Overview
""Persuasive, impassioned... hopeful news [for those] suffering from functional bowel disease."" -- New York Times Book Review Dr. Gershon's groundbreaking book fills the gap between what you need to know--and what your doctor has time to tell you. 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Michael Gershon ,
Peter Berkrot
Publisher: HarperCollins
Imprint: HarperCollins
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9781982673727
ISBN 10: 1982673729
Publication Date: 02 July 2019
Audience:
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Persuasive, impassioned...Hopeful news [for those] suffering from functional bowel disease. -- New York Times Book Review An interesting treatise that records the rediscovery of the importance of the nervous system in the abdominal organs. -- Michael Camilleri, MD, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Mayo Foundation
"""An interesting treatise that records the rediscovery of the importance of the nervous system in the abdominal organs."" -- ""Michael Camilleri, MD, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Mayo Foundation"" ""Persuasive, impassioned...Hopeful news [for those] suffering from functional bowel disease."" -- ""New York Times Book Review"""
An interesting treatise that records the rediscovery of the importance of the nervous system in the abdominal organs. -- Michael Camilleri, MD, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Mayo Foundation Persuasive, impassioned...Hopeful news [for those] suffering from functional bowel disease. -- New York Times Book Review
Author Information
Michael D. Gershon M.D., is chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. Peter Berkrot, a forty-year veteran of stage and screen, has voiced over three hundred audiobook titles, winning Earphones Awards, a 2012 Audie Award nomination, and a 2016 Audie Award.
