More attention than ever is being put on your gut health, and understandably so, considering a significant proportion of your immune system resides in your gastrointestinal tract. As such, optimizing your gut microbiome is a worthwhile pursuit that will have far-reaching effects on your physical health and emotional well-being. Mounting scientific evidence also continues to suggest a large component of nutrition centers on nourishing health-promoting bacteria in your gut (and elsewhere in and on your body). In doing so, you keep harmful microbes in check and shore up your protection against chronic disease. ADHD, autism, learning disabilities, obesity, diabetes, and Parkinson’s disease are but a few of the conditions found to be influenced by your gut microbiome. One 2020 scientific review published in F1000 Research goes so far as to say that all inflammatory disease begins in the gut. Part of the blame is laid on excessive hygiene. In other …