We need a little help from our friends. You can give the exact same food to two different people and the differences in their microbiota will determine what they ultimately get out of that food. Mind blowing, isn’t it?

And while we’re on the topic, have you ever wondered why we kiss? It’s actually an expression of love to share your microbiome with another person. Every time we kiss we exchange eighty million microbes with our partner, and vice versa.

I believe that dysbiosis is at the root of most modern disease. SCFAs can correct dysbiosis, and that’s only the beginning of the health benefits they offer.

Diversity of plants is the number one predictor of a healthy gut microbiota

In short, probiotics are living bacteria that have been demonstrated to have beneficial qualities to us humans. Prebiotics induce the growth or beneficial qualities of the probiotics. They’re essentially food for the good bugs. Postbiotics are the healthy compounds produced by bacterial metabolism.

Delayed-release capsule: We need to get the probiotics to the area in your body where the bacteria actually live, which is in the colon. Without a special delayed-release capsule, many of them will be destroyed by your stomach acid.

In fact, 90 percent of serotonin and 50 percent of dopamine are actually produced in the gut.

If you permanently remove a food group, the microbes that thrive on that food will starve into extinction. They are procreating so quickly that the food choices you make in twenty-four hours will alter the evolution of fifty generations of microbes. It doesn’t take days or even weeks to change your microbes; it only takes one bite. But you control

F: Fruit & Fermented G: Greens & Grains O: Omega-3 Super Seeds A: Aromatics (onions, garlic) L: Legumes S: Sulforaphane (broccoli sprouts and other cruciferous veggies)