Nearly 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates observed that the food we eat and the medicine we need are one and the same. Long before laboratories and journal articles, traditional communities across Africa, Asia, and Europe built entire systems of eating around this same idea — using fermentation, whole grains, wild greens, and seasonal eating not just […]
Why Focusing on Nutrition and Health Education from a Microbial Perspective Why am I talking about a microbial approach to nutrition and health? Take a moment to think this through with me. There’s no shortage of health education programmes out there, and you’ve likely tried some of the proposed principles or strategies to lose weight […]
The importance of the gastrointestinal system to human health and diseases has been anticipated by Hippocrates (460-370BC), who remains one of the most outstanding men in the history of human medicine. Long ago, he stated the following aphorisms: Hippocrates further affirms the importance of food for maintaining and promoting health by claiming that “Let food […]
The old saying you are what you eat still relevant today. I would like to share with you an important study published in nature communication that could be beneficial to you, especially in the prevention of colon cancer. Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally and accounted for 8.8 million death in 2015. […]
An introduction GUT ADVICE – All YOU NEED TO KNOW TO STAY HEALTHY, PRODUCTIVE AND SUCCESSFUL According to a Russian Scientist, Elie Metchnikoff, who won the Nobel Prize, “Death begins in the colon”. How can death begin in the colon? This is one of the least things you can ever imagine; but the secret key to your […]