Unlock the Secrets of Gut Health: A Comprehensive Guide to Our Body's Most Underrated Organ

Raye: This book was a very helpful book. It made a difficult subject - to a non specialist - accessible and even amusing at times. I’d recommend it to anyone looking to improve their health and well being.

United Kingdom on Jan 05, 2024

Aravinth RAravinth R: Zero complaints. Loved the content, informations and tips. And author's writing skill has to be appreciated. I absolutely loved her writing as much as the content of the book.

India on Nov 11, 2023

J.: Very easy to understand and accessibly written.

Germany on Feb 06, 2023

Isabella: Che un libro sull’ intestino possa essere così divertente non l’avrei mai detto e invece si, tra una risata e l’altra si impara veramente come funziona questo nostro organo così importante!
Non posso che consigliarlo a chiunque abbia un po’ di interessa a conoscersi dentro 😉

Italy on Feb 10, 2022

Elena: If you’re interested in knowing how your digestive system works and a little bit more about the gut, you should read this book. Warning! Sometimes it gets a little gross

Mexico on Jun 20, 2020

Dennis Littrell: Do you want to know “a few facts about feces”? Or “how does pooping work”? (And who doesn’t?) If so you’ve come to the right place. Giulia Enders, who is working on her medical doctorate, somehow became fascinated with these questions and many more involving our digestive system. The result is this book which won the 2014 Science Slam prize in Berlin and became an international bestseller.

We think of termites and ruminants as having most of their digestion done for them by microbes. But after reading this captivating book it is apparent that we are also totally dependent on our own microbes for digestion. Enders goes so far as to say that “Some scientists now support the theory that our gut microbiota can be considered an organ.” (p. 195)

One of the most interesting and charming aspects of this book and part of the reason for its success is the collaborative translation by David Shaw and Giulia Enders herself that owes so much to Enders’ use of idiom and metaphor, both English and German (sometimes in cute mixed translation). Enders, whose English is more than fluent (listen to her on YouTube) has an impish quality to her expression that adds...

United States on Oct 14, 2016

Molly: The first chapters of on gut anatomy and mechanics are a delight, written with authority and high spirits in equal measure. I learned a lot. Enders has a lively sense of curiosity and humor, and an endearing habit of anticipating readers' questions and answering them with great detail and patience. I loved the details. I was disappointed in the later chapters, maybe because I know more about the microbiome than about gut workings. There was too much "truthiness," too many trendy hypotheses and scientific urban legends presented as fact. Martin Blaser's hypothesis that loss of H pylori is behind the epidemic of asthma is fascinating, maybe even true, but not yet evidence-based. There is no real evidence that H pylori causes Parkinsonism, or toxo (cat parasite) schizophrenia. There's no problem in presenting these as intriguing hypotheses, as long as you don't give the impression they are well established science. Perhaps the strangest was the blithe claim that salmonellosis in German eggs is caused by farmers buying cheap grain from Africa, where random turtles walk about in the fields pooping on seeds. Leaving aside the xenophobia, most outbreaks of Salmonella do not come from...

United States on Jul 23, 2015