You may be familiar with gut health, but you might not realize how important a single compound called butyrate is for your overall well-being. In the video above, Dawn Boxell, a registered dietitian with Gastric Health, expands on butyrate, a type of short-chain fatty acid produced by certain beneficial bacteria in your gut whenever you… Read More »
A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection anywhere along the urinary system — typically the bladder. It’s usually characterized by burning during urination, pelvic pressure, an urgent need to urinate and cloudy or strong-smelling urine. But when those symptoms are absent, and doctors still prescribe antibiotics, the consequences are often serious. Antibiotics disrupt the… Read More »
Over time, sleeping less than five hours a night increases your blood sugar swings by 2.87%. That finding — published in JAMA Network Open — underscores just how much your sleep habits impact your metabolic health.1 Glycemic variability — the technical term for those swings — plays a major role in insulin resistance and Type… Read More »
Originally published on U.S. Right to Know: March 10, 2025 In 2018, Louis Robert, an agronomist in Québec, was fired after releasing controversial research about the limited effectiveness of neonicotinoid pesticides. After a year of asking his superiors at the Ministry of Agriculture to release the report, Robert sent the unpublished research to Radio-Canada. The… Read More »