Missing microbes
by Martin J. Blaser · first published 2014
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"A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert. Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing research while revealing the damage that overuse of antibiotics is doing to our health: contributing to the rise of obesity, asthma, diabetes, and certain forms of cancer. In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome where for hundreds of thousands of years ba
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A good book about this: https://www.amazon.com/Missing-Microbes-Overuse-Antibiotics-...
on “A ‘delayed infection’ theory of childhood leukaemia” ↗The man who first made this connection with H. Pylori, Martin J. Blaser, thinks the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_J._Blaser#Research He has a book on it too, “Missing Microbes”. It’s sad how much dogma there is in the medical community.
on “Joint Pain, from the Gut (2015)” ↗Some of my picks from last months reading list: 1. The undoing project, Michael Lewis 2. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde 3. Missing Microbes, Martin J. Blaser 4. Socrates' Defence, Plato
on “Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?” ↗