{"id":634779,"date":"2026-04-28T19:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634779\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:39:15","slug":"guide-to-a-healthy-gut-harvard-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634779\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to a healthy gut \u2014 Harvard Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 40 percent of Americans say their bowel movements, or lack thereof, are disruptive to their daily lives, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/research.bidmc.org\/gut-brain\/people\/team-member-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trisha Pasricha<\/a>, the Harvard Medical School assistant professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and director of research for the Institute for Gut-Brain Research at BIDMC.<\/p>\n<p>The gastroenterologist and the writer behind The Washington Post\u2019s \u201cAsk a Doctor\u201d column is also the author of a new book, \u201cYou\u2019ve Been Pooping All Wrong: How to Make Your Bowel Movements a Joy.\u201d She helped us to develop the following quiz about gut health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 40 percent of Americans say their bowel movements, or lack thereof, are disruptive to their daily lives,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[353,49,48,71125,84,5432,392,1098,994],"class_list":{"0":"post-634779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-food-nutrition","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-health-care","14":"tag-healthcare","15":"tag-microbiome","16":"tag-research"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}