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

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That may well happen, if you eat the foods and do the things I recommend, but that’s not its primary purpose. He then decided to move into medicine, intending to become a psychiatrist, studying at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, now part of UCL Medical School. Becoming disillusioned by psychiatry, Mosley upon graduation joined a trainee assistant producer scheme at the BBC in 1985. This book personally speaks volumes to me as my family battles complicated autoimmune conditions, including inflammatory bowel disease, and reading the book is like finding the final piece of the puzzle of self-management. Gut based health is something that I (and my immediate family) are very aware of and very interested in.

Very informative about what microbiome actually is and how it affects us - our mood, our weight, our cravings.

First of all, this isn't a traditional diet book aimed to help you lose weight (and if you catch me with one of those, feel free to tell me off- I am banned from diets for health reasons). I was minded to recommend this book to a friend with IBS but may pass on that, since the author's top success story was a sufferer who undertook the rather extreme step of deliberately infecting himself with hookworm. And finally there is a section of recipes from nutritional therapist Tanya Borowski and general practitioner Clare Bailey. Try fasting (600-800 calories of healthy food) 2 days a week to encourage the growth of beneficial bacteria. L'auteur explique les éléments basiques déjà très connus sur le fonctionnement des intestins et propose 'le régime méditerranéen" .

We tend to think of the stomach as lying somewhere in the middle, down by the belly button, as that is where a lot of the gurgling noises and stomach pains seem to come from, but it’s actually much higher up, right below the diaphragm. It also reminds us why we must be really careful about the overuse of antibiotics, as they kill the important and necessary ”good” bacteria in our guts. I'd also recommend it to anyone that's enjoyed any of Michael Mosley's programmes on television - he's very much the same in the book. Considering the fact that it houses the equivalent of a film crew, complete with lights and camera, it is impressively small. As well as extracting energy from our food, the gut accounts for most of our immune system and produces more than two dozen hormones that influence everything from our appetite to our mood.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. But in Perth, Western Australia, there were a couple of doctors who did not think that stress was the real cause of ulcers.

I was quite irritated with the section on babies born by Caesarean being proclaimed inferior health-wise to those born vaginally - more likely to be obese and develop allergies in later life. The microbiome consists of trillions of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes that live mainly in your large intestine or colon. Michael Mosely, famous for the 5:2 diet, provides background information on much that happens in the gut, and how we can improve gut health. Pregnant women, in particular, shouldn’t consume more than this amount to reduce the risk of exposure to mercury. They’ve been given that name because they have evolved with us over millions of years, and also because so many of them are essential to our health.

As we’ll see in later chapters, the microbes in your gut can decide how much energy your body extracts from the food you eat; they control hunger signals, they help decide which foods you crave, and they determine how much your blood sugar spikes in response to a meal.

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. 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. Seaweeds combine the omega 3 fatty acid advantages associated with oily fish alongside fibre, prebiotics , vitamins and minerals. The thing that grabbed my attention when I first saw this book mentioned on the blog Booker Talk was the promise that it would cut sugar cravings. When you swallow food, the esophagus detects it as it touches its wall and the muscles begin to contract, pushing the food farther down.Discover how foods like chocolate, red wine, and cheese can be part of a gut-healthy diet; how fasting can strengthen the gut and boost “good” bacteria; how changing your microbiome can undo the damage of yo-yo dieting; and how opening a window (and other simple acts) can improve gut health. Het boek geeft inzicht over de werking van de darmen, ons microbioom en de voeding die daar invloed op heeft. Our widespread ignorance about the microbiome arises from the fact that, until quite recently, its inhabitants, microbes, were impossible to study. I'm considering picking up a physical copy of the book, as it is quite information dense, so would be nice to have as reference.