Random House Books for Young Readers Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome

Dr B explique dans ce livre l’importance d’un bon microbiote intestinal pour la santé. Santé physique mais également mentale...saviez-vous que 90 pour cent de la sérotonine, l’hormone du bonheur, est produite dans l’intestin ? Il est donc crucial d’optimiser son microbiote, réduire les bactéries pathogènes et développer les bonnes bactéries. Pour ce faire, le Dr B recommande un régime à base de plantes, un facteur clé étant la diversité des aliments. Un des meilleurs livres sur le sujet du microbiote, à lire absolument !

A lot to read. And a lot of useful information. But book could be reduced by 50% without problems.

After a couple years of obsessively reading whatever I could to "optimize" my health through nutrition, a journey that took me to all kinds of places, authors and experiments, I completely unplugged from this topic like 5-6 years ago. After all, once you turn your back on the hardcore cults (militant vegans, paleo orthorectics (been there), "omg carbs are poison" ketonites, IIFYM calorie counting wannabe fitness models) behind and you arrive back at "just eat 90% real whole foods that your great-great grandparent would've recognized as such" – what new knowledge around the topic of nutrition could we possibly come up with? Right? Riiight? Turns out I was wrong! I became vegan in recent years. Whenever asked by people "why?" I replied honestly that I did it purely out of compassion, not because I was convinced plant-based is any healthier than an omnivorous diet also including decent amounts of fruit and veg. Then one day on a whim I clicked on a podcast with Will Bulsiewicz, cause the title sounded cool. He came across so genuine and passionate, yet also extremely well informed and reasonable, and mentioned some concepts like the SCFA that I'd never heard of before, HAD to buy the book. What can I say, I'm really impressed with it. The at times very conversational writing took a chapter or too of getting used to, but I guess after hearing him on the podcast I knew that's just his way of communication, fine by me. The contents for me were mind-blowing and eye-opening. I won't pretend I'm following up on every reference (or even every second or third), but the amount and quality of evidence is very re-assuring. Bulsiewicz refers to meta-analyses whenever possible, and also openly states when some evidence is still a bit flaky/preliminary and needs more research. I loooved that he educates his readers a little bit about the hierarchy of scientific evidence, because so many people these days just love to throw around buzzwords like "research", "evidence-based" without any real understanding whatsoever, willing to believe and regurgitate everything that was (allegedly) mentioned in some "study". Heck, I even met a handful of people who had graduated from uni and never had gotten an intro course into the scientific method! On a side note I also liked the references being "off-shored" to a website, with clickable links and probably shaving 50+ pages off the book. Still, while delivering on the evidence-based part, he manages to keep it light and entertaining, great stuff. Instead of feeling like I'm missing out on some health-benefits by foregoing meat, I now feel even better about my plant-based diet, because not only is it good for other beings, but for my own health too! Trust me, no confirmation bias here – I kinda bought the book to find the flaw with his reasoning. But ultimately couldn't. Even though my diet was pretty on-point already, I picked up a couple of easy/practical tips to adjust my intake based on his findings. And now that I'm more informed about my microbiome and its role for my own health (I like how he defined the axis of human health, many diet books only focus on one or two of those, yet he goes through all of them and relates them to his findings), I'm even more on track with keeping it "clean" without feeling I'm giving up anything. I hope my review wasn't too disorganized and rambling. Overall I can't recommend this one enough, whether you already are plant-based or you think that vegans are full of it. The book is well-researched, well-written, practical and empowering – I couldn't think of higher praise for a diet book!

Uno de los mejores libros sibre salud digestiva y sobre salud en general. Mucho conicimiento en cada página. Permite entender los complejos procesos de digestión y da soluciones super eficaces.

Great book especially for those already suffering from gut issues