Dr. Saurabh Sethi, a gastroenterologist with 25 years of experience trained at AIIMS, Harvard, and Stanford, recently revealed eight powerful habits to skyrocket your gut health. These easy lifestyle moves can change how your body and gut work together every day. Ready for a health upgrade? Let’s dive into his top tips! First, start your day with gratitude, not your phone. Dr. Sethi warns that cortisol, the stress hormone, is already high when you wake up. Scrolling on your phone only adds stress. Instead, take a moment to feel thankful to calm your nerves and help your digestion run smoothly. Next, soak up 5 to 10 minutes of morning sunlight. This little sunshine dose resets your body clock and pumps up vitamin D, both great for your mood and for tuning your gut to digest better all day. After breakfast or any meal, take a gentle 10-minute walk. Dr. Sethi explains this helps blood sugar stay steady and moves food along your intestines faster, avoiding that sluggish feeling we all get after eating. Before gulping your morning coffee, drink a glass or two of water. It rehydrates you after sleep, jumpstarts digestion, and stops caffeine from drying you out. Try deep belly breathing for just 2-3 minutes when you wake. This simple breathwork wakes up the vagus nerve—the gut and brain’s superhighway—and puts you in a calm "rest and digest" mode for a happy tummy all day. For breakfast, build a gut-loving meal with protein, fiber, and prebiotics. Ideas include Greek yogurt with berries and chia seeds or oats mixed with green banana. These feed your good gut bacteria and keep your blood sugar balanced. When eating, ditch your phone and screens! Mindful eating turns on your parasympathetic nervous system, helping digestion work without stress. Scrolling while eating disrupts this and harms digestion. Finally, don’t shy away from the daily “poop check.” Dr. Sethi says paying attention to the color, shape, and ease of your bowel movements tells you how well your gut is functioning. Follow these colorful, easy habits and watch your gut health bloom. As Dr. Sethi shows, great digestion is not magic—it’s the magic of good daily habits!