Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain – by Dr. Partha Nandi

The gut-brain axis is well-known, at least to those of us who care to learn about health science, which of course includes everyone reading this (because that’s why you’re here, after all). However, its importance cannot be overstated when it comes to the connection between gut health and brain health, both in terms of the good and the bad.

Dr. Nandi explores and explains this in terms of correct systemic functioning and pathology—in other words, what goes on and what can go wrong. As it happens, what goes on is a lot, and what can go wrong is also a lot, and it’s important to understand how, in order to prevent it and keep our brain healthy.

This is not just about general brain health, by the way. Not that that would be bad; general brain health is a great thing to have. But, the focus here is on the involvement of gut health (for better or for worse) in the specific contexts of stroke, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s, with several chapters dedicated to each of the aforementioned brain health threats, covering how gut health affects the risks, and how specifically to change course to avoid it in each case.

Oh, and three more chapters (i.e. one additional chapter for each of those diseases) with recipes optimized to improve your gut-brain health in the best of ways, to avoid stroke, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s, respectively. Of course, all are good against each; this isn’t a zero-sum game. But, some things have specialities that others don’t, and Dr. Nandi highlights such cases for us.

The style is (aside from the recipes) high-end pop-science, with scientific references at a rate of several per page (sometimes several per paragraph), yet very comprehensible, and while he explains everything as he goes, he also does provide a glossary at the back, so that’s good too.

Bottom line: if you have a gut and a brain and would like to keep both in the best possible working order, this book will help you to do so.

Click here to check out Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain, and do exactly that!