A GI’s guide to the brain-gut-microbiome connection, including research on why people develop IBS and how anyone can achieve poophoria

Welcome to the easy-to-digest user’s manual for your body’s unsung hero: the gut. Leading Harvard gastroenterologist, Dr. Trisha Pasricha takes us on a riotous deep dive into our own bowels with new insight from neuroscience, enteric biology, and physiology for an actionable framework to make pooping a breeze.

No one would expect you to have stunning teeth if you were never shown a toothbrush. You would struggle to fall asleep if you never knew how to turn off the bedroom lights. But no one talks about the fundamentals of pooping, and so many—even the highest of achievers—spiral into a quagmire of poor habits and toilet-anxiety.

• “Dr. Pasricha has become one of the most important medical voices of our time, and her new book reminds us why. She took a particularly awkward topic in medicine and transformed it into something that is enlightening, engrossing, witty and impossible not to share.”—Sanjay Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent at CNN
• ​“Dr. Pasricha has achieved something glorious and unprecedented. She has turned a taboo topic into a science lesson, a self-care guide, and a cultural critique – all at once. Reading this book is like having a brilliant (and often hilarious) doctor friend whispering secrets you wish you had known years ago.” —Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Drive
• “Our health is influenced and reflected by our bowel habits, a taboo subject that is now comprehensively addressed—practically and scientifically—by Dr. Pasricha’s brilliant book, which takes us on the path to poophoria.” —Eric Topol, Director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute and NYT bestselling author of Super Agers