Acknowledgments xi
Introduction Big, Bloated, and Bogged Down: Finding Your Gutbliss (and Mine, Too) xiii
PART 1 Digestion 101
1 What's Happening in There?
3(4)
2 The Voluptuous Venus Colon
7(4)
3 Traffic Jams on the GI Superhighway?
11(9)
4 Getting Regular
20(21)
PART 2 What's Gone Wrong in Your Gut?
5 Could It Be the Air You Swallow and the Gas You Pass?
41(9)
6 Trouble in the Microbiome?
50(16)
7 Uninvited Guests?
66(9)
8 What's Happening with Your Hormones?
75(9)
9 Was It Good for You? Sex and the Bloat
84(7)
10 Belly Fat or Bloated?
91(13)
11 Could It Be Celiac?
104(10)
12 Is There an Inflammation Connection?
114(8)
13 What About IBS?
122(16)
14 Could Your Gut Be Leaking?
138(6)
15 Too Sweet for Your Own Good?
144(8)
16 Potholes on the GI Superhighway: Dealing with Diverticulosis
152(10)
17 Of All the Gall: Bloating and Your Gallbladder
162(11)
18 Seriously Bloated
173(10)
PART 3 On the Path to Gutbliss
19 Eating Your Way to Gutbliss
183(10)
20 Drinking Your Way to Gutbliss
193(9)
21 On the Move Toward Gutbliss
202(7)
22 Beauty and the Bloat
209(14)
23 Ten Days to Gutbliss r
223(24)
Appendix: Gutbliss Recipes 247(26)
Index 273