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Follow Your Gut - How the Bacteria in Your Stomach Steer Your Health, Mood and More (Hardcover)
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Follow Your Gut - How the Bacteria in Your Stomach Steer Your Health, Mood and More (Hardcover)
Series: TED
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Price R262
Discovery Miles 2 620
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Part of the TED series: Follow Your Gut Today we study the brain
with painstaking detail. But we largely ignore what might prove to
be the most important part of our body: the trillions of microbes
that live inside us, especially in our gut. Increasingly, it looks
like the harmless bacteria we each have - or lack - may hold the
key to our most vexing health issues, including obesity, allergies,
asthma and digestive problems. Different people - even those in the
same ethnic group, geographic region and immediate family - may
have up to a 90% difference in the contents of our gut. (Compare
this with our DNA, where all humans, worldwide, are 99.99% the
same.) Evidence shows that small changes in the microbes present
(altered by antibiotics, diet, geographic region, and so on) may
affect weight, likelihood of disease and even psychological factors
like risk-taking behaviour. Knight and Buhler explore the
previously unseen world inside our bodies, in dynamic, accessible
prose geared towards a general audience. With a practical eye
towards deeper knowledge and better decisions, the book includes a
detailed tour of our "micro-biome" as well as an exploration of the
known effects of antibiotics, probiotics, diet choices, birth
method, and access to livestock on our children's lifelong health.
The book will guide readers on how to learn about their own
"microbiome" and take steps towards understanding and improving
their health, using the latest research as their guide.
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