From our mood to our skin health, everything starts in the gut.
But, as is so often the case, sometimes we over-complicate matters.
In it, she outlined the probiotic power100 million microbes worthof the humble apple.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz,Vogue, October 2014
Glorious, crunchy apples.
It also contains plenty of polyphenols, which have a prebiotic effect on the gut microbiome.
Many of us dont actually need to be taking them in the first place.
What you eat has a far bigger impact, she says.
Leeming describes the probiotic supplement market as the wild west.
Many brands make big claims with scant evidence to support them.
Others have been shown to deliver the opposite effect to what they promise on the box.
But you cant go wrong with the health benefits of an appleor, indeed, any fruit or vegetable.
It really is as easy as that.
One teaspoon of soil contains more microbes than people on the planet.
