Microbiome solution a radical new way to heal your body from the inside out

The microbiome -- the collective name for the trillions of bacteria that live in our digestive tract -- is today's hottest medical news topic. Dr. Robynne Chutkan explains how the standard Western diet and our super-sanitized lifestyle are starving our microbes, depleting the "good bugs&qu...

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Main Author: Chutkan, Robynne (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.
Edition: First trade paperback edition.
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Summary: The microbiome -- the collective name for the trillions of bacteria that live in our digestive tract -- is today's hottest medical news topic. Dr. Robynne Chutkan explains how the standard Western diet and our super-sanitized lifestyle are starving our microbes, depleting the "good bugs" that are crucial for keeping us healthy, and encouraging overgrowth of exactly the wrong types of bacteria. ... [But] there are effective lifestyle and diet changes we can make to reverse this damage. Dr. Chutkan has helped thousands of patients suffering from a disordered microbiome with her comprehensive Live Dirty, Eat Clean Plan, designed to remove damaging medications and foods, replace important bacteria that have been lost, and restore health. [This books] offers: a microbiome overview, nourishing recipes, questions for your doctor, preventative and recovery health tips, and the next frontier for a severely troubled microbiome -- the stool transplant. --Amazon.
Item Description: Includes index.
"First hardcover edition, August 2015. First trade paperback edition, August 2016"--Title page verso.
Physical Description: 282 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN: 039957350X
9780399573507
9781583335765
1583335765
Author Notes: Robynne Chutkan received a B.S. from Yale University and an M.D. from Columbia University. She operates and teaches in the gastroenterology department at Georgetown University Hospital. In 2004, she founded the Digestive Center for Women. She is the author of several books including Gutbliss: A 10-Day Plan to Ban Bloat, Flush Toxins, and Dump Your Digestive Baggage and The Microbiome Solution: A Radical New Way to Heal Your Body from the Inside Out.

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