To understand what makes a proper microbiome, we will become studying the way the gut is initially colonised by microorganisms in the first weeks and years of life, and how this plays a part in long term health. I personally use Mt. Capra Capracleanse (since We keep that around the house as a gut cleanse anyways) but some people believe it is gets all of them almost too regular the following day (if you know what I mean). But for me, the Capracleanse works perfectly for a liver detox, and since I tend to get constipated anyways when I drink to much, I take 3 prior to drinking and 3 after.

Clint: I can definitely confirm to that. Barbeque poultry, I used to walk into a supermarket and they'd have the deli section, and they'd have barbeque chickens there and I used to think it is almost impossible to walk past without getting a half or an entire barbeque chicken, as well as the smell, the cooked skin. I'd take it home and I'd just eat that thing like I had been some kind of cave starvation man.

The rise in global travel has improved the possibility of getting diseases back into Canada. Examples include SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) in 2003 and the H1N1 influenza virus in 2009. All travelling Canadians have got a responsibility to protect their own health whilst abroad and to guard against importing diseases that can affect the health of others.

The microbiota in your gut can have a huge effect on your health, and more studies and health experts are supporting the once far-fetched idea. Research from the University of Exeter Medical School in The west England recently found that TLR2, a protein found in gut flora, regulated the availability of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that delivers messages towards the brain.

What makes the microbiome so fascinating and irritating is all this promise, tempered by major unknowns. Microbiologists researching the subject say it's too soon to believe which our bacteria are the answer to everything that troubles us. Still, those same experts are making simple changes in their own lives — particularly when it comes to the meals they eat — to provide their bugs a push in the right direction. We prodded them for the science-backed steps they're taking, all ideas the rest of us can use to make the most of our microbes right now.