Your Microbiome
Most gut bacteria are not enemies — they digest fiber you can't, train your immune system, and crowd out pathogens. These pages cover the helpful residents, the supplements that add or feed them, and the one famous resident that earns its bad reputation.
- Probiotics — The evidence by strain and condition, not by marketing claim
- Prebiotics — The fibers your bacteria eat: inulin, GOS, resistant starch
- Fermented Foods Overview — Live-culture foods as a daily probiotic strategy
- The Oral Microbiome — Gut health starts in the mouth
- Bacillus subtilis — A soil organism sold as a spore-based probiotic
- Bacteroides fragilis — A core gut resident: helpful in place, harmful displaced
- Helicobacter pylori — The stomach colonist behind most ulcers
- Clostridium difficile — What happens when antibiotics clear the neighborhood
- The Gut–Brain Axis — How the microbiome shapes mood, cognition, and mental health
Connections
- Gut Health — The section hub with all sub-pages
- Gastroenterology — The complete digestive-conditions library
- Food — Whole foods, including every fermented food above
- Infections — The hostile side of the microbial world
- Herbs — Including the digestive and carminative herbs
- Amino Acids — Glutamine, glycine, and the gut-lining builders
- Biology — All 137 interactive animations
- Longevity — Where gut health and healthy aging meet
- Lab Tests — Including the GI and liver panels