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Loading... Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Revised Edition) (original 2014; edition 2018)by Giulia Enders (Author)
Work InformationGut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ by Giulia Enders (Author) (2014)
![]() No current Talk conversations about this book. Great survey of the world inside with nice gross bits about poo, spit, microbes and parasites. I learned quite a few new practical ideas even though the information is a bit on the general side. Definite good read for anyone with gut related problems, even if they should not expect a medical text, more perspective and curiousity. Inquiring minds want to know. First, there was Our Bodies, Ourselves. Then there was The Joy of Sex. And now, to add to the list of books that better explain the bodies we inhabit, we have Gut. It turns out our gastrointestinal tracts are a good deal more interesting and clever than one would expect, and they play a commanding role in everything from our immune response to our state of mind and feeling of well-being. This volume will be enjoyed by a larger audience than just pre-pubescent boys who revel in bathroom humor (although it does contain more than a few good laughs). A very interesting read on the gut. Enders spends a lot of time talking about the bacteria in the gut, which I found fascinating. The sections on parts of the body involved in pre-digestion that she covered weren't quite as interesting (mouth, esophagus, etc.). Also, the writing was mildly humorous, but I sometimes felt that the author was trying too hard. No big deal. My biggest beef with this book is that Enders wrote about the evolution theory as if it was fact instead of theory, and yet went out of her way to emphasize that other theories, though likely true, were indeed still theories at this point in time. Why the disparity? I expect scientists to be more consistent in their work. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain and yet we know very little about how it works. Gut: The Inside Story is an entertaining, informative tour of the digestive system from the moment we raise a tasty morsel to our lips until the moment our body surrenders the remnants to the toilet bowl. No topic is too lowly for the author's wonder and admiration, from the careful choreography of breaking wind to the precise internal communication required for a cleansing vomit. Along the way, the author provides practical advice such as the best ways to sit on the toilet to have a comfortable bowel movement, how clean your kitchen should be for optimum gut health, and how different laxatives work. She tells stories of gut bacteria that can lead to obesity, autoimmune diseases, or even suicide, and she discusses the benefits of dietary supplements such as probiotics. This book is a fascinating primer for anyone interested in how our ideas about the gut are changing in the light of cutting-edge scientific research. In the words of the author, â??We live in an era in which we are just beginning to understand just how complex the connections are between us, our food, our pets and the microscopic world in, on, and around us. We are gradually decoding processes that we used to believe were part of our inescapable destiny." No library descriptions found. |
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Detracting from all this are some real problems and annoyances. Maybe the translator or editor should share some of the blame.
She over-uses confusing analogies and metaphors— which attempt to simplify, but instead add so many extra variables. Most of them are not even needed.
There are no references to papers or articles for many of the claims she makes. Sometimes she makes a claims that have seemingly no source. You can't tell when it's her hunch or when there's science behind it.
By part three, I was burned out and thoroughly aggravated by the stupid jokes. There are a lot of them and all of them are truly terrible.
With a professional editor, this could be a five star book. (