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The gut-immune connection : how understanding the connection between food and immunity can help us regain our health / Emeran Mayer, MD, with Nell Casey.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780063014787
  • 0063014785
  • 9780063118362 (paperback)
  • 006311836X (paperback)
Other title:
  • Pre-publication title: Gut-disease connection
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction -- America's silent public health crisis -- A deeper connection -- The emerging view of a healthy gut microbiome -- Stress and brain disorders -- How diet regulates the brain-gut-microbiome network -- A broader connection: how exercise and sleep affect our microbiome -- Restoring the gut microbiome -- The key to gut health is in the soil -- The one-health concept -- A new paradigm for healthy eating.
Summary: Dr. Mayer argues that it's essential we understand the profound effects of gut health on our body and offers strategies to reverse the steady upward rise of these illnesses, including a model for nutrition that puts the health of the microbiome center stage.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 616.9041 M468 Checked out 06/07/2024 33111010531354
Total holds: 0

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From one of today's leading experts on the emerging science of the microbiome comes a ground-breaking book that offers, for the first time, evidence that the gut-microbiome plays a pivotal role in the health crises of the twenty-first century.



In his acclaimed book, The Mind-Gut Connection, physician, UCLA professor, and researcher Dr. Emeran Mayer offered groundbreaking evidence of the critical role of the microbiome in neurological and cognitive health, proving once and for all the power and legitimacy of the "mind-body connection." Now, in The Gut-Immune Connection, Dr. Mayer proposes an even more radical paradigm shift: that the gut microbiome is at the center of virtually every disease that defines our 21st-century public health crisis.

Cutting-edge research continues to advance our understanding of the function and impact of the billions of organisms that live in the GI tract, and in Dr. Mayer's own research, he has amassed evidence that the "conversation" that takes place between these microbes and our various organs and bodily systems is critical to human health. When that conversation goes awry, we suffer, often becoming seriously ill.

Combining clinical experience with up-to-the-minute science, The Gut-Immune Connection offers a comprehensive look at the link between alterations to the gut microbiome and the development chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, as well as susceptibility to infectious diseases like Covid-19. Dr. Mayer argues that it's essential we understand the profound and far-reaching effects of gut health and offers clear-cut strategies to reverse the steady upward rise of these illnesses, including a model for nutrition to support the microbiome.

But time is running out: a plague of antimicrobial resistance is only a few decades away if we don't make critical changes to our food supply, including returning to sustainable practices that maintain the microbial diversity of the soil. To turn the tide of chronic and infectious disease tomorrow, we must shift the way we live today.

Dr. Mayer argues that it's essential we understand the profound effects of gut health on our body and offers strategies to reverse the steady upward rise of these illnesses, including a model for nutrition that puts the health of the microbiome center stage.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- America's silent public health crisis -- A deeper connection -- The emerging view of a healthy gut microbiome -- Stress and brain disorders -- How diet regulates the brain-gut-microbiome network -- A broader connection: how exercise and sleep affect our microbiome -- Restoring the gut microbiome -- The key to gut health is in the soil -- The one-health concept -- A new paradigm for healthy eating.

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