A groundbreaking guide to your gut Most people understand the importance of a healthy gut microbiome for digestive health and overall wellbeing. But what about the mycobiome—the fungi that live inside our bodies? Here, Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum introduces this important component of the microbiome and explains how diet affects this population and how its balance or imbalance can cause you to feel—a poor balance of fungi can lead to weight gain, pain and bloating, and low energy, and can worsen symptoms for those with IBS or Crohn’s. Good news: Gut fungi respond quickly and dramatically to dietary and lifestyle changes. Within 24 hours, you can remake your mycobiome, supporting a path to weight loss, better digestion, and more energy. Alongside this accessible gut science, Ghannoum outlines fast changes for fostering healthy fungi as well as 7- and 20-day diet plans, with more than 50 dietician-tested recipes, to cultivate a thriving mycobiome and methods for tweaking your lifestyle for long-term gut health.

A groundbreaking guide to your gut Most people understand the importance of a healthy gut microbiome for digestive health and overall wellbeing. But what about the mycobiome—the fungi that live inside our bodies? Here, Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum introduces this important component of the microbiome and explains how diet affects this population and how its balance or imbalance can cause you to feel—a poor balance of fungi can lead to weight gain, pain and bloating, and low energy, and can worsen symptoms for those with IBS or Crohn’s. Good news: Gut fungi respond quickly and dramatically to dietary and lifestyle changes. Within 24 hours, you can remake your mycobiome, supporting a path to weight loss, better digestion, and more energy. Alongside this accessible gut science, Ghannoum outlines fast changes for fostering healthy fungi as well as 7- and 20-day diet plans, with more than 50 dietician-tested recipes, to cultivate a thriving mycobiome and methods for tweaking your lifestyle for long-term gut health.

"Bloating. Heartburn. Weight gain. Frequent visits to the restroom. It's no surprise: bad gut health can have a big impact on your daily life. But what if there were quick and easy ways to improve your digestive system so you could feel your best every day? In Gut Health Hacks, you'll find 200 practical tips and tricks to support good bacteria and achieve a balanced gut microbiome. From ways to hack your meals to simple lifestyle changes, you'll find tips and tricks like: consuming ginger has a calming sensation for your digestive tract and can relieve gas and bloating; sipping some ginger tea before bedtime can lead to a restful night's sleep; mental stress leads to digestive stress; and much more! From improved mental health to weight loss to resolved digestion issues, balanced gut health can make all the difference. Now you can start feeling your best today with a little help from Gut Health Hacks"--

First diet book connecting the microbiome with healthy weight loss; featuring an easy wellness program with a 3-phase diet.

Losing weight for good is truly possible! Recent cutting-edge research shows that human intestinal microbiota influences metabolism, appetite, energy, hormones, inflammation, and insulin resistance. Because gut microflora plays a central role in weight management, losing weight is much more than cutting calories, fat, or carbs. When the trillions of live bacteria in our digestive tract--the gut microbiome--are balanced, excess pounds melt away and we feel revitalized. A leading authority on digestive health and the gut microbiome, Dr. Gerard E. Mullin shares the first proven, science-based program to restore and retain weight loss by achieving a balanced gut flora in The Gut Balance Revolution. He reveals how to stifle the fat-forming, disease-promoting gut bacteria, reseed your gut with good fat-burning ones, and fertilize those friendly flora with just the right foods to reboot, rebalance, and renew your health--and lose weight for good. It’s all grounded in hard science and his over 20 years of clinical experience with patients in his medical practice. Dr. Gerry Mullin’s trailblazing program provides: • Research The latest, up-to-date frontline science behind how balancing your gut flora can burn fat and restore health • Reboot, Rebalance, Renew Step-by-step meals plans, food charts, plus 50 delicious, easy recipes • Rev Up An exercise routine for each phase of the process • Real Life Bona fide success stories of people who seamlessly lost up to 40 pounds--and kept it off!

"100+ recipes for gut health, 4-week meal plan, nutritional advice." -- cover

Following the success of the bestselling Clean Gut and Wheat Belly comes this essential guide to improving digestive health from an expert in functional medicine—who reveals why everything that ails us, from fatigue to weight gain to bloating and bad skin, can be traced back to the gut, and shares his cleansing plan to help us reclaim our health. Dr. Vincent Pedre understands gut problems firsthand. He suffered from IBS for years before becoming an expert in functional medicine and learning how to heal his body from the inside. Dr. Pedre used his own experience to develop The Gut C.A.R.E. Program—an approach that draws from both Western and Eastern methodologies, combining integrative and functional medicine—that has a proven success record in his private practice in New York. Now, for the first time, Dr. Pedre makes his revolutionary plan for health and wellness available to everyone. Happy Gut takes readers step-by-step through Gut C.A.R.E.—Cleanse, Activate, Restore, and Enhance—which eliminates food triggers, clears the gut of unfriendly pathogens, and replaces them with healthy probiotics and nutrients that repair and heal the gut. Rather than masking symptoms with medication, he shows us how to address the problem at its core to restore the gastrointestinal system to its proper functioning state. By fixing problems in the gut, followers of Dr. Pedre’s program have found that their other health woes are also cured and have lost weight, gained energy, and improved seemingly unrelated issues, such as seasonal allergies, in addition to eliminating their chronic muscle and abdominal pain. Complete with recipes and meal plans including gluten-free, low-fat, and vegetarian options, a 28-day gut cleanse, yoga postures to help digestion, and testimonials from many of his patients, Happy Gut will help you feel better and eliminate gut issues for life.

