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Part 2: Why We Sterilized Our Food — And What Our Bodies Lost|Michelle Heberling
What if better energy, mood, and mental clarity begin with something most people never think to track: their gut? Michelle Heberling explains why modern diets may be starving the microbes that help your body and mind function at their best.
A farm girl turned gut health educator, Michelle shares how illness, depression, processed food, and over-sterilization led her to rediscover fermentation as a path back to health. She unpacks the gut-brain connection, the difference between “dead” preserved food and live fermented food, and why the health of your gut may depend on the health of the soil…
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