What You Eat Determines The Type Of Bacteria In Your Guts...

I spend a great deal of time in my consultations teaching my clients about their gut microbiome; the importance of a healthy balance of bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, and the relationship between a healthy microbiome and what you eat. It would save me an enormous amount of time if all my clients watched this documentary before they came to see me.

Now before you start thinking that the microbiome is the answer to all that ails you (including weight), all aspects of our body and mind work together, never is there one single cause for any kind of dysfunction that arises.

It is time that we all appreciate the huge role that our food choices are playing in our overall health. Simply eating a wholefoods rainbow balanced diet goes a long way to supporting a state of health and well-being.

Please do yourself a favour, click the link below and spend 50 minutes watching this documentary titled, 'The Diet Myth'.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS DOCUMENTARY IS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING FOR THE NEXT 25 DAYS

'The Diet Myth' Documentary

Smile For Your Health

In 1872 in the book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, the great biologist Charles Darwin hypothesised that our facial expressions might actually affect our mood. He called this the ‘facial feedback’ hypothesis. Whilst this hypothesis was largely dismissed at the time, since then, several researchers have tested this theory and it seems Darwin may have been correct. 

Dr Michael Lewis, a psychologist at Cardiff University, says that ‘simply using the same muscles as smiling will put you in a happier mood’. This suggests that the smile doesn’t even have to be genuine to provide benefit. But why is this so?

‘It would appear that the way we feel emotions isn’t just restricted to our brain – there are parts of our bodies that help and reinforce the feelings we’re having… it’s like a feedback loop,’ says Dr Michael Lewis.

Essentially it seems that one of the ways the brain evaluates our current mood, is through the feedback received from which facial muscles we are using. Frowning sends a message to the brain that you are unhappy, alternatively smiling sends a message that you are happy; whichever facial muscles you are using amplifies the experience of that emotion.

In a study published in May 2008 in the Journal of Pain, people who frowned during an unpleasant procedure reported feeling more pain than those who did not frown. Interesting isn’t it?