Gut

Covers the digestive system in depth—mouth, gut structure, reflux, vomiting, constipation, bacteria, parasites, etc.

If you have digestive problems, this is a good resource. If you don’t, it may be tough to get through. The tone varies between an elementary school lesson and a research paper. Two passages from the book:

“The inner sphincter’s mission is to keep all unpleasantness at bay. If it had its way, Great-Aunt Bertha would break wind more often.”

and

"Examples of bacteria that can resist being digested are Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Lactobacillus acidophilus, and the abovementioned Lactobacillus casei Shirota.”

I most enjoyed the last chapter. It covered four methods for keeping bacteria under control (dilution, drying, temperature, cleaning) and information on antibiotics, probiotics, and prebiotics. Tongue scrapers also got a mention, which was nice. They should be an oral hygiene standard.

This is the kind of book you’d mostly would start to read by accident. Why know about our gut? Well, because we have one and having one, why not know about its innards? Maybe that’s a good start.

The book is filled with may facts, factoids and curiosities about, well, as the titles says, “our body’s most underrated organ”. By the end of it, one thing is for sure: one will end up with much more respect to our amazing guts (and its many inhabitants).

Dieses Buch sollte jeder Mensch gelesen haben, es sollte auf dem Lehrplan von Schulen stehen. In der Tat charmant und sehr anschaulich wird hier der Körper, die Organe und deren Zusammenhänge beschrieben. Es gibt so unglaublich viele aha-Momente, es ist der Wahnsinn!

Ein Stern Abzug, da es ab der Mitte etwas an Drive verloren hat. Alles in allem aber ein sehr empfehlenswertes Buch!

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