As a functional nutritionist, I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

In our world of poor soil, over-processed food, and immense stress, our guts are wrecked. And don't get me started on the pesticides! The majority of my clients are dealing with digestive dysfunction and a poor microbiome. What many don't realize is that if your gut is off, it leads to a plethora of health issues.

I'm not a fan of the four-week plan as there's never a blanket protocol to fix one's gut. Bio-individuality is key and hence, it's important to work with a clinician who can help navigate one's unique health concerns.

I think Super Gut is a great place for someone to start to begin to understand how and why our diet is important to our overall health.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

There are many books out now about improving your health, but Dr. Davis rises above the rest with his book Super Gut. As someone with a chronic autoimmune condition, I’m always trying to keep my gut health, and this book provides the information I need in a practical, understandable way. The recipes provided are great, and I’m looking forward to trying more of them.

I've had so many gut issues over the past few years. This book shows you how to get back on track and build the good bacteria that we all need to have a healthy gut! I highly recommend it since we all seem to eat unhealthy foods from time to time which messes up your gut!

Great reference! I have celiac and have often stated that SIBO is real and not an urban myth - that the food we eat is not healthy and we don't recognize our lack of balance. Liked the approach and recommendations - a good source.

In Super Gut, Dr. William Davis (of Wheat Belly fame) offers an interesting discussion of gut dysbiosis, including small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and small intestinal fungal overgrowth (SIFO). He writes in a lively manner that is easy to understand, although I thought the text was needlessly repetitive. I appreciated all of the peer-reviewed studies he cites, although I think he overstates his case at times.

He presents a four-week plan to heal your gut, as well as protocols to eliminate SIBO, SIFO, and H. pylori. He recommends a low-carb/high-fat (ketogenic) diet, which I don’t think is safe for everyone, so you should probably check with your personal doctor before attempting this program.

The book includes over 40 recipes, including yogurts made from specific strains of bacteria chosen for specific health benefits, other ferments, beverages, main dishes, and desserts. I haven’t had the chance to try any of his yogurts yet, but I am very curious to try them. I did try the Clove Green Tea, Matcha Strawberry Key Lime Smoothie, Yakisoba Noodles, and One-Minute Strawberry Ice Cream, which were all delicious. There are no photographs accompanying the recipes (at least not in the ARC I received), and no nutrition information is provided, which is frustrating if you are trying to track your carbs. TIP: I use a nutrition tracking app called Cronometer that gives me good estimates of carbohydrates and other nutritional content of my meals and beverages—it makes life much easier!

The back matter includes resources, healing protocols, and references.

While I’m not sold on all of Dr. Davis’s recommendations, I do think this book is a valuable contribution to the literature on gut health, and it’s worth checking out if you would like to improve your health.

I was provided an ARC through NetGalley that I volunteered to review.

For many years now I have been fascinated in the gut micro biome and it’s relation to mental health (and general health). Having suffered with mild depression and anxiety, I was seeking out non-pharmaceutical options for supporting my mental health and healing. As a health care practitioner and lactation consultant, I recognize the importance of the micro biome set out from birth and have come to understand that when we are in a state of imbalance, or dis-ease, our entire body suffers or does not perform as it should. This book provided further proof on this area of study and then continued on to describe how one might correct this vital imbalance (dysbiosis) through dietary changes. The author outlined the chronic illnesses prevalent today that more and more are being associated with poor gut health. The author provides concrete dietary examples, a discussion on probiotics and probiotics and ways to supplement our diets for better heal outcomes.

This book was very informative from a health standpoint and made good work of combining all the current research on gut health into a comprehensive guide for the user. I would recommend this book as a general health book and feel this topic area should be higher up within the preventative medicine topic area.

Thank you for the opportunity to review this eARC!

Ten years ago, the author of Super Gut published Wheat Belly. The book, which advocated restricting wheat, was a hit! I even followed its plan for years. So, I was excited to see he had written a new book.

Unfortunately, Super Gut is a disappointment. The new diet incorporates the Wheat Belly diet but is even more restrictive. Hard-to-source, expensive foods and supplements are suggested. I recommend skipping Super Gut and reading Wheat Belly instead. 2 stars.

