The organ system with perhaps the greatest influence over your long-term health is not your heart or your brain in isolation. It is your gut, and specifically the

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Something was off and I could not pinpoint it. Three years ago I spent a month overseas eating mostly processed convenience food and sleeping in unfamiliar time zones.

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A few years ago, I ran a small experiment on myself that I have never forgotten. For six consecutive weeks, I added a daily serving of homemade kefir

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