The microbes in your body that you couldn't live without

The microbes in your body that you couldn't live without iStock Your gut is home to countless bacteria - and you need them For a healthy body full of ‘good’ bacteria, you may need to do a lot more than eat a probiotic yoghurt, as Adam Rutherford discovered when he took a rather uncomfortable test. I conducted the test for an episode of the BBC radio series The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry, exploring how much of our body’s weight is bacteria. People know about live yoghurts, but the next stage up is kefir, a Persian soured milk, which has five times as many microbes Fermented foods are especially good for encouraging a healthy microbiome. “People know about live yoghurts, but the next stage up which has five times as many microbes is kefir, a Persian soured milk,” Spector told me.