- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Health / Fitness
Full Description
Digestive Intelligence tells the fascinating story of how our digestive systems are the centre of our bodies' second brain and how we think and live our emotions via our stomachs.
Not surprising when you consider there is something equivalent to the size of a village football pitch hiding inside our bellies - that's the incredible magnitude of our digestive systems. Dr Matveikova answers the obvious questions: "How?" and "Why can this be so?" by explaining, in straight forward layman's language, that the digestive system contains more than one million neurones, identical to those in the brain and is responsible for producing 90% of the body's hormone, serotonin, the all-important hormone which makes us feel happy and full of wellbeing. It follows that, if our stomach is "out of sorts" we feel irritable and lacking in energy; and those feelings block our intellectual productivity, disorientate us and completely change our thought patterns and physical processes.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Yuyi Beringola
Preface
I. Your second brain
Curious facts about evolution
Out of control
Staying healthy and looking after yourself with complementary medicine is back in fashion Two-way emotional influence
The enormous hidden potential of your stomach
The digestive brain concept in Eastern philosophies
II. The virtues of the digestive system Are we hollow?
Digestive emotions
The T-bone steak and its journey
Is there such a think as a 'delicate' digestion?
III. Emotion and digestion. Irritable bowel syndrome Alternative treatments
Dietetic advice
Some practical hints
IV. A social taboo
V. The stomach
A short history
Anatomical and physicological cirtues
The 'witch's brew'
Emotions and the stomach
Stomach problems and complementary medicine
VI. The small intestine: a football pitch in your innards Strange names
Where does your cholesterol come from?
The intelligent 'customs' service
Leaky gut and what it leads to
VII. The colon and toxaemia
This is not a rubbish bag
The journey through your gut may be complicated Intestinal polyps
Brain activities and intestinal health
Auto-intoxication is a result of intestinal toxoaemia
VIII. Constipation. The ever-present shadow Personality and constipation
What is constipation?
The treatment
Laxatives Alternative advice Colon hydrotherapy
IX. Colon Hydrotherapy (CH): the MOT test for the body History of internal cleansing
CH nowadays
Colonic irrigation method
The MOT test for your body CH: General indications
CH: General contraindications CH and chronic disease
CH as an emotional link
X. Intestinal microflora: Myths and truths
What do we mean by intestinal microflora?
A whole world in our gut
How intestinal microflora is formed
Bacteria and their 'social classes'
Why are intestinal flora and their 'good'bacteria so essential and important in our lives? How do I know if my stomach had 'good' or 'bad' bacteria?
XI. Gastro-oesophagal reflux
Why do I have reflux?
Obesity, overweight, pregnancy, constipation, gases, flatulence What increases stomach acidity?
XII. The liver and the gall bladder
What causes bile retention and gall bladder problems? Cleansing and draining the liver
XIII. Ageing and digestion
Cellular ageing
Ageing is reversible
How to start your anti-ageing treatment Metabolic age
XIV. Breathing and digestion
Final comments
Bibliography
