plant food challenge

Research is showing that in order to have a healthy gut we need to have a greater diversity of our microflora. Consider that our gut contains over a trillion living microorganisms – that’s 10 times the number of cells in the human body – and most of these live in the colon (our large intestine).  These microorganisms make up our microbiome – this is like our internal gut ecosystem. There are over 1000 different species of bacteria that can be found in the gut and each of us has only around 160. And the interesting thing is that the make up of our microbiome is unique to each of us ...read more