Obesity, autism, mental health problems, IBS, allergies,
auto-immunity, cancer. Does the answer to the modern epidemic of
'Western' diseases lie in our gut? You are 10% human. For every one
of your cells, there are nine impostors hitching a ride. You are
not just flesh and bone, but also bacteria and fungi. And you are
more 'them' than you are 'you'. Your gut alone hosts 100 trillion
of them and until recently we thought that our microbes didn't
matter. This is all set to change as the latest scientific research
tells a very different story, one where microbes run our bodies and
becoming healthy is impossible without them. In this
ground-breaking book, biologist Alanna Collen reveals how our
personal colony of microbes influence our weight, immune system,
mental health and even our choice of partner. This is a new way of
understanding modern diseases - obesity, autism, mental health
problems, gut disorders, allergies, auto-immunity and even cancer -
as she argues they have their root in our failure to cherish our
most fundamental and enduring relationship: that with our microbes.
Illuminating many of the questions still unanswered by the human
genome project 10% Human completely changes our understanding of
diet, modern disease and medicine. The good news is that unlike our
human cells, we can change our microbes for the better and this
book shows you how. A revelatory and indispensable guide: life -
and your body - will never seem the same again.
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Sun, 19 May 2019 | Review
by: bernhard S.
A book more important than any about the Human Genome, which turns out to have only 21 k genes -- half as many as a rice plant.
Against 4.4 Million genes (which codes for all-important protein synthesis) in our microbiome.
The no 1 book on microbiology on Amazon. I predict that it will progress far beyond this.
Written by an eminently qualified researcher who is also a science writer
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