Everyday Habits

Why When You Eat Matters as Much as What You Eat

Most gut health advice focuses entirely on what to eat. Recent research is making an increasingly strong case that when you eat deserves nearly as much atten...

Gut Health During Illness and Recovery

When you're sick, your gut is dealing with the infection, supporting your [immune system]([[Your Gut and Your Immune System]]), handling any medication effec...

Gut Health on a Budget

Gut health content online has a habit of pushing expensive supplements and trendy superfoods. In reality, the most gut-beneficial foods that exist are some o...

Coffee and Your Gut: The Honest Version

Coffee is one of the most widely drunk beverages on the planet, and its relationship with gut health is more complicated than either enthusiastic coffee fans...

What a Bad Week of Eating Does to Your Gut (And How Fast You Can Bounce Back)

Everyone has weeks where their diet falls apart, and then you feel it, heavier, slower, more bloated, less sharp, more tired. That feeling is real and has a ...

Gut Health and Alcohol: What Actually Happens

Nobody wants a lecture about alcohol. This isn't one. What follows is an honest look at what alcohol actually does to your gut, what the research says about ...

Why Your Gut Always Seems Worse in the Cold

Related reading · [Seasonal affective disorder]([[Seasonal Affective Disorder and Your Gut]]) and your gut Digestion reliably getting worse in colder months,...

Hydration and Your Gut: Why "Drink More Water" Actually Matters

"Drink more water" might be the single most generic piece of health advice out there, but it becomes a lot more useful once you actually understand why, and ...

Mindful Eating: Why How You Eat Matters as Much as What

Almost all gut health advice focuses on what to eat. Very little attention goes to how you eat, even though the way you eat has real, measurable effects on d...

Intermittent Fasting and Your Gut

Your gut runs a self-cleaning cycle every single day, but only if you give it the gap it needs. Knowing that changes how you think about when you eat, not ju...

Antibiotics and Your Gut: The Recovery Plan Nobody Explains

If you've just been prescribed antibiotics, or think you might be soon, there's a specific plan that makes a real difference to how fast your gut bounces bac...

Sleep and Your Gut: A Two-Way Street

Related reading · How sleep, mental health, and your gut all connect Poor sleep and a struggling gut tend to show up together, and that's no coincidence. The...