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True Wellness For Your Gut Catherine Jeane Kurosu

True Wellness For Your Gut By Catherine Jeane Kurosu

True Wellness For Your Gut by Catherine Jeane Kurosu


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True Wellness For Your Gut: Combine the Best of Western and Eastern Medicine for Optimal Digestive and Metabolic Health by Catherine Jeane Kurosu

Combines the best that Eastern and Western medicine can offer in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of digestive conditions, diabetes, and obesity. All the while, boosting your immune system!

True Wellness for Your Gut combines the best that Eastern and Western medicine have to offer in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of gastrointestinal disease, diabetes, and obesity. By blending modern research with ancient practices, this book will help readers stay positive and keep motivated along their journey toward better health and overall well-being.

The authors have helped thousands of people through the use of surgery, pharmaceuticals, acupuncture, herbs, qigong, tai chi, meditation, and life-style counseling. They explain how Western medicine has substantiated a long-held understanding of the gut held by Eastern medicine - that digestive health significantly impacts and is impacted by sleep, emotions, movement, food, and social support.

The authors discuss how sleep, exercise, nutritious food, stress management, acupuncture, and qigong favorably impact the gastrointestinal system. These modalities restore balance in the nerves, hormones, and neurotransmitters that improve digestion and metabolism. A special section is devoted to discussing the human gut microbiome, the bacteria we harbor in our intestines, and how the microbiome is essential to our health.

  • Drs. Kuhn and Kurosu strongly recommend a collaborative approach, encouraging readers to engage with their Western healthcare providers so that serious conditions can be addressed safely.
  • The authors share ideas about how the reader can create a multidisciplinary care team, involving practitioners of both Eastern and Western healing systems.
  • The science behind meditation, acupuncture, and qigong are explained.
  • Understand how the microbiome is essential to good health.
  • Readers are offered recommendations of proven Eastern and Western therapeutic interventions that will calm the mind, decrease stress, improve sleep and nutrition, strengthen digestion, and normalize metabolism.
  • True Wellness for Your Gut includes a step-by-step guide and qigong exercises designed to promote overall gastrointestinal health.

The authors recognize that digestive disease is complex and requires a multifaceted approach for successful treatment. By blending the ancient wisdom of Eastern Medicine with cutting-edge Western discoveries, True Wellness for Your Gut will help readers stay positive and achieve optimal health, whether through prevention or treatment of digestives conditions, diabetes, and obesity.

True Wellness For Your Gut Reviews

Hippocrates famously stated, All disease begins in the gut. And, as it relates to the number one causes of death on our planet, chronic degenerative conditions like diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, obesity and coronary artery disease, what goes on in the gut has wide reaching and even existential implications. As such, we welcome True Wellness for Your Gut as it provides profoundly insightful and actionable information that may well serve to be transformative in charting the reader's health destiny.

-David Perlmutter, MD, author, New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain and Brain Wash

I recently had the pleasure of reading True Wellness for Your Gut and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it. As a board-certified gastroenterologist, I found the chapters involving the anatomy and physiology of the digestive system to be very detailed and well-researched, yet concise, logically presented, and easy to understand. Not only was it an excellent review of some of the basics for me, it also allowed me to expand my knowledge in the field of gastroenterology. I found of particular value The Human Microbiome and Balancing the Gut-Brain-Microbiome Axis sections of chapter 3, which examine some of the most up-to-date principles of the human gut microbiota. As our knowledge of this exciting and rapidly evolving field grows, I believe it will fundamentally change how doctors and their patients approach digestive health. Furthermore, as a physician trained almost exclusively in the principles of Western medicine, I learned a great deal about how Eastern and Western medicine can complement one another. In short, without reservation I would recommend this book to anyone with a desire to improve not only their digestive well-being, but their overall health as well.

-James D. Panetta, DO, Board Certified Gastroenterologist

At no other time in our history has taking responsibility for our health and wellness been more imperative. Science has now shown that diet, lifestyle and stress play an integral part in the support of our immune systems and therefore our health. Myriad health issues begin with poor dietary and lifestyle habits that lead to dysfunction of the digestive system and dysregulation of our immune function. The old adage...you are what you eat rings true. True Wellness for Your Gut combines the most current discoveries of Western medicine with the ancient healing wisdom and practices of Eastern medicine to address digestive related disease. It provides an easy to follow guide to proper nutrition, stress management and overall health and wellness.

