All posts by: The Digestion Coach

The Gut Axes: Resilience and Sunlight Microbiome Connection

The Gut Axes as Adaptive Conduits: A Bidirectional Network of Resilience and Sunlight Microbiome Connection Doing what I do as a decades-long practicing doctor and dedicated digestion coach, I often...

Phenolic Glycosides for Gut Health

Phenolic glycosides for gut health are plant-derived compounds with a phenolic structure linked to a sugar group, offering significant benefits by reducing intestinal inflammation and enhancing resistance to pathogens. These...

A diet rich in choline, carnitine, and tryptophan may increase cancer risk by producing trimethylamine n-oxide (TMAO) and indole-3-acetic Acid (IAA) metabolites.

Is There a Choline, Carnitine, Tryptophan Cancer Risk via Diet? Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) and indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) are metabolites produced by gut microbiota from specific dietary precursors found in certain foods....

The Gut-Lung Connection: Lung Health via Gut Health

If you’re living with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or you’re an older adult worried about lung infections like pneumococcal pneumonia, your gut might hold a secret weapon...

Gut Health and Parkinson’s: How Diet Can Help

The Gut-Brain Link: How Food Boosts Gut Health and Parkinson’s If you live with Parkinson’s disease, you know the shaky hands, stiff muscles, and slow moves. These come from brain...

Nine Ways Our Microbiome and Bitcoin Are Alike

Nine Ways Our Microbiome Is Like Bitcoin As a Bitcoin enthusiast, doctor, and digestion coach, I got to thinking: What if the trillions of microbes in our gut ran their...

Saffron Extract for ADHD: A Natural Gut-Brain Solution

Saffron Extract for ADHD: A Natural Solution via the Gut-Brain Connection? Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, affects millions of kids and adults around the world. It can make focusing, controlling impulses,...

Bifidobacterium breve for Infant Gut Health and Immunity

Bifidobacterium breve, or B. breve, is vital for a baby’s gut health. This helpful bacterium thrives on nutrients in breast milk, especially human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). It builds a strong...

MS Gut-Immune Restoration Protocol

The Gut-Immune Connection in MS and B-Cell Dysregulation Multiple sclerosis (MS) disrupts the gut-immune connection, but the MS gut-immune restoration protocol offers hope for rebalancing this critical axis. In MS...

Oral Microbiome Support: Balance Bacteria for Optimal Health

Oral Microbiome Support Guide Table of Contents Key Terms and Definitions Key Beneficial Bacteria in the Oral Microbiome Harmful Strict Anaerobic Bacteria in the Mouth Strategies for Oral Microbiome Support Daily...