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Dr. Michael Gershon has devoted his career to understanding the human bowel (the stomach, esophagus, small intestine, and colon). His thirty years of research have led to an extraordinary rediscovery: nerve cells in the gut that act as a brain. This "second brain" can control our gut all by itself. Our two brains -- the one in our head and the one in our bowel -- must cooperate. If they do not, then there is chaos in the gut and misery in the head -- everything from "butterflies" to cramps, from diarrhea to constipation. Dr. Gershon's work has led to radical new understandings about a wide range of gastrointestinal problems including gastroenteritis, nervous stomach, and irritable bowel syndrome. "The Second Brain" represents a quantum leap in medical knowledge and is already benefiting patients whose symptoms were previously dismissed as neurotic or "it's all in your head."
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THOSE OF US WHO deal in science, even the most enlightened of us, have strong and objectionable tendency to hubris. Read the first page
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57 of 68 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book because I suffer from colitis and wanted to learn more about the mind-gut connection (i.e. how intestinal problems are related to mental problems and vice versa). This books claims to discuss this. But in fact it does not: it is a rather poor academic discussion of how scientists in the past have tended to overlook mind-gut connections, rather than discuss what those mind-gut connections might be. Moreover, the text is very densely written, and difficult to read. It doesn't really help people looking for solutions to health problems, and it doesn't really show how, or why (or by whom) medical progress in this area has been so slow. Poor all round.
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Michael Gershon is a delightful author because from his great depth of experience he can draw upon the fundamentals to explain what would otherwise be complex and in doing so open a vista of understanding that would otherwise be closed to the lay view
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This book is easy to read and understand, full of interesting information on how the gut works and howm it affects us.It addresses the gap that is often found when treating people, it's a little disapointing that scant reference is made to the heart brain, also the authors credentials could be displayed some where in the work. His style is also a little irritating at times as for me autobigraphical details are not of interest.
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