Men's Health Australia

YOUR GOLDEN GUT

BETWEEN THE BILLION-DOLLAR probiotic-supplement push, probiotic additives in food (probiotic chips!) and recent studies linking gut health to everything from mental wellbeing to cancer, the gut – those 7.5 metres of intestines sitting inside your core – seems to be the seat of all good health. Despite what manufacturers would have you believe, getting your insides in shape isn’t as simple as ingesting a bunch of products.

Everything you eat – and plenty that you do (even sleep) – can affect the microbes in your gut. Down

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