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| A Gut Health Guide For Kids & Parents: 7 Things To Do Now
Inside: You've heard that gut health is important–but how do you get a good gut? Here are 7 things you can do to improve your children's gut health (and your own!). Love a good makeover? Me too. Consider these next seven moves a makeover for your microbiome, the trillions of microbes (including bacteria and viruses) that live there. Why is that important? Because the health of the gut (aka your GI tract, including the stomach and intestines) has a huge impact on health, for both kids and adults. Gut health affects day-to-day digestive stuff like constipation but also body weight, mental health, and long-term risk for certain diseases. Good kinds of microbes in your gut help your body digest your food, make vitamins, absorb nutrients like calcium, and crowd out harmful microbes that can make you sick. The goal is to have a healthy balance between the two, with the healthy outnumbering the unhealthy. Luckily, that's partly in our control. Though the gut microbiome forms at birth and is affected by genetics, it's constantly changing–and there are a lot of things we can do to change ours for the better. Keep Reading A Gut Health Guide For Kids & Parents: 7 Things To Do Now at Real Mom Nutrition |
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