Gut-immune connection : how understanding the connection between food and immunity can help us regain our health /
Emeran Mayer and Nell Casey
- New York Harper Collins Publishers 2021
- 277p.
In his acclaimed book, The Mind-Gut connection, physician, UCLA Professor, and researcher Dr Emeran Mayer offered ground-breaking 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 will propose an even more radical paradigm shift: that the gut microbiome is at the centre 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 Dr Mayer’s investigation 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 of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and susceptibility to infectious diseases like covid-19. Dr Mayer argues that we must understand the profound and far-reaching effects of gut health and offer clear-cut strategies to reverse the steady upward rise of these illnesses, including a nutrition model 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 soil's microbial diversity. To turn the tide of chronic and infectious disease tomorrow, we must shift today's way we live.