Gut Crisis

ROBERT KEITH WALLACE is a pioneering researcher on the physiology of consciousness. His work has inspired hundreds of studies on the benefits of meditation and other mind-body techniques, and his findings have been published in Science, American Journal of Physiology, and Scientific American. After receiving his BS in physics and his PhD in physiology from UCLA, he conducted postgraduate research at Harvard University.
Dr. Wallace established the first Maharishi Ayurveda clinics in America, in Fairfield, Iowa; Los Angeles, California; and Washington, DC. He is the director of one of the first master's degree programs in Maharishi Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine in the US.
He serves as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology and Health, Director of Research, and Trustee of Maharishi University of Management (MUM) in Fairfield, Iowa. The author of several books, Dr. Wallace has given hundreds of lectures on Maharishi Consciousness-Based education and health programs around the world. SAMANTHA WALLACE grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, and Long Lake, Quebec. She had a successful career as a model, appearing on the cover of Vogue and other magazines and worked with the great photographers of her time, notably Avedon and Penn.
In the summer of 1973, she began to practice Transcendental Meditation.
Devoted to her family and to her practice of meditation, Samantha helps write and edit her husband's books, and is presently finishing her own book.

authors’ note    ix

Introduction    xi

part 1: our hidden organ

Table Talk    1

Gut Feelings    9

Right From the Beginning     15

Antibiotics     21

Diet and Lifestyle     29

The Cloud Around You    37

The Business of Gut Bacteria    45

The Good, the Bad, and the Vile:

Part 1    51

The Good, the Bad, and the Vile:

Part 2    57

part 2: diseases

Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS    69

Inflammatory Bowel Disease or IBD    77

Brain Wiring    83

Heart Matters    93

Gut Imbalance Equals Dis-ease    99

part 3: how does our gut work?

The Gut Barrier     107

The Gut-Brain Axis    113

Leaky Gut Syndrome    119

Appetite    127

Epigenetics    135

Prebiotics    143

part 4: doc gut’s favorite books

The Brain Maker    151

The Microbiome Solution    159

The Plant Paradox     165

Gut and Psychology Syndrome     173

The Prime    183

Gut    191

I Contain Multitudes    199

Eat Dirt    209

Fat for Fuel    217

part 5: past and future

Traditional Medicine    227

The Future of Medicine    237

part 6: what you can do

Dr. Maggie    247

The Ayurvedic Approach    255

Know Your Gut     265

DHARMA Protocol – Your Roadmap to Health     273

Index