Avacado de Maya
Welcome to "You Are What You Eat Eats." Let me first explain the title. Perhaps you have heard the expression, "you are what you eat." Well I'm here to inform you we are much more than just what we eat. We are physically and emotionally driven by the WAY in which we DIGEST what we eat. And that is essential to understanding how we eat - with a little help from our friends. We are complex organisms built of many interconnected systems and hosts to a myriad of helpers that live among us, invisible but powerful and essential to life. The main component in this system of helpers that I have been studying is the community of gut flora that break down our food and help digest all the different things we consume. Since birth we have been cultivating life within our bodies. These probiotics come in all shapes and sizes and many are available in capsules from your local health food store. But the best are those that live within traditional fermented foods from around the...