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

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Fermented microbes in food both create a unique tangy flavour ( kefir fans will relate) and add good bacteria to your digestive system. Or on a more personal level, which would you prefer: a lovely wild garden brimming with colours and life, or owning a backyard full of snarling dogs and broken furniture?

There is still so much to learn about the gut and its microbiome – this book is an excellent starting point, a useful reference and the recipes are easy to follow and taste delicious. When you swallow food, the esophagus detects it as it touches its wall and the muscles begin to contract, pushing the food farther down. One reason I’ve written this book is that I’m convinced that many common gut conditions are better treated by a change in diet than by drugs or antidepressants.

I’d said I would swallow a small pill-shaped camera, linked via sensors on my body to a giant screen, so that an audience of hundreds of people would be able to explore, along with me, the intimate, alien world of my gut. 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. 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. Gut based health is something that I (and my immediate family) are very aware of and very interested in.

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. Also known as gastric ulcers, these are open sores that develop on the lining of the stomach and small intestine. When I was at medical school many of my fellow students wanted to study the brain, as neurosurgeons, or become cardiologists, experts in the heart.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. In terms of diets, weight loss and reversing his own type 2 diabetes diagnosis, his experiments have led to profound success- he’s shed almost a stone and a half in the past five years and normalised his blood sugar levels by way of the now famous 5:2 diet combined with his Mediterranean-inspired Blood Sugar Diet. Packed with delicious, healing recipes, meal plans, checklists, and helpful tips, The Clever Gut Diet includes all the tools you need to transform your gut and your health for the rest of your life. 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.

It’s not about calories or restriction; it’s about the sort of food and lifestyle changes you should make if you have gut problems, or simply want to keep yours in good condition. I can't say I was attracted to the recipes but I shall be looking at expanding the range of foods I eat. The microbiome takes the bits of food our body can’t digest and converts them into a wide range of hormones and chemicals. Our widespread ignorance about the microbiome arises from the fact that, until quite recently, its inhabitants, microbes, were impossible to study.

And it was these experiments that proved to be truly revolutionary, because they turned popular beliefs about digestion on their head. An all-round ‘good fat’, olive oil is a key component of the much-lauded Mediterranean diet , and thought to be one of the reasons behind the longevity and general good health of populations on the continent.