“Individuals need to eat more fiber for optimal gut health. Can adding avocado to their diet help improve the gut microbe diversity?” Avocado Gut Support…
Introduction When it comes to the gut system, its main priority is to ensure that the body is supplied with nutrients and digests the consumed food…
Our gastrointestinal tract hosts more than 1000 species of bacteria that work symbiotically with us to promote a balanced immune system, metabolize nutrients, harvest energy,…
For those who have lactose intolerance, the LCT gene transcription is reduced, leading to a low level of lactase. To turn off LCT it involves blocking an activator or turning up a repressor. In fact, it is theorized that lactase persistence is a human evolutionary adaptation to drinking milk from domesticated animals. The mutation in the gene started to appear around the same time as the domestication of cattle.
There is no doubt or lack of research stating that genes impact our health. We realize now that genes are heavily influenced by environmental and…