Improve Digestive Health
One of the newer pieces of understanding about the health benefit of almonds relates to digestive health. Eating 20 almonds every day has been shown to produce significant changes in the gut microbiota. Healthy intestinal bacteria, like lactic acid and bifidobacteria, serve to maintain a strong intestinal barrier that keeps the bad bacteria out.
Bad bacteria that crosses the intestinal barrier tends to cause chronic inflammation that is linked to all sorts of ailments, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, mental health problems, asthma and chronic sinus infections, skin problems, Parkinson’s disease, and even cancer. It’s shocking to realize how many bodily ills originate in the gut.
