Simple steps to a HEALTHIER TUMMY
May 13, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS: TANYA PEAREY.
Your gut... and you
Your gut is your body’s equipment for processing food, but it does a more far-reaching job than just that. Within it is your microbiome – 1-2kg of microbes, including bacteria, fungi, viruses and primitive animals called protozoa. ‘There’s a richer diversity of life than in a rainforest,’ says Dr Michael Mosley, author of The Clever Guts Diet .
These bacteria help us digest our food and synthesise vitamins, but they also help protect us from dangerous infections and
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