How Your Gut Health Affects Your Whole Body

Sources Medically Reviewed on 12/17/2020 Reviewed by Neha Pathak, MD on December 17, 2020
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SOURCES:
UConn Today: “How Bactera Keep Us Healthy.”
Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal: “Part 1: The Human Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease.”
ACP Microbe Institute: “Microbe Magic,” “The Good Bacteria.”
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: “Prebiotics and Probiotics: Creating a Healthier You.”
Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation: “Gut Microbiome Points To Cures and Treatment for IBD.”
International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: “Gut Bacteria and IBS.”
Cleveland Clinic: “How Gut Bacteria May Help Curb Your Heart Disease.”
University of California, Los Angeles: “Changing Gut Bacteria Through Diet Affects Brain Function, UCLA Study Shows.”
Journal of Neuroscience: “Gut Microbes and the Brain: Paradigm Shift in Neuroscience.”
Endocrine Society: “Magnetic Brain Stimulation Causes Weight Loss By Making Gut Bacteria Healthier.”
Mayo Clinic: “What Are Probiotics?”
Journal of Food Science and Technology: “Probiotics, Prebiotics and Synbiotics -- A Review.”
Reviewed by Neha Pathak, MD on December 17, 2020
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