Unlock the Secrets of Your Gut: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding the Power of Your Body's Most Underrated Organ

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

Murlidhar Prabhu: It is not recipe for Gut relief but it gives science behind Gut functioning in very story telling way. Enjoyed a lot. Writing this review after 2nd reading is complete

India on Oct 18, 2023

Alina Shmanova: I think everyone should read this book. Very easy to read for a non doctor

Canada on Jun 11, 2023

Lalita Ayyagari: With an apt title and beginning with Personal experience of illness, Giulia Enders takes us on a tour of our insides so that we might learn and treat our gut well in our pursuit for Good Health!!

India on Apr 01, 2023

J.: Very easy to understand and accessibly written.

Germany on Feb 06, 2023

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

ArtistEye: Everybody has a book, or a half dozen, that they can truthfully say have changed their lives. "Gut" is one of them. If you have been delving into the NIH website to decipher the research on IBS, or spend hours on WebMD, trying to understand why you always have a sore throat, or how you manage to catch EVERY cold going around the office, go no further. Read this book before you take another step down the rabit hole of matching your symptoms with rare diseases and conditions only found in Outer Mongolia or the Amazon river basin. Understanding, managing, and healing many common and serious health conditions may start with simply paying attention to what you put in your mouth, how it makes you feel, and what you produce at the other end. We are what we eat.

Since I read "Gut," I understand my body, my health, my choices and motivations, even my raison d'etre, from a new and surprising perspective. I have learned that entire civilizations can rise and fall between your breakfast and dinner, along the banks of the great Nile that begins at your lips and flows from your tongue to your anus. Or perhaps the river is the Hudson, because sometimes it flows both ways, floating...

United States on May 08, 2016