Mayo Clinic Guide to Gut Health: Restore Your Microbiome, Enhance Digestion, and Improve Your Health from the Inside Out (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798887702810)

A comprehensive guide to understanding your gut, its influence on your health and what you can do to protect it.

When the gut is healthy, it acts as a well-coordinated control center. But when it's out of balance, it can contribute to issues far beyond the digestive tract, including inflammatory disorders, Alzheimer's disease, skin conditions and obesity. Lifestyle factors and everyday habits, including an unhealthy diet, too little exercise, stress, certain medications and environmental pollutants, are common culprits to an unhappy gut.

• The gut microbiome and what it means to your everyday health.
• How your gut interacts with your brain and other body systems.
• Ways to protect your gut and keep it healthy.
• Foods that heal and foods that harm.
• What researchers are learning about environmental dangers and your gut.
• The effect of supplements and medications, including GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, on the gut.
• The role of the gut on metabolism and obesity.
• Digestive cancers and latest efforts to help prevent them.
• How to manage several common digestive disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome, lactose and other food intolerances, celiac disease, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, GERD, peptic ulcers, heartburn, and diarrhea and constipation.