Tending your microbiome Part 2

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FOOD TO KEEP YOUR MICROBES HEALTHY The food that YOU eat is also the food that your gut microbes use to flourish or not.   Fermentation – the key to a healthy microbiome Fruits and vegetables and grains contain non-digestible carbohydrates (fibres) called pre-biotics. A pre-biotic is a microbe’s favourite food! Different gut microbes feed … Read more

Tending your microbiome Part 1

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HARNESSING THE POWER OF 100 TRILLION FRIENDLY BUGS This is the story of how you came to be home to an astonishing number and range of microbes. It’s one of the two hottest topics in health science now – the Human Microbiome and Epigenetics. The Human Microbiome is the sum of all the genes from … Read more

Build healthier cells for a healthier body 3

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PART THREE: SLOWING BIOLOGICAL AGEING Chromosomes are condensed rods of DNA and have four ‘arms’. They periodically divide along with cells and replicate to make copies of the DNA they contain. Each human cell normally contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, ie. a total of 46. One chromosome in each pair is inherited from the mother, … Read more

Build healthier cells for a healthier body 2

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PART TWO: PROTECTING MITOCHONDRIA AND DNA Inside every body cell are mitochondria (the plural of mitochondrion) and a nucleus. (There are other elements but these are the ones that we will concentrate on.) Mitochondria – the cell’s power plants Most cells – but not red blood cells – contain multiple mitochondria which are cells within cells … Read more