Follow your gut : the enormous impact of tiny microbes / Rob Knight with Brendan Buhler.
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TextPublisher: New York : Ted Books, Simon & Schuster, 2015Edition: First TED Books hardcover editionDescription: 114 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9781476784748
- Enormous impact of tiny microbes
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Allergies, asthma, obesity, acne: these are just a few of the conditions that may be caused--and someday cured--by the microscopic life inside us. The key is to understand how this groundbreaking science influences your health, mood, and more.
In just the last few years, scientists have shown how the microscopic life within our bodies-- particularly within our intestines--has an astonishing impact on our lives. Your health, mood, sleep patterns, eating preferences--even your likelihood of getting bitten by mosquitoes--can be traced in part to the tiny creatures that live on and inside of us.
In Follow Your Gut, pioneering scientist Rob Knight pairs with award-winning science journalist Brendan Buhler to explain--with good humor and easy-to-grasp examples--why these new findings matter to everyone. They lead a detailed tour of the previously unseen world inside our bodies, calling out the diseases and conditions believed to be most directly impacted by them.
With a practical eye toward deeper knowledge and better decisions, they also explore the known effects of antibiotics, probiotics, diet choice and even birth method on our children's lifelong health. Ultimately, this pioneering book explains how to learn about your own microbiome and take steps toward understanding and improving your health, using the latest research as a guide.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-114).
The body microbial ; How we get our microbiome ; In sickness and in health ; The gut-brain axis ; A brief history of bugs ; Hacking your microbiome ; Antibiotics ; The future ; The American gut ; The science (and art) of microbiome mapping.
You are made up of about 10 trillion human cells-- but there are about 100 trillion microbial cells in and on your body. Knight and Buhler examine the links between our microbes and numerous diseases, and show how microbes are integrated into almost all aspects of our lives. Learn how microscopic life inside us influences our health, mood, and more.