The advances of medicine and proactive health in today’s world are astounding. One of the major shifts in our understanding of disease and prevention has come with a new conception of the role of the gut! It turns out, our gut health determines just about everything about our overall health and affects whether or not we may be susceptible to certain diseases, especially those caused by autoimmune.

Because of this knowledge, not only functional medicine but conventional medicine has gotten on board with ways to improve health through changes in diet –avoiding certain inflammatory foods, cutting out allergens, eliminating gluten, and making sure we feed our “gut” what it needs to manufacture “healthy bacteria” instead of “harmful bacteria.”

Who knew that eating the right foods could be so infl…