True Wellness for Your Gut

Combining the best that Eastern and Western medicine can offer, this book helps you understand, treat, and prevent digestive conditions, diabetes, and obesity, all the while boosting your immune system!

By blending modern research with ancient practices, this book will help readers stay positive and motivated along their journey toward better health and overall well-being.

The authors have helped thousands of people through surgery, pharmaceuticals, acupuncture, herbs, qigong, tai chi, meditation, and lifestyle counselling. They explain how Western medicine has substantiated a long-held understanding in Eastern medicine: that digestive health significantly impacts and is impacted by sleep, emotions, movement, food, and social support.

Discussion points include how sleep, exercise, nutritious food, stress management, acupuncture, and qigong favourably impact the gastrointestinal system. These modalities restore balance in the nerves, hormones, and neurotransmitters that improve digestion and metabolism. A special section is devoted to discussing the human gut microbiome, the bacteria harboured in our intestines, and its essential role in our health.

• Drs. Kuhn and Kurosu strongly recommend a collaborative approach, encouraging readers to engage with their Western healthcare providers so that serious conditions can be addressed safely.
• They share ideas about how the reader can create a multidisciplinary care team, involving practitioners of both Eastern and Western healing systems.
• They explain the science behind meditation, acupuncture, and qigong.
• Learn how the microbiome is essential to good health.
• Readers are offered recommendations of proven Eastern and Western therapeutic interventions that will calm the mind, decrease stress, improve sleep and nutrition, strengthen digestion, and normalise metabolism.
• Includes a step-by-step guide and qigong exercises designed to promote overall gastrointestinal health.

Digestive disease is complex and requires a multifaceted approach for successful treatment. By blending the ancient wisdom of Eastern Medicine with cutting-edge Western discoveries, True Wellness for Your Gut will help you stay positive and achieve optimal health, whether through prevention or treatment of digestive conditions, diabetes, and obesity.