The Clever Guts Diet: How to revolutionise your body from the inside out

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Fascinating too to learn that the newborn imbibes its iniial hit of bacteria from its mother during birth: those born in a more sterile manner through Caesarean, are 64% more likely to be obese adults than those not! Alexis’s original wound was huge, about the size of a man’s palm, high up on the left side of his chest. Great foods for your gut: olive oil, oily fish, seaweed, cocoa, turmeric, garlic, shallots, leeks, white onions, eggplant, Jerusalem artichoke, asparagus, barley, flax seeds, yogurt, kefir, kimchi, sauerkraut, apple cider vinegar.

Gamely swallowing a camera for an eye-witness account,the author describes the stomach: "a cavernous,exotic landscape. Still, survive he did—and in doing so he laid the foundations of our modern understanding of the guts.Good quality, grass-fed red meat once or twice a week, on the other hand, is likely to pose no risk to health, or even better, potentially have a protective effect, as a large European study quoted by Dr Mosley indicated.

The tragedy is that, in our ignorance, we have been laying waste to our microbiome and its population of microbes, or Old Friends. Beyond these fun bits, the book amounts to a selection of sensible advice and recipes to sort your stomach aches. I think he's an absolute credit to his profession, and I love the way he goes above and beyond to prove/disprove theories just to help others, as well as himself.When we talk about having gut feelings or gut instincts we are reflecting the reality of how closely our guts and brains are entwined. It also reminds us why we must be really careful about the overuse of antibiotics, as they kill the important and necessary ”good” bacteria in our guts.