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The good gut, taking control of your weight, your mood, and your long-term health, Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, and Erica Sonnenburg, PhD

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The good gut

894026165

Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, and Erica Sonnenburg, PhD

taking control of your weight, your mood, and your long-term health

Stanford University’s Justin and Erica Sonnenburg are pioneers in the study of the relationship between our bodies and the trillions of organisms representing the thousands of species to which our bodies play host, the microbes that we collectively call the microbiota. The microbiota has always been with us, and in fact has coevolved with humans, entwining its functions with ours so deeply that humans are really composite organisms having both microbial and human parts. But now, because of changes to diet, antibiotic over-use, and over-sterilization, our gut microbiota is facing a “mass extinction event,” which is causing our bodies to go haywire, and may be behind the mysterious spike in some of our most troubling modern afflictions, from food allergies to autism, cancer to depression. This book offers a new plan for health that focuses on how to nourish your microbiota, including recipes and a menu plan