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    Eat Dirt: Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It
    Eat Dirt: Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It
    Eat Dirt: Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It
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    Eat Dirt: Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It

    Written by Josh Axe

    Narrated by Eric Jason Martin

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    About this audiobook

    Doctor of Natural Medicine and wellness authority Dr. Josh Axe delivers a groundbreaking, indispensable guide for understanding, diagnosing, and treating one of the most discussed yet little-understood health conditions: leaky gut syndrome.

    Do you have a leaky gut? For 80% of the population the answer is “yes”—and most people don’t even realize it. Leaky gut syndrome is the root cause of a litany of ailments, including: chronic inflammation, allergies, autoimmune diseases, hypothyroidism, adrenal fatigue, diabetes, and even arthritis.

    To keep us in good health, our gut relies on maintaining a symbiotic relationship with trillions of microorganisms that live in our digestive tract. When our digestive system is out of whack, serious health problems can manifest and our intestinal walls can develop microscopic holes, allowing undigested food particles, bacteria, and toxins to seep into the bloodstream. This condition is known as leaky gut syndrome.

    In Eat Dirt, Dr. Josh Axe explains that what we regard as modern “improvements” to our food supply—including refrigeration, sanitation, and modified grains—have damaged our intestinal health. In fact, the same organisms in soil that allow plants and animals to flourish are the ones we need for gut health. In Eat Dirt, Dr. Axe explains that it’s essential to get a little “dirty” in our daily lives in order to support our gut bacteria and prevent leaky gut syndrome. Dr. Axe offers simple ways to get these needed microbes, from incorporating local honey and bee pollen into your diet to forgoing hand sanitizers and even ingesting a little probiotic-rich soil.

    Because leaky gut manifests differently in every individual, Dr. Axe also identifies the five main “gut types” and offers customizable plans—including diet, supplement, and lifestyle recommendations—to dramatically improve gut health in just thirty days. With a simple diet plan, recipes, and practical advice, Eat Dirt will help readers restore gut health and eliminate leaky gut for good.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMar 29, 2016
    ISBN9780062444974
    Eat Dirt: Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It
    Author

    Josh Axe

    Dr. Josh Axe is a doctor of natural medicine and a clinical nutritionist with a passion to help people get healthy by using food as medicine. He founded one of the largest functional medicine clinics in the United States and runs the popular health website www.draxe.com, where you can find recipes, natural remedies, videos, nutrition advice, and fitness tips. Dr. Axe is a board-certified doctor of natural medicine (DNM), earned his doctorate in chiropractic at Palmer College (DC), and is a certified nutrition specialist (CNS) from the American College of Nutrition. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Chelsea.

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    • 5/5
      An integral and practical guide to restoring healthy eating habits.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Another informative and eye opening book. Im currently in the rabbit hole of health and wellness and this also nails it!
    • 5/5
      He's smart, sexy, cool and he clean his floor with essential oils and vinegar – thats my boy! Go dr. Axe!!
    • 5/5
      Excelent Reading and information. I recomend for anyone who wants to improve their health
    • 5/5
      Good Book to start eating healthy, agree with most but not all concepts!
    • 5/5
      Great audio. The information in the book itself was priceless. No shortcuts; I literally felt as though I had a visit with the doctor.
    • 1/5
      Unscientific. Author pretends to be a medical doctor.

      Eat dirt, don't read this trash.
    • 4/5
      I loved this book! It’s so good and so involving. I will give it 4 stars and a half just because I disagree with some concepts he endorses, and I have a hard time to believe they will work (not too fond of animal products or bone broth as healers) based on my own personal experience. Other that this topic all the rest is enlightening and very well expressed.
    • 5/5
      Very enlightening. I will be sharing this book on to everybody who are addicted to prescription drugs and become a walking drugstore. It’s at docs health issues on all corners physical mental spiritual and psychological to achieve total healing..
    • 5/5
      Super relevant to our times. We are oversanitizing in an unparalleled way today Fear and emotional stress are taking us away from focusing on establishing immune health through food choices and connecting w Nature and each other.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book so much that I will surely read it again. I highly recommend this book!
    • 1/5
      Somewhere between evidence-based medicine and the model of health provided by alternative medicine, functional medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine lies the truth. Dr. Axe's work, however, gets us no closer to it than any other form of quackery. Too often he starts from plausible concepts in medicine and then quotes publications of a low quality, many from open access, non-peer reviewed journals, to legitimize his descent into a form of personalized medicine akin to horoscopes.
    • 2/5
      Infuriating. In one paragraph, he'd reference real, established science and in the next paragraph he'd reference a bullshit sham of a study from a vanity journal. His advice is a mishmash of solid science and promising theories jammed together with hokum and woo. It's infuriating because, questionable legitimacy of different "gut types" aside, much of the actionable advice is sensible...so WHY push those other bullshit theories? They just throw every other claim into question too.