The Clever Guts Diet: How to revolutionise your body from the inside out

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De auteur probeert zijn standpunten voornamelijk te beargumenteren door uit eigen ondervinding te spreken. I think it speaks to a lot of the modern problems that plague us and seems a real answer as opposed to a lot of the theories out there with regards to society's health decline.

Very informative about what microbiome actually is and how it affects us - our mood, our weight, our cravings. Good intro to the microbiome with a very approachable writing style and links to interesting studies and initiatives.During my medical training and more recently as a television host, I had taken part in some pretty bizarre and painful experiments, but nothing quite like this. I will show you how changing the mix of bacteria in your gut can reduce the impact of these diseases. In terms of diets, weight loss and reversing his own type 2 diabetes diagnosis, his experiments have led to profound success- he’s shed almost a stone and a half in the past five years and normalised his blood sugar levels by way of the now famous 5:2 diet combined with his Mediterranean-inspired Blood Sugar Diet. These are diseases that many people struggle with, in part because doctors are often bad at both diagnosing and treating them. The standard medical advice was to eat bland food, change your stressful lifestyle, and take a drug to reduce acid production.

It's backed-up with studies and isn't incorrect, but I would have preferred a stronger caveat that sometimes intervention is best.

The tide slowly turned and I was delighted when Barry Marshall and Robin Warren won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in 2005. The initial chapters provide an overview of the gut, which I have written in the form of a journey through my own intestines. This was to ensure that the camera would have as clear a view as possible when it got to the murkier parts of my digestive system. If the camera had been digestible it would have been pounded and mashed into fragments, then dunked in gastric juices as acidic as a car battery.

But my audience had been warned that if they were waiting for the camera to pop out the other end they could be in for a very long wait. Down there live creatures that have never seen the light of day, more than fifty trillion of them, at least one thousand different species, a richer diversity of life than you would find in a rain forest. It was widely believed that they were caused by stress, which made your stomach produce too much acid, and that was what did the damage. We now know that the microbiome can influence everything from your immune system to your mood, from the allergies you develop to the amount of weight you put on. The live, full-fat kind brings a whole lot of probiotic goodness to the table, keeping intestinal bacteria happy and reducing your risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes.Just go easy on sulphuric veg such as cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli if you’re an IBS sufferer - many find that high levels of sulphides spike irritation. The reason I haven't given 5 stars is in one part of the book it says to cut out veg like broccoli in phase 1 and then the meal plans in Phase 1 are full of broccoli?

Considering the fact that it houses the equivalent of a film crew, complete with lights and camera, it is impressively small.Z jednej strony brak precyzji przy tym gdzie wartałoby ją dodać, a z drugiej aż za duża precyzja, w miejscach, w której chyba nikt jej nie oczekuje. Over the last half century we have seen a massive rise in allergic diseases, such as asthma and eczema, caused by an overactive immune system. Try fasting (600-800 calories of healthy food) 2 days a week to encourage the growth of beneficial bacteria. The Clever Gut Diet focuses on the complex world of the intestines and the bacteria needed there for healthy living. Dr Nicholas Chia, Microbiome Program, Mayo Institute 'A fascinating journey exploring the gut and its tiny inhabitants.