HEALTHY GUT = HEALTHY BRAIN?

THINK OF Parkinson’s disease and you might naturally consider it a purely brain-based condition. But latest studies suggest that the gut may have an important role to play. ‘We are increasingly finding out more about the gut microbiome in relation to health and disease,’ says Professor Glenn Gibson, head of Food Microbial Sciences at the University of Reading. ‘The connection that the gut could be involved in migraine and schizophrenia was first made in the 1800s. This was not taken