What Every Woman Needs to Know about Her Gut: The FLAT GUT Diet Plan

By Barbara Ryan and Elaine McGowan

The first book to deal solely with women’s gut issues, challenging the wealth of misinformation on the internet and elsewhere, and instead drawing on the latest and most robust scientific research and the decades of experience of the authors – a consultant gastroenterologist and a clinical nutritionist, both leaders in their fields

Worldwide more than 500 million people suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) – that’s almost 11 per cent of the world’s adult population. Even more people suffer from a little-known related digestive condition called functional dyspepsia (FD). Both are usually lifelong problems: there’s no cure and the exact causes are unknown. What’s more, 70 per cent of sufferers are women.

This is the first book aimed specifically at women that aims to educate them about their digestive health and a range of gut conditions including IBS and FD. As well as explaining how the digestive system works, the authors look in detail at all-to-common problems such as stomach cramps, bloating, diarrhoea and constipation, and show how women can ensure their symptoms are appropriately investigated and treated. They also describe their new FLAT GUT Diet, a major improvement on the popular low-FODMAP diet which, they find, leads to women eliminating foods in an unbalanced way or finding the dietary regime too restrictive and giving up on it.

Having between them treated over 60,000 patients, the authors intend this to be the go-to book for women of all ages dealing with a troublesome gut, providing readers with the confidence to take control of their gut health and empowering them to enjoy life to the fullest.