by Brenda Watson | Oct 7, 2014 | The Skinny Gut Diet
I’m excited to announce that my new book The Skinny Gut Diet is now available for purchase. Are you ready to discover the secret to losing weight and keeping it off for good? Like many people, I battled weight gain and chronic health problems for years until one day I...
by Brenda Watson | Sep 29, 2014 | Human Microbiome, Infancy
Early life events, such as mode of delivery at birth, antibiotic use, and diet, all play a big role in what bacteria develop in the intestinal tract, which, in turn, determines how healthy an individual will be. In a recent study published in the journal Science...
by Brenda Watson | Sep 22, 2014 | Human Microbiome, Infancy, Probiotics & Gut Flora
Not long ago, researchers thought that infants in the womb were free of bacteria. Infants are inoculated by bacteria during birth, and later by the environment and diet, they said, but not before birth. In 2005, that idea changed when bacteria was discovered inside...
by Brenda Watson | Aug 27, 2014 | Diet, Human Microbiome
The 100 trillion bacteria that live inside the human digestive tract are the subject of many studies currently underway. Researchers the world over are trying to figure out which microbes constitute a “healthy microbiome,” which microbes protect our health, and which...
by Brenda Watson | Jul 7, 2014 | Human Microbiome
Until recently, it was thought that the bladder—and therefore urine—is sterile, meaning that, in a healthy state, no bacteria live there. But a new study presented by researchers at the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology is changing how...