Australian scientists Barry Marshall and Robin Warren identified the stomach ulcer-causing bacteria Helicobacter Pylori in 1982, but it took a decade of campaigning to break down the medical orthodoxy that brainwashed GPs into prescribing an outdated cure.
Giulia Enders, who is studying for a medical doctorate at the Institute of Microbiology in Frankfurt, was shocked by how few of the latest discoveries about the digestive system were finding their way out of obscure conference papers and into public awareness.
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This fabulous little book changes all that. Enders takes us on an empowering journey from cake hole to toilet bowl, explaining via a series of ingenious metaphors how our tummies actually work, and why they sometimes go wrong.
As well as a plethora of practical health advice, she holds out real hope that one day the try-it-and-see approach to many psychological and autoimmune disorders will be replaced by effective gut-based treatments.
