The Gut, Nutrition and Cancer Connection

Gut, Nutrition, Cancer     Does nutrition play any role in cancer prevention? Does nutrition play any role in cancer causation? Can nutrition support other cancer treatments? Can nutrition play a role as a primary cancer treatment? These are four excellent questions that patients routinely ask. I will use these questions to structure this series […]

Best Foods for Gut Health

Graphic of foods for improving gut health

Best Foods for Gut Health In the previous post we shared some insights about the importance of gut health and the microbiome, how the human gut microbiota can play a major role in host health, and shared some tips to help you improve the health of your gut. Many of those tips are associated with […]

Why is Gut Health So Important?

Why is Gut Health So Important?

Why is gut health important? And what do microbes have to do with it? First, what is the gut? The gut can be considered the gastrointestinal tract (GI tract), from mouth to rectum. According to the online Cambridge Dictionary, the gut is “the long tube in the body of a person or animal, through which […]