The Skinny Gut Diet

Balance Your Digestive System for Permanent Weight Loss

By: Brenda Watson C.N.C., Leonard Smith M.D., Jamey Jones B.Sc.

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

The secret to permanent weight loss revealed. The real reason diets fail has nothing to do with calories and everything to do with the balance of bacteria in your gut. A simple guide to show you how to finally achieve your ideal weight.
The 100 trillion bacteria that live in your digestive tract—which make up 90 percent of the cells in your body—are the real reason you gain or lose weight. When those microbes are out of balance, chronic health conditions can occur, including irritable bowel syndrome, fatigue, and obesity. By balancing the good and bad bacteria, you can finally achieve your ideal weight—for good.
In The Skinny Gut Diet, New York Times bestselling author, public television icon, certified nutritional consultant, and digestive health expert Brenda Watson offers an insightful perspective on the little-known connection between weight gain and an underlying imbalance of bacteria in the gut, or what she calls the “gut factor”—the overlooked root cause of weight gain. Drawing upon the latest scientific research, Brenda illuminates the inner workings of the digestive system and provides instructions for achieving a healthy bacterial ecosystem that spurs weight loss by enabling the body to absorb fewer calories from food, experience reduced cravings, and store less fat. The premise is simple: curtail sugar consumption (and its surprising sources) and eat more healthy fats, living foods, and protein to balance the gut bacteria. The result? A skinny gut.
The Skinny Gut Diet centers around an easy-to-follow diet plan. A 14-day eating plan, dozens of delicious recipes and sage advice help you achieve—and maintain—digestive balance and sustained weight loss. With inspiring real-life stories of ten individuals who transformed their health on the Skinny Gut Diet, Brenda empowers you to become your own health advocate so that you can finally shed unwanted pounds and enjoy optimal health and vitality.

Critic reviews

"Nobody knows more about the Gut than Brenda Watson. She is one of my teachers. Her knowledge of how it works and how to eat will be transformative and reading The Skinny Gut Diet will be life changing."
--Suzanne Somers, New York Times bestselling author

"Author Brenda Watson has compiled an astoundingly comprehensive yet user-friendly guide to a promising health frontier: management of gut flora to achieve optimal health and weight. If you have been looking for a source for informed, insightful, real-world advice on participating in this explosive and exciting movement, Brenda's Skinny Gut Diet is destined to become the classic."
-- William Davis, MD, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Wheat Belly

"The Skinny Gut Diet opens the door to success not only in terms of weight loss, but more importantly, for giving the reader a user-friendly plan based on the most well-respected leading edge science that will clearly enhance your health and longevity."
-- David Perlmutter, MD, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Grain Brain

I'm going for it!

The narrator was a little slow but thank goodness we can speed it up on our devices. It was very informative and straight forward. Well worth the read. I'm going to give the diet a try and see how effective it is.

Useful but there are better reads on the subject

Slightly better than average diet book based on ideas contained, but that's not saying much. Includes the obligatory glowing testimonials from closely controlled victims and promotion of the authors supplement line. Could have been half as long. The short version is, eat a high fiber paleo diet, plus limited beans and unsweetened dairy, probiotics and soluble fiber supplements. As eating that much animal food is unethical and promotes cancer if you live longer than cave man, i.e. over 25, it doesn't work for me. Narrator sounds like a pseudo-snooty ice queen. If you like the typical, hopeful, its not your fault dear it's the system/genetics/etc., diet as self-help book tone, it's a useful way to get the information. Otherwise The Good Gut is a much more scientific, practical read promoting a healthier long term dietary solution.

The best low carb, weight loss book that works for me.

Easy to understand and very helpful. The best book for me on this topic .easy to follow the program and if one does it right, good results will follow.

Fascinating!

I selected this book mainly to learn more about the microbiome and health. I really enjoyed it and learned a great deal about how manipulating gut health via probiotics and other strategies impact weight and well-being! Surprising info on how gut microbes impact mood and anxiety! A must read! I actually decided to listen to this book after having great success with her Renew Life Probiotics...life changing!

Informative and repetitive

The book itself offers a lot of good solid information but was repetitive which was exacerbated by the narrator's voice.