Author
A PhD student at Goethe University. She was born in 1990.
She took the world by storm with her YouTube video presentations on the gut—and because of that popularity, she was contacted by a literary agent and now has the world's best selling book on digestion.
Giulia tells the story of the gut as a sort of giddy scientist, truly excited to share all of the gut's wonderful secrets and (in her words) charming mystique. It really is a gift when someone can take scientific knowledge and make it interesting and understandable for the rest of us, and Giulia's singular passion for the topic takes us halfway. The other side of the coin is David Shaw's masterful translation of the German original.
The original YouTube video that charmed the world is in German. The English version:
