Genius Gut – by Dr. Emily Leeming

When it comes to the gut-brain information interchange, 90% of it is the gut talking to the brain (the brain is a good listener). As such, one of the best things we can do for our brain is ensure our gut has good things to say.

Dr. Leeming talks us through doing a quick initial assessment to judge the general goodness/badness of our current gut situation (based on output, not input, so it’s about the actual goodness/badness, not what we expect it should be), before going on to explain a lot of the anatomy and physiology at hand.

The hacks themselves may be, in their titles, things you already know—but where the real value of this book lies is in all the data and science collated under each of those hacks, allowing the reader to optimize everything rather than just guessing. Which can mean optimize by doing things as close to perfectly as possible, or it can mean optimize by doing/using the things that get the best results for the minimum effort. It’s up to you!

The style is very casual and friendly, even conversational, while not skimping on science (and indeed, citations are frequently provided for such).

Bottom line: if you’d like to improve your gut health, especially with the goal of improving your brain health, this is an excellent book for that.

Click here to check out Genius Gut, and make yours better for you!