 ache. Your memory isn't what it used to be. You're told this is just what getting older looks like. And some of it is. But a surprising…
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 probably also been told that PCOS is a hormonal disorder, too many androgens, irregular ovulation, insulin resistance. All of that is true, but it's incomplete, because the…
Your baby is born with a gut that is essentially a blank slate, a sterile (or nearly sterile) digestive tract waiting to be colonised by trillions of bacteria. Over the next thousand days, roughly from birth to age three, this gut will be populated by a microbial community that will influence your child's immune development,…
Nobody prepares you for what pregnancy does to your digestion. The constipation that shows up in the first trimester and never really leaves. The acid reflux that makes you sleep sitting up. The bloating that feels separate from your growing belly. Most women are told these are "just pregnancy things" and to wait it out.…
