Chapter 1How Standard Medical Treatments Guarantee That the Sick Will Get Sicker, Quicker 1 -- You Are Not Alone 1 -- "You'll Just Have to Learn to Live with It" 2 -- Medications Turn Off the Gut's Only Means of Communication 3 -- "My Doctor Said, 'Mylanta'" 6 -- Tagamet Tragedy 8 -- Prilosec/Prevacid Scam 10 -- Propulcid, Cytotec, Actigall, Carafate, and Over-the-Counter Medications 12 -- Now Let's Find the Cause before the Sick Get Any Sicker, Quicker 15 -- Dangers of Drugs Fall on Deaf Ears 16 -- Most Drugs Thwart Natural Function 16 -- Chapter 2 You Are What You Ate 19 -- Pain: The Body's Main Communication Mode 19 -- Cutting Out the C-R-A-P (Cigarettes, Coffee, Refined Sugars, Alcohol, Aspirin, Pop, and Processed Foods) 20 -- Getting Over a Coffee Addiction 21 -- What Drives You to Eat the Wrong Foods? 23 -- Vanadium to the Sugar Craver's Rescue 24 -- Chromium Cycle of Sugar Cravings 25 -- Hyperacidity Myth 25 -- First Steps for Improving Your Digestion 26 -- Processed Foods Hide Potent Triggers of Inflammation 28 -- Myth: There Is Safety in Low-Fat Foods 28 -- Monosodium Glutamate (MSG): Toxin at the Table 31 -- Food Additives: What You See Isn't Necessarily What You Get 32 -- Another Toxin at the Table: the Not-So-Sweet NutraSweet 34 -- What about Saccharin? 36 -- Dangers of Unseen Additives: The Great Medical Mimics 37 -- Are You Aware of the Cereal Killer in Your Pantry? 39 -- Food Allergies Cause Gut Reactions 40 -- Figuring Out Your Food Allergies 42 -- Diagnostic Diet 43 -- Three Musketeers: Macronutrients 46 -- Are You Eating a Rainbow Each Day? 47 -- It May Not Be What You Are Eating, But What's Eating You 48 -- Chapter 3 Curing the Most Commonly Missed Cause of Gut Disease 51 -- Candida: The Great Masquerader 51 -- Many Causes of Candida Outbreak 52 -- Undiagnosed, It Mimics Any Symptom 52 -- Begin with a Suspicion or Diagnosis 53 -- Caveats 53 -- Your Anti-Candida Program to Beat the Yeast 54 -- Candida-Killing Diet 55 -- When Can I Eat My Favorites Again? 68 -- Recipes 69 -- Getting More Garlic 77 -- How to Get More Healing Veggies into the Diet 78 -- Beyond the Diet 78 -- "What If I Just Ignore This 'Harmless' Yeast?" 79 -- Start with a Cleaner Gut and Fewer Organisms 79 -- Probiotics 80 -- Nonprescription Yeast Fighters 81 -- Prescription Yeast Fighters 84 -- Candida Program Reviewed 85 -- "What If I'm Not Better?" 86 -- Staying Well 86 -- Chapter 4 Bugs: The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly 89 -- Helicobacter pylori: The Common Bug that Causes Ulcers and Stomach Cancer 89 -- H. pylori Is Everywhere 90 -- A Cause of Slow, Mysterious Decline and Death 90 -- How the Sick Get Sicker, Quicker, with Approved Drugs 92 -- Treatment of H. pylori: The Drugstore Cure That Is Ignored 93 -- DGL Protocol: The Nonprescription Stomach Healer 95 -- Testing for H. pylori 97 -- Candida and H. pylori Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg 97 -- Intestinal Dysbiosis: The Other Bad Bugs 98 -- Nonprescription Gut Bug Killers 99 -- Good Bugs: Probiotics 101 -- Chapter 5 Leaky Gut Syndrome 105 -- Healing from the Inside Out 105 -- How Food Allergies Are Born 105 -- Bugs, Drugs, Food, and Mood Precipitate Symptoms 107 -- Leaky Gut Causes a Cascade of Untreatable Symptoms 108 -- Common Scenario for Leaky Gut Syndrome 110 -- 8-R Outline: How to Test and Treat 111 -- Best Test for the Leaky Gut 113 -- Curse of Constipation 114 -- Healing the Leaky Gut 116 -- Peeling Back the Layers of Causes 119 -- Hold Those Nutrients 120 -- Beyond the Leaky Gut: Total Load 121 -- Chapter 6 Finding the Best Treatment for You, or Fixing What's Broken 125 -- Gut-Level Medicine 125 -- Treatments for GI Conditions 126 -- Mouth Sores, Canker Sores, Mouth Ulcers 128 -- Halitosis 129 -- Nausea and Vomiting 130 -- Hiatus Hernia, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Acid Heartburn, Reflux Esophagitis 131 -- Gastritis, Heartburn, Esophagitis, Nonulcer Dyspepsia (NUD), Dyspepsia, Acid Indigestion 132 -- Achalasia 133 -- Ulcer, Peptic Ulcer, Duodenal Ulcer, Gastric Ulcer 134 -- Gallbladder Disease 135 -- Abdominal Pain, Gas, Cramps, Diarrhea, Indigestion, IBS, IBD 137 -- Constipation 139 -- Hemorrhoids 141 -- Diverticulitis 142 -- Crohn's Disease, Blood and Mucus Colitis, Ulcerative Colitis, Regional Enteritis, Regional Ileitis 142 -- Candida, Intestinal Dysbiosis, Parasites 147 -- Cancer 148 -- Rest of the Protocols 152 -- Chapter 7 Sorting Through the Mountain of Causes 169 -- Caveat: The Less Likely Causes 169 -- Pinning Down the Causes 171 -- Nutrient Deficiencies Keep Folks from Healing 180 -- Simplifying the Solutions 196 -- A New You 197 -- Healing from the Inside Out 199.