Full of useful info, but author is incredibly unrealistic about how to implement these things

I'll start by talking about some positives. The book is full of very interesting and and actionable info. The perspective the author takes about actually exposing yourself to more (healthy) bacteria and changing the way we think about what we put in and around our bodies is potentially game-changing. I've implemented a decent amount of advice from this book and have seen nice improvements in my stomach/gut health. Now for the negative. Dr. Axe is INCREDIBLY unrealistic and unhelpful about how people can / should implement his advice. Dr. Axe is ridiculously strict on what you should be eating, even people who were already eating healthy diets will struggle to fully adapt to his recommended diet. He doesn't offer any advice on how to ween off of bad foods and slowly adapt to his diet, he just expects people to go cold turkey and completely change their diet to his recommended diet overnight. That is not sustainable. Sorry, but there's no chance people are going to go from eating fast food and other bad stuff every day to drinking warm homemade bone broth soup every morning, an organic salad for lunch and some other organic meal for dinner washed down with goat's kefir for dinner. Also, the amount of foods that are in the average person's diet that you must eliminate is challenging to say the absolute least. He needs to include a section or at least a few pages on how to gradually implement these things, because like I said, there's no way that everyone reading this book can just make these drastic changes and sustain them. The author also makes the assumption throughout the book that everyone who is reading his book is trying to lose weight. I get that many people today are obese, but not everyone is the same. Everyone has different metabolism and different baseline caloric needs. I personally have a very high metabolism and need 4300 calories per day to maintain my (healthy) weight. Dr. Axe's example meal plans contain like 1500-2000 calories, and he often says not too eat more than one serving of things like meat, fruit, and other foods. So, what exactly am I supposed to eat then? Because I don't need to lose weight and not sure why that is always assumed throughout the book. Another thing, completely changing your diet along with swapping all products in your house and everything else he recommends will be incredibly time consuming and expensive. Especially the diet part. Go to Whole Foods or any other store with his recommended diet products and take note of how expensive goat's kefir is, or organic grass fed steak, or anything else. Not only expensive, but you'll need to dedicate much more time now that you're cooking more and eating less processed, prepared foods. This isn't really a negative, but it's worth noting because some people just won't be able to afford it, and other's might not have the time for it. I wish Dr. Axe talked about these healthier alternatives he suggests and how much better they actually for you. For example, is cow's milk actually SO bad that I need to pay $10 per gallon for goat milk instead of $3 for cow's milk? Do I really need to make homemade Kale chips whenever I want a snack instead of just eating multi-grain chips ?

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