Gut Health

Tending Your Microbiome - Part 2
FOOD TO KEEP YOUR MICROBES HEALTHY See Part 1 Here: Tending Your Microbiome - Part 1 The food that YOU eat is also the food that your gut microbes use to flourish or not. Fermentation – the key to a healthy microbiome Fruits, vegetables and grains contain non-digestible carbohydrates (fibres) called prebiotics. A prebiotic is a microbe’s favourite food! Different gut microbes feed on different types of prebiotic fibre, which is another reason for increasing the range of fruits and vegetables you eat. Even the way you prepare your food matters –... Read more...
Tending Your Microbiome - Part 1
HARNESSING THE POWER OF 100 TRILLION FRIENDLY BUGS This is the story of how you came to be home to an astonishing number and range of microbes. It’s one of the two hottest topics in health science now – the Human Microbiome and Epigenetics. The Human Microbiome is the sum of all the genes from all microbes that live inside and on us. The term microbiota refers to the microbes themselves. They used to be called microflora, but that term is inaccurate as it implies that the microbes are plants, whereas they are of all types. According to the American... Read more...