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Collen, Alanna.
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Intestines -- Microbiology.
Enterobacteriaceae.
Microorganisms -- Therapeutic use.
Microbial metabolism.
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Collen, Alanna.
Intestines -- Microbiology.
Enterobacteriaceae.
Microorganisms -- Therapeutic use.
Microbial metabolism.
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10%
human
:
how
your
body
's
microbes
hold
the
key
to
health
and
happiness
/ Alanna Collen.
by
Collen, Alanna.
Harper, [2015]
Call #:
612.33 C697t
Subjects
Intestines -- Microbiology.
Enterobacteriaceae.
Microorganisms -- Therapeutic use.
Microbial metabolism.
ISBN:
9780062345981 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Ten
percent
human
:
how
your
body
's
microbes
hold
the
key
to
health
and
happiness
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
327 p., [16] pages of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The other 90% -- Twenty-fist-century sickness -- All diseases begin in the gut -- Mind control -- The selfish microbe -- Germ warfare -- You are what you eat -- From the very first breath -- Microbial restoration -- Twenty-first-century
health
-- 100%
human
.
Summary:
"You are just 10%
human
. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call
your
body
, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. Over
your
lifetime, you will carry the equivalent weight of five African elephants in
microbes
. You are not an individual but a colony. Until recently, we had thought our
microbes
hardly mattered, but science is revealing a different story, one in which
microbes
run our bodies and becoming a healthy
human
is impossible without them. Biologist Alanna Collen draws on the latest scientific research to show
how
our personal colony of
microbes
influences our weight, our immune system, our mental
health
, and even our choice of partner. She argues that so many of our modern diseases--obesity, autism, mental illness, digestive disorders, allergies, autoimmunity afflictions, and even cancer--have their root in our failure to cherish our most fundamental and enduring relationship: that with our personal colony of
microbes
. Many of the questions about modern diseases left unanswered by the
Human
Genome Project are illuminated by this new science. And the good news is that unlike our
human
cells, we can change our
microbes
for the better"--Provided by publisher.
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