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A Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach and Intestine
Harper
December 1999
On Sale: December 1, 1999
336 pages ISBN: 0060930721 EAN: 9780060930721 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
Dr. Michael Gershon has devoted his career to
understanding the human bowel (the stomach, esophagus,
small intestine, and colon). His thirty years of research
have led to an extraordinary rediscovery: nerve cells in
the gut that act as a brain. This "second brain" can
control our gut all by itself. Our two brains -- the one
in our head and the one in our bowel -- must cooperate. If
they do not, then there is chaos in the gut and misery in
the head -- everything from "butterflies" to cramps, from
diarrhea to constipation. Dr. Gershon's work has led to
radical new understandings about a wide range of
gastrointestinal problems including gastroenteritis,
nervous stomach, and irritable bowel syndrome. The Second
Brain represents a quantum leap in medical knowledge and
is already benefiting patients whose symptoms were
previously dismissed as neurotic or "it's all in your
head."
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