Elizabeth Lipski - Digestive Wellness: Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion, Fifth Edition

Dr. Lipski is whip-smart and has years of experiences as a clinician and teacher. She comes from a strong evidence-based background, and also embraces traditional models of medicine, what we called nature-cure in my training. Most importantly, Liz is a heart-centered teacher whose warmth comes through in whatever medium you experience her. Youll want to learn from Liz, as will your patients.

Kara Fitzgerald, ND, IFMCP
Author of The Methylation Diet and Lifestyle and FxMed Podcast series.

Liz Lipskis fifth edition of Digestive Wellness is a must-have guide for the millions of Americans with gut-related illness. She continues to translate scientific advances into practical health solutions using natural approaches.

Gerard Mullin, MD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Senior Editor of Integrative Gastroenterology, Oxford University Press

Whilst a mystery to many, that the gut should hold the key to health and illness, Dr. Lipski puts it front and center in this masterpiece of connections and evidence. If you really want to understand how health is co-dependent on your digestive function, read this book!

Michael Ash, DO, ND, BSc, RNT
Managing Director, NutriLink

The health of our microbiome is now known to be at the center of chronic health challenges, digestive and otherwise. Dr. Liz Lipski is a beacon of hope and clarity when it comes to providing in-depth education and insights around GI health, microbial interactions and interventions, and techniques for effectively using food as medicine both personally and professionally. Digestive Wellness is a masterwork of the most up to date science and clinical pearls for the most important system in our body. I keep this invaluable resource at the top of my bookshelf and recommend that the clinicians I teach do so as well.

Andrea Nakayama, MSHNFM, FLNP, CNC, CNE
Founder of the Functional Nutrition Alliance

Liz Lipskis revised edition of Digestive Wellness details everything you need to know about the gut. If any health problems plague you, youll find solutions in this book because they all lead back to your digestive tract. This book is a must-read for literally everyone, but it should be required reading in all medical schools.

Donna Gates
Author of Body Ecology

Liz Lipskis most recent edition of Digestive Wellness is even better than its previous guide to the mysteries of the pay down the tunnel that begins at our lips.

Sidney Baker, MD, Sag Harbor, NY

Liz Lipski does it again with her new fifth edition of Digestive Wellness. She is a sought-after health expert and speaker, always bringing a wealth of practical wisdom to her students and as an author. I know many people will greatly benefit from the wisdom she shares on healing the digestive system.

Jill C. Carnahan, MD, ABIHM, ABoIM, IFMCP

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This book is dedicated to Barbara Lipski (my sister), Allison Holms (my daugher-in-law), and to the many other brave and generous living donors and families of the bereaved who have donated organs so that others may live.

by Mark Hyman, MD

D octors are trained to identify diseases by where they are located. If you have asthma, its considered a lung problem; if you have rheumatoid arthritis, it must be a joint problem; if you have acne, doctors see it as a skin problem; if you are overweight, you must have a metabolism problem; if you have allergies, immune imbalance is blamed. Doctors who understand health this way are both right and wrong. Sometimes the causes of your symptoms do have some relationship to their location, but thats far from the whole story.

As we come to understand disease in the twenty-first century, our old ways of defining illness based on symptoms and location in the body are not very useful. Instead, by understanding the origins of disease and the way in which the body operates as one whole, integrated ecosystem we now know that symptoms appearing in one area of the body may be caused by imbalances in an entirely different system. Everything is connected. The center of that connection is the gut. Nowhere are those connections made clearer, and nowhere will you find a better owners manual for your gut and how to keep it healthy, than in Dr. Lipskis updated edition of