Dr Karan Explores1 Aug 2025

The NiMe Diet - Eat Like Our Ancestors For Better Gut Health

💬 Jens Walter is a gut health expert at APC Microbiome Ireland, one of the leading microbiome centres in the world - and helped develop the Non-industrialised Microbiome Restore (NiMe) diet.

⚡️In this episode, Jens and I discuss how our microbiomes have been shaped throughout human history - and the foods we can eat to make our healthy microbes flourish.

🎧 Stay tuned to find out:

➡︎ Just how different our guts are from indigenous communities and our early ancestors

➡︎ What the NiMe diet is and how it can supercharge your gut health

➡︎ Why community and culture is just as important as food for gut health

➡︎ Why some of our gut microbes have gone extinct

➡︎ How pairing meat with the right kind of fibre can increase its benefits

📕 Chapters

(00:43) How industrialisation has changed our microbiome

(02:18) Do personalised diets work for gut health?

(05:52) Emerging gut microbe research

(07:27) How sharing microbes in communities improves gut health

(12:56) Combining the benefits of Western and indigenous lifestyles

(15:01) How different our guts are from ancient humans

(18:15) Can we regain extinct microbes?

(21:35) Exploring the Yanomami tribe

(24:11) The NiMe diet

(27:14) Should we cut out all dairy?

(30:01) Balance vs restriction

(32:23) Benefits of pairing fibre with meat

(35:27) Best resistant starches to eat

(38:36) Ancient vegetables: Are they better for us?

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jens-walter-b1a1127a/

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