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Clean Gut: The Breakthrough Plan for Eliminating the Root Cause of Disease and Revolutionizing Your Health Hardcover – Clean, April 30, 2013
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Print length256 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherHarperOne
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Publication dateApril 30, 2013
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Dimensions0.9 x 6.36 x 9.12 inches
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ISBN-109780062075864
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“Dr. Junger blesses us with his knowledge about our bodies and the root cause of disease. A powerful book and a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand our elaborate makeup.” -- Stacy Keibler
“Clean Gut is amazing. This comprehensive program fits perfectly with holistic, empirical and time-tested nutritional and spiritual methods for bringing the micro-biome, our internal micro-community, back onto our side to sustain a blissful life.” -- Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Buddhist studies, Columbia University, Co-Founder, Tibet House
“Compliments on your glowing skin and svelte figure are just frosting on the cake; your body’s natural healing abilities will be restored, insulin levels regulated, and your liver detoxified.” -- Vogue.com
“Clean Gut is absolutely fantastic! A perfect companion to Clean, it is a meaningful guide to a sustainable and durable lifestyle of health and happiness. Bravo.” -- Jeremy London, M.D., General Vascular, Thoracic, and Cardiovascular Surgeon, at Savannah Vascular and Cardiac Institute
“Dr. Junger is spot on with Clean Gut! The first step in healing yourself is healing your gut. If you or someone you know wants to achieve optimal health - this book is a must read.” -- Amy Myers, M.D., Founder & Medical Director of Austin UltraHealth
“Dr. Junger shows us the power we have on a day-to-day basis to strive to be the healthiest, most beautiful beings possible.” -- Donna Karan
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The New York Times bestselling author of Clean offers a groundbreaking program to eliminate minor and major health problems—from extra weight, chronic pain, and allergies to heart disease, inflammation, autoimmune disorders, and depression.
All of today's most diagnosed ailments can be traced back to an injured and irritated gut. The gut is an intricate and powerful system naturally designed to protect and heal the body every moment of every day. And yet for far too many of us this remarkable system is in disrepair, which leads to all kinds of health problems. We are sick and getting sicker. Chronic diseases are on the rise, and everyone we know seems to be suffering from something, getting tests done and taking over-the-counter or prescription medications. But we no longer have to be sick to get healthy. Dr. Alejandro Junger explains how instead of treating the symptoms as they arise, we can preemptively attack disease before it takes root in the gut.
No matter your current state of health, you will benefit from this program. We are all walking around with damaged guts, to different degrees suffering the consequences in our day-to-day and long-term health. The Clean Gut program will put an end to these everyday ailments, reverse chronic disease, and help you achieve true, long-lasting health.
About the Author
Alejandro Junger, M.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of Clean. Dr. Junger completed his training in internal medicine at New York University Downtown Hospital and his fellowship in cardiology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. In addition, after completing his medical training, Junger studied Eastern medicine in India. He lives in Los Angeles.
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- ASIN : 0062075861
- Publisher : HarperOne; 1st edition (April 30, 2013)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780062075864
- Item Weight : 14.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 0.9 x 6.36 x 9.12 inches
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What I don't like about the Kindle version is a lot MISSING CONTENT.
Amazon Kindle needs to seriously review the ebook and make it right for the readers and the credibility of the author.
Example: GRAINS cluding nonglulten grains (quinoa, rice, mil-you. Pay attention to changes . . . .
The missing information goes on like this so much that I'm requesting a refund and purchasing a printed copy.
Dr. Junger writes compellingly about the relationship between gut health and all kinds of physical issues, but even more intriguing, he presents good evidence that strain on the gut can be a major contributor to depression and lack of intuitive guidance, because when the gut is stressed, it goes into survival mode instead of performing the nice functions that can make life happier or easier for you.
My husband and I went on the 21-day cleanse. This is likely not going to be something for sissies. If you have a bad physical issue you are really wanting to fix or you are a highly motivated person seeking to take their health to the next level, this could do it for you. But let me warn you, it is tough. You are asked to give up a bunch of foods, take a bunch of supplements and then slowly reintroduce and test each one after 21 days. The results, if you make it that far, will surprise you.
I can't guarantee results are the same for everyone. I am sure they are not. But we lost 5-7 pounds without trying, and we aren't that overweight. We were exhausted the first few days, had cravings during the first couple weeks, and made it through the 21 days finally.
