Gut health is having a moment. Not the cute yogurt-commercial kind—more like, the secret to living longer may actually be inside your gut microbiome. To bring you up to speed, the gut microbiome is the miniature world composed of trillions of microscopic fungi, bacteria, parasites and viruses living inside your intestines. Scientists have been studying the gut pretty intensely over the last two decades and, according to the Cleveland Clinic, those organisms benefit from us as much as we do from them. Digestion, immunity, and the nervous system are all affected by your gut in some way but exactly how is still being examined.

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