How Your Gut Health Impacts Your Disease Risk

A recent scientific review states all inflammatory disease begins here—including ADHD, autism, learning disabilities, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease

Optimizing your gut flora and vitamin D level is fundamental for good health. Regularly eating traditionally fermented and cultured foods is the easiest, most effective, and least expensive way to make a significant impact on your gut microbiome. Monstar Studio/Shutterstock

More attention than ever is being put on your gut health, and understandably so, considering a significant proportion of your immune system resides in your gastrointestinal tract. As such, optimizing your gut microbiome is a worthwhile pursuit that will have far-reaching effects on your physical health and emotional well-being.

Mounting scientific evidence also continues to suggest a large component of nutrition centers on nourishing health-promoting bacteria in your gut (and elsewhere in and on your body). In doing so, you keep harmful microbes in check and shore up your protection against chronic disease.