People in modernized cultures are facing a health catastrophe due to collapse of microbial diversity in gut microbiomes. There is growing evidence that autoimmune diseases, including allergies, asthma, inflammatory bowel disorders, diabetes, etc... may be related to changes occurring in the gut microbiome. With our diet we decide which bacteria we cultivate and which we do not. If you eat a variety of foods, there will be a greater diversity of bacteria in your gut. Your gut bacteria love dietary fiber from foods like fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and whole grains. When digesting fiber, bacteria produce short chain fatty acids that nourish the gut barrier, improve immunity function and prevent inflammation, which reduces the risk of cancer. What You're going to learn In This Book The Microbiome Diet Essentials The Importance of Choosing the Correct Diet How to Eat for a Healthy Gut: The Microbiome Diet How Does Your Food Affect Your Mood? Diabetes Diet Foods - A Few Foods to Consider How Minerals Help Your Body Function Before we enter the area of nutrition it is important to us to make the following statement. Our microbiome and its interactions with our bodies are highly complex and we are just beginning to understand tiny fractions of it. If the normal passage through the birth canal is replaced by a cesarean section, the exposure to Lactobacilli will be missing and the healthy colonization of our gut will be in part delayed. At the moment, we don´t know the precise ways in which this delayed population of our healthy gut microbiome influences our development, but you are surely doing something good for your baby if you allow him or her a natural birth and breastfeed, if possible.