Digestive Wellness – by Dr. Elizabeth Lipski

First of all, beyond just digestive wellness, this book can help strengthen your arms. At 560 pages and several pounds of weight, this is a comprehensive tome, and covers a lot more than “eat a vegetable once in a while and maybe a probiotic”.

Dr. Lipski takes us on a tour through the digestive system, discussing all of the ins and outs in great detail—not just physically, but physiologically, taking a holistic approach to gut health, examining all aspects of “what affects what”.

Since gut health affects most other kinds of health, there’s a lot to cover there, and when it comes to input, she explains not only the default “these things are good/bad for gut health”, but also the many small impacts (often in and of themselves neutral in value) that can end up making a big difference to how we experience our health on a day-to-day basis.

As such, you can expect to learn a lot about many topics ranging from systemic health to acute pathologies, from thrush and dyspepsia to Behçet’s disease and ankylosing spondylitis.

The style is surprisingly readable for such a lot of science, often conversational in tone, and yet unafraid of diving into clinical topics in a way that’ll be comprehensible to the lay reader. As another point in its favor, it’s all well-referenced with 44 pages of bibliography.

Bottom line: this book can go into that category of books that get called “The Bible of…”, and in this case, it’s digestive wellness.

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