Gut health is about more than what you eat. Your guts are at the center of your physical and emotional resilience. To help your gastro system do its complex jobs, it takes more than a healthy diet. You need a team of other positive habits to make sure your gut is good to go.
Stress Reduction and Sleep Routine
Stress reduction using meditation and aerobic exercise keeps the two-way gut-brain highway free of potholes and makes sure both organ systems influence each other in positive ways, dodging bowel problems and the blues, which can then trigger more bowel problems. A good sleep routine (seven to eight hours of quality rest nightly) also helps avoid gut-busting stress and tamps down poor food choices you might make to console your weary self or boost your energy level.
Physical activity helps move food through your system and stimulates healthy diversity in your microbiome. That reduces the risk of obesity and metabolic diseases and stimulates the production of substances that protect against gastro woes and colon cancer.
For even more easy-to-use info on making sure you have glorious guts, check out health pioneer Michael Roizen, M.D., chief wellness officer emeritus at the Cleveland Clinic and author of four No. 1 New York Times bestsellers.
Original reporting: Texarkana Gazette — read the source article.
