Emeran Mayer Books
Emeran Mayer, MD, is a professor of medicine, physiology, and psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is a leading researcher in the field of brain-gut interactions and the author of several books on the microbiome and health.
Known for: The Gut-Immune Connection: How Understanding the Connection Between Food and Immunity Can Help Us Regain Our Health, The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health
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The Gut-Immune Connection: How Understanding the Connection Between Food and Immunity Can Help Us Regain Our Health
In this book, gastroenterologist Emeran Mayer explores the intricate relationship between the gut and the immune system, revealing how diet, stress, and lifestyle influence inflammation, disease, and ...
The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Emeran Mayer explores the complex and dynamic relationship between the brain and the gut. Drawing on decades of research, he reveals how the gut microbiome communicate...
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Understanding the Gut-Immune Axis
The gut is home to trillions of microorganisms, collectively known as the microbiome. These microbes are not foreign invaders—they are vital partners in our health. The intestinal lining forms the interface between what comes from the external world—our food, microbes, environmental particles—and ou...
From The Gut-Immune Connection: How Understanding the Connection Between Food and Immunity Can Help Us Regain Our Health
Early Life: Shaping Immunity from the Beginning
Our gut-immune fate begins far earlier than most realize. In the book, I trace how the mode of delivery—vaginal versus cesarean birth—determines the first microbial inhabitants of the newborn gut. Vaginally delivered infants inherit their mother’s natural microbiota, a foundation for balanced immune...
From The Gut-Immune Connection: How Understanding the Connection Between Food and Immunity Can Help Us Regain Our Health
The Brain-Gut Axis and the Hidden Anatomy of the Gut
The gut is astonishingly complex. Within its walls lies a vast neural network called the enteric nervous system—a dense web of approximately one hundred million neurons, rivaling the spinal cord in size. This intricate system runs from the esophagus to the rectum, orchestrating digestion, secretion,...
From The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health
The Microbiome: Your Invisible Inner World
One of the greatest scientific revelations of the past few decades has been the discovery of the human microbiome—the trillions of microorganisms that inhabit our gut and function as partners in maintaining life. For much of my career, I saw these microbes as mere bystanders, but advanced research m...
From The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health
About Emeran Mayer
Emeran Mayer, MD, is a professor of medicine, physiology, and psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is a leading researcher in the field of brain-gut interactions and the author of several books on the microbiome and health.
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