The Clever Guts Diet is packed with delicious, healing recipes, menu plans, checklists and tips – all the tools you need to transform your gut and change the way you eat forever.

There is also some strange formatting with regards to the pictures of the recipes in the Australian Kindle version I read, but that's nothing major. But in many ways the star of the digestive show is not actually part of the human body at all—it is the 2 to 4 pounds of microbes that live in your gut and make up the microbiome.It was widely believed that they were caused by stress, which made your stomach produce too much acid, and that was what did the damage.

Martin, but a great opportunity for William Beaumont to study the living digestive system in a way that no other surgeon or physician had ever been able to do before. The live, full-fat kind brings a whole lot of probiotic goodness to the table, keeping intestinal bacteria happy and reducing your risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes. A gut expert who reviewed my film in the British Medical Journal described it as one-sided and tendentious. He would wrap up food in muslin bags—bits of vegetable or meat—and then pop them directly into Alexis’s stomach via the fistula. Beyond these fun bits, the book amounts to a selection of sensible advice and recipes to sort your stomach aches.Your gut is key to your physical and mental wellbeing - home to your microbiome, an army of microbes that influences your weight, mood and immune system. Before you crack into the Sauv, we’re talking a moderate intake of red wine, which Dr Mosley notes has been linked to lower cholesterol, possibly thanks to its Bifidobacteria content. In the 1930s asthma was treated by psychotherapy because of the mistaken belief that it was all in the mind. And yet it is extraordinary—a part of the body, hitherto relatively unexplored, with which I have recently become rather obsessed.

Very informative about what microbiome actually is and how it affects us - our mood, our weight, our cravings. The microbiome consists of trillions of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes that live mainly in your large intestine or colon. The microbiome takes the bits of food our body can’t digest and converts them into a wide range of hormones and chemicals.I hope that it will help me in my lifelong weight gain battle, stop the need for constantly living on a diet and help heal IBS. The explanation given is that certain foods have certain effects on the the gut biome, which can and does have feedback loops. Discover how foods like chocolate, red wine, and cheese can be part of a gut-healthy diet; how fasting can strengthen the gut and boost “good” bacteria; how changing your microbiome can undo the damage of yo-yo dieting; and how opening a window (and other simple acts) can improve gut health.

With 150 delicious recipes, ranging from healing broths and fermented foods to enzyme-stimulating salads and meals rich in pre- and probiotics, this book shows you how to put into practice Dr Mosley's revolutionary two-phase gut repair programme and then to incorporate the core principles into your daily life.

As Michael Mosley points out, we are only just beginning to get to grips with this mysterious world. note too that the digestive system (a hugely complex food factory) contains as many neurons as the brain of a cat, as it exchanges information with the brain) . Without these Old Friends your immune system is liable to over-react, leading to all sorts of gut related problems. What is good for one person, isn't necessarily for the next person, and that there is an Israeli team setting up testing so that advice can be specialised for the individual.