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
2 replies to "Everything you ever wanted to know about the gut microbiome, but were afraid to ask"
Hi Robyn
Looking forward to watching your Microbiome Masterclass.
Hope your water fast is going well. Would love for you to write about your experience with fasting when you are feeling up to it 🙂
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