Cultivating Your Microbiome by Shea, Bridgette -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Image Title Page Dedication Epigraph Acknowledgments Table of Contents Preface Introduction: The Fascinating World of Microbes Part 1. Modern Science Meets Ancient Wisdom

Chapter 1. Everything but the Kitchen Sink

The Skin You’re In The Mouth The Nose Knows Tricky Tonsils Eye of the Beholder Vagina Chronicles In the Womb and Beyond The Bladder Testes The Lungs

Chapter 2. The Kitchen Sink

The Mind’s Role in Digestion Taste’s Role in Digestion What Goes In—and How What Comes Out—and When

Chapter 3. Quite Simply, Poop

Poop as Medicine Poop Diagnosis in Eastern Medicine Metabolic Typing according to Poop Analysis Enterotypes Probiotics Biofilms Diversity and Disease

Chapter 4. Making Connections

Mesentery/Mo Yuan/Membrane Source Interstitium/San Jiao/Three Environments

Part 2. Practices for Daily Living

Chapter 5. Mind Your Microbiome

Musings on Diata How Does This All Play Out? Wisdom of the Sages

Chapter 6. Food for Vitalizing Mind and Body

Vitality and Circulation One Size Fits All, or Does It? What to Avoid and What to Eat Our Broken Connection to the Natural World

Chapter 7. Change Your Life, Change Your Microbiome

The Lung-Large Intestine-Skin Axis The Science of Cycles

Chapter 8. Dietary Reset Protocol

What It Entails The Body Detoxifies Itself Daily Schedule Metabolic Types and Food Choices Kitchari and Congee Reset Recap

Glossary Footnotes Endnotes Bibliography About the Author About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company Books of Related Interest Copyright & Permissions Index