Certain gut-healing strategies have proven their worth. That’s good, since problems in the microbiome can affect everything from our risk of cancer and depression, to our daily ability to function without pain or discomfort.
Chief among these strategies are the various elimination diets that operate like the name sounds—ridding food from the diet to determine what might be causing health symptoms. What we feed the gut either supports the factors that decide our health—such as immunity, metabolism, and the production of hormones and neurotransmitters—or fans the flames of inflammation and disease.