The Whole-Body Guide to Gut Health - by Heidi Moretti (Paperback)

About the Book

A whole-body plan and simple recipes to get your gut back on track. Your gut encompasses your digestive organs and all their resident microbes - and its health affects all the other systems in your body. Experience the physical and mental benefits of a healthy gut biome with this research-based guide. You'll discover how to take care of your body to help alleviate digestive distress and soothe a wide variety of ailments, from heartburn and irritable bowel syndrome to depression and anxiety. Learn the five principles of good gut health, explore the science of probiotics, and refer to at-a-glance lists of foods to enjoy, limit, or avoid. Go deeper with easy, practical advice for exercise, stress reduction, and mindfulness. By restoring balance in your gut, you can help boost your overall mood, energy, and even your memory.

Book Synopsis

Help get your gut back on track with this simple, whole-body plan

Your gut encompasses your digestive organs and all their resident microbes--and its health affects all the other systems in your body. Experience the physical and mental benefits of a healthy gut biome with this research-based guide. Find out how to care for your body, alleviate digestive distress, and soothe a wide variety of ailments, from heartburn and irritable bowel syndrome to depression and anxiety.

Learn the five principles of good gut health, explore the science of probiotics, and refer to at-a-glance lists of foods to enjoy, limit, or avoid. Go deeper with practical advice for exercise, stress reduction, and mindfulness practices to help boost your overall mood, energy, and even your memory.

• A holistic 2-week plan--Kick-start your gut health routine with a customizable 2-week plan that incorporates healthy eating, exercise, meditation, and more.
• Tasty, gut-healthy recipes--Treat your gut right with 50 feel-good options like the Lemon-Ginger Smoothie, Wild Salmon and Fennel Scramble, Fermented Fried Rice with Vegetables, and more.
• Simple symptom tracking--Use a handy template to track your symptoms, identify possible triggers, and chart your progress as you make changes.

Help restore balance in your gut with The Whole-Body Guide to Gut Health.

Review Quotes

"The Whole-Body Guide to Gut Health is a must-read! This book breaks down the basics of gut health and explains the gut's relationship with every part of your body and mind. It also looks at how stress reduction, nutrition, exercise, and more contribute to a healthy gut. There are 50 delicious recipes and a two-week plan with breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I've been in health media for more than 20 years, and I've read thousands of books on healthy living for television, radio, and podcast interviews. This book is one that you can immediately put into action and see results in your health." --Lisa Davis, MPH

"Heidi Moretti's The Whole-Body Guide to Gut Health makes the complicated science of gut health easy for anyone to understand and be motivated to take actionable, individualized steps towards gut health. I especially loved the recommended exercises and recipes. Most impressive are the excellent tools, from a symptom-tracking chart to a 14-day meal plan to breathing and yoga exercises for gut health. Bravo!" --Dr. Vincent Pedre, author of Happy Gut

About the Author

HEIDI MORETTI, MS, RD, has been a practicing clinical registered dietitian for 21 years. She is a writer and blogger with the website The Healthy RD and a cowriter of Thyroid Nutrition Educators. Heidi has a passion for using functional nutrition, holistic health, and natural medicine to get to the root causes of illnesses