10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
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10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
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Robyn Addison
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Alanna Collen
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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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- Miss Sue Langley
- 05-01-2018
Excellent and informative
Really enjoyed this book. Information everyone needs to hear. Valuable and hope it creates change.
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- Mario
- 16-01-2017
insightful
The book is very enlightening, it contains invaluable information about symbiotic relationship between us and microorganisms.
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- Lance Swift
- 13-07-2017
so intetesting
i enjoyed this book from start to end. it's so intetesting. i want to learn more about the microbiom and how it affects my wellbeing
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- D A Griffin Victor 2
- 28-12-2015
Eye opening information that will change your life
It was encouraging to find that our lifestyle and diet are very close to the information in this book. I gagged at some ideas but at least I know the possibilities..
knowledge gives us the power to make right decisions and the knowledge found here is life changing.
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- PANKAJ DESAI
- 12-12-2017
Wonderful
Enjoyed going through. Very original ideas. Exercise of revelation. At some points she seems to have gone too far, but that's not affecting the wonders of this book.
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- Cara
- 02-07-2024
Informative & worth listening to
An informative book, probably good if you are navigating chronic illness & looking for answers relating to gut health etc
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- Margaret
- 24-10-2016
Really informative
Makes you think twice about whether or not you need that course of antibiotics. The other key take away was the lack of fibre in our western diet.
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- Andrew
- 18-10-2016
What an insightful read!
This book was so informative. It was presented in easy to understand terms. The narrator was pleasant and almost soothing to listen to. If you have any interest in your health, I highly recommend this book. Brilliant.
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- simon
- 22-07-2017
regret buying it
this book does not have very much useful or practical information in it regarding how to actually improve the microbiota, regret buying it
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- Noora Ferdosian
- 13-10-2017
I learnt a lot and I'm a pharmacist
Being a pharmacist I thought I knew everything I needed to know about antibiotics and how they affect the body, about probiotics and prebiotics, about obesity and diabetes etc... Turns out there is a lot we don't get taught in our degree and a lot that doesn't get discussed in the medical field in general.
I learnt so much from reading this book. It has changed the conversation I have with my patients, especially when discussing antibiotics.
Excellent book! You won't regret reading this one! Fast paced facts so make sure you are paying attention or you'll miss important information! Lucky there is a rewind button!
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