Gut Health

Your gut does a lot more than digest dinner. It's home to trillions of microbes, and what you eat every day helps shape which ones thrive. Here at Eat Your Nutrition®, gut health means building simple, steady habits around real food, not chasing quick fixes.

Meet Laura

I'm Laura Ann Villanueva, a Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) with a BSc in Nutrition Science. Most of the women I work with come to me with bloating, irregular digestion, or the feeling that food just isn't sitting right. The articles and recipes on this page are what I share with them: practical steps you can start this week.

Where to Start?

Five articles I point people to first.

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Start Here

Understanding Gut Health Importance For Beginners

The basics of what your gut does and why it matters.

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Daily Habits

15 Daily Habits for Gut Health That Actually Work

Small daily routines, from hydration to a short walk after meals.

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Colorful salad with many different vegetables

Variety

Plant Diversity For Gut Health: 30 Plants Per Week

Why variety on your plate matters and how to count your plants.

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Fiber

Fiber And Gut Health

Where to find fiber and how to add more of it to your meals.

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Table of simple whole-food meals and dips

Bloating

4 Simple Meals To Reduce Bloating And Support Gut Health

Easy meals for the days your stomach feels off.

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What the Research Keeps Pointing To

A few ideas show up again and again.

Fiber feeds your gut

Your gut bacteria turn fiber into short-chain fatty acids that help nourish the cells lining your colon.

Fermented foods add variety

Yogurt, kefir, and sauerkraut increased the variety of gut microbes in a 2021 Stanford study.

Plant variety matters

In the American Gut Project, people who ate 30 or more different plants a week had more diverse gut bacteria than people who ate 10 or fewer.

Gut health is personal, and everything here is for education, not diagnosis. If you have ongoing digestive symptoms, talk with your doctor. Then come back, pick one habit, and build from there.