Thanks to Hachette Books and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

Super Gut
by William Davis
Pub Date: February 1, 2022
Hachette
I have "gut" issues so I was really looking forward to reading this book. I was not able to gain much useful information from this book, unfortunately. I was disappointed in this book, so therefore I cannot recommend it at this time.
Thanks to Hatchette and NetGalley for the chance to read this ARC.
2 stars

This latest book by William Davis makes wide-ranging and far-reaching claims about the health impacts of an improved microbiome, including everything from improved memory to reduced wrinkles. Think of a health condition you would like to alter and Super Gut likely mentions it. This detracts from the book's credibility. Still, the book manages to be persuasive, pointing to Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), Small Intestinal Fungal Overgrowth (SIFO), and other conditions as the likely widely-suffered, under-diagnosed results of common poor nutrition. The book's basic claims seem sound and, again, persuasive. Truth be told, though it clearly over-promises, I can't stop thinking and talking about this book.

Another excellent resource from the author of Wheat Belly. Great advice for those of us who have digestion and gut issues. Davis incorporates a lot of science, fascinating information on how the evolution of food has impacted our health, steps to safely get back to having a healthy gut and a bonus of including recipes. A few simple takeaways I plan to adopt is to focus on shopping the perimeter of a grocery store and sticking to whole foods, probiotics and organics in order to strengthen my microbiome. 5 stars.

This book was just okay. I had high hopes for it but the 4-week plan was unclear and needed to have a better execution. Furthermore, living in Canada prevents us from getting a lot of ingredients listed to make your own yogurt, etc. and it’s an expensive journey. Worth it? Possibly. But I’m not willing to fork out the cash for all the equipment and hard-to-find ingredients. Not to mention, time consuming. There are some elements I will incorporate, including the Clove Green Tea, though. And I do love the recipe ideas at the end.

I want to thank NetGalley and Hachette for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Cutting edge advice for how to live a long and healthy life. This book will help you get on the right track

Dr. Davis has defined the proper way to eat and care for yourself in a healthy but simple way in a world of mixed messaging diets. I have followed his message do single ingredient eating for 10 years. Here he further examines the importance of gut/stomach health vs. modern day diets and eating. Davis is cutting edge and his success is sometimes overlooked but always on spot. Must read as all his previous works are too.

This is a comprehensive overview of how bacteria and fungi can impact the gut, causing conditions like small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). It includes options you can try yourself if you don't want to use antibiotics (or if you want to try other avenues first) and advice on how to keep the gut healthy AFTER the bad bacteria has been eradicated—an important step doctors often seem to ignore. There are also a bunch of recipes at the end, which I assume you are supposed to use after you are starting to feel better, because they include things like onions that are a huge no-no for me while I have IBS/SIBO symptoms.

I am a nutritionist and also personally have had many digestive issues, including SIBO, so when I learned about this new book from Dr. Davis, I was interested. It was an informative book about the microbiome and many of the issues that can be caused when it is out of balance. Many of the nutrient and diet suggestions Dr. Davis has are useful. I was particularly interested in the information about various probiotics and their uses. The only negative I have, is that I do not agree that SIBO should be self-diagnosed using the device he recommends. If a reader is having gut problems and suspects SIBO, they should se a qualified practitioner to be tested.
Otherwise I do recommend this book to learn more about the digestive tract (gut) and solutions to its problems.

Another ding! ding! ding! book from William Davis, MD. Yes… let’s get back to the root of our problems and quit treating medical issues with a blanket of antibiotics! This book was quite the eye opener for me and had me asking myself lots of questions. Why aren’t we treating certain medical issues differently? Why isn’t gut health discussed more in general?

Excellent book! Very easy to understand for someone without a medical background.

Fantastic! William Davis takes so many of the missing puzzle pieces relating to a healthy gut microbiome and fits them neatly into a plan of action that seems relatively simple to implement. Everything he brought out makes so much sense, and I look forward to trying numerous things from this book. Highly recommended for anyone with autoimmunity, inflammation, ‘mystery’ chronic illness, as well as common diseases and disorders.

A huge thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the opportunity to read and review this book.

I have dealt with digestive issues for over a decade. They have gotten significantly worse in the last 2 years after I contracted covid. Reading this book helped me better understand what is going on, come up with language to discuss with my doctors, and have easy practices I can follow at home. While I don't agree with everything he wrote, I do think there is a lot of value in understanding and properly feeding the microbiome.

The author believes microorganisms inhabiting our GI tracts affect our energy level, skin’s appearance, empathy for others and how fast we age. For the first fifty pages, the book felt like listening to a preacher trying to convert me. The ideas were interesting and worth considering but read like a long commercial. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC for an exchange for an honest review.

Very educational, a good read.