Giulia Enders on Organ Speak: What it really means to listen to our bodies

The international bestselling author of Gut returns with a spellbinding journey through the human body.

In a world that is becoming ever louder and more complicated, sometimes the answer is to look inward. For thousands of years, our bodily organs – from our muscles to our brain – have faced problems and found their own unique ways to overcome them. This book asks: what can we learn from these intricate systems?

In Organ Speak, Giulia Enders guides us through our inner landscape, revealing how our body is our best teacher. What, for example, can the immune system teach us about our need to feel safe? How does the process of wound-healing mirror emotional recovery? Why do our brain's reward pathways favour unpredictability? What do we truly need to thrive?

Blending recent scientific discoveries with her gift for making complex ideas accessible, Giulia Enders inspires a deep appreciation for something that is both intimately familiar yet profoundly mysterious. The journey opens with a sense of wonder, and by the end we gain a renewed understanding of ourselves.

Gut has become the world’s most surprising page-turner and is one of the biggest science books of the past decade. Giulia developed a fresh, witty – and since then widely copied – way of translating biology into popular knowledge. With this book she changes the game again, infusing science with a spiritual dimension.

Giulia Enders is a physician and acclaimed author with a background in microbiology research and clinical experience in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. She is dedicated to making complex scientific topics accessible to a wide audience. Her first book, Gut became a global multimillion bestseller, selling over 8m copies worldwide.