Hoping to get your gut health in fighting shape? You could be doing *all* the things in your quest to maintain bacterial balance and keep inflammation at bay—yet soon enough, you’ll likely wonder if your efforts are paying off.
To help you decipher if you’re headed in the right direction, board-certified gastroenterologist Kenneth Brown, MD, shares how to tell if your microbiome is inflammation-free (or pretty darn close). Plus: a few tips worth adopting if you’re not quite there yet and hope to expedite the balancing act.
5 signs of an inflammation-free gut
1. Regular bowel movements
If you ask me, there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a full BM—especially if they’re not as consistent, complete, or comfortable to pass as you’d like them to be. “A bowel movement every day, with little or no straining, is an indicator that…
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