by Jason Hooper | Jan 1, 2016 | Digestive Health
“When’s the last time you ate a vegetable?” I asked at the dinner table last night. “Do chocolate covered potato chips count as a vegetable? Potatoes grow in the ground, right?” With each passing meal, the Christmas lights seem to glow a...
by Jason Hooper | Oct 23, 2015 | Probiotics, Supplement Recommendations
Here at Fix Your Gut, we talk a lot about the gut microbiome, but what about the skin microbiome? We do just as much, if not more to manipulate the bacteria of our skin, and it may not be to our advantage. Our modern hygiene practices encourage the use of...
by Jason Hooper | Aug 21, 2015 | Diet, Digestive Health, Probiotics
The human diet has an enormous impact on the quantity and quality of bacteria in the gut. In 2013, a team of scientists showed that a change in diet can radically alter the microbiome after just four days 1. Will eliminating carbs have a direct impact on gut bacteria...
by Jason Hooper | Aug 7, 2015 | Buyer Beware, Digestive Health, News and Studies, Opinion
What is Soylent? Software engineer, Robert Reinhart believed that his busy lifestyle was leading him to poor dietary choices. He thought that he was far too overwhelmed to source food with adequate nutrition and had a moral conflict about supporting the agricultural...
by Jason Hooper | Jul 31, 2015 | Digestive Health, Endotoxin, Opportunistic Microorganisms
For the last decade, I have been finding articles about fecal matter transplants in rats. When scientists transplant fecal matter from an obese rat into a healthy rat, it soon becomes obese.1 There have been several other biological ailments that can also be assumed...