THE GUT-SKIN CONNECTION from Bestow Beauty is a life-changing book. Why? Because it doesn¿t just teach you why improving gut health is key to transforming skin, improving energy and lifting your mood ¿ it shows you how. And, it will inspire and delight you in the process. Co-created by Janine Tait and Sheryl Nicholson, this 224-page, full-colour, hardcover book combines new advances in gut research with holistic skincare wisdom. It contains the collective wisdom of the team at Bestow Beauty ¿ a leading wellbeing company who specialise in skin nutrition and truly practice what they preach.

The bestselling author of the Wheat Belly books brings his next big, game-changing idea—how the human microbiome is evolving, and potentially wrecking, our health, and how we can fix it. Because of our highly processed diet, pesticides, and overuse of antibiotics, our guts are now missing so many of the good bacteria that we require to be healthy. As a result, many of us have lost control over our health, weight, mood, and even behavior. The ancient bacteria that keep our digestion moving have been dying, replaced by harmful microbes that don’t keep us physically and mentally fit. With cutting-edge research, Dr. Davis connects the dots between gut health and modern ailments. There are entire species of microbes that have disappeared, which creates health issues that were uncommon one hundred, or even fifty, years ago. The result is SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), a silent and profound epidemic, which affects one out of three people and is responsible for an astounding range of human health conditions. Super Gut shows us how to eliminate bad bacteria and bring back the “good” bacteria with a four-week plan to reprogram your microbiome. This not only gets to the root of many diseases, but also improves levels of oxytocin (the bonding/happy hormone), brain health, anti-aging, weight loss, mental clarity, and restful sleep. Also included are more than forty recipes, a diet plan, and resources so you can pinpoint your gut issues, correct them, and maintain your long-term health and well-being.

Introduction In all the discussions about the community of microorganisms living in the human gut (the microbiome) and its “good” and “bad” bacteria; in all the science about how to manipulate bacterial populations to increase gut health; and in all the media urging greater awareness of the microbiome’s influence on us all, there has been a missing link. The science of the microbiome has, until recently, largely neglected an active and potentially virulent community within: It is fungus, and it is among us. The fungi in your microbiome may not outnumber the bacteria, but it can compromise your health, contributing to weight gain, digestive problems, inflammatory bowel disorders, and even mood disorders and mental illness. As a research scientist specializing in fungus, I have dedicated my life to the study of the fungi that live in our guts, as well as in and on other parts of our bodies. I’ve witnessed firsthand what kind of trouble fungi can cause. Infections and systemic inflammation are a couple of obvious ways fungi can cause trouble, but they are devious in other ways—fungi can work in an insidious partnership with “bad” bacteria to foil even the most aggressive medications and render useless our most vigorous efforts at dietary control. Intestinal fungi in particular can work with disease-causing gut bacteria, forming sticky biofilms that are a lot like the plaque on your teeth. These biofilms coat the lining of your digestive tract, protecting harmful fungal and bacterial microbes from the body’s immune system, and even from antibiotic and antifungal treatment. But we can outsmart them. Total Gut Balance is the first general-audience health book to explain how fungi work in the human gut, in ways that are beneficial, neutral, and detrimental to human health. If you have recently gained a lot of weight, or are having trouble losing weight; if you have digestive disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), stomach pain, bloating after eating, flatulence, belching, nausea, vomiting, acid reflux or heartburn, chronic constipation or diarrhea (or both); if you have a diagnosed chronic disease such as Crohn’s disease (CD), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), or colitis; or even if you just have a general feeling of poor health and low energy, then you need to know how to manage your total gut balance. It could be a root cause of your health and weight issues. The good news is that gut fungi change rapidly. Gut bacteria, by contrast, is largely established at birth and while it can shift gradually with dietary changes, it can never completely be remade. Not so with fungus. The community of fungi inside and on the surface of a human host (that’s you) is called the mycobiome—a term I coined in 2010 that is now in widespread use in both the scientific community and in popular culture. The mycobiome is dynamic, shifting significantly with every meal. We know that what you eat and do directly influence your gut fungi, and that your gut fungi, in turn, can directly influence what you weigh, how you feel, how well your immune system works, how much inflammation you have, and more. Within 24 hours, you can remake your mycobiome for better or for worse based on what you decide to eat and other factors within your control. When you make gut-friendly choices, you can set yourself on the fast track to total gut balance, which translates to weight loss, better digestion, improved health, and more energy. If you want results and you want them now, fungi are your inroad to a short-term as well as a long-term gut makeover. In this book, you will learn a new way of eating for gut health that specifically targets fungi and takes advantage of its changeable nature. You’ll also learn how to target the beneficial bacteria whose job it is to keep fungi under control. This can help you get the specific and dramatic results you’ve been hoping for, in record time. The Mycobiome Diet is my potent and fast-acting solution to achieve total gut balance through direct intervention with gut fungi. This diet takes the best elements from many current popular research-based diets, but combines them for maximum total gut balance effect as follows: