Your diet has the biggest impact on your microbiome, more so than where you live or your exposure to antibiotics. A study comparing traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyles with the standard American diet showed that the former had a more diverse gut microbiome and bacteria that break down fiber. Another study compared traditional South African diets with the standard American diet and found that the former had a healthier microbiome and lower levels of bowel inflammation.
Professor Felice Jacka is Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University. She is also founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research and a past president of the Australian Alliance for the Prevention of Mental Disorders. She has been responsible for the development of a highly innovative field of research establishing diet and nutrition as of importance to common mental disorders.
The results of the studies she has conducted have been highly influential, and she is widely recognised as international leader in the transformative field of Nutritional Psychiatry research.
Professor Jacka has published >160 peer-reviewed scientific papers and she is listed in the top ten most highly-cited researchers in mood disorders in Australia .
Check out the resources and work being done at the Food and Mood Centre, where Felice is theDirector.
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