{"id":80539,"date":"2018-05-10T15:37:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T04:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=80539"},"modified":"2018-05-30T16:03:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T05:03:47","slug":"reece-carter-the-happy-gut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2018\/05\/10\/reece-carter-the-happy-gut\/","title":{"rendered":"Reece Carter on The Happy Gut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-happy-gut-reece-carter\/prod9781489254689.html?utm_source=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=reece%20carter%20author%20visit\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-80541 size-full\" title=\"reece carter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Untitled-design-79.png\" alt=\"reece carter\" width=\"665\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Reece Carter on The Happy Gut<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Reece Carter, aka The Garden Apothecary, is Australia&#8217;s very own herb nerd. The Professor Sprout of the muggle world. He won over the hearts and minds of those craving a more\u00a0homemade remedial approach to health with his first book\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-garden-apothecary-reece-carter\/prod9781489216007.html?utm_source=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=reece%20carter%20author%20visit\">The Garden Apothecary<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Now Reece is back with his latest book on gut health,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-happy-gut-reece-carter\/prod9781489254689.html?utm_source=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=reece%20carter%20author%20visit\">The Happy Gut<\/a><\/em>, which is Reece&#8217;s answer to the plethora of Aussies out there who are realising the importance of good gut health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"s1\">People are hungry for good information,&#8221; says Reece. &#8220;<\/span><span class=\"s1\">In the last ten, fifteen years, we\u2019ve started to refine our understanding and a lot of it comes down to the bacterial residents that call our gut home&#8230; we&#8217;re seeing\u00a0exciting research at the moment. How do you influence the gut through diet?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Growing up on a farm in Western Australia, Reece&#8217;s grandpa had a passion for gardening and his mum a passion for cooking. So from a young age, our soon-to-be national herb nerd was cooking\u00a0with fresh and healthy produce, and now he is driven to sharing his passion with us.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<span class=\"s1\">We need to stop seeing vegetables and legumes as boring and start going \u2018how do we make these dishes exciting?\u2019&#8221; &#8211; Reece Carter<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\"Herb nerd Reece Carter is back with The Happy Gut\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JPIHd97OvBo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just your gut that Reece wants to look after, either! Reece is also driven to help improve your mental and emotional wellbeing through good gut health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s this old, traditional understanding that a lot of disease begins in the gut,&#8221; says Reece. &#8220;Over the recent years, we&#8217;re starting to see more and more really interesting research that backs up that idea. What we eat, what we&#8217;re putting into our gut improves &#8211; or alters &#8211; mental and emotional wellbeing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t sit back and suffer through the bloating, digestive discomfort or low energy &#8211; give Reece&#8217;s book a try and experience feel-good recipes and remedies for better gut health.<\/p>\n<p>Have a listen to our full interview with Reece below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/430382211&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reece Carter on The Happy Gut Reece Carter, aka The Garden Apothecary, is Australia&#8217;s very own herb nerd. The Professor Sprout of the muggle world. He won over the hearts and minds of those craving a more\u00a0homemade remedial approach to health with his first book\u00a0The Garden Apothecary.\u00a0Now Reece is back with his latest book on gut health,\u00a0The Happy Gut, which is Reece&#8217;s answer to the plethora of Aussies out there who are realising the importance of good gut health. &#8220;People are hungry for good information,&#8221; says Reece. &#8220;In the last ten, fifteen years, we\u2019ve started to refine our understanding and a lot of it comes down to the bacterial residents that call our gut home&#8230; we&#8217;re seeing\u00a0exciting research at the moment. How do you influence the gut through diet? Growing up on a farm in Western Australia, Reece&#8217;s grandpa had a passion for gardening and his mum a passion for cooking. So from a young age, our soon-to-be national herb nerd was cooking\u00a0with fresh and healthy produce, and now he is driven to sharing his passion with us. &#8220;We need to stop seeing vegetables and legumes as boring and start going \u2018how do we make these dishes exciting?\u2019&#8221; &#8211; Reece&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":80542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[98,117,6676],"tags":[7883,978,993,8123,1415,1416,7678,1745,8830,7516,2042,8108,7476,2374,8003,8827,7614,8832,7518,8826,8828,7677,7676],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/the-happy-gut-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80539"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80899,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80539\/revisions\/80899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}