Bridgette Shea

Cultivating Your Microbiome (eBook, ePUB)

Ayurvedic and Chinese Practices for a Healthy Gut and a Clear Mind

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A holistic guide to improving your gut flora for better physical and emotional health • Explores the influence of the gut microbiome and the mesentery on all other bodily systems, especially the brain and immune system • Explains the central role of the digestive system in Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine and how these systems treat the microbiome • Presents herbal remedies, acupuncture and acupressure techniques, and dietary methods to restore balance to your gut flora, including a microbiome reset In traditional medicine, such as Indian Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, the digestive system and microbiome are recognized as the foundation for good health. Our internal flora influences our immune system, brain function, hormonal balance, cravings, sleep, mood, inflammatory response, digestion, nutrient assimilation, and elimination. In this holistic guide to cultivating a healthy microbiome and managing gut health naturally, Bridgette Shea explores digestive functioning from the perspectives of both Western science and traditional medicine. She examines Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine principles on digestion and constitution types. She reveals how, in addition to describing what we now call the microbiome, traditional Chinese medicine also has long recognized the importance of an abdominal organ that modern science has only recently acknowledged: the mesentery, the tissues that connect and support the internal organs. Going beyond probiotics and prebiotics, the author presents practices from Ayurveda and Chinese medicine to reestablish balance in your internal microbiome, support the mesentery, improve digestion and elimination, and restore a clear mind and strong immune system. She explains how to read your symptoms, from brain fog and fatigue to congestion and stool quality, and offers herbal remedies, acupuncture and acupressure techniques, and dietary methods to improve your internal health, including a microbiome dietary reset. Revealing the diverse role that our inner microbial colonies play in keeping us happy and healthy, this book shows that by changing your microbiome, you can greatly improve your physical, emotional, and mental health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781620557815
• Artikelnr.: 58711243

Autorenporträt

Bridgette Shea, L.Ac., MAcOM, is an acupuncturist, Chinese medicine practitioner, and Ayurveda educator whose private practice is an integration of Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine. She writes and teaches workshops on Ayurveda, energy medicine, and healthy breathing. She lives with her family in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Fascinating World of Microbes
PART I
Modern Science Meets Ancient Wisdom
1 Everything but the Kitchen Sink
Exploring the Human Microbiome
2 The Kitchen Sink
Digestion and the Gastrointestinal Microbiome
3 Quite Simply, Poop
How It Looks, What It Means
4 Making Connections
Recognition of the Mesentery (Mo Yuan) and Interstitium (San Jiao) as
Organs
PART 2
Practices for Daily Living
5 Mind Your Microbiome
The True Meaning of Diet
6 Food for Vitalizing Mind and Body
General Guidelines for Health
7 Change Your Life, Change Your Microbiome
Restoring the Natural Intelligence of the Body
8 Dietary Reset Protocol
Eastern Practices for Internal Balance
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index