Right before I got diagnosed with colon cancer, I wrote a book on our guts, called Tending Your Internal Garden. In it, I found some pretty exciting things (like you have thousands of unique species living inside you right now). But science marches on, and now we have research that shows why diet books and diet experts don't agree. They are all right, and they are all wrong. Why? Because you're unique. No, seriously. This isn't a "feel good" moment. This is an "Oops, that means they don't know" moment. Yep. All the diet experts out there cannot tell you what the best diet is for you because you have a unique ecosystem. Your responses to food are your own. You literally can make yourself sick eating like they tell you to if you ignore yourself. Just because it worked for "buns of steel" diet-guru-of-the-week does not mean it will work for you. Here's the TED video detailing how they found this out, with some suggestions about...