Dr. Trisha Pasricha — You've Been Pooping All Wrong
Harvard gastroenterologist Dr. Trisha Pasricha dismantles misconceptions about gut health and offers an evidence-based guide to digestive wellbeing.
Why we picked this
The title earns its bluntness — Pasricha is a Harvard-trained gastroenterologist who writes for the Washington Post and knows how to make clinical evidence land for general audiences.
Dr. Trisha Pasricha is a gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and a contributing health columnist for the Washington Post. You’ve Been Pooping All Wrong cuts through the noise around gut health — an area saturated with wellness industry misinformation — with the rigor of someone who has spent years treating patients and reading the actual evidence.
The book covers what the science actually says about digestion, the microbiome, common disorders, and what habits help or hurt. Pasricha is particularly effective at explaining why so much popular gut-health advice is either wrong or significantly overstated, and what to do instead.
Moderated by Ann Compton at the Wharf location, this is the rare health talk where the speaker is credentialed enough to be trusted and skilled enough as a communicator to make the science genuinely accessible. The title is the point: most people have been given bad information.