Good Bugs for Your Gut
By Christie Benton
Oct 7, 2016
Updated Nov 17, 2023
5 min read
Here’s some ways to keep the good bugs happy and thriving:
1) Eat foods with “probiotics” ( live, health –promoting bacteria)
These foods are either cultured of fermented, processes that allow the development of good bacteria and inhibit the bad.
2) Eat foods with “prebiotics” ( foods for probiotics, they contain a fiber that escapes digestion in the upper GI tract and travels to the colon to feed the probiotics.
Yes, your gut is glorious and you want to keep it that way. If you are wondering what bacteria inhabit your gut, you can find out through the Human Microbiome Project. It can, for a small fee, analyze your gut bacterial population and enter into a their database and send you the results, also.
humanfoodproject.com/americangut/