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Best Time to Take Probiotics

The best time to take probiotics can depend on product label recommendations. Some can be taken with or without food either before or after meals. 

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Want a Stronger Immune System? Study Shows Indoor Gardening Can Help

A recent study shows gardening can actually boost your immune system, and you don't even need an outdoor garden to reap these benefits. Learn more!

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What are Postbiotics?

Postbiotics, prebiotics, and probiotics all have different mechanisms essential to gut health. Here's everything you need to know about postbiotics.

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Why Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Your Health and Happiness - An Interview With Alanna Collen

Discover how our bodies are teeming with trillions of microbes that play a pivotal role in shaping our health, immunity, mental health, and even weight regulation.

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The Fascinating Power of the Gut-Brain Axis to Influence Health and Mood - An Interview With The Qualia Science Team

What follows is a transcript where we explored the fascinating power of the gut-brain axis and its influence on our health and mood.

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Synbiotic - Qualia Science Team - Gut Brain

Listen in as the Qualia Science Team is here to explore the fascinating power of the gut-brain axis and its influence on our health and mood.

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Qualia Synbiotic Ingredients

Learn about the ingredients in our all-in-one gut performance support, Qualia Synbiotic.

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How Our Second Brain Affects Mood, Immune Function, and Cognition: A Q&A With Naveen Jain

New areas of neuroscience are looking from the bottom-up, focusing on how the gut impacts the brain. These findings and more have earned our gut microbiome the nickname “the second brain.”

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Antiviral Immunity: Understanding Viruses and How the Immune System Responds to Viral Infections

Viruses are everywhere cellular life is present, often in unfathomable numbers. They mutate very often, frequently by recombining with other viruses. This means that new viruses are constantly being generated.

As we’ll learn in this article, viruses are very simple, but despite their simplicity, they are very effective and impressive little creatures. We’ll also learn how our immune system rises to the challenge.   

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How Does the Immune System Work? Part 1: An Exploration of the Functions, Responses, and Processes of the Innate Immune System

The immune system is the collection of cells, tissues, and molecules that work together to recognize the healthy cells that make up the body, and protect us against the unfamiliar or damaged. 

The immune system monitors our body continuously searching for certain categories of things that may threaten our health: infectious microbes, viruses, fungi, and parasites (i.e., germs or pathogens); toxic cellular products; and damaged or diseased cells, including senescent or tumor cells.

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What is The Gut-Brain Axis? An Exploration of The Communication Pathways Between The Brain, The Gut, And The Microbiota

The gut and brain are constantly communicating and influencing each other. This interaction is called the gut-brain axis. It means that what goes on in the gut can affect how the brain performs, influencing how we think, feel and behave. In this article, we explore the gut-brain connection and how the brain and the gut, our second brain, influence each other.

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How The Gut Microbiota Influences Our Immune System

The gut microbiota influences many aspects of human physiology, from metabolism, to the cardiovascular system or the nervous system, for example. In this article, we focus on the interaction between the gut microbiota and our immune system.

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