Myths & Truths About Prebiotics - FODMAP, SIBO & IBS
Posted by Tiffany Cox on
I hear from people all the time that ALL prebiotics are bad for people that are on the low FODMAP diet or that have SIBO and IBS type problems. While this is true of many prebiotics, it is not true of all prebiotics.
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Why Are We Hearing So Much About Gut Health Lately?
Posted by Alex Layton on
We are living in an "information era" which means we are benefitting from the ongoing borage of science and research. Gut health is an emerging "hot topic", as we discover more and more about the important role "good bacteria" play in the body. To fully understand why, we need to step back a few years to the Human Genome Project (HGP) which was completed in 2003. This was an international research project designed to uncover all of the genes in the human genome. They found that humans have about 22,000 genes. While this sounds impressive, it's about the same amount...