Happy Gut: The Cleansing Program to Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Eliminate Pain

Following the success of the bestselling Clean Gut and Wheat Belly comes this essential guide to improving digestive health from an expert in functional medicine—who reveals why everything that ails us, from fatigue to weight gain to bloating and bad skin, can be traced back to the gut, and shares his cleansing plan to help us reclaim our health.

Dr. Vincent Pedre understands gut problems firsthand. He suffered from IBS for years before becoming an expert in functional medicine and learning how to heal his body from the inside. Dr. Pedre used his own experience to develop The Gut C.A.R.E. Program—an approach that draws from both Western and Eastern methodologies, combining integrative and functional medicine—that has a proven success record in his private practice in New York. Now, for the first time, Dr. Pedre makes his revolutionary plan for digestive wellness available to everyone in this gut health book.

Happy Gut takes readers step-by-step through Gut C.A.R.E.—Cleanse, Activate, Restore, and Enhance—which eliminates food triggers, clears the gut of unfriendly pathogens, and replaces them with healthy probiotics and nutrients that repair and heal the gut. Rather than masking symptoms with medication, he shows us how to address the problem at its core to restore the gastrointestinal system to its proper functioning state. By fixing problems in the gut, followers of Dr. Pedre’s program have found that their other health woes are also cured and have lost weight, gained energy, and improved seemingly unrelated issues, such as seasonal allergies, in addition to eliminating their chronic muscle and abdominal pain.

Complete with recipes and meal plans including gluten-free, low-fat, and vegetarian options, a 28-day gut cleanse, yoga postures to help digestion, and testimonials from many of his patients, Happy Gut will help you feel better and eliminate gut issues for life.

Inside this guide to reclaiming your health, you’ll discover a clear, accessible path to wellness:

• The Gut C.A.R.E. Program: Learn Dr. Pedre’s proven four-stage method—Cleanse, Activate, Restore, and Enhance—to eliminate food triggers and heal your body from the inside out.
• An Integrative Approach: Discover a framework that draws from the best of Western and Eastern methodologies, combining functional and integrative medicine for total body wellness.
• 28-Day Gut Cleanse: Jumpstart your journey with a complete meal plan, including delicious gluten-free, low-fat, and vegetarian recipes designed to repair your system.
• Beyond Digestive Health: Address the root cause of fatigue, weight gain, and even seasonal allergies by restoring your gastrointestinal system to its proper function.
• Holistic Wellness Tools: Go beyond diet with targeted yoga postures that are designed to help digestion and support your body’s natural healing processes.

Dr. Vincent Pedre, medical director of Pedre Integrative Health, is a board-certified internist and a Functional Medicine–certified practitioner in private practice in New York City. Dr. Pedre’s integrative medical approach combines both Western and Eastern traditions. He is a clinical instructor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and is also certified in yoga and medical acupuncture. His holistic philosophy is patient-centered and focuses on uncovering the root causes of illness to create long-term wellness. He is also the founder of Dr. Pedre Wellness, which offers health-enhancing programs, content and lifestyle products, dietary supplements, and weight loss programs. Dr. Pedre is a sought-after speaker at medical conferences around the world.