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The Gut Reset

How to Repair Your Microbiome When the Damage Has Been DoneBy Tariq Rasheed

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Gut reset plan, microbiome repair, IBS relief, and digestive healing — a 60-day evidence-based protocol for when the damage has already been done, from an 18-year registered dietitian. Lina was thirty-four, bloated every day for two years, and had spent seven hundred dollars on a stool test that told her nothing useful. She had shrunk her safe-food list to nine items. Her doctor's advice: "manage stress." That is not a treatment plan, writes Tariq Rasheed — "it is a shrug in a white coat." The Gut Reset is what Rasheed tells his patients in the first three or four clinic visits, written down: not a fad, not a supplement protocol, not a seven-day miracle. It is a structured 60-day repair plan for a gut that has already been disrupted by antibiotics, food poisoning, chronic stress, or simply the slow ecological narrowing of the modern Western diet. The book opens with the biology your doctor skipped: why a single-cell-thick gut lining matters, how short-chain fatty acids produced from fiber feed colon cells and regulate inflammation, and why the average American's 15 grams of daily fiber leaves gut bacteria "effectively hungry for decades." It moves through fermented foods, probiotics (when they help and when they do not), elimination diets without disordered eating, the stress-sleep-gut axis, and specific conditions including IBS, SIBO, and the gut-brain connection. The 60-Day Reset delivers a week-by-week layering protocol: fiber in week 2, fermented foods in week 3, sleep and stress in week 4, 30 distinct plant species in week 5, and a targeted elimination only in week 6 — after the foundation is solid. This sequencing is the core differentiator: repair before restriction, always. Inside this gut health and microbiome repair book: • The 60-Day Reset protocol — a week-by-week layering plan that builds fiber, fermented foods, sleep, and plant diversity in the correct order before any elimination is attempted • Why elimination diets usually fail — most patients have done phase one (cut foods) but never phase two (reintroduce); their food list keeps shrinking, making gut health worse over time • Evidence-based probiotic guidance — "the science of which specific strain helps which specific person is in its infancy"; the chapter tells you when a probiotic is worth trying and when it is not • Fiber as the most underused gut health tool — with the target of 30 distinct plant species per week, rising to 35 grams of fiber daily by week 7, explained through the Akkermansia-mucus-barrier mechanism • IBS, SIBO, IBD, histamine intolerance, and the aging gut — dedicated chapters on each condition, including the gut-hormone connection for women in perimenopause and menopause • The gut-brain and gut-immunity connections — how gut dysbiosis affects mood, weight regulation, skin, and the roughly 70 percent of immune cells that live in and around your intestine • No supplements required — the plan does not recommend buying anything from a link in the back; it is built on food, sleep, and stress reduction alone The strongest predictor of long-term gut health Rasheed has found after 18 years of practice "is not adherence to a specific diet — it is whether someone has built a relationship with food that they can keep up for the rest of their life." If your digestive health stopped cooperating after antibiotics, illness, or nothing you can point to at all, this gut reset and microbiome repair guide gives you a patient, sequential, evidence-based path back. For readers of Justin Sonnenburg's The Good Gut and…

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GenreHealth and Wellness, Science and Nature

Length8 hrs 11 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateSep 30, 2026

LanguageEnglish

1Introduction

2Chapter 1: The Gut-Health Problem Most People Have

3Chapter 2: What the Microbiome Actually Is

4Chapter 3: Signs Your Gut Needs a Reset

5Chapter 4: Antibiotics and What They Really Did

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6Chapter 5: Fiber — The Most Underused Tool

7Chapter 6: Fermented Foods — Which Ones, How Much

8Chapter 7: Probiotics — When They Help, When They Don’t

9Chapter 8: Prebiotics Worth Caring About

10Chapter 9: Elimination Diets Without Disordered Eating

11Chapter 10: Reintroduction Protocols

12Chapter 11: The Role of Stress and Sleep on Gut

13Chapter 12: Inflammation and the Gut

14Chapter 13: Food Sensitivities vs Allergies vs Intolerances

15Chapter 14: Specific Conditions — IBS, SIBO, IBD Basics, Candida

16Chapter 15: Gut and Brain Connection

17Chapter 16: Gut and Immunity

18Chapter 17: Gut and Weight Regulation

19Chapter 18: Travel and the Gut

20Chapter 19: Pregnancy and the Gut

21Chapter 20: Children’s Gut Health

22Chapter 21: The 60-Day Reset

23Chapter 22: The Long Practice

24Conclusion: A Calmer Relationship with Your Gut

25Appendix A: The 60-Day Reset at a Glance

26Appendix B: High-Fiber Foods Reference

27Appendix C: Fermented Food Reference

28Appendix D: Recipes for Gut Health

29Appendix E: When to See a Specialist

30Appendix F: Common Myths Debunked

31Appendix G: Suggested Reading and Resources

32Chapter 23: The Questions I Get Most Often

33Chapter 24: Six Patients In Depth

34Chapter 25: A Week in the Kitchen

35Chapter 26: SIBO, Up Close

36Chapter 27: IBS Subtypes, Up Close

37Chapter 28: Crohn’s, Colitis, and Living with IBD

38Chapter 29: Histamine, Mast Cells, and the Gut

39Chapter 30: Reflux, the Upper Gut, and the Limits of Gut-Health Talk

40Chapter 31: The Aging Gut

41Chapter 32: The Gut and Hormones — Women’s Cycles, Perimenopause, Menopause

42Chapter 33: The Gut and Skin

43Chapter 34: When You Have a Family to Feed

44Chapter 35: Common Mistakes I See

45Chapter 36: A Day in the Clinic

46Chapter 37: Tools, Tests, and What’s Worth Doing

47Chapter 38: A Final Word

48About the Author

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