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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- Mr. Nirmaleshwar Nikhar
- 10-09-22
Health and Microbes
Excellent and eye opening. This was a difficult book but definitely worth persevering. Forced to look at myself in a different light.
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- Veronica
- 28-03-16
Fascinating
This book was very interesting, and informative and not in the slightest boring. I enjoyed listening to it and will defo use it for my future choices.
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- J L Ferguson
- 08-02-21
Educational
A fascinating insight into the microbiome and its importance to health and well-being. A must read for anyone interested in improving their health and that of any future offspring. I look forward to the next scientific advancements in this field.
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- Z
- 06-10-18
Everyone should read or listen to this book!!
Fascinating, enlightening and potentially life changing!
Read, think and enjoy!
Thanks to Alanna for such a well written, scientific and eye opening insight into the human condition. Z
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- naydine
- 03-08-19
thought-provoking
will make you re-examine your relstionship with microbes. this book could radically improve the health of you and your family.
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- Cigdem
- 16-11-15
life changing
it will change your way of seeing the world, your health and will change forever your perception of our interaction with the microbial world.
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- MARTIN
- 21-09-16
100% Informative
This was a thoroughly good read (listen!). In fact it prompted me to purchase the book. The personal story shined a light on the most serious issue facing humanity - the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. At last people and organisations are sitting up to take notice. Let's hope it's not too late. Everyone should read this book.
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- Luca
- 21-12-17
Enlightening but repetitive
The insights the author gives are very interesting, accompanied by meaningful stories that helped in the understanding of the problems and made my mind spin for possible solutions.
But I had the feeling that some concepts were repeated over and over too many times, and sometimes I felt the author trying to push its personal conclusions as if were obvious.
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- TLM
- 03-02-22
Will definitely read again!
I will definitely need to reread this again. It's a fascinating subject and there is so much information crammed into this book! This subject has changed the way I view the balance of food/nutrients necessary for the healthy body. I already had a very small amount of knowledge but hadn't realised the real scale of the subject..and this book really only starts the process as the subject is so much wider reaching. I believe everyone should read this book!
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- HuffaTW
- 26-01-24
Fascinating
An uncomfortable but important listen. 15 word min. 15 word min 15 word min 15 wor min
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