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More than 99 percent of your DNA comes from microbes. Yes, your genes are less than 1 percent human! Further, our human genomes are virtually identical—up to 99.9 percent the same. But our microbiomes may be as much as 90 percent different from one person to the next.

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)

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.

But not every microbe eats the same food. Each dietary choice you make will empower a specific group of microbes, while others will languish.

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

It’s all about the cruciferous veggies, specifically broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, and kale. But there is one food that dominates all others in terms of offering more sulforaphane: broccoli sprouts. These are essentially immature broccoli, where the seed has just recently hatched and we have the earliest thing beyond a seed. The

What we discovered when we learned to study gut bacteria is a shockingly broad, expansive community of microorganisms that live inside us in harmony, in balance, and with a purpose. We call this community the “gut microbiota.” If we’re referring specifically to the genetic code of this community, then we use the expression “microbiome.” There are f

The single greatest predictor of a healthy gut microbiome is the diversity of plants in one’s diet.

Celiac is a genetically motivated disease. This means that you must carry the gene for celiac to get it. If you don’t have the gene, you can’t have the disease. About 35 percent of Americans carry the gene for celiac but only 1 percent manifest the disease. In the last fifty years we’ve seen a 500 percent increase in celiac disease. So what explain