A bellyful of bacteria sounds like a horror story. But we’re not talking about Invasion of the Body Snatchers— there really are hundreds of trillions of microbes making themselves right at home in every person’s digestive tract.
Cooking is a dirty business. Think about it: butchering or chopping meat can be a bloody mess, grease splatters all over the stove, and baking—impossible to do without leaving a fine dusting of flour all over the kitchen.
A job interview, a speech, meeting the parents—these moments can turn even cool-as-a-cucumber extroverts into quivering piles of Jell-0. That discomfort—feeling like you’re under a microscope, fearing the worst humiliation, criticism, or rejection—is social anxiety, and it happens to the best of us. But it there’s a cure, and it doesn’t involve popping a valium.
Probiotics have been getting a lot of attention for their health benefits, but a new study shows another dairy product may work just as well: cheese.