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Evidence-led articles on probiotics, digestion and family health, from the team that makes Flourish. We show our sources.
Menopause is one of the most under-served subjects in medicine and one of the most over-sold in the supplement aisle, and this article is our attempt to separate the two. The endocrinology is solid: as the ovaries wind down, estradiol and progesterone fall and stay low,…
Short answer: probably not. The longer answer is more useful, and it starts with the inconvenient fact that both of these words have formal scientific definitions, and a…
Sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, miso, kefir. Western diets have quietly dropped nearly all of them, and the evidence for putting them back is better than most people realise. …
Five gut-friendly micro-habits, sleep, water, live cultures, fiber, movement, each built small enough to survive a bad week. It opens by naming the habit framework it borrows (James…
Probiotics for children are marketed with more confidence than the research supports, so this is our attempt to give parents the honest version. A child's gut microbiome is…
Almost every child gets constipated at some point, but what turns a rough week into a months-long problem usually isn't diet. It's stool withholding: one painful bowel movement…
Sometimes a bottle of Flourish arrives with a bulging base or a little liquid around the cap, and this article explains why that is the product working rather…
Regularity is one of those things nobody thinks about until it stops. This article starts with the number that saves a lot of unnecessary worry, anywhere from three…
Spring arrives and, for a lot of people, the air stops being neutral. This article walks through what the research on probiotics and seasonal allergies actually shows. It…
Flourish is never freeze-dried, which means the cultures stay alive in the liquid they grew in, and that liquid carries the compounds they made along the way. This…
Antibiotics are one of the best things medicine ever invented and they're rough on your gut, and both halves of that deserve honest treatment. When twelve healthy men…
Probiotics, prebiotics, and now postbiotics. The third one is the most interesting of the three, partly because nobody can quite agree what it means. Photo: Maria Verkhoturtseva/ https://www.pexels.com…
A plain guide to what a prebiotic actually is under the current scientific consensus, a substrate selectively used by your microbes with a documented health benefit, and why…
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