Eat Dirt - Book Notes

The book is about how the gut is the center of our entire body, and how having a leaky gut has caused many of our current health problems.

🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

The book is about how the Gut is the center of your entire body.
The book talks about how modern society, with chemicals in the air and in our food, has ruined our guts.
The book promotes the idea that holistic health is a medicine that we've gotten away from and how going away from our ancient medicinal practices has damaged our gut and digestive systems.

The book is amazing.
It's so easy to read, and Dr. Axe makes it so easy to see the harmful side effects this modern world is having on our gut and microbiome.
It definitely can leave you feeling scared of everything you put into your body, no fault of his own, but you just realize while reading it that everything we've been putting into our body has been destroying our gut lining for years.
I love that he provides very easy actionable steps to take to heal our gut and everything around us
He gives us a general diet plan to get our gut back on track, and specific ones to help with certain types of guts, like Stressed Gut and such

A friend recommended the book to me.

Everyone should read it, it will literally change LIVES!

💡 How my life / behaviour / thoughts / ideas have changed as a result of reading the book.

This book has made me more conscious of what I'm putting into my body. I pay attention to what's on the labels, what ingredients to stay away from, and how those bad ingredients can affect my body
In the past, I've known that things like sugar and too much gluten are bad for your body, but I never understood the impact they can have. By reading this book, I have a much better idea of how harmful those things can be in excess.
This book has made me much more open to holistic health when it comes to taking certain herbs, using essential oils to clean the house, and all these other things. In the past, I've known that food is medicine, but I'd been skeptical about adopting it because I still believed in modern medicine. This book has shown me that a lot of the antibodies and stuff modern society has taught us about health is wrong, and that we need to get back to our ancestral roots to heal ourselves.