The “Yogurt Junk Food Scam” and Why You Should Care

I’ve been prepping
for my upcoming training from the Institute of Functional Medicine’s
Gastrointestinal Health Advanced Practice Module. Not surprisingly, I’ve been
digging deeper into the science of our digestive track and those belly bugs
that I’m obsessing over.

Recently, I’ve
come across some interesting studies that link the physiological stresses of changes
in sleep patterns, environmental exposures, and diet to shifts in our
microbiome (belly bugs) diversity. This results in changes in our health.

On my
homepage, I reviewed a really cool (and somewhat science fiction-like) study on
the connection between our sleep-wake cycle and our gut microbiome balance.
This change in …read more