Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut (2024)

Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut (2024)

PG-13

netflix

An informative, artistic, and digestible tribute to the digestive system

7.0

Movie

United States of America
English
Documentary
2024
ANJALI NAYAR, FEMALE DIRECTOR
Giulia Enders
80 min

TLDR

For a digestive system documentary, this wasn't gross at all.

What it's about

This documentary explores how our digestive system can dictate our health, and how a balanced diet can shape and alter that system.

The take

Within seconds of the cold open, the documentary establishes a curious, playful angle to learning about the gut. Giulia Enders, our primary expert and narrator, speaks conversationally with such infectious passion about the gut. The animation styles are diverse and adorable, and the visualization of ideas as a whole is magnetic, making this as much an educational as it is an artistic tribute to the subject. And at its core is a simple idea: having a balanced diet is good for the microbiomes in your gut. All roads leading to that point have been taken care of to create a friendly and fascinating documentary.

What stands out

(1) Autism is not a disease, (2) You have to stay for the post-credits poop talk.

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