Here we are, Mia and Lina. Mia to the left in a blue-striped shirt, Lina to the right carrying a very small dog. We’re best friends and that’s how we started this blog. A couple of years ago we began to take an interest in how the food we eat affect how we feel. I guess you could say that we felt a bit confused – it was almost impossible to navigate through all the advice and insights. One day we got tired of it all and decided to start a blog and sort things out by ourselves.

A few months earlier we had been having lunch in Helsingborg with a professor by the name of Stig Bengmark. After only a minute or two Stig opened the door to a whole new world for us. When he many years ago realized that approximately 80 percent of the body’s immune system is located in the colon, he decided to dedicate his life to scientific research on how to optimize the gut flora. Today he is Honorary Visiting Professor at UCL, London University College, where he’s busy researching and teaching how to maintain good health and wellness.

With this blog we hope to provide a basic understanding of the connection between your gut flora and your health, and most importantly, fill you in on how you by eating right can improve how you feel. This is the story about how we began to take an interest in the connection between health and food and, surprisingly enough, we ended up among the bacteria in our colon.