Publisher's Synopsis
We know that gut health is key to our wellbeing so it's high time we break the taboos and get familiar with our poo!
In Regular, digestive health expert and medical nutritionist Tamara Duker Freuman tackles this less than glamorous topic and teaches you all you need to know about your bowel health. Offering tailored solutions for the most common - and uncommon - issues, including irritable bowel syndrome, reflux and Coeliac disease, this book will guide readers to identify the specific cause of their irregularity and provide personalised solutions and tips, including:
-questions to take to your next doctor's visit
-an interactive quiz that will help you identify the quality of your stool
-tables and charts listing problematic foods and suggested alternatives
-sample menus, and more.
Whether you or a loved one suffers from chronic diarrhoea or constipation, Regular covers the most common causes of bowel irregularity with detailed descriptions of their presentations that a sufferer should recognise, including:
fructose, lactose, and sucrose intolerances
histamine intolerance
inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
malabsorptive conditions, such as bile acid malabsorption (BAM), celiac disease, pancreatic insufficiency, and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and
pelvic floor dysfunction
