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The instant New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher's Weekly bestseller

A bold new plant-based plan that challenges popular keto and paleo diets, from an award-winning gastroenterologist.

The benefits of restrictive diets like paleo and keto have been touted for more than a decade, but as renowned gastroenterologist Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, or "Dr. B," illuminates in this groundbreaking book, the explosion of studies on the microbiome makes it abundantly clear that elimination diets are in fact hazardous to our health. What studies clearly now show--and what Dr. B preaches with his patients--is that gut health is the key to boosting our metabolism, balancing our hormones, and taming the inflammation that causes a host of diseases. And the scientifically proven way to fuel our guts is with dietary fiber from an abundant variety of colorful plants.

Forget about the fiber your grandmother used to take--the cutting-edge science on fiber is incredibly exciting. As Dr. B explains, fiber energizes our gut microbes to create powerhouse postbiotics called short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) that are essential to our health. SCFAs are scientifically proven to promote weight loss, repair leaky gut, strengthen the microbiome, optimize the immune system, reduce food sensitivities, lower cholesterol, reverse type 2 diabetes, improve brain function, and even prevent cancer. Restrictive fad diets starve the gut of the critical fiber we need, weaken the microbes, and make our system vulnerable.

As a former junk-food junkie, Dr. B knows firsthand the power of fiber to dramatically transform our health. The good news is that our guts can be trained. Fiber-rich, real foods--with fruits, vegetables, whole grains, seeds, nuts, and legumes--start working quickly and maintain your long-term health, promote weight loss, and allow you to thrive and feel great from the inside out.

With a 28-day jumpstart program with menus and more than 65 recipes, along with essential advice on food sensitivities, Fiber Fueled offers the blueprint to start turbocharging your gut for lifelong health today.

From the Publisher

Fiber Fueled is so much more than a health book. It’s a step-by-step methodology to stop the misinformation madness caused by the diet industry, and show you the simple, science-backed process for a lifestyle that is effortless, sustainable, and above all else it transforms your health by optimizing your gut microbiome.

Inside the four-week Fiber Fueled journey, you’ll find the revolutionary, first of its kind guide to plant-based gut health. Dr. B. shares the special connection between fiber and our gut microbiome, and how eating an abundant variety of colorful fruits and vegetables can help you improve your health.

With over 70 plant-fueled recipes, detailed shopping lists, and key lifestyle changes that will help you heal your gut without even lifting a fork, Fiber Fueled will allow you to thrive and feel great from the inside out.

Take the road to better health

Lose weight and boost your metabolism

Feel your best with “lifestyle medicine”

Will Bulsiewicz, MD MSCI, (a.k.a. Dr. B) is a board certified gastroenterologist and gut health expert. Every day, he helps patients and members of his #plantfed community bounce back from restrictive and over-hyped diets, and into a whole new way of living and eating that produces the results they really want…permanently. At the core of his philosophy is what he calls “lifestyle medicine,” that uses food, exercise, and other lifestyle factors to optimize your gut, get you back in control of your health. Through Fiber Fueled and his free tools, Dr. B breaks it down for you, piece by digestible piece, so you can take the simple steps that will help you create incredible shifts in your digestion, symptoms, and life.

