Gut Health

The gut is the control panel for the rest of the body — immune function, mood, skin, inflammation, and energy all route through it. The last decade of microbiome research has overturned huge chunks of conventional wisdom, and most people are still operating on outdated information. This chapter catches you up.

6 takeaways from this chapter.

• The gut-everything-else axis — how the microbiome shapes mood, skin, immunity, weight, and inflammation
• Intestinal permeability ('leaky gut') — what the evidence actually supports and what's oversold
• Dietary patterns with the strongest evidence for microbiome health — Mediterranean, fibre-diverse, fermented
• The role of antibiotics, NSAIDs, and alcohol in microbiome damage — and how to recover
• Why IBS is almost always a symptom of something more specific — SIBO, food intolerance, gut-brain dysregulation
• Where regenerative peptides fit in gut lining repair

Anyone with ongoing gut symptoms — bloating, irregularity, reflux — that have been labelled IBS and left there. People whose gut fell apart after antibiotics, a period of stress, or a bout of food poisoning and never fully recovered. Anyone curious about optimising the single system most connected to everything else.

Part of The Body Blueprint — 41 chapters across every system that matters. £6 per chapter, or £29 for the full bundle (save £217).