It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

bloodstream promote leptin resistance in the brain. Leptin resistance means your brain doesn’t hear the leptin mess ...

Cortisol is a stress hormone. Periods of fasting or excessive caloric restriction, along with lack of adeq ...

CHAPTER 6: THE GUTS OF THE MATTER “Because of my Crohn’s disease, I was in so much pain that I coul ...

Our third Good Food standard evaluates the effect of certain foods on the digestive tract. We believe you shou ...

often goes underappreciated. We’ll talk more about that in the next chapter. You’re probably already fa ...

You take a bite of food and start chewing. Chewing breaks your food (i.e., the mishmash of macronutrients ...

salts and pancreatic enzymes help break food down even further. The carbohydrates are completely broken dow ...

Almost everything that goes from your gut into your bloodstream then goes directly to your li ...

(which is stored in the gallbladder and helps to digest fats) and cholesterol (which is critical for normal c ...

Think of the intestinal lining as similar to the skin on your body—a highly flexible, resilient, semi-permeable ...

use your body as base camp, and most of them come in with your food and drink. So your immune ...

technically not yet in your body. Here is another critical point: The entire process of digestion takes place ...

then have to work hard to fight off. Well, a similar thing could happen if your gut was damaged and “l ...

abnormally permeable or structurally damaged, leaving the small intestine unable to do its job of nutrient ...

starts in your digestive tract and spreads throughout the body. The good news is that a healthy gut is ve ...

of immune cells that form a part of your intestinal barrier) are your first line of defense: they ...

troublemakers (like bacteria and viruses) are denied entry. Other things we can’t make use of inside, like ...

Over the course of a very long time, our immune system has developed a working relationship, an alliance ...

GOOD GUYS, BAD GUYS Researchers are rapidly growing to appreciate the centrality of the gut’s bacterial p ...

situation: not too much, not too little ... we need just the right amount. HOW THINGS GO WRON ...