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It’s a 3.5
It’s an interesting book which makes very complex concepts easy to understand and read.
Author has taken key aspects of our body involving the Gut and broken them down to explain in a lucid and fun way. The illustrations obviously helps in making the read easy.
She has tried to explain the functioning of gut with focus on imparting knowledge without being prescriptive.
She does go overboard sometimes but that can be due to her medical background and desire to explain in more detail than was required as per me but such instances are far and few.
It’s a book about poops, bacteria’s , flatulence, digestion, and all things stomachy . Go for it to understand how the Gut works and next time you hear your stomach gurgle , you will know why and what is happening .
It’s an interesting book which makes very complex concepts easy to understand and read.
Author has taken key aspects of our body involving the Gut and broken them down to explain in a lucid and fun way. The illustrations obviously helps in making the read easy.
She has tried to explain the functioning of gut with focus on imparting knowledge without being prescriptive.
She does go overboard sometimes but that can be due to her medical background and desire to explain in more detail than was required as per me but such instances are far and few.
It’s a book about poops, bacteria’s , flatulence, digestion, and all things stomachy . Go for it to understand how the Gut works and next time you hear your stomach gurgle , you will know why and what is happening .
While I learned some new things, harmful rhetoric and blatant ignorance put me off from the book. The author includes many comments that are fatphobic; negative towards or ignorant of mental illness, especially self-harm and suicidal ideation; or generalizations about a group of people (in particular, about Africans, not specifying nationality).
Some examples:
- “If we are concerned about our weight, we need to think about more than just the big, fat calories we consume and remember that our bacteria are at the dinner table with us. How Might Bacteria Make Us Fat?”
- “The nutrition we receive from our bacteria is not only important for fighting the flab…”
- “Even though we have not yet identified them all, we know already that we’d rather not have chubby bacteria or microbes that cause diabetes or depression”
- Statistics describing people who “suffer from” a mental illness
- “A thirty-two-year-old woman cuts her wrists with a razor blade from the discount drugstore. It’s the thrill that makes her do it.”
- “But how does our lady with the razor blade fit in to all this? Why is she not horrified by the sight of her own blood? Why is the feeling of slicing through her skin, flesh, and nerves processed not as painful but rather, as thrilling? How can pain have become the hot sauce in the otherwise bland soup of her everyday life?”
- “Would the lethargy triggered by IDO be enough to drive someone to suicide? To put the question another way, what does it take to make people think about killing themselves?”
- “While the African farmer is working in the fields, a tortoise might merrily be doing its business in a sack of grain destined for Germany”
- “Families in industrialized nations often have their own family strain of H. pylori, while people living in societies with more contact between individuals, for example, in parts of Africa, have communal H. pylori strains.”
Some examples:
- “If we are concerned about our weight, we need to think about more than just the big, fat calories we consume and remember that our bacteria are at the dinner table with us. How Might Bacteria Make Us Fat?”
- “The nutrition we receive from our bacteria is not only important for fighting the flab…”
- “Even though we have not yet identified them all, we know already that we’d rather not have chubby bacteria or microbes that cause diabetes or depression”
- Statistics describing people who “suffer from” a mental illness
- “A thirty-two-year-old woman cuts her wrists with a razor blade from the discount drugstore. It’s the thrill that makes her do it.”
- “But how does our lady with the razor blade fit in to all this? Why is she not horrified by the sight of her own blood? Why is the feeling of slicing through her skin, flesh, and nerves processed not as painful but rather, as thrilling? How can pain have become the hot sauce in the otherwise bland soup of her everyday life?”
- “Would the lethargy triggered by IDO be enough to drive someone to suicide? To put the question another way, what does it take to make people think about killing themselves?”
- “While the African farmer is working in the fields, a tortoise might merrily be doing its business in a sack of grain destined for Germany”
- “Families in industrialized nations often have their own family strain of H. pylori, while people living in societies with more contact between individuals, for example, in parts of Africa, have communal H. pylori strains.”
Si bien el fondo me interesa, la forma no me ha gustado nada. Tiene un lenguaje muy accesible, es cierto, pero creo que peca a la hora de usar metáforas y ejemplos para hacerlo más entendible para cualquier nivel de estudios. Y comparar España con India a nivel de seguridad microbiológica... Cito textualmente: «En mi país, Alemania, no vivimos precisamente en una zona con muchos agentes patógenos de la diarrea. Aunque contraigamos una gripe intestinal, nuestro entorno está poblado de microbios mucho menos peligrosos que, por ejemplo, la India o España.»
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Veldig interessant bok!! Vil aldri se på tarmen og bakeriebiomet vårt på samme måte igjen, man ender opp med en nyvunnet respekt og prioritering av tarmen da man skjønner hvor stor rolle den spiller på så mange flere felter enn man først antok. Og vi har bare så vidt begynt å utforske den ordentlig. Vil være mer bevisst fremober på hva jeg gjør og spiser som gagner den riktige bakteriefloraen og fordøyelsessystemet vårt.
Dette er virkelig fascinerende og relevant lærdom for alle som eier et tarmsystem og som ikke lever i et helt sterilt miljø. Boken er også skrevet på en herlig måte og med gode illustrasjoner som gjør leseropplevelse til en fryd. Anbefales!
Dette er virkelig fascinerende og relevant lærdom for alle som eier et tarmsystem og som ikke lever i et helt sterilt miljø. Boken er også skrevet på en herlig måte og med gode illustrasjoner som gjør leseropplevelse til en fryd. Anbefales!
Casual and very funny explanation of how our gut works. Lots to learn!