Gut Bacteria vs Brain Aging: Probiotics, Mitochondria & Brain Damage Markers
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Gut Bacteria vs Brain Aging: Probiotics, Mitochondria & Brain Damage Markers

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I’m not gonna lie, after 10 years of immersing myself in the literature, it’s still hard to wrap my mind around the fact that the tiny, not-technically-me organisms in my gut have a say in my health, let alone my brain.

Yet here we are.

And the evidence for this connection is only getting stronger, leaving us intelligent walking apes with a decision to make. Embrace and lead this workforce of 38 trillion gut dwellers, or let the modern Western lifestyle shape them into a crew of side-hustling troublemakers.

If you’re having trouble deciding, here are THREE new reasons, hot off the scientific press, to choose option one.

Oh, and how to actually start doing it today.

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Referenced Posts

Gut Wall Trouble
Your Guts Aging YOU
Gut Mitochondria Connection
A Natural Gut Chill Pill?
My EARLY EATING Strategy
How to SLEEP
How to EAT Playlist
LONGEVITY 101
FASTING 101

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