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Rose Goodman

How to improve gut health: 7 tips from the experts

Woman sitting on kitchen worktop and eating a probiotic yoghurt.

Wondering how to improve gut health? It’s all about getting a healthy balance of bacteria. If you nourish your gut and look after it, you’ll enable the friendly bacteria to thrive – and when your gut bacteria become healthier, you feel better too.

'Good gut health can be linked to the health of many other parts of the body because 70 per cent of the body’s immune cells lay along the digestive tract,' says nutrition expert, Penny Weston. 'While some bacteria are associated with causing illness, others are extremely important for our immune system, heart, weight and many other aspects of health.'

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