The Personalized Diet

The Pioneering Program to Lose Weight and Prevent Disease

By: Eran Segal PhD PhD, Eran Elinav MD PhD MD PhD, Eve Adamson

Narrated by: James Edward Thomas

A paradigm-shifting diet book that explains why one-size-fits-all diets don't work and helps readers customize their diet to lose weight and improve health.

There are certain things we take as universal truths when it comes to dieting and health: kale is good; ice cream is bad. Until now. When Drs. Segal and Elinav published their groundbreaking research on personalized nutrition, it created a media frenzy. They had proved that individuals react differently to the same foods-a food that might be healthy for one person is unhealthy for another. In one stroke, they made all universal diet programs obsolete. The Personalized Diet helps readers understand the fascinating science behind their work, gives them the tools to create an individualized diet and lifestyle plan (based on their reactions to favorite foods) and puts them on the path to losing weight, feeling good, and preventing disease by eating in the way that's right for them.

Good, solid science based information

Good information. The authors should consider going on the Joe Rogan Podcast, where I first heard of this research. I love the book, in spite of the narrator. I wish they got someone with a nice voice like Cynthia Holloway to read it.

possibly life changing info

Science based nutritional information presented in a clear and easy to understand message. Not an infomercial.

the future is here

I await my microbiome test from day two and also from viome. I have also completed my 30x full genome test from dante labs. their reports add up to 500 pages. so continue your work so that I can leverage their information into action

2017

Published five years ago but extremely relevant today and possibly indefinitely. The narration is well balanced.

Warning: Accompanying PDF is incomplete!

I used a credit for this book and about halfway through listening to it I noticed that things referred to in the book as being in the Accompanying PDF or Supplemental PDF were missing. I contacted Audible customer support and was told that this was the PDF they received from the publisher and they had even escalated the issue with the publisher and the authors/publishers never responded. I was curious how I could have discovered such an issue in a book from 2017 that was never resolved and found another review from May 2021 raising the same issue.

So if you are thinking about purchasing this book in audio format, just realize the Accompanying PDF is incomplete.

Things I noticed that were missing include:
The 2 example sample diets (you can actually see these in the TEDx talk: "What is the best diet for humans?" by Eran Segal (one of the authors) and this TEDx talk was what led me to this book incidently.
The worksheets for testing your blood glucose response for all your meals for 7 days.
The common carb substitutions list.

Probably more things are missing, these are the few I recall. Essentially every time they tell you to refer to the PDF after about Chapter 7 or 8 or so is just missing.