Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ

An extremely enjoyable journey of our body's digestion system. I don't pretend it's a comprehensive coverage of a sophisticated system in our complex body. It can't be. It's meant to be entertaining while still informative. That's the biggest risk I see with a book like this.

The book covers the digestion process right from the beginning when we eat the food. In fact, when we see the food or smell the food and up to when the the food is removed from our bodies. Along the way, it covers many related aspects such as immunity, allergies, and various chemicals such as cholesterol. It also talks about probiotics and prebiotics and how they help.

The author has taken special care to cite a scientific literature, but not to the extent of making the book boring to read. The primary purpose of the book seems to be to inform but not to excessively make it a scientific textbook. In that manner, this book is highly useful and as I mentioned before, highly entertaining and I can't think of a better book I have read in a long time.