“Persuasive, impassioned… hopeful news [for those] suffering from functional bowel disease.” – NY Times Publication Review

Dr. Gershon’s groundbreaking book fills the distance between what you ought to know-and what your physician has time for you to tell you.

Dr. Michael Gershon provides devoted his profession to understanding the human being bowel (the abdomen, esophagus, small intestine, and colon). His thirty many years of study have led to a fantastic rediscovery: nerve cells in the gut that act as a brain..Read More about The Second Mind: A Groundbreaking New Knowledge of Nervous Disorders from the Stomach and Intestine This ‘second brain’ can control our gut all by itself. Our two brains-the one in our mind and the one inside our bowel-must cooperate. If indeed they do not, then there is certainly chaos in the gut and misery in the head-everything from ‘butterflies’ to cramps, from diarrhea to constipation. Dr. Gershon’s work has resulted in radical fresh understandings about a wide variety of gastrointestinal problems including gastroenteritis, anxious abdomen, and irritable colon syndrome.

The Second Mind represents a quantum leap in medical knowledge and has already been benefiting patients whose symptoms were previously dismissed as neurotic or ‘it’s all in your mind.’