What is The Good Gut Guide?

It’s NOT…
…a restaurant guide
…an index of plastic surgeons who specialise in tummy tucks
...an exercise guide to a flatter stomach or
…a guide on how to be brassy, bold and confident.

BUT….if you have an intestine, then this is the place for you.

The Good Gut Guide book gives sensible, practical, essential advice on how to look after your digestive system. It leads readers through the maze of gut-troubling symptoms, symptoms like:

• constipation and diarrhoea,
• abdominal pain and cramping,
• wind and bloating, bleeding,
• urgency and frequency,
• even embarrassing itching.

You don’t have to know what you’re suffering from to find The Good Gut Guide invaluable, but if you do, you may also find it becomes your best friend.

The Good Gut Guide can help you if you’re suffering from…

• Ulcerative Colitis
• Crohn’s Disease
• IBS
• Coeliac Disease
• Food Allergies and Food Intolerance
• Diverticulitis
• Bowel Cancer

But The Good Gut Guide is more than a medical text for sufferers of specific bowel problems. Statistically, you’re more likely to be killed by a donkey than not suffer with a gut problem at some stage in your life, whether it’s a case of simple constipation, piles or holiday tummy. Here are some of the other ‘everyday’ ailments that The Good Gut Guide offer comprehensive advice on:

• Constipation
• Diarrhoea
• Wind and Bloating
• Holiday Tummy
• Piles
• Threadworm (pinworm)
• How medicines can affect your guts
• How your lifestyle can affect your guts
• How your diet can affect your guts

Additionally, the gut is often affected by problems that lie outside of the gut – for example, thyroid problems often cause diarrhoea or constipation as one of their earlier symptoms. Because of this, The Good Gut Guide also looks at other medical disorders that cause gut symptoms. These include:

• Period problems
• Pregnancy
• Chlamydia
• Endometriosis
• Ovarian cysts
• Ovarian cancer
• Toxic Shock Syndrome
• Underactive thyroid (Hypothyroidism)
• Overactive thyroid (Hyperthyroidism, Graves’ Disease)

MEDICAL VERSUS COMPLEMENTARY?

The vast majority of health books tend to focus either on orthodox (Western) medicine, or on alternative and complementary therapies such as herbal medicine, homeopathy, herbalism, acupuncture, or even more exotic therapies like Ayurvedic medicine.

The Good Gut Guide breaks ground in that it covers both orthodox medicine and complementary therapies for all the ailments under discussion – as more and more people these days wish to know about everything that’s on offer to improve their health.

The Good Gut Guide also gives a wealth of self-help tips for readers – as the ability to take part in the treatment regime is both important and empowering. More and more people share the belief that responsibility for one’s body is ultimately the biggest motivator for keeping and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and sensible self-help is an important part of this.

But equally important is your relationship with your doctor…and the book also takes a good look at the way in which you can ask the best questions from, maintain the best relationships with and get the most appropriate treatment from, your doctor.

They say ‘mind over matter’ – and even if you don’t believe that your mood can alter the outcome of an illness, it IS true that your mind does matter. Chronic or serious illnesses, especially those that cause embarrassment, can affect your moods, and occasionally lead to depression. Lasting illnesses that require you to change your daily life can also mean that you encounter difficulties in coping, and there is a whole chapter of the book devoted to the person behind the illness, and how your illness may affect your routine, your ability to work and have fun, and even your relationships.

Lastly, there is a comprehensive resource section at the end of the book that refers to various help associations, support groups, medical sites and agencies and further reading. The Good Gut Guide aims to be a comprehensive source of information of all kinds, and this section will be regularly updated.

"A splendidly detailed book... it will be a life saver for a great many people" Claire Rayner

"An invaluable book for anyone with a bowel or digestive problem" Prof. R. John Nicholls, FRCS

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