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Gut health, explained

Evidence-led articles on probiotics, digestion and family health, from the team that makes Flourish. We show our sources.

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Clever Ways to REUSE your glass

6 min read

Your Flourish bottle has done its job, and it seems a shame to send good amber glass straight to the recycling. Here are three things to do with it instead, a cleaner spray bottle with a DIY recipe, the world's easiest vase, and a reed diffuser…

Articles

  • Women as Bacterial Hosts

    7 min read

    Men and women carry measurably different gut communities, and hormones are the leading explanation, which means that for roughly half the population, the gut is working against a…

  • Inflammation

    6 min read

    Inflammation is an alarm, not a disease, the trouble is that one kind goes off loudly for a few days and the other hums quietly for years. Here's…

  • Sufficient Sleep & Gut Health

    7 min read

    We all know sufficient sleep matters, and when life gets busy it's still the first thing to go, but the bacteria in your gut keep their own schedule…

  • Probiotics & Medication

    6 min read

    Can you take Flourish while you're on medication? Most of the time, yes, with two exceptions worth knowing about and one bit of timing that makes it work…

  • Fermentation Station

    10 min read

    Fermentation is older than writing, shows up in nearly every culture on earth, and for most of human history wasn't a hobby, it was how you got to…

  • Gut-Mouth Connection

    8 min read

    Your mouth is the headwaters of the river that is your GI tract, and what lives up there doesn't always stay up there. Here's the connection between the…

  • Egg-Free Frosted Banana Muffins

    7 min read

    It's National Banana Bread Day, and these frosted banana muffins skip the eggs entirely, a tablespoon of ground flaxseed does the binding instead, and nobody at the table…

  • 10 High Fiber Foods

    9 min read

    Most of us eat about half the fiber we should, roughly 15 grams a day against targets of 25 for women and 38 for men. The fix isn't…

  • All About Fiber

    7 min read

    Two kinds of fiber, one target, and a lot of confusion about which foods do what. We asked a registered dietitian to sort it out. Photo: Wil Carranza…

  • Gut-Skin Connection

    7 min read

    People have suspected a link between the gut and the skin for centuries, and it turns out they were onto something, though not for the reasons anyone thought.…

  • Get to Know Your Probiotics

    10 min read

    Eleven strains live in every bottle of Flourish. They have jobs, preferences, and in one case a genuine claim to having survived six years in outer space. Let's…