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Microbiota and inflammation
What is actually known about the gut, inflammation and the gut-brain axis. With the sources on the table and no supplements for sale. Coming first in English as It’s All in Your Gut.
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Grounded in science, open to the whole complexity of human wellbeing
Books about the body, the brain and what the evidence can actually say about both. Written by someone who trained in the lab and still reads the studies before telling you anything.
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Three different doors, depending on what brought you here.
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High sensitivity
It has a life of its own and lives on its own site, with its books, its resources and its blog. If that is what brought you here, there is far more over there. The site is in Spanish. Highly Sensitive People, the Spanish edition, on Amazon.
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Published
El Viaje del Perdón
The Journey of Forgiveness: what happens in the brain when we forgive, and what can be done with that information. Seventeen meditations included. Published in Spanish.
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The new book
It’s All in Your Gut
How quiet inflammation travels from your gut to your brain, and a science-based plan to get your energy, focus and mood back. Microbiome, inflammation and the two-way road between the gut and the brain, with one rule that does not bend: saying where the evidence ends. Coming soon in English from Zen Books; the Spanish edition will follow.
Two free workbooks
They download right away, free and with no strings attached. They also arrive by email so they do not get lost. The first one is in English; the book’s workbook is in Spanish, like the book.
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Strengthen your self-esteem
Fifteen tools, the scale used in the studies and a serious warning about positive affirmations. Seventeen pages.
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The book's workbook (in Spanish)
The signals map, the four-week calendar and the fifty-seven sources with their full identifiers.
Download itI write for people who want to know not only what science says, but how it knows it.
Christian Duarte
Molecular biologist · Writer and science communicator
I am a molecular biologist. I trained in biomedicine and neuroscience, took a master's degree in Advanced Therapies and Biotechnological Innovation, and earned a PhD in the social sciences. It is an odd mix, and it explains a good deal about how I write.
Until 2023 I was a university lecturer and researcher. Since then I have written and published on my own, under the Zen Books imprint. What I try to do in every book is easy to say and hard to do: tell what the evidence supports, point out where it ends, and not fill the gap with promises.
The blog
What does not fill a book
That is where the things that do not fill a book, but deserve telling, end up. New studies, and ideas in circulation that are worth a closer look. Written in Spanish.
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ZEN, Refugio del Alma Sensible
I write almost daily. Short reflections for people who feel deeply and want to understand themselves. Three minutes to read, no noise, nothing for sale. In Spanish.
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