I know first-hand that there's already a lot of judgement and guilt placed on mother's, most of all by ourselves, and that many desperate women out there are all too quick to blame themselves for anything that causes our children to be less than perfect.

Dark chocolate boasts a high number of antioxidant flavonoids and polyphenols that help your gut to stay healthy, with far less sugar and ‘bad’ fat than milk chocolate. Still, survive he did—and in doing so he laid the foundations of our modern understanding of the guts.

We knew they helped protect the gut from dangerous invaders, that they synthesized a few vitamins, and that they gobbled up fiber that our bodies couldn’t digest. At the moment when we hear that over 50% of food eaten in Britain is manufactured and processed by the food industry, it is sobering to be told that that industry is actively wrecking our guts in ways that are deeply harmful. Born in Kolkata, India, the son of a bank director, Mosley studied philosophy, politics and economics at New College, Oxford before working for two years as a banker in the City of London. For me, it's nothing groundbreaking as I've read quite a bit on this topic already, but I enjoyed trying some of the recipes like pumpkin porridge, and its encouraged me to bring fermented foods like kefir into my diet.

These are diseases that many people struggle with, in part because doctors are often bad at both diagnosing and treating them. Michael Mosely, famous for the 5:2 diet, provides background information on much that happens in the gut, and how we can improve gut health. De auteur beweert ook dat verzadigd vet niet per se nefaster voor de gezondheid is dan onverzadigd vet. He then decided to move into medicine, intending to become a psychiatrist, studying at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, now part of UCL Medical School.

Mosley takes us on a revelatory journey through the gut, showing how junk food and overuse of antibiotics have wiped out many “good” gut bacteria leading to a modern plague of allergies, food intolerances, and obesity. Finally, a word of caution to mothers; this book talks about the benefits of vaginal birth and breastfeeding and the evils of c-sections and antibiotic use in labour and infancy. Without these Old Friends your immune system is liable to over-react, leading to all sorts of gut related problems. I also love the fact that, buried in our intestines, deep inside its tissue, is a very thin layer of brain. This is an informative and easy to read book which provides insight into something we tend not to think about.

Fusing aspects of the Mediterranean diet and the 5:2, Dr Michael Mosley’s gut health diet is said to help to reduce IBS, enable sustainable weight loss and promote better wellbeing overall.Your gut is a wonderful piece of engineering and I hope, after you have read this, you will share my enthusiasm for it.

Wat nieuws geleerd maar meestal nog eens bevestiging van wat de laatste jaren wordt gemeld rond gezonde voeding. I appreciate that recipes and eating plans are included for those wanting to change their diet but personally found it an unnecessary addition and meant the book was half the length I originally expected.In this book, Michael Mosley describes the gut system and the inter-related part of the enteric nervous system, and the make up of the biome of the intestines. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.