"We all seem to be centred on our insides these days. Chefs and cooks are promoting foods in their recipes – such as kimchi and matcha – some that I’ve never heard of – which claim to promote the growth of “friendly” gut bacteria and deal with issues such as bloating and dysfunctional guts.
Look at Amazon books and type “guts” or “prebiotics” into your search box – dozens of titles appear! But all are focused on one main issue which has received much recent attention from scientists, and that is how our brains, our guts and the resident microflora interact to keep us healthy – or not..."
This is the way our resident nutrition expert, Mary Farmer, starts her review of not one but two books about guts. “Managing IBD” by Jenna Farmer (no relation!) and Michael Mosley's “The Clever Gut Diet”.