Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain

I really enjoyed this book. It provides lots of great tips, especially for people new to eating healthy. If you are familiar with books on health, diet and lifestyle, there are still some interesting points. The author is a doctor, and shares his experiences with patients, as well as observations on his own parent's decline in health and subsequent uptick after a lifestyle change.

The book focuses on Five Pillars, here's a mini summary:
1 nutrition -- eat healthy and mindfully, not too much of anything
2 movement -- make it part of your life, a daily walk is often enough
3 purpose -- having a purposeful life helps the brain
4 community -- wider networks when young and old, and a few deep and meaningful bonds when middle-aged
5 spirituality -- it can be religion or even nature

The author goes into details such as how we can still change despite our genes; how medications that slow GI motility cause disease; how working ten-hour days increases the risk of stroke tremendously. He gives suggestions of types of foods to eat, and which exercises could help with certain conditions.

I found some recommendations hard to follow, such as "Do not eat out more than once a week" and "Consume organic, non-GMO foods as often as possible". The reader needs to be fortunate to have enough time, good health, or the money to have a helper to cook meals at home, or afford the exorbitant prices of organic food.

Now, if only it were easier to convince friends and family of adopting a healthy lifestyle (:

As a sufferer of various gastro afflictions including Barretts Oesophagus and GERD etc, I found this book to be very interesting, particularly in areas regarding leaky gut. Although a lifelong member of the PPI club, I am trying to help myself naturally too. Having a gastroenterologist as the author is particularly beneficial to me. There are a lot of ideas in here and I will reread the book to get the best out of it and apply to my own life and illness.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for letting me review this book. It has good info on how the brain and gut go hand in hand. Also great tips on how to stave off Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. I like that there are recipes included in the book. There are several I’m wanting to try.

"Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain" by Dr. Partha Nandi is a very interesting and informative guide that focuses on the biology of the gut, the understanding of the gut/brain axis, and how they communicate and influence each other. Its main highlight is the role that the microbiome in the gut plays in the health of your gut and how this can influence diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and stroke.

What makes this book unique is its practical, holistic approach. Dr. Nandi stresses the importance of factors such as pre and post biotics, and includes a practical guide to improve your food quality intake in order to improve your gut microbiome. This book doesn't just inform, it equips you with the tools to make a real difference in your health.

Dr. Nandi's book is a wake-up call to the damage that processed flour, dairy, sugars, salts and fats can do to your microbiome. It's a reminder of the urgent need to take control of your health and make positive changes.

Thanks to NetGalley and Mayo Clinic Press for the advanced reader's copy in exchange for an honest review!

Everybody needs to read this book! It covers the current research about how your gut micro biome and the state of your gut can influence chronic illness such as stroke and heart disease.

It was mind blowing to find out how huge of a role it is suspected that the gut plays and the links between poor gut health and higher incidences of disease across the board.

This felt like such a personal read whilst still being factual and incredibly digestible. It felt like such a thorough walk through the research with patient based examples to help root the research in real life.

With every shocking and eye opening piece of research, this book cleverly countered it with practical ways to improve your intake of pre and post biotics which leaves the reader feeling informed but still empowered.

I wish this book was a bit longer and explored the five pillars a little bit more because the main focus was diet. However, such an important read and wonderfully written, so I can’t fault it!

I really liked how this book gave practical advice on how to improve your health, whilst combining it with clear scientific studies. Some of the information has no doubt been read before if you're into health/wellbeing books, however, it's always good to have information presented in different ways so that you can continually learn.

The book is very good for my patients' Alzhaimer because it shows the importance of a good gut to get a good brain. In this book, there are little steps to change the way of the disease. This book shows how to change the course of the stroke and Parkinson disease. As a psychiatrist I can recommend to my patients to read this magnificent title. Thanks a lot to Netgalley for the opportunity I'd have read this magnificent book.

Cognitive decline is not your destiny. You can improve your brain function through small steps taken every day. Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain, by gastroenterologist and health advocate Dr. Partha Nandi, highlights the latest research on the gut-brain connection and gives you a clear protocol for maintaining brain health and slowing or reducing the effects of neurodegenerative diseases as you age.

Thank you to Netgalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
A well-written and informative book, detailing the importance of looking after your gut and its effect on cognitive ability. Recommended.

Overall I found this book to be well written, informative and an educational read. Provided some new ideas and insights. Worth picking up if the subject matter affects you. Recommend.

This is a fantastic resource and vital reading for anyone who wants to use the latest research around gut microbiome to safeguard their health against 3 major neurodegenerative conditions - stroke, Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.

The author shares their own story as to why they are personally invested in this area, and this real adds to the book by adding the warmth that comes with a human angle.

The books reads well and features a huge amount of information in addition to those all important practical strategies. The book concludes with a section on recipes - many of which sound truly delicious!

Overall a great book that I feel really adds to this genre.

My thanks to NetGalley, author and publisher for the opportunity to review this book in exchange for an advance copy.

Precious medical information. Very useful for someone who's trying to get healthier by improving their gut health.

Very informative book, I have been dealing with leaky gut syndrome and this was helpful in understanding it.

Informative and Interesting

Going through what happens in the gut, gut health, definitions of what a stroke/Alzheimer’s disease/Parkinson’s disease are; how they start/ foods that have been found to be an issue for these diseases; helpful foods to avoid in order to hopefully avoid getting these diagnosis and ways to change your gut health to again, hopefully get a healthier outlook or potentially improve your recent diagnosis. Complete with, examples of patients who’s been helped; recipes’ to help change the course of these diseases; personal experience with Dr Nandi’s father.

An interesting and informative reader friendly book on the second brain, a book where I feel you’d need to refer back to whilst endeavouring to get that right food balance to aid a good and healthy lifestyle. A definite should read.