Eating Herbs Can Improve and Soothe Gut Health

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Eating Herbs Can Improve and Soothe Gut Health

Small servings of herbs can help boost diverse plant consumption to improve gut health, while specific herbs help heal broken metabolism and gut symptoms.

Powerful Plants to Soothe and Strengthen Digestion

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Goji berries are an accessible, tasty herb that can be eaten plain, added to recipes or smoothies, or made into tea.Grafvision/Photos.com

In medical research, it often seems that one finding will contradict another.

Two gut-health truths at odds with one another are:

• Research-backed advice to eat 30 diverse plants a week for a healthy gut microbiome
• Evidence that most Americans should lower their carbohydrate consumption

All plants contain carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are one of three macronutrients. The other two are fat and protein. Increasingly, Americans are struggling to metabolize and absorb carbohydrates, giving rise to diets that drastically reduce or remove them for a short while or even permanently.