-Alice Newton, National Board-Certified Licensed Acupuncture Physician


An informative guide to digestive health that draws on concepts from modern and traditional medicine from around the world.

Following up on their previous book, True Wellness: How To Combine the Best of Western and Eastern Medicine for Optimal Health (2019), medical doctors Kurosu and Kuhn aim to bridge the gap between ancient and modern health principles in this self-help guide, which offers helpful approaches to readers struggling with digestive issues or with maintaining a healthy weight. It starts with a general overview of the philosophies behind Western and Eastern medicine (Kuhn received medical training in China and Korusu, in North America) and then walks readers through an in-depth analysis of the human digestive system, including common digestive and metabolic illnesses such as peptic ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, and celiac disease. After that, the chapters shift to healing methods and strategies that readers may implement on their own, such as dietary restrictions or the use of Chinese herbal supplements. The authors make it clear that they wrote the book to give sufferers clarity about the origins of their problems, but they also encourage them to reflect upon their lifestyles-and, specifically, whether they're pushing themselves too hard at work and at home, as stress can be a worsening factor. There are helpful, uncredited illustrations throughout; a chapter on qi gong practices for gut healing offers several detailed images to help readers understand its physical movements. The authors' writing style is warm and inviting, and they effectively get their points across without relying on complex jargon or a preachy tone. What's most striking about the book, however, is how it demonstrates the benefits of holistic medicine when combined with lifestyle changes and how it explains how a single aspect of digestive well-being can affect other areas of one's health.

A valuable and wide-ranging wellness resource.

-Kirkus Reviews

About Catherine Jeane Kurosu

Catherine Kurosu, MD, LAc, graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine in 1990 and a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology in 1995. In 2006, she became a diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. 2009, she was certified as a medical acupuncturist through the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Helms Medical Institute. Dr. Kurosu is a diplomate of the American Board of Medical Acupuncture. She has a master of science in Oriental medicine, from the Institute of Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Honolulu. 2015, she became a licensed acupuncturist. 2018 she became a diplomate in Oriental medicine through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Dr. Kurosu lives on O'ahu with her husband, and daughter, where she practices integrative medicine, blending Western and Eastern approaches to patient care. Aihan Kuhn, CMD, OBT, graduated from Hunan Medical University in China in 1982. Since 1992 has focused on holistic healing. In her practice, she has accumulated much success with holistic medicine patient care and education work. Her patients benefit from self-improvement with physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being, as well as special exercises to enable them to participate in their own healing. She incorporates tai chi and qigong into healing methodologies, changing the lives of those who have struggled for many years with little relief from conventional medicine. Dr. Kuhn offers wellness programs, natural healing workshops, and professional training programs. These highly rated programs have produced many quality teachers and therapists. She is president of the Tai Chi and Qi Gong Healing Institute a nonprofit that promotes natural healing and prevention. Dr. Aihan Kuhn lives with her husband in Sarasota, Florida.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1: The Gut - An East/West Perspective

  • A Brief History of the Gut
  • The History and Philosophy of Western Medicine
  • The History and Philosophy of Eastern Medicine
  • The Science behind Eastern Healing Modalities
  • Western Health-Care Providers and Eastern Medicine

Chapter 2: The Gastrointestinal System in Health and Disease

  • Understanding Our Digestive System
  • The Human Microbiome
  • The Second Brain (or The Gut Brain Axis)
  • How Chronic Inflammation Affects Digestion and Metabolism
  • How Sleep Affects the Gut and Vice Versa
  • Common Digestive and Metabolic Illnesses
  • Gastrointestinal Problems
  • Diabetes
  • Obesity

Chapter 3: The True Wellness Approach to Gastrointestinal Problems

Chapter 4: The True Wellness Approach to Diabetes

Chapter 5: The True Wellness Approach to Obesity

Chapter 6: Qigong for The Gut

  • Benefits of Qigong
  • Qigong for Healing and Prevention of Gastrointestinal Diseases

Chapter 7: General Principles of Self-Healing

  • The True Wellness Checklist

Conclusion

  • Appendix A - Elimination Diet
  • Appendix B - Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load
  • Acknowledgments
  • Recommended Reading and Resources
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • About the Authors
  • Additional information

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    9781594397455
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    True Wellness For Your Gut: Combine the Best of Western and Eastern Medicine for Optimal Digestive and Metabolic Health by Catherine Jeane Kurosu
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    20201112
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