Lisa and Alana Macfarlane (aka the Mac Twins)

Alana and Lisa Macfarlane, otherwise known as The Mac Twins, are celebrated presenters, business owners, gut health activists and DJs. They have done everything from hosting the Hogmanay annual street party to over 90,000 revellers, DJ’d at the Olympics, resided as ITV’s Official Love Island DJ’s,
presented on the Brits red carpet, performed at Wembley and Twickenham Stadiums, hosted regular live radio shows for BBC 1xtra and Virgin Radio, spoken at the top health and wellness events and now they can add co-creators and presenters of their very own primetime Channel 4 series to the list.
Having taken part in Twins UK research at King’s College London under Professor Tim Spector OBE,  they discovered that despite sharing identical DNA, they shared only 30% of the same gut bacteria.
This discovery awakened a new passion to democratise health and they launched The Gut Stuff in 2017. Alana and Lisa have now made it their mission to make gut health more accessible to the masses – and not just the ‘’wellbeing aware’’ middle classes.
From starting as a YouTube series and taking over tube stations, it’s now grown into best-selling books, an FMCG snacking range everywhere from Boots to Morrisons, a corporate wellness series (VISA, Aegon, Facebook) and seen them speaking across the World everywhere from Stylist Live to scientific conferences and The Guardian to Sky News And now their worlds are colliding with them taking the science firmly into popular culture.
Gut health is about to be put under the microscope and go mainstream! Alana and Lisa are currently filming their very own primetime Channel 4 series “Know Your Sh!t” – due on screen in early 2023.