What Is All the Hype About SIBO? By Emeran Mayer, MD As the COVID-19 pandemic has engulfed the world, there has never been a time in which topics like Gut Health, Immune Support, Gut Cleansing, and Improvement of Gut Health have been more popular. Suddenly self-declared experts from different fields of medicine, nutrition and wellness …
Do We Really Need to Boost Our Immunity? By Emeran Mayer, MD As the COVID-19 pandemic has engulfed the world, there has never been a time in which topics like Gut Health, Immune Support, Gut Cleansing, and Improvement of Gut Health have been more popular. Suddenly experts from the fields of functional and integrative medicine, …
Can We Rejuvenate Our Brain Through a Fecal Microbial Transplant From a Young Individual? By Emeran Mayer, MD While the gut microbiota has been implicated as an important regulator of host immunity, brain health and healthy aging, and age-related changes in the gut microbiome have been linked to cognitive decline and frailty in elderly populations …
The Wellness Primer, Part II By Emeran Mayer, MD Life is stressful, and for most people chronic stress has become a regular aspect of daily life. Stress has been part of human life for millions of years and there has been enough time in our evolutionary history to perfect our biological stress response systems in …
The Wellness Primer By Emeran Mayer, MD Wellness and the related state of optimal health are lofty goals for millions of Americans. Unfortunately, it is estimated that only about 5% of the US population fall into this category, while about 45% live in a suboptimal health/pre-disease state (without even being aware of it), 50% already …