Wild Mediterranean: The Age-old, Science-new Plan For a Healthy Gut, With Food You Can Trust

Wild Mediterranean: The Age-old, Science-new Plan For a Healthy Gut, With Food You Can Trust

by Stella Metsovas
Wild Mediterranean: The Age-old, Science-new Plan For a Healthy Gut, With Food You Can Trust

Wild Mediterranean: The Age-old, Science-new Plan For a Healthy Gut, With Food You Can Trust

by Stella Metsovas

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Overview

A practical resource for restoring the microbial balance in our guts and rebooting overall health, featuring a simple 6-day, 2-phase detox cleanse and over 50 delicious Paleo-meets-Mediterranean recipes.
 
The key to great digestive health lies in rewilding the gut and keeping the diverse microbes that inhabit it happy and thriving. In Wild Mediterranean Stella Metsovas breaks down the complex science behind digestive health and shares a deceptively simple and down-to-earth plan for ending the digestive issues that can have far-reaching effects on our everyday lives. Using foods you already know, trust, and love—delicious Mediterranean cuisine—it's easy to reintroduce essential microbes to your system and cultivate a healthy microbiome to banish bloating, discomfort, and irregularity forever. At the heart of Wild Mediterranean are Stella’s unique village-to-table recipes, all based on the historically prebiotic-rich cuisines favored by the world's healthiest populations and her own family heritage. Packed with pre-tox and detox protocols for preparing the gut to heal, key lifestyle practices to support overall wellness, and the scientific evidence to back it all up, Wild Mediterranean is a practical resource for restoring the microbial balance in your gut and realizing your best digestive health.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780594899884
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/01/2017
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Stella Metsovas, CCN, is a globally recognized clinical nutritionist, media health expert, and specialist in food science and human nutrition, with over fifteen years of experience in the health and fitness industries. Stella has been in private practice for ten years, during which she has researched and promoted the importance of gut balance as a key component of complete wellness. Stella has traveled the world with the United Nations in their “Food for Work” program, and has experienced the lifestyles and diets of the Blue Zone longevity villages firsthand. She lives in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Preface: Wild Times 8

Introduction: Why Wild Is Better 16

Chapter 1 Your Forgotten Organ 25

Chapter 2 The Wild Detox: Re-wilding Your Body with Whole Foods 38

Chapter 3 The Wild Kitchen 78

Chapter 4 Village-to-Table Recipes 94

Chapter 5 How to Live Wild 182

Conclusion 200

Resources 200

Acknowledgments 211

Notes 212

Index 217

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