Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Gut The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ by Giulia Enders Book Notes – Gut: the inside story of our body’s most under-rated organ by Giulia Enders. The book | Read in September 2016 | Rating 4.0. As Giulia Enders writes in Gut: the inside story of our body’s most under-rated organ , there is only one other organ in the body that can compete with the gut for diversity — the brain. The gut’s network of nerves is just as large and chemically complex. The human gut might even have a say in our morality, happiness, and lust for life. Yet science is only just starting to understand and prove this. This is a funny and fascinating book, as well as a welcome education in something that so many of us – scientists included – know so little about. Book notes. We humans have known since time immemorial something that science is only now discovering: our gut feeling is responsible in no small measure for how we feel. “Our ‘self’ is created in our head and our gut — no longer just in language, but increasingly also in the lab”. The gut might even have a certain influence on our moral thinking. In one study, mice with ‘pimped’ gut flora not only kept swimming for longer and with more motivation, but their blood was also found to contain fewer stress hormones. These mice also performed better in memory and learning tests. The earlier in life that mealtime calm is introduced, the better. When under stress we not only extract less energy from our food, but we also take longer to digest it. When the brain senses a major problem (such as time pressure or anger), it needs energy to solve it and borrows this mainly from the gut. The gut listens and saves energy on digestion, producing less mucous and reducing the blood supply. If we get repeatedly stressed or angered and keep diverting energy from the gut, we can cause real digestion problems. Stay calm. One theory proposed by research bacteriologists is that stress is unhygienic, or that the altered circumstances that stress creates in the gut allow bacteria to survive there than in periods of low stress. 95 per cent of the serotonin we produce is manufactured in the cells of our gut, where it has an enormous effect on enabling the nerves to stimulate muscle movement, and acts as an important signalling molecule. Treating out gut might even treat depression. The American researcher Dr Michael Gershon is interested in the possibility of developing effective antidepressants that only influence the gut, and do not have an effect on the brain. “Perhaps their gut needs a session on the therapist’s couch, and their head is not to blame at all.” If we decided to say ‘Hi’ to each of our gut bacteria individually, we might just manage it in around 3 million years. Our immune system not only says ‘Hi’; it also says, ‘You’re okay’, or ‘I’d prefer to see you dead.’ Next actions. Keep your stress down. If you focus on just one thing, at least try to stay calm while eating. You know this, but only use antibiotics when you need to. Don’t go crazy with the cleaning products but keep things tidy. Wash your veg before you eat them. Avoid sugary carbs and load up on probiotic and prebiotic foods. It would take an entire international news agency to report on all the events constantly unfolding in just one person’s microbiome. While we lounge about feeling bored, any number of exciting things are happening inside us. Gut : The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Under-Rated Organ. Enders, a medical student, became fascinated with all things digestive after a roommate asked her about the mechanics of elimination. She discovered that the gut affects overall health far more than . Читать весь отзыв. Другие издания - Просмотреть все. Об авторе (2015) Giulia Enders was born in 1990 in Mannheim, Germany. She is a graduate of Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and is enrolled in their doctoral program in gastroenterology. Her talk, Charming Bowels, won first prize at the Science Slam in Freiburg, Berlin and Karlsruhe (2012). She is the author of Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ, which won the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards International book of the year. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (2014) Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book was bought for me, as a gift. Under my own impulse, I would have left it on the bookshop shelf after looking with mild amusement at the rather good doodle style illustrations that do an excellent job of explaining the science. Giulia Enders’ sister Jill Enders is the one to thank for these. However, the book ended up on my bookshelf. Six months later, in search of something a bit different and reasonably light to read, I picked it up. I consider myself more interested in the brain, how I think and feel and how I can change all this to make me a happier, more content, likable human being. I prefer to think of things in terms of psychology than biology. Probably due to an unnecessary grudge against my school biology teachers. Giulia Enders however introduces the gut in a manner that would have been acceptable to both me and my biology teacher when I was fifteen. Apparently, my stomach is really much higher in my body than I imagined. And my small intestine really does agree that a siesta – or at least a bit of relaxation – is a good idea after lunch. Enders also points out what I feel I should have recognised as the obvious: we feel not solely with the brain in some mystical fashion, but because it keeps us alive. “Anyone who suffers from anxiety or depression should remember that an unhappy gut can be the cause of an unhappy mind. Sometimes, the gut has a perfect right to be unhappy, if it is dealing with an undetected food intolerance, for example. We should not always blame depression on the brain or on our life circumstances – there is much more to us than that.” There was also a chapter on the cause of various intolerances and some fascinating (and sometimes icky) detail on all the living creatures – bacteria, yeasts, fungi, worms – that you may or not want living in your body. It’s a super easy to read book. The bit on bacteria goes on a while, and you might lose focus at this point, but the pictures and the sometimes unexpected but clear explanations of how we work make it worth reading and easy to digest. ( ) My gut unfortunately fell out with me around 3 years ago, and whatever I did to upset it, clearly it's not forgiving me any time soon. I therefore hoped upon hope that this book would have a "Yes! That's it!" moment for me, but sadly (and not overly unexpectedly) there were no such revelations. Still, it's an interesting, popular science read, and I did learn a number of new things along the way about this most complex of organs and how it works when it's working well. Particularly interesting was the new research which points to the relationship between the health of our gut bacteria and mood / depression. I'd hoped that within these pages would be some new insights of the 'got this symptom? Perhaps check out x, y, z', but this is more of a popular gallop through the gut with a light touch on some general dysfunctions. An interesting read, written in a light and entertaining way, but nothing ground-breaking sadly. 3.5 stars - informative but not life-changing. ( ) Lovely little book. Almost like a user's guide to the digestive system. It's very much popular science, with a broad range of fairly shallow information presented in an appealing and entertaining format. (That's not a criticism.) I found a couple of Enders' analogies a little strange (distant trees are spoons?) but overall I thought her writing was enjoyable. The illustrations were a little off for me, but good enough. There wasn't much in there to blow my mind, but I imagine approaching this with a different background would show it's pretty informative. I definitely appreciated that she outlines a kind of range of normal, and gives sensible advice without the hyperbole I associate with American health writing. I love the idea of destigmatising basic bodily functions, so I liked that aspect too. Overall, I did enjoy it, but likely won't revisit. I'll be giving it to others who could benefit from the clear information contained within, as I think it is useful and actionable whilst being an easy read. ( ) [PDF] Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ Book by Giulia Enders Free Download (273 pages) Free download or read online Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in 2014, and was written by Giulia Enders. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 273 pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this non fiction, science story are , . The book has been awarded with Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for International Book (2016), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science & Technology (2015) and many others.