Product Description

The Breakthrough Cleansing Program to Rid Your Body of the Toxins That Make You Sick, Tired, and Bloated

A groundbreaking plan to cleanse your system and revitalize your health.

In light of the recent food scares (E. coli in spinach and salmonella in peanut butter) and the rising incidence in illness from smartbugs, parasites, yeast, and hidden food sensitivities, award-winning author and detox diet expert Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., explains why we must now more than ever Fortify, Flush, and Feed our bodies from within.

In The Gut Flush Plan, Gittleman outlines a comprehensive plan to heal our bodies, lower our risk of infection, and revitalize our health.

In no nonsense and informative chapters, she reveals:
• what’s happening in your gut to create the internal
• environment that allows toxins to thrive in the first Place
• what to do about the deadly new infection that is antibiotic resistant and spreading in salons, schools, gyms, and hospitals
• how gluten and high levels of fructose and lactose can add to bacterial and yeast imbalances in the gut, further impacting Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Most important: Gittleman spells out the Gut Flush program’s key principles in what she calls the 21-Day Gut Flush Plan, which includes simple recipes, nutritional information and a sidebar tip for each day. In The Gut Flush Plan, Gittleman will set you on a life-changing program to detoxify your body, energize your metabolism into action, and begin your journey to healthy living.

• www.annlouise.com receives more than 100,000 hits per month
• Columnist for First for Women Magazine with a circulation of 1.5 million
• New York Times–bestselling author of Before the Change and The Fat Flush Plan

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4275 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

Review
“A must-read for anyone with gastrointestinal problems. Gittleman has done it again with a comprehensive, insightful, and easy-to-follow guide to optimal gut health.”
--Julian Whitaker, MD

About the Author
Ann Louise Gittleman is the award-winning author of more than twenty-five books on health and healing, including the New York Times bestsellers Before the Change and The Fat Flush Plan. Acknowledged as a health visionary, she has been seen on Dr. Phil, The View, Extra, Good Morning America, PBS, and CNN. Gittleman holds a Ph.D. in holistic nutrition and a master’s degree in nutrition education, and is a certified nutrition specialist.

Customer Reviews

HEALTHY GUT - HEALTHY BODY
Ann Louise Gittleman is one of nutrition's superstars. It is impossible to read anything she writes and not learn something that will cause you to change your eating habits for the better. Because of one of her books, I added zinc supplements to my vegetarian diet and immediately felt more energetic. Her new book, The Gut Flush Plan, is no exception to her library of important and useful books.

This book provides a 21-Day Gut Flush Plan, with daily menus, easy recipes, nutritional information, and shopping lists. The program is designed to detoxify your body; fortify your digestive system against pathogens; flush your digestive system of toxins, pathogens, and parasites; and feed you nourishing GI-building foods. The book emphasizes building healthy intestinal flora that may have been damaged by antibiotics, steroids, other medications, dietary habits, or illnesses. It also teaches you why yeast is an issue, gluten should be avoided, dairy (except yogurt and kefir) should be avoided, colon cleansing is helpful, probiotics are important, and fully digesting food is important. The book also reinforces and explains how gluten, fructose, and lactose (milk sugar) increase the growth of harmful bacteria and yeast in the gut. Another reminder for me is that ninety percent of food allergies and sensitivities come from the most common reaction-producing foods: wheat, milk, corn, unfermented soy, and peanuts.

The book's contents are:
Introduction: Food Fright
Part 1: Why You Need the Gut Flush Plan
1. You Can Fight Gut Grief
2. The GI's Good Guys: HCl, Probiotics, and Digestive Enzymes
3. Colon Corruptor #1: Yeast
4. Colon Corruptor #2: Parasites
5. Colon Corruptor #3: Superbugs
6. Colon Corruptor #4: Food Sensitivities
Part 2: How the Gut Flush Plan Works
7. Step 1: Fortify
8. Step 2: Flush
9. Step 3: Feed
Part 3: The 21-Day Gut Flush Plan
10. Getting Ready for the Gut Flush
11. Week One: Focus on Fortifying
12. Week Two: Focus on Flushing
13. Week Three: Focus on Feeding
Part 4: The Gut Flush Plan for Life
14. Gut Flush at Home
15. Gut Flush on the Road
16. Ensuring a Healthy Gut for Life
Appendix: The Gut Flush Recipes
Source Notes, Resources, Index

Whether it's a food you are allergic or sensitive to, yeast overgrowth, parasites, or some superbug, your body is being barraged by some enemy. This book will help you fight off any and all of these offenders and be healthier. Highly recommended! A great companion book is THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams.

Gut Flush is just what I need to move forward in a healthy way!
Ann Louis Gittleman's new book, 'Gut Flush Plan', is just what I needed to boost my health the next step. After almost 25 years with a chronic illness, a friend recommended her 'Fat Flush Plan' when I was unable to lose weight. That was over 3 years ago; I lost 70 pounds and have kept it off for 2 years. The Gut Flush Plan takes metabolic fitness to the next level for me, concentrating on the yeast connection and colon cleansing seems for me the key to building up a healthy intestinal flora damaged by years of repeated antibiotics, steroids, and other complications of chronic illness. I am looking forward to losing the next 70 pounds and moving forward with my life in a healthy way. The best thing about the author's books is that each is packed full of the latest information to help with not just the help to resolve problems, but also the keys to understanding what can build and maintain a healthy gut for life.

Feel great and get healthy!
As a long time "Fat Flusher" I always look forward to to Ann Louise Gittleman's new books. And Gut Flush is a winner! I really like the healthy, nutritious food in this plan. The recipes are easy and delicious! I have not missed NOT having foods with gluten as there are many OTHER delicious non gluten grains I can eat like quinoa, rice, millet and buckwheat. In fact by eliminating gluten and dairy my constant sinus congestion is GONE!

I highly recommend doing the stool test that Ann Louise recommends as it is a comprehensive test that will help you target exactly what colon corruptor track you will need to follow. Finding out that I have a yeast problem has helped me understand some of my symptoms like bloating, itchy skin, and sinus congestion. By following the protocols I have eliminated these problems altogether!

For those of you looking to 'get healthy' this is the program for you! Just by following the colon corruptor track that you have chosen you can eliminate yeast, parasites, super bugs and tame your food allergies!