WILD MEDITERRANEAN

A practical resource for restoring the microbial balance in our guts and rebooting overall health, featuring a simple 6-day, 2-phase detox cleanse and over 50 delicious Paleo-meets-Mediterranean recipes.

The key to great digestive health lies in rewilding the gut and keeping the diverse microbes that inhabit it happy and thriving. In WILD MEDITERRANEAN Stella Metsovas breaks down the complex science behind digestive health and shares a deceptively simple and down-to-earth plan for ending the digestive issues that can have far-reaching effects on our everyday lives.

Using foods that you already know, trust, and love—delicious Mediterranean cuisine—it’s easy to reintroduce essential microbes to your system and cultivate a healthy microbiome to banish bloating, discomfort, and irregularity forever. At the heart of WILD MEDITERRANEAN are Stella’s unique village-to-table recipes, all based on the historically probiotic-rich cuisines favored by the world's healthiest populations and her own family heritage.

Packed with pre-tox and detox protocols for preparing the gut to heal, key lifestyle practices to support overall wellness, and the scientific evidence to back it all up, WILD MEDITERRANEAN is a practical resource for restoring the microbial balance in your gut and realizing your best digestive health.

*Simple but Effective Program: Starting with a 3-day pre-tox followed by a gut-restoring land-tox or sea-tox based on the reader’s symptoms, the Wild Med plan sets readers up for success and then prescribes a delicious, flexible regimen for lifelong gut wellness.

*Foods You Know and Love in a New Program: Everyone loves Mediterranean food, and it turns out it’s the healthiest cuisine for your gut. Stella harnesses the powers of her own Greek roots and other Mediterranean communities in her easy-to-prepare recipes, so you’ll be able to rewild your gut while eating delicious meals the whole way through.

*Camera-Ready Author: Gut problems aren’t attractive, but Stella knows how to take the “ick” factor out of such an important health issue. She has consulted for The New York Times, Glamour, Shape, Redbook, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, People, and Men's Health, among others.

Stella Metsovas is a globally recognized clinical nutritionist, media health expert, and specialist in food science and human nutrition, with over fifteen years of experience in the health and fitness industries. Stella has been in private practice for ten years, during which she has researched and promoted the importance of gut balance as a key component of complete wellness. Stella has traveled the world with the United Nations in their “Food for Work” program, and has experienced the lifestyles and diets of the Blue Zone longevity villages firsthand. She lives in Los Angeles.