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Did you know that regular exercise and movement can have a positive impact on your gut by increasing the diversity of the gut microbiota? Exercise can also help stimulate the digestive system – promoting more efficient digestion and alleviating symptoms like bloating and constipation.

Good gut health is essential to supporting our immune system – which is vital during the colder months as 70 per cent of our immune cells reside in our gut. These gut microbiota play a major role in our body’s defence system; they are the ‘gatekeepers’ to our immune system, training our immune cells which bacteria to fight off and which substances to leave alone. Essentially, the 'good' bacteria in our gut compete with 'bad' bacteria and viruses for space and nutrients. The gut microbiota helps to keep these bad pathogens at bay by stopping them from colonising.

Understanding your gut can be confusing, particularly when it comes to what to eat and which ingredients can support and improve digestive health.

Hello, Sarah here from Cleary’s Pharmacy, Galway city centre. There’s great awareness nowadays of the many benefits of a healthy gut such as effective digestion, a strong immune system, heart health, improved mood and lowering the chance of obesity.

When it comes to important decisions, eight in 10 of us trust out gut, but very few care to look after it.

Let’s face it, the gut is a hard sell. You cannot see it and you have probably never given it much thought. And yet, it is probably the most exciting subject in health right now. We are seeing so many breakthroughs in our understanding of how the gut works, why it is important, and what it means for the future of our health.

More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek physician Hippocrates stated: “All disease begins in the gut.” This statement holds some truth to even this day. The key role our digestive system plays in our health and wellbeing cannot be underestimated. Your gut health is essential if you want to look and feel at your best.

This one is hard to comprehend,very hard. Some are harder to take than others. This defeat is pretty difficult to take. Our 1996 loss to Meath is forever etched in my memory for all the wrong reasons, it's very similar to last Sunday.

According to a recent survey by probiotic experts Yakult, the majority of Irish people are not listening to their heads or their hearts but are going with their gut. Yakult, maker of the easy to take, daily probiotic, found that of those surveyed, 80 per cent said they trusted their gut instinct over information and facts when it came to making key decisions in their life. Yakult conducted the survey to raise awareness of the importance of gut health and to discover just how much Irish men and women were in tune with their gut instincts in all areas of their lives.

GALWAY BAND The Guts will launch their debut album RAT with a concert upstairs in Kelly’s next Wednesday at 8.30pm.