I am kind of all over the place with this book. Gundry spends almost the entire book telling you why every kind of chemical, additive and wrong food is disastrous for your health (not really arguing with him) with piles and piles of footnotes and interesting information. I just wanted him to get to what I should eat, which he finally did at the end and it was like five pages and utterly depressing and confusing. If I were struggling with a devastating autoimmune illness I likely would dive into this. He is a medical doctor who uses this with impressive results on many patients. But I have spent decades having to live or cook gluten free, vegetarian, vegan, all natural, keto, dairy free, etc for my own health or to take care of loved ones (to great results I should say, having reversed serious illness and transformed our health multiple times so I am not saying I regret it) and I don’t have the energy to cut 90% of conventional foods out of my kitchen in another direction for a crap shoot.

I feel like this could have been so much better if he had focused more on how to eat enough of the foods that make our guts diverse and happy, plus information like these bacteria help mental health and here are foods that make them thrive, rather than just one long list at the end of things we should eat like buffalo milk and hundreds of things we can’t like zucchini or just about anything in the grocery store. Also, I think you need to live in his income bracket to afford this.

I read a digital copy of this book for review.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was a very well researched book. I learned a lot from reading it!

Great information for someone who is looking to start taking care of their gut, immune system and microbiome. Easy to understand and apply! Thank you NetGalley and Harper Wave for an ARC.

Although I feel like some of the restrictions and the intermittent fasting, Dr. Gundry proposes are questionable practices, the majority of the information in this book are backed by a number of studies. I would recommend this book to partrons with gut issues.