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informative
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Das war richtig toll!
Besonders auch als Hörbuch supi
Dass meine Angststörung mein Magen verbunden sind ist für mich nicht wirklich neu aber die Art wie genau das passiert ist wertvolles Wissen.
Ich hätte mir an einer Stelle eine content notion gewünscht, das war ein sehr vermeidbarer und auch offensichtlicher Triggerpunkt.
Werde das jetzt allen empfehlen
Besonders auch als Hörbuch supi
Dass meine Angststörung mein Magen verbunden sind ist für mich nicht wirklich neu aber die Art wie genau das passiert ist wertvolles Wissen.
Ich hätte mir an einer Stelle eine content notion gewünscht, das war ein sehr vermeidbarer und auch offensichtlicher Triggerpunkt.
Werde das jetzt allen empfehlen
3.5 stars rounded up. Like most scientific books written for the layperson it started out very interesting, even a bit charming, but became a bit boring half way through. Regardless it is packed with good information!
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The idea may seem dry, but the writing is light and comedic.
If you want to ace digestion biology trivia night, this is the book full of all the factoids you'll need. When she was in med school, Guilia Enders started getting questions from friends like "why is poop brown?" and found she loved doing the research for the answers, so she decided to write a book all about our fascinating digestive system.
This book came out right around the same time as [b:Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal|13615414|Gulp Adventures on the Alimentary Canal|Mary Roach|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1352232547l/13615414._SY75_.jpg|19216563] by Mary Roach, but the two books are quite different. Enders is a doctor with the goal of making digestive science accessible. She relates facts in a fairly straightforward manner and uses metaphors to drive her points home. Roach is a journalist who wants to make digestive science accessible but also entertaining, and she spends a lot of time sharing interviews and fleshing out the characters of people who work in digestive science and other related areas. Both books are great and you'll take away a deeper knowledge and a more human appreciation for the subject if you read both.
This book came out right around the same time as [b:Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal|13615414|Gulp Adventures on the Alimentary Canal|Mary Roach|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1352232547l/13615414._SY75_.jpg|19216563] by Mary Roach, but the two books are quite different. Enders is a doctor with the goal of making digestive science accessible. She relates facts in a fairly straightforward manner and uses metaphors to drive her points home. Roach is a journalist who wants to make digestive science accessible but also entertaining, and she spends a lot of time sharing interviews and fleshing out the characters of people who work in digestive science and other related areas. Both books are great and you'll take away a deeper knowledge and a more human appreciation for the subject if you read both.
Für Laien sicher gut erklärt. Als Medizinerin: alles korrekt dargestellt, interessante Zusatzinfos, die man als nicht-Gastroenterologe noch nicht kannte. Allerdings ein bisschen Glorifizierung des Darmes und Übertreibung seiner Wichtigkeit im gesamten Körper. Der Vergleich, dass der Darm dank seiner vielen Nervenzellen so wichtig sei wie das zentrale Nervensystem hinkte dann doch etwas zu sehr.
"The gut is our body's most underrated organ. This is its inside story."
Gut is a rollicking ride through the vast organ that is the human digestive system. Enders takes us through the whole thing from top to, er, bottom, and from inside to out.
The book is similar in tone to Mary Roach's book: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, but where Roach excels at going into the kooky culture behind the science, Enders gives us the low down on the anatomy and physiology of our most ignored organ (appropriate, as she is--at the time of this writing--a medical student). We move through the structure of the various components of the digestive system, on to the structure of the nervous system which services the gut, and make a nice little stopover with the microbiome: the bacterial cells living in our gut that outnumber our or human cells by 9 to 1.
Enders has that rare and precious gift: she is able to impart knowledge in an engaging manner. Many, many nonfiction writers would kill for her delivery. The entire book is written in a wry, accessible tone, making Gut the most fun your going to have with your colon for quite a while. In addition, the book is cunningly (and humorously) illustrated (by Jill Enders) throughout, treating us to images of ballerinas toe dancing on slices of cake, babies diving through a sea of bacteria while being born, and the immune system fitting bad bacteria with little hats, among many, many others.
Gut gives us the best of science writing. You will learn quite a bit while perusing this book, but you won't realize it right away. I'm almost sad that Enders is seeking a career in medicine, I hope she'll still find time for her writing; the world needs more books this fun.
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Gut is a rollicking ride through the vast organ that is the human digestive system. Enders takes us through the whole thing from top to, er, bottom, and from inside to out.
The book is similar in tone to Mary Roach's book: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, but where Roach excels at going into the kooky culture behind the science, Enders gives us the low down on the anatomy and physiology of our most ignored organ (appropriate, as she is--at the time of this writing--a medical student). We move through the structure of the various components of the digestive system, on to the structure of the nervous system which services the gut, and make a nice little stopover with the microbiome: the bacterial cells living in our gut that outnumber our or human cells by 9 to 1.
Enders has that rare and precious gift: she is able to impart knowledge in an engaging manner. Many, many nonfiction writers would kill for her delivery. The entire book is written in a wry, accessible tone, making Gut the most fun your going to have with your colon for quite a while. In addition, the book is cunningly (and humorously) illustrated (by Jill Enders) throughout, treating us to images of ballerinas toe dancing on slices of cake, babies diving through a sea of bacteria while being born, and the immune system fitting bad bacteria with little hats, among many, many others.
Gut gives us the best of science writing. You will learn quite a bit while perusing this book, but you won't realize it right away. I'm almost sad that Enders is seeking a career in medicine, I hope she'll still find time for her writing; the world needs more books this fun.
Check out more reviews on my site!
www.theirregularreaderblog.wordpress.com