# 349 - Heal yourself with fermented foods - Lauren Mones

Lauren Mones is the CEO of fermenting fairy at fermentingfairy.com. She believes fervently in the healing power of plants and this belief comes from personal experience having been diagnosed with crippling Crohn's disease she embarked on a journey of discovery and for her self healing through consuming fermented foods. In this episode we learn about the medicinal qualities of fermented foods like Sauerkraut. We hear about the history of fermented food use in human diets. Did you know human beings are more microbe than human? Microbe cells outnumber human cells in our bodies by a factor of 10 to 1. We hear about why the gut microbiome is so important to our overall wellbeing, how it is influenced by what we eat, both good and bad plus, why maintaining the microbiome's diversity is key to our overall health. We hear about the harm antibiotics even natural antibiotics can cause to our microbiome and why if prescribed antibiotics we can benefit from the consumption of fermented foods to help bolster our good bacteria. Lauren believes that leaky gut and loss of microbial biodiversity contributes to many autioimmune and inflammatory responses in the body. We also hear how Lauren's own experience with fermented fodos and her subsequent recovery from Crohn's disease prompted her to set up her own company making and selling fermented products.