Gastrointestinal Nutrition

“What can I do to feel better?” For years, millions of adults who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have asked this question, often to be met with scientifically unfounded or inadequate advice. The low-FODMAP diet is the long-awaited answer. Authors Sue Shepherd and Peter Gibson explain what causes digestive distress and how the low-FODMAP diet helps.

Are you tired of confusing diet advice and lackluster recipes? Here’s a scientifically-proven way to enjoy delicious meals while transforming your health in just 21 days! Do you feel lost in the myriad of diet plans and health advice, feeling like you're trying everything but getting nowhere? It's frustrating, isn't it? You might have even wondered if eating healthy means giving up on tasty food altogether. But what if there's an approach to hit two positive goals with one stone: to indulge in scrumptious meals while improving your health at the same time?

The New York Times best-selling author of Clean offers a groundbreaking program to eliminate minor and major health problems - from extra weight, chronic pain, and allergies to heart disease, inflammation, autoimmune disorders, and depression. All of today's most diagnosed ailments can be traced back to an injured and irritated gut. The gut is an intricate and powerful system naturally designed to protect and heal the body every moment of every day.

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis—known collectively as inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD—can appear at any age, but most often develop in a person’s late teens to early 30s. These chronic conditions can take a physical and emotional toll, but it doesn’t have to be that way. No matter if you’re recently diagnosed, you’ve struggled for several years or you have a child with IBD, Mayo Clinic on Crohn’s Disease & Ulcerative Colitis offers help and hope. This comprehensive, easy-to-understand reference guide can help you chart a path back to health.

Carnivore Cure is the first elimination protocol to explain how to adopt a meat-based diet to bring about healing. Get back to optimal health by finding the perfect foods to fuel your individual body. Most elimination diets work to an extent, but fail to consider all the individual, physical symptoms, and food sensitivities. Most elimination diets remove processed foods and additives, but fail to remove plant-based toxins that can contribute to disease. Until now. Introducing Carnivore Cure.

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) is a common cause of unwanted bloating, abdominal pain, weight fluctuations, and GI distress. In this guide for achieving long-term healing, health advocate, chef, and SIBO sufferer Phoebe Lapine covers everything you need to know about SIBO and how to thrive in spite of it. Lapine answers all your questions, from what SIBO is (and what it isn’t) to related conditions (Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Celiac disease, and more) to practical strategies for on-going prevention.

In Eat Dirt, Dr. Axe explains that it's essential to get a little "dirty" in our daily lives in order to support our gut bacteria and prevent leaky gut syndrome. Dr. Axe offers simple ways to get these needed microbes, from incorporating local honey and bee pollen into your diet to forgoing hand sanitizers and even ingesting a little probiotic-rich soil.

IBS affects 45 million Americans; it's also a tricky disease—hard to diagnose, miserable to live with. With the advent of the low FODMAP diet, nutrition is one of the primary treatments—but most folks don't know how to connect the dots between our brain and our gut health. Enter world‑renowned digestive health specialist and registered dietitian Kate Scarlata, and prominent GI psychologist Dr. Megan Riehl; their new book provides a comprehensive holistic approach to IBS.

A silent health crisis is impacting one third of the American population - nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Because its symptoms often don't manifest until the liver is seriously compromised, many people are not aware that they are at risk. Did you know that if you have fatty liver disease, you are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease (heart attack and stroke) and potentially several devastating conditions such as liver cirrhosis and liver cancer? Did you know that fat is as dangerous as alcohol to the liver?

When you heal the gut, you heal the body. With The GutSMART Protocol’s two-week gut-health reset, it’s easier than ever to heal your gut to have more energy and easier weight loss, plus a better mood and overall health. In The GutSMART Protocol, “America’s Gut Doctor” Vincent Pedre, MD, author of Happy Gut, outlines the latest science-based knowledge on the gut, the microbiome, and the way the environment impacts our health, then translates the research into actionable and easy-to-apply advice for how to eat (and more!).

Imagine living free from chronic pain and fatigue with simple, delicious meals—even if you're new to healthy eating! Does inflammation leave you exhausted and frustrated? Do you seek budget-friendly ways to improve your health? Ready for a beginner-friendly solution to take control of your well-being? The Easy-to-Follow Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Beginners is your guide to feeling better!

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.

This revised and updated edition contains the most current information on celiac disease, gluten intolerance, and gluten sensitivity. It examines the disease's many manifestations and includes an entire section devoted to coping with the psychological aspects of living with a chronic illness and following a gluten-free diet. It also includes a guide to ingredients and safe grains, a selection of gluten-free manufacturers, and a list of national and international support groups.

Do you struggle with digestive discomfort, feel overwhelmed by conflicting gut health advice, or find it hard to maintain a healthy diet? You're not alone—but improving your gut health doesn’t have to be complicated. Gut Health for Beginners is a science-backed, practical guide designed to help you balance your weight, increase energy, and enhance well-being by understanding your microbiome.

An update of the classic guide to curing your heartburn and other digestive ailments using diet and natural remedies, without debilitating over-the-counter or prescription drugs that can make your conditions worsen. Dr. Sherry Rogers has included new material on the connection between a healthy gut to brain health, building up a powerful immune system that can make you "corona-proof", boosting your metabolism, and healing diseases normally treated with conventional Western medicine.

Restore and relieve your gut with this comprehensive beginner’s guide equipped with 28 meal plans and an ulcerative-colitis-focused cookbook tailored for those who suffer from ulcerative colitis, want answers to relieve their symptoms and flare-ups as quickly as possible, and get their life back. Written by someone who once suffered from ulcerative colitis, leaky gut, chronic inflammation and fatigue, and the other painful illnesses those lead to for more than a decade and a half before finding real answers.

Bloating: ugh. About the most common complaint they get from patients, according to gastroenterologists. But Tamara Duker Freuman, a highly trained and sought-after nutritionist, knows something many doctors don’t: every unhappy belly is unhappy in its own way. That’s why Tamara’s clients call her “The Bloated Belly Whisperer,” and for good reason—for many years she’s successfully helped her clients accurately describe their symptoms, and find a course of treatment that delivers rapid and lasting relief.

Happy Gut takes listeners step by step through Gut CARE - cleanse, activate, restore, and enhance - which eliminates food triggers, clears the gut of unfriendly pathogens, and replaces them with healthy probiotics and nutrients that repair and heal the gut. Rather than masking symptoms with medication, he shows us how to address the problem at its core to restore the gastrointestinal system to its proper functioning state. By fixing problems in the gut, followers of Dr. Pedre's program have found that their other health woes are also cured.

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.

The number one New York Times best seller Wheat Belly taught us how to reverse years of chronic health problems by removing wheat from our daily diets. Now, Dr. William Davis has created a portable guide, perfect for quick reference at the grocery store. Wheat Belly Slim Guide contains an extensive grocery and pantry list; lists of safe sweeteners, safe thickeners, and safe flours; a guide to carb counting; and much more!