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10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
Alanna Collen
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Description for 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
Paperback. Obesity, autism, mental health problems, IBS, allergies, auto-immunity, cancer. Does the answer to the modern epidemic of 'Western' diseases lie in our gut? Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: PSX; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 320.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
William Collins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007584055
SKU
V9780007584055
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99-99
About Alanna Collen
Alanna Collen is a science writer, with both bachelor's and master's degrees in biology from Imperial College London, and a PhD in evolutionary biology from University College London and the Zoological Society of London. She is a well-travelled zoologist, an expert in bat echolocation, and an accidental collector of tropical diseases. ... Read more
Reviews for 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
`A fascinating study of the intertwined lives of microbes and humans, `10% Human', is a manual for the new, healthy way of being dirty ... Read it, and you will learn to love your microbiota' Newsweek `A welcome antidote to the simplistic boost ... Read more