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Our Second Brain!: We Are and Feel What We Eat a Journey Into the Enteric Nervous System
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ISBN13: 9798189928215
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 30 2026
Pages: 372
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 30 2026
Pages: 372
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
BOOK DESCRIPTION Why do you get butterflies in your stomach and not in your knees? Clue: there's somebody down there doing some thinking.
More than a hundred million neurons live in your gut. They don't digest: they decide, they warn, they protest and - here's the unsettling part - they send the brain far more messages than they receive. You've spent your whole life with a second brain working away in the basement, and nobody ever introduced you.
More than a hundred million neurons live in your gut. They don't digest: they decide, they warn, they protest and - here's the unsettling part - they send the brain far more messages than they receive. You've spent your whole life with a second brain working away in the basement, and nobody ever introduced you.
If that throws you, you're on the right track. This is NOT a miracle-diet book. Nobody here will sell you a detox smoothie, a superfood list, or the promise that in twenty-one days you'll be a different person. What you'll find is serious popular science - neurogastroenterology, microbiota, the gut-brain axis - told in a way that won't send you to sleep. Five parts. Eighteen chapters. A journey inwards:
1. Understanding the second brain - What the enteric nervous system is, how it was discovered and why a good part of the body's serotonin is manufactured down there. The two plexuses, the vagus nerve and the microbiota that negotiates with you every day.
2. The hidden connection between gut and emotions - Why whatever goes unexpressed ferments. Chronic stress, cortisol, irritable bowel and the limiting beliefs that leave a digestive mark.
3. Feeding the second brain - Probiotics, prebiotics, fermented foods and tryptophan. What nourishes it, what damages it, and a four-week plan with real recipes: the author spent decades as a professional chef.
4. Practical techniques - Diaphragmatic breathing, vagus nerve stimulation, abdominal meditation, interoception, gentle movement and rest. Ten-minute routines, not two-hour ones.
5. The protective shield - Values, boundaries, morning and evening rituals, and the belly as centre in the Eastern view. Body, mind and mood in a single plan. What makes this book different? The how. Here the science travels in the company of a cast you'll find uncomfortably familiar: Viktor Lindström, a systems engineer who can calculate a satellite's trajectory but can't notice that his stomach has been shouting at him for three days; Mei-Lin, who does notice; Yumi Tanaka, who supplies the rigour; Iván Petrov, a cook who ferments sauerkraut like a goldsmith and then eats his dinner standing up, at odd hours, whatever he can grab. Humour disarms: when you laugh because you recognise yourself, the idea gets in before your brain raises its shields. And rigour where it matters. Every claim rests on verifiable sources, what is proven is kept apart from what is merely promising, and we don't know is said when we don't know. This book does not diagnose, does not cure and does not replace your doctor: it gives you the map to understand what your body has been trying to tell you for years.
Includes a probiotic recipe collection, a quick food guide, summarised daily routines, a glossary and a bibliography.
We don't promise to transform you in three weeks. We promise something rarer: that you'll finally understand what that feeling in your belly is telling you, and that you'll stop treating it as a breakdown.
Stop ignoring your second brain. It's been talking to you your whole life.
1. Understanding the second brain - What the enteric nervous system is, how it was discovered and why a good part of the body's serotonin is manufactured down there. The two plexuses, the vagus nerve and the microbiota that negotiates with you every day.
2. The hidden connection between gut and emotions - Why whatever goes unexpressed ferments. Chronic stress, cortisol, irritable bowel and the limiting beliefs that leave a digestive mark.
3. Feeding the second brain - Probiotics, prebiotics, fermented foods and tryptophan. What nourishes it, what damages it, and a four-week plan with real recipes: the author spent decades as a professional chef.
4. Practical techniques - Diaphragmatic breathing, vagus nerve stimulation, abdominal meditation, interoception, gentle movement and rest. Ten-minute routines, not two-hour ones.
5. The protective shield - Values, boundaries, morning and evening rituals, and the belly as centre in the Eastern view. Body, mind and mood in a single plan. What makes this book different? The how. Here the science travels in the company of a cast you'll find uncomfortably familiar: Viktor Lindström, a systems engineer who can calculate a satellite's trajectory but can't notice that his stomach has been shouting at him for three days; Mei-Lin, who does notice; Yumi Tanaka, who supplies the rigour; Iván Petrov, a cook who ferments sauerkraut like a goldsmith and then eats his dinner standing up, at odd hours, whatever he can grab. Humour disarms: when you laugh because you recognise yourself, the idea gets in before your brain raises its shields. And rigour where it matters. Every claim rests on verifiable sources, what is proven is kept apart from what is merely promising, and we don't know is said when we don't know. This book does not diagnose, does not cure and does not replace your doctor: it gives you the map to understand what your body has been trying to tell you for years.
Includes a probiotic recipe collection, a quick food guide, summarised daily routines, a glossary and a bibliography.
We don't promise to transform you in three weeks. We promise something rarer: that you'll finally understand what that feeling in your belly is telling you, and that you'll stop treating it as a breakdown.
Stop ignoring your second brain. It's been talking to you your whole life.
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