We’re going to shift gears and talk about the most common blind spots in the western diet by asking, Is fibre the missing link to improving your diet?Nutritional research is often affected by region. This deviation is down to the fact that different areas eat different diets. But this isn’t the case with fibre. It seems almost ubiquitously low across all regions, bar a few, and this makes this episode appropriate wherever you’re listening to this.

In this episode, I’m going to introduce you to cortisol. The hormone that allows your body to deal with stress but may also slow your digestive system, metabolism and suppress your immune system at the same time.We will look at how cortisol affects the body. We’ll also look at the best natural way to harness cortisol so it doesn’t harness you.

The answer is yes! And in this episode, we’re going to try and get up to date with how probiotics might help build your immune response and help hay fever, the common cold, not to mention some exciting research out of Hong Kong revealing how probiotics can help you with COVID-19!

We have a special episode lined up for you this week as we are offering an exclusive sneak peek into the first e-book on philipwatkins.health - Can probiotics be beneficial for your brain and mental health?Whilst we bring new episodes on the brain and the gut every week, this e-book has been created especially for those interested in improving the connection between the two and how the microbiome plays a role. We'll introduce the brain-gut connection and the more profound components such as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and bring it all together to explain how the microbiome influences some of the more common mental health conditions such as depression.

The liver deals with digestive and immune function, vitamin storage, and detoxification.In this episode, we are asking, “Do I need to give my liver some love?” and taking a journey into why this undervalued organ needs all the love you have.

"Everyone tells me to manage my stress as it's affecting my health. Honestly, I don't even know where to start or what managing my stress even means?!" In this episode, I will attempt to deconstruct stress and offer better questions to build awareness of how it might affect you and what the science says about the whole thing.

The term "leaky gut," its symptoms and causes, are becoming highly ambiguous to my patients and listeners alike.  So, in this episode, I will attempt to clear up some of the confusion and look at some key points to simplify things a little more and help you perhaps prioritise your understanding along with your next steps!

In this episode, we'll be looking at why zinc, the correction of its deficiency or supplementation, can unlock your immune system along with assisting IBS and depression symptoms.

We've all been affected by histamine actions on the body at one stage in our lives, but hay fever and skin rashes aside, there are more profound effects of histamine in the digestive system and the brain that you might not be as clear. Most of my patients are surprised about how intrinsic this amine is, and this intimate relationship is exactly what we will explore in this episode.

In this episode, I’m going to introduce gluten, how it might affect you, and some of the disadvantages of a gluten-free diet.It doesn’t take too many consultations into my practice day to have the “gluten conversation.” I don’t think I’m overstating things when I suggest that it might be the most hotly contested dietary conversation of the last decade.