Giulia Enders and Richard Fidler on the Gut

How much do we really know about our own bodies? What can we learn from understanding the relationship between gut health and overall wellbeing? How are our emotional lives connected to our gut health?

When she was seventeen, Giulia Enders contracted a skin condition that left her covered with sores. Doctors seemed unable to help her, giving vague diagnoses of some kind of nervous eczema. So Giulia took matters into her own hands, convinced that her condition was associated with her digestive health. In 2009, Giulia enrolled in medical school and is currently working toward a doctoral degree in microbiology at Goethe University Frankfurt. In March 2014 Giulia published the book Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ, which has become an international bestseller.

As the second largest collection of nerve cells after the brain, the gut feeds information to the brain so that it knows how our body is doing. Often talked about in embarrassed, hushed tones, the gut has become a hot topic in the last year with research making connections between the gut and mental health. With a healthy dose of humour, The School of Life is proud to host Giulia Enders and ABC’s Richard Fidler for a discussion about how our largest sensory organ can contribute to our wellbeing and how our everyday habits—including our living conditions, what we eat and the things that come into contact with our mouths—can affect our microbiome.

Spend an evening with Giulia Enders as she speaks about her personal journey and what she has learned by being curious about, rather than ashamed of, gut health. If you have been intrigued by digestive health, bacteria, hygiene, metabolism, mood, body weight or immune function, you might just find insight in the most unusual of places: inside you.

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