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Could the toast you ate for breakfast bring on your afternoon headache? Could the milk in your coffee cause joint pain and brain fog? Could your healthy tofu stir-fry slow your metabolism? Yes - there is an age-old, powerful connection between what you eat and how you feel. Just as no two bodies are the same, no two diets work for everyone. The only way to discover your ideal diet is to follow an elimination diet that will help you link foods to symptoms and customize a diet that works for you.

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 mircrobiome.

The stomach is the first organ that deals with whatever food we eat. In a fat-burning metabolism, the stomach has one critical characteristic: high levels of assassin-grade acids. This audiobook's focus on stomach acidity will help you not only understand why poor stomach acidity is a major deterrent to losing weight but also how to restore it to fat-burning levels. Difficulty losing weight is not a character flaw, and it’s not mere willpower. Restoring potent stomach acidity is a weight loss game changer and one of the requirements to maintain a healthy weight.

In Rooftop, Izuhunwa recounts her battle with stage 4 cancer in full detail. She holds nothing back as she shares her journey from diagnosis to recovery. Hers is a testament that cancer patients do, in fact, beat the odds. Her story will inspire, encourage, strengthen, and, hopefully, educate you.

Boost your mental health, sleep better, and get in optimal physical shape with an easy 7-day meal plan! Study after study has shown that having a wide variety of healthy gut bacteria is linked to great physical and mental health. What’s more, having depleted levels of specific bacteria is strongly linked to depression—and that is just one of the many effects that your gut health has on your mind. Gut mismanagement is at the root of most health issues. The good news is that we have found a way to resolve them.

Superfoods are known for their extraordinary health and healing properties. Among all the superfoods, there is one that stands head and shoulders above the rest, and that is coconut, and more specifically, coconut oil. Coconut oil contains the highest natural source of medium chain fatty acids—a unique type of fat with remarkable health-promoting properties. These special fatty acids are crucial for achieving optimal health and make coconut oil not just a health food, but a super health food.

Your liver plays a key role in your health, affecting chronic inflammation, heart health, mental health, cognitive health, and metabolic health (including type 2 diabetes). Yet most people aren’t aware of its power—and are unknowingly sabotaging their liver health. Medical understanding has evolved to reveal that metabolic health is the best indicator of fatty liver risk, meaning that treating fatty liver disease is less about losing weight (and the unhealthy diet culture that accompanies it) and more about adopting smart lifestyle habits to reduce your risk.

Tired of battling digestive issues like IBS and SIBO without understanding the root causes? Frustrated with temporary relief from medications? Curious about your digestive system's impact on overall well-being? Discover how your gut microbiome, a complex community of microorganisms, affects your digestion and health. Imbalances lead to pain, bloating, and more, with far-reaching consequences throughout your body.

This audiobook will provide the information needed to understand the role chronic inflammation plays on the body’s health, the mental status of a person, and how a change of eating habits can create a domino effect of health benefits throughout the body and brain. Within is a detailed explanation of how a person’s whole life can benefit from the anti-inflammation diet.

By following all the evidence-based tips and practices provided in this guide, you’ll gain all the knowledge you need to make healthier decisions for your gut. So you can stop starving yourself and start eating again, without fearing food.

To most of us, the immune system is a mysterious and complex network of cells, receptors and messengers that we only notice when it goes awry. But our immune response, or lack of, affects nearly every aspect of our bodies and our health. Much has been made of 'boosting' immunity, but what exactly does that mean? And what if boosting isn't really what our immune systems need? In The Immunotype Breakthrough, functional medicine doctor and immunity specialist Dr Heather Moday explains that, for the most part, what our immune systems truly need is not boosting, but balancing.

Clinical nutritionist and best-selling author Sarah Di Lorenzo’s four-week plan has helped thousands of her patients repair their inner health and now she’s sharing it with you. The Gut Repair Plan is packed full of essential information about how the digestive system works, the good and bad bacteria in our gut, which foods are prebiotic and probiotic superstars, and which are the worst offenders. Sarah examines the science behind gut health and gives you tools to transform your gut health and change the way you eat forever.

David Perlmutter, autor del bestseller Cerebro de pan, vuelve a la carga con un asombroso dato: la flora intestinal influye de manera directa en cada aspecto de nuestra salud vital, incluido el sistema nervioso.

Have you been struggling with unpredictable constipation, disruptive diarrhea, painful hemorrhoids, or the agony of anal fissures? You're not alone, and there's no need to suffer in silence anymore. These issues can take a toll on your daily life and overall well-being. The constant discomfort, embarrassment, and uncertainty can be overwhelming. But relief is possible and this book is here to guide you through it.

Do you cope with frequent abdominal discomfort, bloating, heartburn, weight gain, and frequent toilet trips? It’s no wonder you constantly feel tired and sluggish. But what if the secret to your optimal well-being lies in the health of your gut? Your overall health starts in your gut. And your gut microbiome not only controls the digestion of food and how your immune system works, but it also plays a crucial role in regulating your mood and energy. Yet, if damaged, your gut can cause health problems you’d never believe.

Crohn's disease is an illness people don't often talk about. Its embarrassing symptoms leave those who suffer from it tethered to the bathroom, never knowing when the next flare-up will have their intestines in agony. This cruel condition slowly destroys the quality of life of those it afflicts, leaving them not only in physical pain, but in emotional distress as well. The loneliness and isolation that come with this disease are some of the hardest symptoms to bear.

Are you frustrated with each kind of diet and the long list of various ones you should be on or trying? The Alkaline Miracle diet is so interesting to more people since it is a 180-degree turn from low-carb, high-protein fad diets over the past few years. The Alkaline Miracle diet is also commonly called as the pH Miracle diet or the Young Diet, after its inventor Robert Young.

GERD and acid reflux disease: Do you suffer from heartburn or perhaps one of the other uncomfortable symptoms of GERD, also known as "acid reflux" including: Unexplained chest pain, abdominal pain, difficulty swallowing, excessive burping and belching, unexplained weight loss, frequent nausea and vomiting, persistent coughing or hoarseness, laryngitis, sinusitis or ear infections, passing of black stool, wheezing or asthma-type symptoms.

The stomach is notoriously outspoken. It growls, gurgles, and grumbles while other organs remain silent. For centuries humans have puzzled over this rowdy organ, deliberating on the extent of its influence over cognition, mental wellbeing, and emotions, and wondering how the gut became so central to our sense of self. Traveling from ancient Greece to Victorian England, eighteenth-century France to modern America, historian Elsa Richardson leads us on a tour of the gut, exploring all the ways that we have imagined, theorized, and probed the mysteries of the gastroenterological system.

The Innovations in Mind/Body Therapies series is a collection of 10 short books that review latest thinking and research findings in Integrative Medicine, which is contrary to the bottom-up dogma that has been part of main-stream medicine for over a century. The focus is on what how the body down to the sub-cellular level reacts to its environment and how the mind can be intentionally used to affect the health through self-talk, imagery, meditation, and hypnotherapy.