Digestive Wellness: Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion, Fourth Edition

Very informative, excellent information. Our digestive tracts and microbiome are so very important to our health, more so than even the 'experts' expected. More is being learned about how it effects our over all health every day. This book explains it all in an easily understandable way. Has information on so very many health conditions, just look at the index, I am sure you will find what you are looking for there. Also contains information on important diagnostic tests that I have not seen anywhere else, and comparisons of labs, very helpful indeed. If you have or think you might have: fibromyalgia, Celiac disease, Metabolic syndrome, Chronic Fatigue, Migraine Headaches, Depression, bi-polar, diabetes or any number of other serious health conditions and 'modern' medicine is not helping you, then you need this book. This is about 'Functional medicine' that treats our whole bodies and over all health instead of just putting a band-aid on symptoms. If you feel like cr@p, are just surviving day to day, wondering what new symptom will strike next or what awful side effect your latest Rx will have, then this book is for you. It will help you find your way back to feeling good again, to living a normal life again. It certainly did me !

This book is very useful in that it contains many practical tips on how to improve your digestive health. I found it very interesting to see how research has changed, by looking at the extremely complex performance of the human digestive system, in a systemic way. It is extremely technical and I, for one, did not try to memorize, the very large number of enzymes and various biochemical entities that Dr Lipski and her fellow researchers are studying in their complex interaction. One interesting point that is made is that the same problematic symptoms may be due to very different causes calling for very different treatments and that the same underlying problematic causes may and do in fact, evolve into different problems. Dr Lipski explains the differences in this fourth edition v the previous one. Scientific knowledge doubles between every two and three years, so that knowledge is twentyfive times what it was when the first edition was published.I hope that when we go for consultation with our gastro specialist, that he or she have read and understood Dr Lipski's book!

This is a 'go to' book recommended by experts. I enjoyed the first half of the book which focused on digestive wellness in general. The latter part of the book hones in on specific illnesses which would be useful for patients looking at customized recommendations. However, many of the recommendations seem like the 'same ole laundry list' but I suppose all sick guts probably need similar basic treatments. There are a lot of typo's and half-truths in the book and I wish the author would offer a reward for finding them.

Lipsky provides leading edge information on how our gut influences a large number of processes, functions, diseases and syndromes in the human body. She provides ways to identify, test for and address a multitude of ills.I would highly recommend Digestive Wellness for anyone wishing to be proactive in their personal healthcare and a much more informed consumer of healthcare, or and especially for those who have been searching for a solution to a malady that has eluded cure by more conventional approaches.She is extremely knowledgeable as well as practical.

I've suffered from GERD, IBS and FAP (Familial Adenomatous Polyposis - many polyps that have to removed regularly [every 2 years] or will turn cancerous) my entire adult life. Over the years, I've been told to follow a low-fiber diet (during flareups), then a high fiber diet, then a gluten-free diet. I was getting very confused on when to do what. I purchased this book and had just started using the recommendations when I was diagnosed with breast cancer at 45 years old. When I started treatment (surgery first), I halted this eating plan and immediately noticed a difference. I'm back now, trying to concentrate on the foods recommended here. The only digestive distress I am encountering is caused by chemotherapy, not the every day distress I had before. THANK YOU! When chemo is over, I hope to have this be my new eating plan to prevent color cancer or recurrence of breast cancer.

The information in this book links together many illnesses in an understandable way. Damage to the gut and its connection to the immune system is well explained. While many of the alternative treatment suggestions are similar, that makes sense as it is all about healing the gut. It all but confirms suspicions about how our diets and what they have been doing to our bodies are main factors at the root of the explosion of illnesses we are seeing in recent decades. The tone of this book is not preachy, but rather informative. Great book. If you have intestinal problems or any kind of autoimmune disease (including diabetes), reading this book will give you another way of looking at it and treating yourself.

This book is so well formated, its easy to find plenty of information on a particular topic. Reading other books on same topic, I always come back to Digestive Wellness to clarify and support the information gained.

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This book is absolutely amazing! It is written in a very nice and easy manner, so the laymen could understand. Everything is explained so well, that it makes you appreciate more your body and amazing way it is working. After reading it, you will have better understanding of your digestive system and you might get some idea what is wrong with you. What I like the most is that it offers you some "non-strictly medical" help and tips how to eat better and also how to treat better your stomach. I think this book should be read by every GI doctor, because unfortunately not many of them know how to recognise and treat the illness in your digestive tract.

A brilliantly put together book that drills down in depth written by a lady who is passionate and very knowledgeable in this complex field of the importance of the digestive system and health and longevity...an amazing journey of discovery for me that I would wholeheartedly recommended for people to read including GPS who the majority do know more than just follow the normal protocol.