About the Author:
YOUR HEALTH DEPENDS ON THE BACTERIA IN YOUR GUT
Norman Robillard, Ph.D., founder of Digestive Health Institute is an author, consultant and microbiologist. He is also the creator of Fast Tract Diet and a former research scientist who devoted his career to developing new drugs for 20 years before he discovered the power of diet for his own digestive health.
Fast Tract Diet was presented at Digestive Disease Week in 2013 to provide gastroenterologists a different treatment option for SIBO related conditions.
Dr. Robillard helps people with a variety of digestive health issues through his consultation practice. He focuses on the root cause of conditions and applies his 3 pillar strategy for healing in place of drugs and antibiotics: 1. addressing underlying causes, 2. dietary modulation, 3. behavioral modification. Some of the common gut and related conditions include heartburn, acid reflux, LPR, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), celiac and Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, asthma, rosacea and leaky gut.
Dr. Robillard received his Ph.D. at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and completed his post-doctoral training at Tufts University in Boston. He currently serves as a scientific board member for Nutrition & Metabolism Society.
His favorite quote: "No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means." - Maimonides
Find a wealth of digestive health articles and a new tool to calculate symptom potential in foods at DigestiveHealthInstitute.org.
Join the Digestive Health Institute Facebook page for the latest information on foods, health and science.
Review:
"People with IBS - and any other SIBO-related condition - can benefit from this book. Dr. Robillard shows the reader why the Fast Tract approach is superior to other diets, drugs, and even antibiotics, which are often prescribed in an off-label manner for IBS...The antibiotic option is one many physicians choose for treatment, but readers of this book will think twice about going on such a regimen until all other options are explored. Most importantly, the Fast Tract approach Dr. Robillard created limits only the most difficult-to-digest carbohydrates. Thus, the means of relief is flexible where both the types and amounts of symptom-causing foods can be adjusted based on personal dietary preference. Even people with the most challenging symptoms will be pleased with their improvement. I can't recommend this book heartily enough." --Michael R. Eades, M.D., The New York Time Best Seller Co-author of Protein Power
"I am a GI surgeon and also an IBS patient who has suffered from this stubborn disease for more than 15 years. As a GI doctor, I have obtained more knowledge and experience over the years from treating my own IBS as well as patients with IBS. However, all methods I had learned didn t make sense until I read Fast Tract Digestion IBS. The book is outstanding among the many books that I ve read on IBS. To my amazement, the Fast Tract Diet described in the book worked in just a couple of days. Thank you for your work and book. I would like to spread the word on the Fast Tract Diet to my colleagues and patients." --Zongqiang (Alan) Hu, Visiting GI Surgeon at St. Vincent Hospital, Visiting Scholar at Indiana University & Purdue University
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.