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Happy Gut, Healthy Weight offers an exploration of the gut microbiome and its overall effects on health, with a particular focus on obesity and weight.
Perhaps, our processed diet coupled with a highly evolved and increasingly digitalised lifestyle has direct bearing on disrupting our metabolism, which is our weight regulator. Tackling obesity then is not just a calories in-calories-out matter—rather it demands a whole person, integrated approach.
If you truly want to lose weight and keep it off, you need to eat more bugs—the trillions of helpful bacteria that live in your gut and play a fundamental role in maintaining a healthy and happy body. In this book, you’ll learn:
• how simple dietary changes feed the microbiome and regulate the metabolism;
• why detoxifying is a key part of resetting your metabolism;
• why understanding the stress-microbiome connection is important; and
• how diet can be your best probiotic.
The author also explains how exercise and focused breathing can improve gut health and shares tips on how to supercharge your success after weight loss surgery.
Join the author as he explores the gut microbiome and its overall effects on health, with a particular focus on obesity and weight.

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Santé et bien-être

Diététique

Santé du quotidien

Santé au quotidien

Weight Loss

Obesity

Diabetes mellitus

Diet

Health

Diabetes

Fitness

Nutrition

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Publié par	Balboa Press AU
Date de parution	17 novembre 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781504315661
Langue	English
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HAPPY GUT , HEALTHY WEIGHT
Discover How a Happy Gut Holds the Key to Achieving and Maintaining Your Healthy Weight
Dr. Arun Dhir, FRCS, FRACS, MD
Gastro Intestinal and Bariatric Surgeon

Copyright © 2018 Dr. Arun Dhir, FRCS, FRACS, MD.
Interior Graphics/Art Credit: Nikola Kolundzic, Imran Razik

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

The information, ideas, and suggestions in this book are not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. Before following any suggestions contained in this book, you should consult your personal physician. Neither the author nor the publisher shall be liable or responsible for any loss or damage allegedly arising as a consequence of your use or application of any information or suggestions in this book.

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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-1565-4 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-5043-1566-1 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 04/28/2023
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
PART I: A “NEW” PERSPECTIVE ON OBESITY
Chapter 1 The Human Gut Microbiome: Our Sanctuary of Health
Chapter 2 Inflammation: The Root of All Disease
Chapter 3 How Stress is Making Us Fat
PART II: THE GUT-WEIGHT CONNECTION
Chapter 4 Gut: Our Second Brain
Chapter 5 Gene Power vs. Gut Power
Chapter 6 The METABOLISM – Our Engine of Life
PART III: HEALING THE GUT
Chapter 7 Food as Medicine
Chapter 8 Restoring Gut Health
Chapter 9 Supercharging Your Metabolism
Appendix A: A Sample Happy Gut Routine
Appendix B: Gut Microbiome and Weight Loss Surgery
Appendix C: The Gut ReGen Programme : The Winning Formula for Creating a new you
Appendix D: Portion Size, Serving Size, and Reading Food Labels
Appendix E: Our Environmental Toxins And Disease
Acknowledgements
Resources
References
About the author

