The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long Term Health
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (593 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00V3UZA2Y |
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| Number of Pages | : | 322 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Our intestinal microbiota play an important role in the prevalence of predominantly Western afflictions, such as cancer, diabetes, allergies, asthma, autism, and inflammatory bowel diseases. How can we keep our microbiota off the endangered species list? How can we strengthen the community that inhabits our gut and thereby improve our own health? Your prescription for gut health is unique to you, and it changes as you age. These gut bacteria are facing a mass extinction, and the health consequences are dire. We have a second genome, our gut bacteria, that sets the dial on our bodies. In The Good Gut, noted Stanford researchers Justin and Erica Sonnenburg, who are doing cutting-edge research on the microbiota, investigate how the trillions of microbes that reside in our gastrointestinal tract help define us, affecting everything from our immune response to our weight, allergic reactions, aging and emotions; how they are under threat from the Western diet, our antibiotics, and our sterilized environment; and how we can nurture our individual microbiota. This is urgent news. Sonnenburg look at safe alternatives to antibiotics; dietary and lifestyle choi
A well written book - interesting, informative and useful AnAmazonCustomer As middle aged, active adults, we try to exercise, eat right and take good care of our health but unfortunately, we both have long-term chronic conditions from childhood - one that landed the spouse in the hospital with a very serious illness including pneumonia. After being put on 7 (yes seven!) IV antibiotics going 24/7 via a drip, the doctors said to expect some serious gasto symptoms. As soon as he was able to eat/drink, we also started him on probiotics 3x per day and continued for 6 months after. He never once got the dreaded gastro symptoms but we were under no illusion that he was back to his pre-illness level.In o. Very informative and well-written. I have had some significant health issues the last few years and I have been reading everything I can about the various theories on health, diet and exercise and how those things can effect us. There are so many different points of view - go gluten free? Paleo? Grains are bad for our brains? What to do?This book starts out with a foreword by Andrew Weil and he talks about this very issue. He mentions the fact that allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseases have proliferated in many developed parts of the world and that in his opinion, this is not due to gluten sensitivity problems or our consuming grains and/or wheat. Inste. Transformative The material discussed in this book has been transformative to my life. By making small changes in my diet by adding fiber and fermented foods here and there, my tastes and health have completely improved. I can't recommend this book enough.