There's some suggestions that Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, for example, may begin in the gut

and that, you know, even for example with Parkinson's, that there can be constipation appearing

up to 20 years before there's any kind of motor symptoms.

Yes, we want to be warding off diseases later in life, but also what we eat and how we look

after ourselves day to day is health.

You know, that is our mood, that is our energy.

And all those different pieces of the puzzle of every single day make up what our health is

across our life.

Dr Emily Leaming is a registered dietitian who reckons the secret to keeping your mind happy is to keep your gut happy.

I'm Lizelle and a warm welcome back to the Lizal Well-Being Show.

Now, if you're new here and a special welcome to you,

and just to say, you are in the right place if you want to thrive through your midlife years and beyond,

because this is the podcast,

helping us all have a better second half. My mission is indeed to find ways for all of us to

thrive, not just survive, in our later life, by investing in our health and our well-being today.

So with summer firmly on the horizon, all this month, we are going to be looking for ways to inject more joy, zest for life and sunny joie duvra into our lives.

So lots of mindset and mental health chat coming up in June.

But today we're going to get gut happy.

You know, it's a phrase we hear a lot, isn't it, this idea of keeping your gut happy.

But a happy gut could really mean a happier mind, as there's a very strong connection between our gut and our mood via what is known as the gut brain axis.

Well, a former chef, Dr Emily Leaming, is now a microbiome scientist at King's College London.

In her book, Genius Gut, the life-changing science of eating for your second brain,

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