Do you often feel exhausted and negative? Do you spend your days feeling tired and wired? Your nights unable to fall asleep easily, or without a drink? Do you wake up anxious and stressed and in need a coffee to get going? Do you forget what you were doing, forget people’s names and where you put things? Is your mental acuity and memory slipping? Are you concerned about your memory or mental wellbeing?

Something depressing is happen to humanity, and possibly even you. Our brains are degenerating and – in parallel – we’re seeing a worrying increase in mental illness across the world. Rates of anxiety, depression, dementia, ADHD and autism are all increasing at an alarming rate across the globe. According to the World Health Organisation, our declining brain health is the greatest threat we face – more than cancer, diabetes or obesity.

Individually and collectively,though, we can optimise our brain health and cognitive function – to improve mood, memory, stress resilience, sleep and ability to focus. How? By understanding the powerful effects that nutrition and other holistic lifestyle factors can have on our brains. In Upgrade Your Brain, bestselling author Patrick Holford will draw on his 40 years’ of expertise – as well as countless experts from around the world – to teach us all how to reverse the tide.

If you have digestive issues such as bloating, indigestion or heartburn after meals, or tend towards constipation or IBS – or you simply don’t feel energised by your food – Improve Your Digestion will show you how to tune up your gut. It offers an easy-to-follow road map that will help you achieve perfect digestion, absorption and elimination, which means you’ll experience better health and disease resilience, and a new level of vitality.

Improve Your Digestion unravels the complex workings of the digestive system, explaining why it is now being called the second brain, and why having healthy gut microbes is so vital.
Fascinating and practical, this comprehensive guide to our most underrated organ explains how to:

· Banish bloating and constipation
· End indigestion and heartburn without drugs
· Identify and reverse hidden food intolerances
· Solve IBS and inflammatory bowel disease
· Conquer candidiasis and other gut infections
· Restore healthy digestion with foods that heal
· Balance your gut bacteria and make your own probiotics
· Build your resilience to stress – a crucial factor in achieving good digestion

Improve Your Digestion also includes an action plan for a healthy gut, as well as tips for self-diagnosing which digestive supplements you may need and when. You’ll learn which foods are digestion-friendly and discover the art of Gutstronomy – how to prepare delicious, gut-friendly breakfasts, main meals and snacks, guided by kitchen wizard Fiona McDonald Joyce.

Make your gut your friend and it will reward you with better health.

Based on scientific research and written by one of the world’s leading nutrition experts, this book is a must if you care about your health.