Improve Your Digestion: How to Make Your Gut Work for You and Not Against You

✍ Scribed by Patrick Holford

• Publisher: Piatkus
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Health starts in the gut, your second brain

If you have digestive issues such as bloating, indigestion or heartburn after meals, or tend towards constipation or IBS - or you simply don't feel energised by your food - Improve Your Digestion will show you how to tune up your gut. It offers an easy-to-follow road map that will help you achieve perfect digestion, absorption and elimination, which means you'll experience better health and disease resilience, and a new level of vitality.

Improve Your Digestion unravels the complex workings of the digestive system, explaining why it is now being called the second brain, and why having healthy gut microbes is so vital.
Fascinating and practical, this comprehensive guide to our most underrated organ explains how to:

• Banish bloating and constipation
• End indigestion and heartburn without drugs
• Identify and reverse hidden food intolerances
• Solve IBS and inflammatory bowel disease
• Conquer candidiasis and other gut infections
• Restore healthy digestion with foods that heal
• Balance your gut bacteria and make your own probiotics
• Build your resilience to stress - a crucial factor in achieving good digestion

Improve Your Digestion also includes an action plan for a healthy gut, as well as tips for self-diagnosing which digestive supplements you may need and when. You'll learn which foods are digestion-friendly and discover the art of Gutstronomy - how to prepare delicious, gut-friendly breakfasts, main meals and snacks, guided by kitchen wizard Fiona McDonald Joyce.

Make your gut your friend and it will reward you with better health.

✦ Table of Contents

About the Author
Other books by Patrick Holford
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Contents
Guide to Abbreviations and Measures and References
Introduction
Part I Improving Your Digestion
1 The Digestive System – the Very Beginning
2 Enzymes – the Keys of Life
3 Food Combining – Facts and Fiction
4 Passing the Acid Test
Part II Improving Absorption
5 You Are What You Absorb
6 The Fibre Factor
7 How to Promote Healthy Intestinal Flora
8 Digestive Irritants – from Alcohol to Antibiotics
9 Our Deadly Bread
10 Food Allergies, Intolerances and Sensitivities
11 Do You Have the Guts to be Happy and Stress-Free?
Part III Digestive Problems and Solutions
12 The Six Steps to Digestive Health
13 The Truth about Digestion Drugs
14 Dealing with Dysbiosis
15 Reversing Leaky Gut Syndrome
16 Fire Belly – Resolving Gut Inflammation
17 Stopping GERD and Acid Reflux
18 Solving Stomach Ulcers
19 Conquering Crohn’s, Ulcerative Colitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
20 Diagnosing and Coping with Celiac Disease
21 UFOs of the Intestines – Resolving Gut Infections
22 How to Prevent Bloating, Wind and Water Retention
23 Solving the Riddle of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
24 How to Beat Candida
25 Liver Detoxification Problems – the Cause of Chronic Fatigue?
26 Solve Constipation, Diverticulitis and Haemorrhoids
27 Abdominal Tension, the Importance of Peristalsis and Gut Yoga
28 Say No to Digestive Cancers
Part IV Restoring Digestive Health
29 Your Action Plan for Healthy Digestion
30 The Digestion-Friendly Diet
31 Digestive Supplements
Part V Gutstronomy – Recipes for Healthy Digestion
32 Gut-Friendly Breakfasts
33 Gut-Friendly Main Meals
34 Gut-Friendly Snacks
Recommended Reading
Resources
Notes
Index