I hear from people all the time that ALL prebiotics are bad for people that are on the low FODMAP diet or that have SIBO and IBS type problems. While this is true of many prebiotics, it is not true of all prebiotics. ⁠

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Many of us have been conditioned over the years to contemplate two keys to successful weight loss: diet and exercise. What if another component was equally important? The latest research has revealed another aspect of weight loss most of us have never considered: gut health. If you have ever tried to change your lifestyle to include healthier foods and more exercise, yet found disappointing results on the scale, there may be something that you are missing: healthy bacteria in your gut. There is mounting evidence to show that the gut bacteria in healthy weight people are different than the bacteria...

We are living in an "information era" which means we are benefitting from the ongoing borage of science and research. Gut health is an emerging "hot topic", as we discover more and more about the important role "good bacteria" play in the body. To fully understand why, we need to step back a few years to the Human Genome Project (HGP) which was completed in 2003. This was an international research project designed to uncover all of the genes in the human genome. They found that humans have about 22,000 genes. While this sounds impressive, it's about the same amount...