Optimize your immune system

Reverse food sensitivities

Turbocharge your gut with over 70 plant-fueled recipes

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Avery (May 12, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 059308456X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593084564
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 5 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.31 x 1.3 x 9.33 inches
Reviewer: bsert
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful book but mediocre meal plan
Review: Dr B provides a ton of valuable information and makes it easily understood. I flew through this book and feel so much better about what I need to eat to make myself feel my best. I recommend this book to everyone I know. I gave this book 5 stars for his part in the book but was not a fan of the 4 week meal plan for a few reasons:1. The meal prep in some weeks is just not doable for a working person. I am currently not working so I had the time and I was nonstop cooking for 3 days straight for the first weeks prep. It just wasn’t manageable and the quick fix options still required a significant amount of prep since you had to use items that took a lot of prep (e.g., had to use the dip that took over an hour of prep for the sandwich).2. The meal plan was not laid out easily to follow. You really had to read the entire meal plan for the week ahead of time. Week 2 lunch would sometimes be leftovers from a week 1 dinner? This was frustrating because I had either finished the leftovers or thrown them away before the next week even started. The leftover days would always be 2-3 days after they were cooked and this was a continuous cycle each week. I wish it was laid out so you just had your dinner leftovers for the next day lunch instead of stuffing your fridge with tons of leftovers and having some of them going bad.3. The grocery list was incorrect for the items needed. Each week I had to go to the grocery to buy additional recipe items not listed in the grocery list AND I threw away food that I was told to buy that was not used.4. The recipes would call for already prepped items even though the grocery list said to buy fresh. It was frustrating getting ready to make lunch and then realizing this is going to take an extra hour because even though they said to buy 2 beets, the recipe now says 2 steamed beets. Either these steps need to be included in the recipe or the already prepped items needed to be listed in the grocery list.5. Some meals I was unable to cook because prep took too long. I went to go cook the sunflower sandwich and the first step was soak the sunflower seeds in water for 24 HOURS. This should have been listed in the prep for the week.6. Some meals were sooooo bland. My husband NEVER complains of my cooking but he was miserable for most dinners and this was me adding 5x the amount of spices. A lot of recipes would call for only 1/2 teaspoon total of spices (usually only salt and pepper) for an entire 4 person meal!! Now I’m not sure if this was done intentionally to help prevent gut sensitivities to spices but nothing was stated that that’s why. Now some of the recipes were really great and I don’t want to make it sound like they were all terrible but most dinners were very bland despite me adding way more spices than called for.7. Sometimes the grocery list would add all the items for 7 days worth of desserts and sometimes they would forget to add items for the full week of snacks/desserts. I had 7 days worth of lemons for a dessert but no cucumbers for the dip. Overall the grocery lists were poorly done and were not checked over.8. It seemed like the fresher the item the later in the week it was used. By the time I would get to some recipes my items were moldy or wilted. Wish it was planned out to have the items that spoil quickly in the beginning.By week 3 I went through each recipe and made my own grocery list to make sure it was accurate as well as read every single recipe to know what to expect and plan for any items that needed to be prepped in advance that weren’t listed. I also went through and rearranged the meals to make for a more realistic week of eating and not risking leftovers or produce to spoil. This should not be needed for a meal plan. I definitely recommend doing the meal plan and I feel wonderful after the 4 weeks. However just read every recipe in advance and make your own grocery list to make it efficient. It will take A LOT of prep and time so be prepared.Overall I took a lot away from the book and learned to like some new foods from the meal plan which is why I give it 5 stars despite all the issues with the meal plan. I really look forward to a second book but I hope Dr. B has the RD team up with a chef for the recipes.

Reviewer: AvidReader
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This is very new information!
Review: I loved this book, but I teach wellness courses and it ticks a lot of boxes for me, the most important being that it is backed by recent science. Let me explain what I think about the book for other readers:1. It gives you the science behind the recommendations. You may want to skip right to the recommendations, if you don't want to learn the "whys." If you're a science geek, or you have one of the lifestyle diseases the author discusses, read the beginning.2. If you are already sure your current lifestyle is the best for you, this may not be the book for you. As the author says, we are each individual and you may have already determined what your lifestyle should look like. But if you are feeling less than your very best every day, give this book a shot. Go in with an open mind. This stuff is new knowledge--within the last 5 years, in most cases--so you are unlikely to have heard about it when you were in high school. Or college, unless you're a student in the health sciences right now.3. The food recommendations should be used as a guideline, not as a "you must eat this and only this" set of rules, in my opinion. Personally, I am not going to get up and cook a bunch of stuff for breakfast, but I will use some of the more "put these foods together for your meal" suggestions. Please don't get bogged down in whether you think you will like a specific recipe. The author is trying to help you out, but you can adapt the meal plan as long as you adhere to its principles and still find your health improving.4. There's more to health than your weight, and this book is about that--although you may find yourself losing weight along the way. And the author will tell you why it will happen.Was there anything about the book I didn't like? Yup. Because of the high cost of publishing books, authors have taken to stashing their references elsewhere, like on a website. This author did not cite the sources at all in the body of the work (a no-no for me) and did not make an easily-accessible, searchable website, but instead provided a downloadable .pdf document. I am still trying to figure out how to ensure that I have the right journal article in any given reference without reading all 600 of them. Bad.When I started reading, I was afraid it was going to be a diet book template: here's the premise which only I, the author, know about; here's the testimonial from some person who benefitted from it; here's what you must absolutely do with no deviation in order to be able to live your best life. I was very happy to find out I was wrong and there was a lot of valuable information. And he wasn't pushing his online store products throughout, either. Any shopping could happen at the local grocery.I am a bit concerned about the amount of high-salt foods he includes in his recommendations. I will limit those in my own diet. The rest of his recommendations seem to match other experts in the field.And the best part? Mostly, the book is very readable and the author has a humorous approach that makes reading the book enjoyable. Sometimes he gets a little technical. He's trying to be sure you have all the bits and pieces of information you need, and some science can't be simplified too much without losing meaning. It's not written with scientists or medical doctors in mind, it's written for real people.Final thoughts: if you think you will want follow the author's recommendations, or return back to re-read parts of the book, or share it with a family member or a friend, you might want to spring for the paper book, not the e-book. Mine is already full of tabs and notes for later.

