Beginner’s Guide to Gut Health: 7 Simple Steps to Better Digestion

Begin your gut health journey with our beginner’s guide to gut health—a practical, friendly roadmap to better digestion. This 7 simple steps plan distills science into easy, actionable tips you can start today to feel lighter, more energized, and less bloated. Each step focuses on real-life habits you can weave into your daily routine, from hydration and fiber-rich foods to mindful eating and steady meal timing, with quick wins you can notice in days. To power this journey with solid data, InnerBuddies provides a white-label Gut Health Operating System that companies can embed to power their gut microbiome testing products. It includes a Gut Microbiome Health Index, a 0-to-100 score derived from an exclusive IP deal with EAFIT University in Colombia, so you can gauge overall gut health at a glance. You’ll also see Bacteria abundances—including a top 40 list that lets you compare your profile against a healthy cohort—and Bacteria functions, categorized and labeled as positive or negative to show where your microbiome stands across key functional pathways. Learn more about how the consumer experience with InnerBuddies works at the InnerBuddies microbiome test. Beyond scorecards, InnerBuddies offers Target Group analysis, diving into how your microbiome aligns with specific goals like Healthy Aging, Endurance Sport, Skin & Hair Health, and more. Personalized nutrition advice uses data from 3-day food diaries matched to stool samples to tailor guidance for your unique gut microbiome, while personalized probiotics and prebiotics recommendations align strains with your objectives. Explore ongoing insights and personalized plans with the InnerBuddies Gut Health Membership. InnerBuddies serves both consumers and businesses. All of the options available to our B2B partners are also accessible directly to consumers, so you can start your journey with or without a business model in mind. If you’re curious about bringing this approach to your organization, consider becoming a partner: Become a partner. For a consumer-facing start, you can explore the product directly via the microbiome test page linked above.