This book is dedicated :
To my patients and clients, who remain a constant source of inspiration and to whom I remain forever indebted for their trust in me.
To my wife Reetika, for her constant support and feedback, and to our lovely kids, Gaurang and Vrinda, for all the positive energy you bring forth in my life every day... I would be incomplete without you all.
To my parents, who taught me to be of service to humanity in every way… every day.
I am what I am because of you.
NOT ANOTHER BOOK ON WEIGHT LOSS
I am a gastro-intestinal and bariatric (weight loss) surgeon in Melbourne, Australia - someone who has cut, healed, stitched, and researched the human gut for over two decades. Through my work, I have seen the scourge of obesity up close. To say that the insights I have gained thus far have been fascinating would be an understatement. Along the way, I’ve not only learned much about weight loss, but also how weight loss surgery can only provide temporary benefit to those who are considering this option if it’s not combined with the lifestyle skills that can cause a shift on a physical and a mental plane. This has allowed me valuable insights which I have attempted to share here with you in a practical, easily digestible manner – such that you also can take charge of your health.
My personal voyage in search of answers to the many questions I had led me to become an avid student of the ancient wisdom of health and happiness, as embodied by the world’s healthiest and longest living people. This book allows me to be an instrument of service, so that I can share the knowledge I gained in order to help you achieve optimal health and vitality – and maintain it, too!
After all, achieving optimal health – in both physical and mental well-being – is a primal human need.
Oh, no, not again , you might be thinking. Not another book on weight loss! Not another book on how to lose weight with low calorie recipes, when everyone believes (and knows) that eating less and exercising more is the secret to losing weight.
Well, the good news is it’s not. We all know that all those diet programs, from the Atkins to the Paleo diet to Nutrisystem to Weight Watchers all work temporarily, but then most people gain the weight back – or some just can’t sustain their new diet plan anymore. Nor have I written this book to profess the benefits of weight loss surgery. While surgery may be a suitable option for some (not all), the ideas presented in this book are not only a lot simpler to apply and wire… trust me, they are a lot less painful, than surgery, too!
Science is beginning to unveil another chapter in our understanding of weight loss. It appears that the magic bullet to health, longevity, and weight control naturally lies in your own gut – your microbiome, a scientific word for the kind and amount of bugs in your gut. And the influence these tiny bugs exert on our thoughts, cravings, and food choices is – maybe surprisingly – too strong to be ignored.
This is not hearsay, anymore!
The subject of gut health has been topical since the times of Hippocrates in 350BC. Interest in gut health has been re-ignited, however, since the recent discovery of the gut microbiome and the influence it exerts on our brain, our metabolism, and the immune system, to name only a few systems feeling its effects. Virtually every week, a new scientific study comes out on how our microbiome underlies not only weight control, but also disease, from cardiac to autoimmune, as well as our mental health issues, from depression to autism and schizophrenia. In fact, the volume of information on the gut microbiome is growing so huge now that you could nearly link any adversity in your life to your gut’s health.
So, as your gut goes, so will your life go.
This book will allow you to transition from theory to practice. While, so far, science on the subject of weight loss has been fascinating, let’s admit that it has also been very confusing. It would perhaps be safest to say that science in this space is evolving… and that is what forms the basis of evolution.
However, this book sets the foundation for a lifestyle where achieving and keeping a healthy weight is “practically” possible, and with no artificial diets or magic pills. The success mantra of this work rests on this one equation: Happy Gut = Healthy Weight .
So, put on your seatbelt and take this exciting journey with me to a new, vibrant, healthy, and naturally energetic life.

Melbourne
Dec, 2018 Dr Arun Dhir

“Ultimately the best use of a physician’s knowledge is to teach people how to heal themselves.”
- Dr. David Simon, MD
PREFACE
In his book , Happy Gut, Healthy Weight - Dr Arun Dhir has combined his many years as a gastro-intestinal clinician and bariatric surgeon, educator as well as keen student of lifestyle approaches with ancient wisdom and modern science. Many years in the making, this book now gives us a fresh approach to health and weight loss, with a specific focus on the microbiome. The microbiome is the collection of micro-organisms in and on our body, especially those in the large intestine.
Research into the microbiome is changing medicine. We now understand the importance of the microbiome as the central ‘engine’ of our bodies and brain’s health. Research has shown a connection between the gut bacteria and weight and obesity. We understand that in our complex human body, the gut microbiome regulates body functions. Too many of the bad bacteria, like parasites and yeasts and not enough of the good ones, like Lactobacillus or Bifidobacteria, can lead to serious health issues.
Just like us, our Microbiome too is in a constant state of change depending upon our lifestyle, diet, stresses, medications etc.
Until recently, issues surrounding weight loss have usually focused on diet and exercise. In this book Dr Dhir’s view on weight management diverges somewhat from the standard focus on specific diets and counting calories. He delves deeper into the recesses of our ‘gut’ to find the answers to losing weight and keeping it off.
The gut-weight link is explored in detail, as well as looking at important factors such as stress management. The focus therefore of this book is to look at a whole approach, starting with fixing the gut flora which extends to improvement i