**Food for you** In our ignorance, we often focus only on quantity or taste instead of what matters: **the essential nutrients**. One key goal for our health is to ensure we get all the required nutrients on a daily basis, as follows: [[Essential Amino Acids]], [[Essential Fatty Acids]], minerals, vitamins. These are the raw materials for the processes in our bodies. **Food for your gut bacteria** Most of the times we focus only on getting enough nutrients for ourselves and we forget that we are in symbiotic relationship with our microbiome. An important part of the digestive process is made by the gut bacteria - if we grow the right kind of it. The type of food we eat determines the kind of bacteria we grow. Good bacteria feeds on fiber and resistant starches; bad bacteria feeds on sugars. **Good balance** Reduce the carbohydrate intake, eat sufficient proteins, eat sufficient healthy fats, eat a lot of fiber.