Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

by William Davis M.D.

Overview

From a New York Times bestselling author, a guide to restoring good bacteria to your gut–and keeping our microbiomes happy and healthy.

Because of our highly processed diet, pesticides, and overuse of antibiotics, our guts are now missing so many of the good bacteria that we require to be healthy. As a result, many of us have lost control over our health, weight, mood, and even behavior.

With cutting-edge research, Dr. Davis connects the dots between gut health and modern ailments such as SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), a silent and profound epidemic, which affects one out of three people and is responsible for an astounding range of human health conditions.

Super Gut shows us how to fix your microbiome once and for all. It includes more than forty recipes, a diet plan, and resources so you can pinpoint your gut issues, correct them, and maintain your long-term health and well-being.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306846953
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	02/01/2022
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	61,291
File size:	980 KB

About the Author

William Davis, M.D. is a renowned preventive cardiologist and author of the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller Wheat Belly, three other New York Times bestsellers: Wheat Belly Cookbook, Wheat Belly 30-Minutes (or Less!) Cookbook, and Wheat Belly Total Health, and several other books including Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox and Undoctored.

​He is a graduate of the St. Louis University School of Medicine, with training in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease, and advanced training in angioplasty at the Case Western Reserve University Hospitals where he also served as Director of the Cardiovascular Fellowship and Assistant Professor of Medicine. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Part I Bowel Blues

1 Gut-Wrenching 3

2 A Microbiome Only a Mother Could Love 13

3 Ghosts of Microbes Past 21

4 The Fecalization of America 35

5 Mind Your Mucus 47

Part II Frankenbelly and Friends

6 Sibo: Frankenbelly 61

7 Sifo: Fungal Jungle 93

8 Conquering Your Frankenbelly: Managing Sibo and Sifo 109

Part III Gut Reaction

9 Take a Walk on the Wild Side 135

10 Bowel Power 159

Part IV Build Your Own Super Gut: A Four-Week Program

Week 1 Prepare the Soil 175

Week 2 Reseed Your Garden 195

Week 3 Add Water and Fertilizer 205

Week 4 Grow Your Super Gut Microbe Garden 215

Super Gut Recipes 227

Super Gut Sample Three-Day Menu Plan and Shopping Lists 275

Afterword: Sweat the Small Stuff 281

Acknowledgments 287

Appendix A Resources 291

Appendix B Eradicating Your Frankenbelly: Super Gut Sibo and Sifo Protocols 307

Appendix C Eradicating H. Pylori 313

References 317

Index 339

Editorial Reviews

Super Gut reveals how virtually every aspect of our health is fundamentally influenced by the vast array of microscopic organisms living upon and within us. Dr. Davis makes it clear that so many issues related to living in our modern world challenge this relationship and set the stage for illness. But the good news, as Super Gut so eloquently portrays, centers on our new-found ability to improve the health and functionality of the vast array of microbes upon which we depend. It’s clear that we can manipulate this relationship to our advantage. And Dr. Davis shows us how.”—David Perlmutter, MD, author, #1 New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain, and Drop Acid

 “Reading Super Gut is reading an incredibly important manual on building the super ‘hard drive’ for a long, healthy, and productive life…. With easy-to-implement, inexpensive recommendations, it won’t be long before you’re forever grateful you took the time to read and implement.... All disease begins in the gut. So build a Super Gut!”—Dr. Tom O’Bryan, author of The Autoimmune Fix and You Can Fix Your Brain

"Super Gut brings the conversation into new territory. Bacteria are not the bad guys! Dr. Davis' plan helps you replenish the microbiome and eliminate those culprits that are depleting us of essential natural probiotics that maintain a healthy gut. Microbiome medicine is an essential part of good health, disease prevention, vitality, and longevity. Bravo to Dr. Davis on this newest addition to the literature.”—Dr. Raphael Kellman, founder of Microbiome Medicine, author of The Microbiome Diet, The Microbiome Breakthrough, Microbiome Thyroid

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