The simplest kitchen habit can be a quiet immunology intervention: put a little fermented food on your plate, most days. Over weeks, those live cultures and metabolites can help your gut community grow more varied and your baseline inflammation a touch calmer. Curious what to choose and why it works? Table of Contents: Why fermented foods belong in a clinical toolkit What the science means for day-to-day care A practical, clinician-ready protocol The Fermented Foods Programme

Your organs keep time and your gut microbes may be the metronome. Short-chain fatty acids from microbial fermentation act like tiny time signals, nudging peripheral clocks to sync with what and when you eat. If you’ve ever felt “off” after a late meal or a time-zone hop, your gut’s timing might be the reason. Table of Contents: SCFAs as time signals: what the evidence says Gut clock sets the beat Microbes set the liver’s fuel clock Stress, tryptophan and timing Timed SCFAs re