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Understanding Gut Health and Wellness Impact

Uncover key factors that contribute to gut health and learn simple steps to improve your digestive well-being naturally. Find out more.
Vishvas Sowmyanarayanan
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Vishvas Sowmyanarayanan
Understanding Gut Health and Wellness Impact

Introduction

Welcome to the gut. To the top, these squishy stuffs are your stomach and the liver. These long snake-like parts to your left and right are your colons. Right behind you is the small intestine, and right below you is the rectum. Here, the gut breaks down the food and drinks you swallow, absorbs the nutrients, and parcels it to the rest of the body.

Take in food, absorb the nutrients, and send it all around. Its function seems important, and we need to maintain good gut health, right? But over the past few years, research has shown that what the gut is capable of has transcended mere digestion.

The gut has been two-timing with its own digestive system, with the body part most far from it. The brain!