A microbiome masterclass with Shukul from High Carb Health

22 September 2025

I’m at the pointy end of a water-only fast right now, and hence not quite in the right frame of mind to write a new article this week. (If you want me to write about my fast, leave a comment below.) So instead, I thought I would share this interview on the gut microbiome that I did with Shukul from High Carb Health, a couple of years ago.

I’ve written a whole heap of articles about the gut microbiome previously, covering everything that I discussed with Shukul (links below), but for those of you who prefer to learn by watching and listening, I believe this is the most comprehensive presentation on the gut microbiome that I’ve ever done.

Enjoy!

Further reading:

(With extensive references to back up everything that I said during the interview.)

• You are what your gut bacteria eat
• The Universe Within – Part 1: Meet Your Gut Microbiome and Part 2: Make Friends With Your Gut Microbiome
• Gut bugs and human health: A tale of two evolutionary trajectories
• From Kilimanjaro to the kitchen: Debunking social media nutrition advice with an African diet swap study
• Drugs and gut bugs
• The perils of proton pump inhibitors – Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
• The Fibre Fix: How fibre-derived compounds prevent cancer… and why the carnivore cultists are dead wrong about fibre
• Fat chance of having a healthy gut
• Of bugs and brains – how your gut microbiome affects mental health
• Anxiety and the gut microbiome: How your gut bugs can chill you out or stress you out
• Alzheimer’s: The gut-brain connection
• Can a plant-based diet cure IBS?
• Making Stuff Up: Popular internet ‘wisdom’ about healing leaky gut
• How the Pill and HRT affect your gut… and your risk of autoimmune and inflammatory disease
• Eating for 2… or 200 trillion?
• Early-life antibiotic use makes kids fatter
• Menopause, gut bugs and oestrogen – how nurturing the ‘garden in your gut’ can help prevent weight gain, diabetes and cancer
• Ketogenic diets: Part 6 – The gut microbiome

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