Lose weight forever by helping your gut

I’ve already talked about Dr. Brenda Watson , whose book The Skinny Gut Diet was one of the first popular books “for the masses” to summarize the studies conducted on intestinal flora as a secret to weight loss (or as she writes, super secret).
The good news is that today this book has also arrived in Italy, with the title ” Lose weight forever by helping your gut ” (Newton Compton editor), and in this article I will try to talk about it between pros and cons, strengths and weaknesses. In general, it is a book that I recommend buying for a few reasons that I will later explain but which I consider important: the author, Brenda Watson, is a nutritionist who has dealt with digestive and weight problems for about twenty years. his patient

, and in this book he proposes a dietary and maintenance plan, with many recipes, to easily lose weight by acting on the bacterial flora, without counting the calories of food or paying too much attention to portions.
A long introduction concerns Dr. Gordon’s studies on intestinal bacterial flora, which established the big difference between overweight and thin people : the concentration of certain families of bacteria, Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes. Lean people, those we believe to have a lucky metabolism, have a higher concentration of Bacteroideteswhich allows not to assimilate all the calories of ingested foods; on the contrary, Firmicutes are very aggressive bacteria, which try to assimilate everything, especially foods rich in carbohydrates and unhealthy fats. The result? Whoever has more Firmicutes gets fat.
But how do you get more good bacteria and fewer bad bacteria? (continued on page two)