Today we bring you another returnee health hero! Kriben Govender was first on the show in September 2020, and its one of our most popular episodes. So having him back on was a no brainer.

Kriben Govender, is a Food Scientist, Registered Nutritionist and Founder of Nourish Me Organics, a company specialising in Gut Health and Mitochondrial health-focused products and Allele Microbiome – a provider of cutting edge Metagenomic Stool Testing and Deuterium Testing.

With more than 20 years of food industry experience in the field of Research and Development, Quality Assurance and Procurement, Kriben intimately understands the food supply chain and the interaction between diet and the gut microbiome. Kriben holds an Honor’s degree in Applied Science (Food Science and Technology) and is a member of the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology and Nutrition Society of Australia. 

He is an expert in the art of making fermented foods like Kefir, Kombucha and fermented vegetables, and is the host of one of Australia’s leading Nutrition Podcasts, The Gut Health Gurus Podcast, where he frequently interviews health experts from around the world.

In this podcast we explore:

• What’s happened to Kriben over the past two years
• Medicinal miracle collagens from places I wouldn’t have ever guessed!
• A kefir making masterclass from a true world expert
• What makes kefir so special to the point it becomes loved and cared for like a “pet”
• Why microbial biodiversity is the goal
• How prebiotic and postbiotics are the newest frontier of the microbiome
• Why the right diet is about having the right players on your gut team

Mentions in this podcast:

• Study – Hamida RS, Shami A, Ali MA, Almohawes ZN, Mohammed AE, Bin-Meferij MM. Kefir: A protective dietary supplementation against viral infection. Biomed Pharmacother. 2021;133:110974. doi:10.1016/j.biopha.2020.110974. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7655491/
• Deuterium depleted water – https://preventa.hu/en/

Contacts in this podcast:

• Website – https://www.nourishmeorganics.com.au/pages/kriben-govender
• Instagram – @guthealthgurus