Fiber Fueled

An Essential Book. Which inspires to eat wholesome food promoting gut Microbiome.

Excellent book, read it, you will not regret it. Dr Will gives loads of solid information on gut health and plant based eating..I have added in a wider variety of plants into my meals after reading his book and listening to him on podcasts. Be careful of imposter books out there (even using the same title), all trying to scam people.

Muy recomendable

This is a great book with a solid plan and foundation to improve your gut health, which according to many recent studies suggests that our gut flora is the key to wellness and overall quality of health and life.It is very easy to read and isn't filled with dogmatic demands and rules.It outlines a very straightforward and detailed step-by-step plan to take control of your gut health and be on the road to better overall health.Plus it's funny because Dr. Will Bulsiewicz makes poop jokes in it too :D.

He visto alrededor de 100 videos con dr Bulsievicz y este libro contiene lo mismo que él dice en sus videos. Un poco más extendido. Así que no discubro casi nada nuevo después de oírlo todo en sus videos. Pero es un libro agradable y entretenido. Muy recomendable para los que no han oído mucho sobre microbiome.

Dr B provides a ton of valuable information and makes it easily understood. I flew through this book and feel so much better about what I need to eat to make myself feel my best. I recommend this book to everyone I know. I gave this book 5 stars for his part in the book but was not a fan of the 4 week meal plan for a few reasons:1. The meal prep in some weeks is just not doable for a working person. I am currently not working so I had the time and I was nonstop cooking for 3 days straight for the first weeks prep. It just wasn’t manageable and the quick fix options still required a significant amount of prep since you had to use items that took a lot of prep (e.g., had to use the dip that took over an hour of prep for the sandwich).2. The meal plan was not laid out easily to follow. You really had to read the entire meal plan for the week ahead of time. Week 2 lunch would sometimes be leftovers from a week 1 dinner? This was frustrating because I had either finished the leftovers or thrown them away before the next week even started. The leftover days would always be 2-3 days after they were cooked and this was a continuous cycle each week. I wish it was laid out so you just had your dinner leftovers for the next day lunch instead of stuffing your fridge with tons of leftovers and having some of them going bad.3. The grocery list was incorrect for the items needed. Each week I had to go to the grocery to buy additional recipe items not listed in the grocery list AND I threw away food that I was told to buy that was not used.4. The recipes would call for already prepped items even though the grocery list said to buy fresh. It was frustrating getting ready to make lunch and then realizing this is going to take an extra hour because even though they said to buy 2 beets, the recipe now says 2 steamed beets. Either these steps need to be included in the recipe or the already prepped items needed to be listed in the grocery list.5. Some meals I was unable to cook because prep took too long. I went to go cook the sunflower sandwich and the first step was soak the sunflower seeds in water for 24 HOURS. This should have been listed in the prep for the week.6. Some meals were sooooo bland. My husband NEVER complains of my cooking but he was miserable for most dinners and this was me adding 5x the amount of spices. A lot of recipes would call for only 1/2 teaspoon total of spices (usually only salt and pepper) for an entire 4 person meal!! Now I’m not sure if this was done intentionally to help prevent gut sensitivities to spices but nothing was stated that that’s why. Now some of the recipes were really great and I don’t want to make it sound like they were all terrible but most dinners were very bland despite me adding way more spices than called for.7. Sometimes the grocery list would add all the items for 7 days worth of desserts and sometimes they would forget to add items for the full week of snacks/desserts. I had 7 days worth of lemons for a dessert but no cucumbers for the dip. Overall the grocery lists were poorly done and were not checked over.8. It seemed like the fresher the item the later in the week it was used. By the time I would get to some recipes my items were moldy or wilted. Wish it was planned out to have the items that spoil quickly in the beginning.By week 3 I went through each recipe and made my own grocery list to make sure it was accurate as well as read every single recipe to know what to expect and plan for any items that needed to be prepped in advance that weren’t listed. I also went through and rearranged the meals to make for a more realistic week of eating and not risking leftovers or produce to spoil. This should not be needed for a meal plan. I definitely recommend doing the meal plan and I feel wonderful after the 4 weeks. However just read every recipe in advance and make your own grocery list to make it efficient. It will take A LOT of prep and time so be prepared.Overall I took a lot away from the book and learned to like some new foods from the meal plan which is why I give it 5 stars despite all the issues with the meal plan. I really look forward to a second book but I hope Dr. B has the RD team up with a chef for the recipes.

After a couple years of obsessively reading whatever I could to "optimize" my health through nutrition, a journey that took me to all kinds of places, authors and experiments, I completely unplugged from this topic like 5-6 years ago. After all, once you turn your back on the hardcore cults (militant vegans, paleo orthorectics (been there), "omg carbs are poison" ketonites, IIFYM calorie counting wannabe fitness models) behind and you arrive back at "just eat 90% real whole foods that your great-great grandparent would've recognized as such" – what new knowledge around the topic of nutrition could we possibly come up with? Right? Riiight?Turns out I was wrong!I became vegan in recent years. Whenever asked by people "why?" I replied honestly that I did it purely out of compassion, not because I was convinced plant-based is any healthier than an omnivorous diet also including decent amounts of fruit and veg.Then one day on a whim I clicked on a podcast with Will Bulsiewicz, cause the title sounded cool. He came across so genuine and passionate, yet also extremely well informed and reasonable, and mentioned some concepts like the SCFA that I'd never heard of before, HAD to buy the book.What can I say, I'm really impressed with it. The at times very conversational writing took a chapter or too of getting used to, but I guess after hearing him on the podcast I knew that's just his way of communication, fine by me. The contents for me were mind-blowing and eye-opening.I won't pretend I'm following up on every reference (or even every second or third), but the amount and quality of evidence is very re-assuring. Bulsiewicz refers to meta-analyses whenever possible, and also openly states when some evidence is still a bit flaky/preliminary and needs more research. I loooved that he educates his readers a little bit about the hierarchy of scientific evidence, because so many people these days just love to throw around buzzwords like "research", "evidence-based" without any real understanding whatsoever, willing to believe and regurgitate everything that was (allegedly) mentioned in some "study". Heck, I even met a handful of people who had graduated from uni and never had gotten an intro course into the scientific method! On a side note I also liked the references being "off-shored" to a website, with clickable links and probably shaving 50+ pages off the book.Still, while delivering on the evidence-based part, he manages to keep it light and entertaining, great stuff.Instead of feeling like I'm missing out on some health-benefits by foregoing meat, I now feel even better about my plant-based diet, because not only is it good for other beings, but for my own health too! Trust me, no confirmation bias here – I kinda bought the book to find the flaw with his reasoning. But ultimately couldn't. Even though my diet was pretty on-point already, I picked up a couple of easy/practical tips to adjust my intake based on his findings. And now that I'm more informed about my microbiome and its role for my own health (I like how he defined the axis of human health, many diet books only focus on one or two of those, yet he goes through all of them and relates them to his findings), I'm even more on track with keeping it "clean" without feeling I'm giving up anything.I hope my review wasn't too disorganized and rambling. Overall I can't recommend this one enough, whether you already are plant-based or you think that vegans are full of it. The book is well-researched, well-written, practical and empowering – I couldn't think of higher praise for a diet book!