Properly Feeding Your Microbiome Can Make You Healthier

One simple thing you can do to be healthier is to feed your microbiome properly, so your microbiome can take care of you

(Ali Eminov / CC BY-NC 2.0)

Two recently published nutritional studies that came out of the same lab (but by slightly different teams of investigators) found that very small daily changes to your diet can increase the diversity of your gut microbial community, and this, in turn, can improve your general health. The studies specifically found that adding a teaspoon-and-a-half of dried herbs and spices to your daily diet (ref) or snacking on an ounce of peanuts at bedtime every night (ref) increases the overall biodiversity of your gut microbes.