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What Your Stool Color Means

As gross or taboo as it may seem, poop, stool, #2, or whatever you like to call it, is an essential part of our physiology. We all do it (hopefully), and it provides a significant amount of information about our gut health, and therefore our overall health.⁣ ????????So step 1, start looking! Ask your kids to look too; and to tell you if it’s not brown.⁣⁣⁣⁣????????Step 2. Know the warning signs.⁣⁣⁣⁣⚠️????❤️Black and bright red could indicate internal bleeding, so do seek medical attention. But there are some other less scary reasons for it:⁣ •large amounts of black foods, iron...

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2 Easy Ways To Eat More Liver

Liver is one of those prized superfoods I wish I had introduced earlier into my kids’ diets. ⁣Liver has the highest source of bioavailable vitamin A, meaning it’s in a form (retinol) that can be directly used by the body unlike plant sources of vitamin A (carotene) which need to be converted to retinol.⁣ What is vitamin A good for?⁣⁣⁣✔️Epithelial integrity: skin, urinary tract, lungs, GI lining, blood brain barrier⁣⁣✔️Immunity & tissue repair: without it can get chronic infections like UTI’s & slow healing⁣⁣✔️Mucus formation in lungs, sinus cavities & mouth preventing...

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