There has been a lot of excitement about the gut brain connection in the recent years and its potential in curing many chronic ailments. Just as stress can lead to stomach problems, an imbalance in your gut microbiome can upset your mental health, some research indicates. David Purlmutter explained this Gut-Brain connection in considerable detail in his bestselling book Brain Maker: The Power Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain for Life. There have been continuous new discoveries that have led to our knowledge of this important connection. In The Lose Your Belly Diet, Travis Stork focuses his lens on the role of gut microbiome in weight loss.
Dr. Travis Stork is an Emmy®-nominated host of the award-winning talk show The Doctors, and a board-certified emergency medicine physician. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University as a member of Phi Beta Kappa and earned his M.D. with honors from the University of Virginia, being elected into the prestigious honor society of Alpha Omega Alpha for outstanding academic achievement.
The Lose Your Belly Diet: Change Your Gut, Change Your Life
by Travis Stork
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Ghost Mountain Books (December 27, 2016)
ISBN-10: 1939457599, 978-1939457592
The Lose Your Belly Diet Summary
Your belly is populated with some 100 trillion microbial organisms. Wow! You wouldn’t have thought about this ever and nor did many in the medical profession, until recent years. However, new research has connected the health of your gut microbiome with many chronic ailments other than just mental health. The author begins the book with a brief introduction to what gut microbes are and what role do they play in various health issues.
He tells the reader how our microbial gut environment starts soon after birth and how small things influence its development over the years. He warns that excessive use of sanitizers and similar chemicals have hurt this environment because of blanket bombing all microbes. The book then focuses on explaining the things that are withing our control and what we can do to keep this gut environment healthy, which he says, plays an important role in weight gain and weight loss.
Over the years there have been no one formula of weight gain or loss to have worked on everyone and the author explains that this is a complex process that is influenced by many factors. Although there isn’t clear correlation between the gut bacteria and weight management, the author tells you that a diversity of good bacteria is associated with good health. And this is what he focuses on next in Part II – Foods the Feed Your Gut – of the book. Helping you build a diverse good bacteria population in your gut.
The last part of The Lose Your Belly Diet gets away from foods that you need to include in your diet and goes into the territory of what you shouldn’t do. Things like avoiding over use of antibiotics tops the list here. The author also suggests using probiotic supplements to strengthen the microbiome and discusses other ways to protect this helpful bacteria population. He helps you in this by offering meal plans and recipes that you can include in your daily diet and start repairing your gut.
The Lose Your Belly Diet on Dr. Phil