10% Human
by Alanna Collen · first published 2015
100% recommend
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Accessible overview of how the body's microbes affect health and wellbeing, covering gut microbiome links to obesity and mood; a good starting point for readers new to the topic.
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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. In this riveting
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