Has Your Gut Sprung a Leak??? A couple years ago if you walked into your doctor’s office and said “I think I have a Leaky Gut”. You would probably walk out of that visit with a prescription for an antipsychotic drug. These days “Leaky Gut” is a buzzword!! You see…
Happy Gut Bugs…Happy Tummy!
Did you know that the number of human cells in our bodies may be as much as a fraction of the number of bacterial cells?? Depending on who you listen to, some claim that bacterial cells outnumber human cells ten to one! Whereas others claim there is a much smaller…
Real Food for a Happy Tummy!
What DO I Eat?? So now you’ve made the decision to improve your health and to start eating better. What does that really mean? Just like digestion starts in the brain so does every decision and every action you make. The first thing you want to do is…
Digestion Part 2: The Not So Happy Tummy
If digestion starts in the brain then what if your brain isn’t thinking about eating? Stress If you are stressed out, in a hurry or just plain distracted then the process is impeded from the start. Digestion is a parasympathetic process. That means it happens when we are relaxed…
Digestion Part One: The Happy Tummy
Since this is a blog about Tummies I guess the best place to start is to talk about how our tummies are supposed to work. This is a huge subject and inspiration for this website so we’ll have plenty more to talk about in future posts!! For now here’s…