Emeran, Mayer
The Mind-Gut Connection : How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health - New York HarperCollins Publishers 2016 - xiv, 316p.
Includes Bibliography (293-305) and Index
1. The mind-body connection is real
2. How the mind communicates with the gut
3. How your gut talks to your brain
4. Microbe-speak: a key component of the gut-brain dialogue
5. Unhealthy memories: the effects of early life experience on the gut-brain dialogue
6. A new understanding of emotions
7. Understanding intuitive decision making
8. The role of food: lessons from hunter-gatherers
9. The onslaught of the North American diet: what evolution did not foresee
10. The simple road toward wellness and optimal health
Dr. Emeran Mayer, executive director of the Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience at UCLA, offers a cutting-edge view into this developing science, showing us the full impact and complexity of how the brain, gut, and microbiome -- the community of microorganisms that lives inside the digestive tract -- communicate with one another... When this communication channel is out of whack, major health problems can crop up in both the mind and the body, including food sensitivities and allergies, digestive disorders, obesity, depression, anxiety, and fatigue
9780062376589 (PB)
Mind and body therapies
Mind and body
Gastrointestinal system
Food
Psychological aspects
612.8 / MAY
The Mind-Gut Connection : How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health - New York HarperCollins Publishers 2016 - xiv, 316p.
Includes Bibliography (293-305) and Index
1. The mind-body connection is real
2. How the mind communicates with the gut
3. How your gut talks to your brain
4. Microbe-speak: a key component of the gut-brain dialogue
5. Unhealthy memories: the effects of early life experience on the gut-brain dialogue
6. A new understanding of emotions
7. Understanding intuitive decision making
8. The role of food: lessons from hunter-gatherers
9. The onslaught of the North American diet: what evolution did not foresee
10. The simple road toward wellness and optimal health
Dr. Emeran Mayer, executive director of the Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience at UCLA, offers a cutting-edge view into this developing science, showing us the full impact and complexity of how the brain, gut, and microbiome -- the community of microorganisms that lives inside the digestive tract -- communicate with one another... When this communication channel is out of whack, major health problems can crop up in both the mind and the body, including food sensitivities and allergies, digestive disorders, obesity, depression, anxiety, and fatigue
9780062376589 (PB)
Mind and body therapies
Mind and body
Gastrointestinal system
Food
Psychological aspects
612.8 / MAY