Tito Jackson’s Bacterial Celebration / Welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back…
Tito Jackson’s Bacterial Celebration If we sprayed the planet with a giant can of Glen 20 and somehow managed to kill 99.9% of all bacteria, we wouldn’t survive more than a day. However, if all of humanity packed up and left Earth for cheaper house prices and more reliable broadband on Mars, the bacterial world […]
Tito Jackson and the Bacterial Big Band / What’s in the box?
In case you missed last Thursday’s newsletter our annual Unglut Your Gut Challenge has been renamed Tito Jackson’s Month of Bacterial Celebration. And if you were wondering how it came to pass that our annual pilgrimage of human microbial restoration has been rebadged under the name of the least heralded member of The Jackson family read on. Okay why Tito Jackson you […]
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 […]
Follow the Cabbage Green Road.
Sauerkraut, formerly what eccentric Northern European uncles ate with their rye bread, blue vein and pickled herring, has in recent years become the unlikely hero of a gut-challenged generation. Feting the famous fermented cabbage dish Fair Food is holding Krautsourcing Day; a Melbourne-wide kraut-making celebration next Saturday Oct 8th. Now to the uninitiated fermenting a cabbage can present like […]
Happy lower intestine = happy life. Patronise your local Food Host.
Lately, usually to a stony faced response, I’ve been recommending fecal transplants to my friends and family for basically every physical and mental ailment they collectively suffer from. Now if you watched Gut Reaction on ABC’s Catalyst last week you’d know I’m only half joking. The bottom line (no pun intended) is that if we feed the billions […]
Great gut news, Noleen's heritage pumpkins imminent and a new Food Host rises
If you’ve read these emails before you might have picked up on my fascination for the human microbiome – or as wikipedia puts it “the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic micro-organisms that literally share our body space.” Excited? Not really? Well here’s something to get you on the bacterial express train to healthy bowel […]
