Listen To Your Gut: The Complete Natural Healing Program For IBS & IBD (3rd Edition) - by Jini Patel Thompson

Listen to Your Gut offers detailed instructions and natural treatment plans to heal all types of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), SIBO and IBS. You do not even need an official medical diagnosis to use the therapies in this book. The focus is on healing ALL the contributors to dis-ease (or unease) in the body; providing bowel rest with a special elemental liquid diet or a diet of easily tolerated foods, eradicating pathogens from the gut, rebalancing the bacterial flora, healing the damage done to the mucosal lining and intestinal wall, healing the emotional factors that lead to susceptibility in the gut in the first place, addressing any nutrient deficiencies, supporting the healing process with a healthy living environment and balancing the hormonal system.

Let’s look at Jini’s eight healing steps…

1. Healing Diet

In extreme cases (if the person is very malnourished or underweight, or there is ongoing intestinal bleeding) the best and fastest way to help heal IBD (Crohn’s, colitis, or diverticulitis) is to go on an elemental liquid diet (as thoroughly outlined in Jini’s book, The IBD Remission Diet). An elemental liquid diet provides bowel rest and eliminates any trigger foods, while using herbs and supplements to address the underlying infection and inflammation in the digestive system. An elemental diet can also be helpful for SIBO or IBS, as a microbiome reset method, and as a way to clear food allergies/intolerances and then test thoroughly for tolerance as you introduce normal foods after the diet. If a bowel rest diet is not needed, then Jini provides 4 different Healing Diets (with recipes), which you follow according to the severity of your symptoms.

2. Eradicating Pathogens

Jini details how to use her extremely effective gut infection protocol to rid the gastrointestinal tract of pathogenic bacteria, viruses, yeast (candida albicans), and parasites.

3. Re-Populating The Gut Flora

Jini’s recommends combining her gut infection protocol with high dose, therapeutic probiotic supplementation. She stresses that probiotics for IBS and IBD treatment must be in a potent, bioavailable form; capable of colonizing the gastrointestinal tract, and ingested in high enough amounts to have a therapeutic effect.

The best results are seen from probiotic layering using Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema along with oral dosing, so the probiotics can immediately begin to colonize the large bowel without having to go through the digestive tract.

4. Healing Inflammation and Ulceration

Targeted herbal remedies and supplementation are also highly beneficial to the healing of intestinal inflammation and ulceration, producing more rapid healing. For example, if you have ongoing bleeding from the colon, Jini recommends her Healing Implant Enema, along with MucosaCalm and George’s Aloe Vera Juice.

5. Resolving Nutrient Deficiencies

Jini’s research has established that there are specific nutritional supplements that pretty much everyone with IBD needs to take, due to the loss of nutrients through diarrhea and/or the lack of absorption of nutrients. Each of these supplements is vital for healing various symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease, or severe IBS, and they also work synergistically to accelerate healing.

6. Detoxing Your Living Environment

A major part of the healing process involves reducing or eliminating the toxins in your lifestyle that are damaging to your health. In Chapter 4, Jini takes you through every room in your house and shows you how to make your living environment safe and supportive. What pans are you cooking with? How much electromagnetic radiation is in your house? What elements of your home are off-gassing harmful chemicals while you sleep? And so on. Checklists and tips make this process easy.

7. Addressing the Emotional Contributors

Over 60% of your body’s neurotransmitters are not in your brain, but in your gut! There is now an entire field dedicated to this emerging knowledge about the interrelation of the mind, emotions and the digestive system, called neurogastroenterology. Jini stresses that if you don’t heal the psychological and emotional components of your disease, you will never have long-term health. She provides you with the most effective mind/body therapies she's found in Chapter 6. Sections to explore this concept are also throughout the book, in Chapter 5, Chapter 7 and the Symptom Treatments in Chapter 2.

8. Balancing Your Hormones

If you have been ill for longer than eight months, or if you have taken any kind of steroid or immune suppressant drug, then it is highly likely your adrenal gland and thyroid glands (at least) are not functioning properly. Therefore, you need to support the entire hormonal system so it can return to balance. Jini recommends treatments and natural supplements especially tailored to those with inflammatory bowel disease.

365-DAY GUARANTEE: if you purchase this Book and it is not helpful, just email/phone us for a no-questions-asked, 365-day guaranteed refund!

Our 1 year guarantee gives you plenty of time to read through and try the protocols and therapies in Listen To Your Gut, at no financial risk. We offer such an unlimited guarantee because we know so many of you have already tried so many things that didn't work – and we don't want you to be afraid that this is just one more disappointment. In fact, we believe so strongly in the value of Listen To Your Gut, that if you want to return it, we'll even pay for your return postage! It doesn't get any more risk-free than that.

“I did just one thing suggested in Listen To Your Gut, and my diarrhea of ten years stopped within three weeks. Would recommend this book to anyone with these diseases."
Catherine Grey
Review on Amazon.com

"Conventional medical therapies aren't for everyone, Listen To Your Gut is an excellent tool and resource guide for people looking for viable alternatives."
Dr. David Wang BSc, ND

"I have personally witnessed the effectiveness of the diets and methods in this book. It's a well-written manual of holistic treatments that work."
Vivian Szabo MN, Registered Nurse

"If you are seriously are looking to heal yourself, order Jini's book. I was very sick and diagnosed with 80% ulcerative colitis in December 2006. I found Jini Patel through the American Colitis and Crohn's Society as she was on the recommended reading list. And I looked into her web site and bought her book almost right away.
I started implementing her advice thoroughly and in three months there was a huge improvement in my situation. In six months I was almost symptom-free, and now a little over one year, I am practically totally healed and can eat almost anything I want. If you're seriously are looking to heal yourself get in touch with Jini and order her book. You truly won't be sorry."
Bill S., Quebec

"This program helped me a lot to change my life and heal myself. Two years ago I bought Jini Patel Thompson's book/program, LISTEN TO YOUR GUT, and this program helped me a lot to change my life and heal myself. This program was and is a big inspiration, in taking control of my sickness, not being a victim, but helping myself and my body to heal. The result of this program was that I weaned off my Immuran. I have been eating fairly normal now for the last 1.5 years (still careful with milk products and try to eat as natural as possible). My hair and skin look very healthy again, I follow salsa lessons and sport every week. And I made a mindset: I am in charge now, I am more fine tuned with my body. Of course I talk with my doctor, but not to ask him how I am, I tell him how I am! And that's nice....I hope I told this clearly, I could go on and on."
Miranda M., Amsterdam

"The Listen to Your Gut program is a tour-de-force in better understanding our body's second brain. From the specificities of a wide variety of physical treatments, to probing the inner workings of our psyches and how they relate to our gut, it has something to offer almost anyone who has an intestinal tract. In fact, I have already recommended it to two friends with intestinal/rectal problems and begun using a few of the recommended supplements myself."
- John W. Travis, MD, MPH
Co-author, "Wellness Workbook: How to Achieve Enduring Health and Vitality" 
Founder, first wellness center in USA 
Co-founder, Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children