If you’re trying to build muscle, you might want to consider including some gut-friendly fermented foods into your diet — such as tempeh, kefir and yoghurt.
The reason has to do with something called the gut-muscle axis — a two-way communication network that the gut and muscles share. Although there’s still much researchers don’t know about this communication network, a recent review by nutrition scientist Dominic Farsi, has shed some more light on it.
The review found that not only do changes in the gut microbiome affect the health of our muscles, but our muscles also produce molecules and by-products that influence the health of our gut. And it’s because of this fascinating bi-directional relationship that researchers are now exploring whether foods that are good for the gut may also be good for the muscles, too.
It’s widely been assumed that women are more emotionally intelligent than men — and a recent landmark study has just confirmed that, one average, they are. But there are a few huge caveats when it comes to these results — including the harm that emotional intelligence may have on women.
It seems like every beloved book is being reimagined and adapted for film and stage these days. But our review of this 19th-century classic wonders what can be lost when an adaptation takes it a step too far from the source material.
