When was the last time you listened to your gut? Having a “gut instinct” – or tapping into our own intuition – is one of the first ways we understand how we feel about a situation, and it even helps us make decisions. Historically, it’s been a practice used by everyone from Albert Einstein (“I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.”) to Coco Chanel (“Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it.”), but in busy modern life, our gut is often drowned out by external forces – and by how we treat it.
Our gut is also an essential part of the well-oiled machine that is the human body. And in recent decades, research has increasingly uncovered relationships between dietary patterns, our gut and wider health. Nutritionist Jane Aherne says: “We are building up a pool of data and research that undeniably shows how the gut influences the whole body. This should be of no surprise as our body systems are all connected and all influence one another.”
