PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Dr. Shilpa Ravella is a transplant gastroenterologist and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, where she oversees the care of rare-disease patients who have undergone intestinal and multiple-organ transplantation. Unlike other solid organ transplants, the intestines are not sterile - the germs that live in the gut are also transplanted - and so Dr. Ravella's expertise lies in the interactions between food, the gut microbiome and the immune system, especially the potential of nutritional therapy to prevent and treat disease. Dr. Ravella speaks and writes regularly on food, health and wellness. She has written for a variety of media, including the Atlantic, New York, Slate, Discover and USA Today and her TED-Ed lesson, 'How the Food You Eat Affects Your Gut' has garnered over two million views.
Inflammation is a double-edged sword that heals and destroys; it has already saved your life, but most likely will contribute to ending it. Through her thoroughly readable book, Shilpa Ravella takes us on a Grand Tour of the medical science and the personal cases that have advanced our understanding of the whys and ways of this fundamental process -- Martin J. Blaser, M.D., author of Missing Microbes Ravella's fascinating, poetic exploration of the body, food, and history, will sweep you up sentence by sentence. A book that could not only reshape readers' understanding of their own systems and choices, but possibly medicine itself -- Lauren Sandler, author of This Is All I Got Critical to our health is understanding how to stave off inflammatory diseases, which stem from interactions between the immune system, the food we eat, the microbes that inhabit us, and so much more. Dr. Ravella makes this complex topic accessible and engaging in A Silent Fire, winding together a wonderful historical perspective with cutting-edge science -- Justin Sonnenburg, co-author of The Good Gut
