{"id":555455,"date":"2026-04-28T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555455\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:03:13","slug":"guide-to-a-healthy-gut-harvard-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555455\/","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":555456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[457,73029,102,3247,2960,5672,547,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-555455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-books","tag-food-nutrition","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-microbiome","tag-research","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}