Great intestinal journeys of the world.
Much has been written about the benefits of probiotics on the human microbiome – but there’s always been one nagging question – does the good bacteria in yoghurt, kefir, kimchi, kombucha and sauerkraut, survive the hostile world of our digestive systems to make it to the probiotic promised land of our lower intestines? For this […]
Cabbage Rising
Sourdough may have been the defining food of the first lockdown, but will kimchi and sauerkraut be the food heroes of ISO part two?
Unglut your gut for 2015 with Pat & Dr Chan. Fair Food is back in town next week.
This year we are doing our 2nd annual Unglut Your Gut Challenge. It’s a month long, post-festive season good gut restoration. Last year more than 300 households took up the challenge and this year, with the help of our friends at Pat’s Veg and Dr Chan’s feeling good ferments, we’re doing it again. To take the challenge there’s […]
Germ theory, filth and a slightly fizzy revolution
In the past 165 years we’ve developed an oddly paradoxical culture (sorry) towards bacteria. With the discovery of Germ Theory back in the mid 1800’s humans became aware that disease was passed on through bacterial infection. Doing things like sterilising scalpels and washing our hands before cutting patients open and rummaging around inside of them became common practice. And although less […]
Stairway to Intestinal Heaven. Summer Cabbage Reading Part Five
Last night my friend’s 40th birthday party marked the end of a chocolate and alcohol abundant, sleep and exercise poor summer. I’m feeling sluggish, heavier and getting out of bed for a morning ride has turned into pulling up the doona. But from this morning and for the entire month of February I am embarking on […]
Lao cookstove project more than just carbon. Feeling good with Dr Chan
A few years ago while driving across the endless Nullabor Plain, Dr Miin Chan and her newly wedded husband, Niel, were sipping on some home fermented tibicos while listening to Nina Simone sing Feeling Good. Somewhere in the middle of that desert highway that young doctor, seeking an avenue to do greater good, that classic soulful song and and a […]