Reviewer: Reader54
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good read
Review: Good read for those of us with stomach issues. Dr. B gives a lot of good, practical advice.

Reviewer: StevieB
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Highly recommend
Review: This book is full of information that one can easily understand. Dr B makes it uncomplicated to implement changes in your diet. In doing so, I am feeling more energetic and have more focus. I highly recommend this book if you want to live a healthier life and feel amazing.

Reviewer: Connie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This Fibre Fueled Book definitely jump started my life to becoming the best version of myself in every way. It is easy to read, very informative and truly a reminder that all of us have the power through plant based gut health to heal and be healed for the rest of our lives. It is all up to us to take up the torch and run with it, it is never too late at any age to get on the health wagon.

Reviewer: Valeria
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Muy recomendable

Reviewer: Albert
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Uno de los mejores libros sibre salud digestiva y sobre salud en general. Mucho conicimiento en cada página. Permite entender los complejos procesos de digestión y da soluciones super eficaces.

Reviewer: Srinath v
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: An Essential Book. Which inspires to eat wholesome food promoting gut Microbiome.

Reviewer: birdlaw
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: After a couple years of obsessively reading whatever I could to "optimize" my health through nutrition, a journey that took me to all kinds of places, authors and experiments, I completely unplugged from this topic like 5-6 years ago. After all, once you turn your back on the hardcore cults (militant vegans, paleo orthorectics (been there), "omg carbs are poison" ketonites, IIFYM calorie counting wannabe fitness models) behind and you arrive back at "just eat 90% real whole foods that your great-great grandparent would've recognized as such" – what new knowledge around the topic of nutrition could we possibly come up with? Right? Riiight?Turns out I was wrong!I became vegan in recent years. Whenever asked by people "why?" I replied honestly that I did it purely out of compassion, not because I was convinced plant-based is any healthier than an omnivorous diet also including decent amounts of fruit and veg.Then one day on a whim I clicked on a podcast with Will Bulsiewicz, cause the title sounded cool. He came across so genuine and passionate, yet also extremely well informed and reasonable, and mentioned some concepts like the SCFA that I'd never heard of before, HAD to buy the book.What can I say, I'm really impressed with it. The at times very conversational writing took a chapter or too of getting used to, but I guess after hearing him on the podcast I knew that's just his way of communication, fine by me. The contents for me were mind-blowing and eye-opening.I won't pretend I'm following up on every reference (or even every second or third), but the amount and quality of evidence is very re-assuring. Bulsiewicz refers to meta-analyses whenever possible, and also openly states when some evidence is still a bit flaky/preliminary and needs more research. I loooved that he educates his readers a little bit about the hierarchy of scientific evidence, because so many people these days just love to throw around buzzwords like "research", "evidence-based" without any real understanding whatsoever, willing to believe and regurgitate everything that was (allegedly) mentioned in some "study". Heck, I even met a handful of people who had graduated from uni and never had gotten an intro course into the scientific method! On a side note I also liked the references being "off-shored" to a website, with clickable links and probably shaving 50+ pages off the book.Still, while delivering on the evidence-based part, he manages to keep it light and entertaining, great stuff.Instead of feeling like I'm missing out on some health-benefits by foregoing meat, I now feel even better about my plant-based diet, because not only is it good for other beings, but for my own health too! Trust me, no confirmation bias here – I kinda bought the book to find the flaw with his reasoning. But ultimately couldn't. Even though my diet was pretty on-point already, I picked up a couple of easy/practical tips to adjust my intake based on his findings. And now that I'm more informed about my microbiome and its role for my own health (I like how he defined the axis of human health, many diet books only focus on one or two of those, yet he goes through all of them and relates them to his findings), I'm even more on track with keeping it "clean" without feeling I'm giving up anything.I hope my review wasn't too disorganized and rambling. Overall I can't recommend this one enough, whether you already are plant-based or you think that vegans are full of it. The book is well-researched, well-written, practical and empowering – I couldn't think of higher praise for a diet book!