The mind-gut connection: how the hidden conversation within our bodies impacts our mood, our choices, and our overall health

Part 1 Our Body, the Intelligent Supercomputer --

Chapter 1 Mind-Body Connection Is Real 3 --

Chapter 2 How the Mind Communicates with the Gut 29 --

Chapter 3 How Your Gut Talks to Your Brain 51 --

Chapter 4 Microbe-Speak: A Key Component of the Gut-Brain Dialogue 75 --

Part 2 Intuition and Gut Feelings --

Chapter 5 Unhealthy Memories: The Effects of Early Life Experiences on the Gut-Brain Dialogue 107 --

Chapter 6 A New Understanding of Emotions 137 --

Chapter 7 Understanding Intuitive Decision Making 167 --

Part 3 How to Optimize Brain-Gut Health --

Chapter 8 Role of Food: Lessons from Hunter-Gatherers 197 --

Chapter 9 Onslaught of the North American Diet: What Evolution Did Not Foresee 225 --

Chapter 10 Simple Road Toward Wellness and Optimal Health 263.

Part 1. Our body, the intelligent supercomputer. The mind-body connection is real ; How the mind communicates with the gut ; How your gut talks to your brain ; Microbe-speak: a key component of the gut-brain dialogue

Part 2. Intuition and gut feelings. Unhealthy memories: the effects of early life experience on the gut-brain dialogue ; A new understanding of emotions ; Understanding intuitive decision making

Part 3. How to optimize brain-gut health. The role of food: lessons from hunter-gatherers ; The onslaught of the North American diet: what evolution did not foresee ; The simple road toward wellness and optimal health.