Besides losing weight easily, we found our fingernails were stronger and faster growing than ever before. I discovered secondarily (after researching on Google and following and intuitive hit of my husband's) that my stomach pain was lifelong gastritis, and that avoiding the enzymes avoided pain, but embracing them on a careful plan scrubbed my stomach clean and I no longer have the stomach aches that have plagued me for my whole life of 62 years. At least, I haven't had one in a week, and that's a long time for me to go without one. Even just fixing that was worth it to me.
Plus, we came out of the program not wanting to 'bad' foods we had been ingesting. We quit drinking wine and eating potato chips. We aren't buying chocolate and candies, though we never ate a lot of them. We just aren't drawn to them anymore. I never dreamed we would find it that easy.
I think you need to be pretty motivated to complete this program, but if you do, it can change your life. We will be doing it once a year from now on, as I know it is a good thing to do regularly. If you want to improve your health, improve your digestion. This is a great way to do it.
The info presented is a bit technical in the beginning - but the underlying principles are simply common sense and have shifted the way I think about eating. My hope is this book continues to inspire people to focus their priorities on feeding their families /friends the BEST food possible, instead of the current and sad trend to spend money on fads and technology and superficial self-indulgences that only decrease the long-term quality of human life.
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I did the original Clean Cleanse a while ago and recently did another, shorter one, where I considered this book. There are a number of flaws with this book, which is why I would recommend the original programme to anyone interested rather than this one.
The flaws are:
- Contradictory food advice/no proper explanation on certain foods:
There is no explanation in either books, why potatoes are bad for you. Most European /other language books/advice websites on the topic recommend cold potatoes, as the starch in it changes when it cools and is very beneficial for your gut. Both books simply "forbid" you to eat potatoes. No explanation or insight into why. More troubling, Clean Gut specifically includes eggs in many recipes, while at the same time listing them as one of the most frequent toxic triggers in the section on reintroducing food. So first you eat them almost every day (or every second day) and then you are to see at the end if they cause any problems?
There is also no explanation why suddenly brown rice - something of a staple food for these cleanses - is now in the "bad" list. I also felt that the explanation why most fruit is now banned was rather far-fetched, and the notion about "go easy on Quinoa" is somewhat laughable.
The new food also seems to be more focused on loosing weight. It tells you to only eat until you are 80% full. As if we had a gauge sticking out our mouths and could actually tell! If you however cut out all the potatoes, rice and quinoa, you will be very, very hungry and you will not be getting enough calories and fibres (unless you drink lots of shakes, I guess).
- Style:
The original CLEAN was very positive to read ("you can do this!", "your body is amazing!") and full of hope. This book is much gloomier ("all the things that are wrong with us"). It almost seems in parts as if this was ghost-written by a different person, or at least parts of it. This is also strengthened by the sudden use of Dr. Junger in the third person in chapter 7, when in other parts he always addresses himself as "I". There are number of idiosyncracies in style like this, and other parts of the book are clearly recycled from the first book. The worst part is the section on scope of the programme, which basically tells you that if you don't get better, than it is your fault/something worse is going on. For people who are anxious about their health/body, I would not recommend this book on this alone.
- Overly focused on America and on selling stuff:
The book is very US-centric and some things (water, food additives) don't apply to the UK. Quite a few recipes also use ingredients that you cannot easily find in the UK, but this is a minor gripe. What is more annyoing is that the list of recommended supplements has not only grown tremendously, but they are also so specialised that the book is clearly pushing you towards buying those supplements from the CLEAN programme company (which has their own website and sells in the US only). They don't say so out loud (although they recommend it), but the implication is clear. There's also a timetable on which day you should take which supplement. I couldn't help but wonder how much financial interest was behind the publication of a "new" and "improved" "breakthrough" programme.
In summary, I think the original CLEAN got most ideas and directions right (eat less in the evening, keep 12 hours between meals, eat healthy, don't overdo it and don't overworry), so I would recommend that book over this one every day! Living healthy is a long-term task, it is not something that you can fix quickly with a 21-day programme, and I think the first book emphasised that much more with a much more positive attitude.
I was desperate and I'm glad that I bought it to have on my shelf as well as an kindle edition.













