Kathleen Alleaume is a nutritionist, exercise physiologist, mum of three and founder of The Right Balance. Connect with her at www.therightbalance.com.au or on Instagram @therightbalance_
90% of the happiness chemical serotonin is produced by gut bacteria
There are trillions of reasons to love your gut — in fact, over 100 trillion. That’s roughly the number of micro-organisms living inside your body, with the vast majority residing inside your digestive tract. These bugs outnumber the human cells, so it’s impossible to overstate the impact they have on our overall well-being.
Cultivation of gut microbes begins from the moment you are born. The journey through the mother’s birth canal plays an important role in inoculating us with the type of flora that inhabit the gut. Following infancy, the makeup of the intestinal flora begins to diversify and
