We need just a few fruit and veg daily - "it's weird it's so hard for us to manage this"
Netflix review: Trailblazer Giulia Enders is the star of this gut show with her food-based simple approach (bonus post)
Guilia Enders is the star of Netflix’s new show - Hack your Health - The Secrets of Your Gut .
Remember her?
The German gastroenterologist who sexed up the gut with her humorous, quirky book Darm mit Charme (“charming gut”) which included her sister’s squiggly drawings .
It came out in 2014, when she was just 24, in an era when there was little interest in the digestive system or the microbes living there.
Deservedly her book was a massive worldwide hit translated into multiple language.
She took the shame out of talking about poo and her book is probably best known for her practical advice on constipation. Sit on the loo with your feet up on a stool – so you are in an anatomical position similar to squatting to help evacuation.
But for the last few years I haven’t heard or seen anything of her.
Now here she returns and what a return! She is placed at the helm of this documentary taking full charge of the narrative. She sits centre screen, talking straight to us with no-nonsense, practical and kindly advice. It feels really good to have her back.
The rock star-style scientists - who have been the main voices on the gut microbiome in the media for almost the last decade - are interviewed too. Rob Knight with his scattergram chart, Tim Spector with his continuous glucose monitors, and Jack Gilbert on poop transplants “more valuable than gold” among all the other usual big names.
The film also follows 4 subjects and their guts – a chef with orthorexia and pain when eating beyond her usual 10-15 foods, a busy single mum with obesity, a Japanese competitive food eater who has lost touch with the ability to feel actual hunger, and a woman who does DIY poo transplants (look away if you don’t want to see the turd in blender before the button is switched on).
So what do we learn from this documentary?
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