{"id":100586,"date":"2020-01-08T00:22:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T08:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/here-are-5-science-backed-ways-to-make-your-microbiome-healthier-in-2020"},"modified":"2020-01-08T00:22:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T08:22:58","slug":"here-are-5-science-backed-ways-to-make-your-microbiome-healthier-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/here-are-5-science-backed-ways-to-make-your-microbiome-healthier-in-2020","title":{"rendered":"Here Are 5 Science-Backed Ways to Make Your Microbiome Healthier in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/here-are-5-science-backed-ways-to-make-your-microbiome-healthier-in-20203.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s common for people to focus on their health at the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>But few consider the well being of the microbes that live inside the human gut \u2013 the microbiome \u2013 which are vital to an individual\u2019s good health.<\/p>\n<p>How important are these bacteria? <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1002533\">There are as many bacterial cells in us as there are human cells<\/a>, and they help control everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmj.j5145\">inflammation<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41568-019-0155-3\">development and treatment of cancer<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S0029665114001700\">how much energy we get from our foods<\/a> and perhaps even <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pbio.2000862\">what foods we crave<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41564-018-0337-x\">our moods<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s common for people to focus on their health at the start of the year. But few consider the well being of the microbes that live inside the human gut \u2013 the microbiome \u2013 which are vital to an individual\u2019s good health. How important are these bacteria? There are as many bacterial cells in us [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}