The Gut-Immune Connection: How Understanding the Connection Between Food and Immunity Can Help Us Regain Our Health – Groundbreaking Microbiome Research on Epidemic and Chronic Disease - Hardcover

Mayer, Emeran

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0063014785 ISBN 13: 9780063014787

Publisher: Harper, 2021

Synopsis

From one of today’s leading experts on the emerging science of the microbiome comes a ground-breaking book that offers, for the first time, evidence that the gut-microbiome plays a pivotal role in the health crises of the twenty-first century.

In his acclaimed book, The Mind-Gut Connection, physician, UCLA professor, and researcher Dr. Emeran Mayer offered groundbreaking evidence of the critical role of the microbiome in neurological and cognitive health, proving once and for all the power and legitimacy of the “mind-body connection.” Now, in The Gut-Immune Connection, Dr. Mayer proposes an even more radical paradigm shift: that the gut microbiome is at the center of virtually every disease that defines our 21st-century public health crisis.

Cutting-edge research continues to advance our understanding of the function and impact of the billions of organisms that live in the GI tract, and in Dr. Mayer’s own research, he has amassed evidence that the “conversation” that takes place between these microbes and our various organs and bodily systems is critical to human health. When that conversation goes awry, we suffer, often becoming seriously ill.

Combining clinical experience with up-to-the-minute science, The Gut-Immune Connection offers a comprehensive look at the link between alterations to the gut microbiome and the development chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, as well as susceptibility to infectious diseases like Covid-19. Dr. Mayer argues that it’s essential we understand the profound and far-reaching effects of gut health and offers clear-cut strategies to reverse the steady upward rise of these illnesses, including a model for nutrition to support the microbiome. 

But time is running out: a plague of antimicrobial resistance is only a few decades away if we don’t make critical changes to our food supply, including returning to sustainable practices that maintain the microbial diversity of the soil. To turn the tide of chronic and infectious disease tomorrow, we must shift the way we live today.

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About the Author

Emeran Mayer, MD, is the executive director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and founding director of the Goodman Luskin Microbiome Center at the University of California at Los Angeles. His research has been supported over decades by the National Institutes of Health, and he is considered a pioneer and world leader in the study of brain-gut microbiome interactions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0063014785
• ISBN 13: 9780063014787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304