Nutrition

Have you ever wondered why we use sayings like “gut feelings” and “butterflies in our stomach”? When we’re nervous, we have a weird feeling in our gut. When we’re stressed, we may have a hard time using the bathroom. When we fall in love, we feel flutters in our gut.

We’ve all watched a movie with a bucket-of-ice-cream post-break-up scene, right? But it’s not purely fictional, emotional eating is actually a thing and there’s science to back it up.

Did you know that we have about as many bugs in our bodies as we do human cells? Despite our attempts to avoid invasion by harmful microorganisms, our bodies are actually flooded with trillions of microorganisms of thousands of different specifies, including bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses.