Life & Wellness

Trust Your Gut: Can Your Microbiome Replace Your Supplements?

Imagine a vitamin factory within your gut, where trillions of microscopic “workers” tirelessly produce essential nutrients.
Trust Your Gut: Can Your Microbiome Replace Your Supplements?
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Sina McCullough
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Join Sina McCullough on her quest to uncover truths about food and health. A scientist by training and journalist by nature, Sina offers facts and insights about how to live healthy, happy, and free.

Despite our food-rich nation, many Americans still lack nutrients. Soil depletion, overfarming, and food processing have eroded the nutritional quality of our foods, resulting in fewer micronutrients in our diets.

Sina McCullough
Sina McCullough
Sina McCullough holds a doctorate in nutrition and a bachelor's in science in neurobiology, physiology, and behavior from UC Davis. She was director of research and development for a supplement company and taught biochemistry and bioenergetics at UC Davis.