We Are What We Eat: Linking Food With Intestinal Functionality and Microbiome

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Learn how you can impact your overall health by balancing your gut health; how your intestinal functionality, and microbiome are affected by your diet, and how to improve normal gut function. Learn how various chronic conditions and dietary deficiencies (as iron and zinc) may improve the gut digestive and absorptive surface (Brush Border Membrane) functionality and health promoting microbiome. In this course you will discuss the literature and learn that the microbiome and intestinal functionality play an important role in maintaining normal gut function, digesting certain nutrients, early life development, behavior and disorders like irritable bowel syndrome, mineral/vitamin deficiencies, obesity and diabetes.