I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.

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We'll find out how to nurture the bugs in your belly.

We're talking with Dr Robin Chutkin, author of the microbiome solution, she'll tell us how

inflammation affects our overall health and what we should know about leaky gut

syndrome. What does Dr. Chukin mean when she says live dirty eat clean?

Coming up on the people's pharmacy, how to have good digestion without drugs.

First, this news.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, older people who fear they're losing their mental

edge should lace up their sneakers. In a study published in the journal

Neurology 160 volunteers with an average age of 65 tested the benefits of

exercise a dashed diet, a combination of the two or health education

sessions. The participants had cognitive impairments but no dementia when the study

began. Those who exercised for 45 minutes three times a week

for six months made significant gains in tests of their executive function. Adding the vegetable-rich-dashed diet to the exercise helped even more.

The improvement was the mental equivalent of dropping nine years. The volunteers assigned to health education sessions had worse

scores on their executive function tests at the end of the six months than when

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