Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

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Highly recommend this to anyone fascinated with the human body, gut health or generally wants to read about something fascinating. This not only promotes inflammation and sensitises us to a poor diet, but our microbiomes are less resilient and diverse. Much as some microbes do cause illness and death, we cannot live healthy lives without an extraordinarily diverse and changing personal biosphere of microbial companions which we influence and which influence us.There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. I was keen to bring together all the ongoing work in microbiome science because it creates such a compelling argument for taking it seriously. It’s for anyone who is interested in how we can improve our health and who wants to understand why we get disease and how to prevent it, so I have tried to make it easy to understand.

We are just now starting to understand the role our gut microbiome plays in defining our risk of chronic or non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, arthritis, allergies and cancer. The global pandemic of non-infectious diseases is, arguably, a greater threat to humanity than that caused by any communicable disease. Having been nurtured with the idea that microbes are bad, keeping bleach, antibacterial sprays and handwash around and washing hands after handling soil or pets, this book comes as a shock. Fascinating throughout, on occasions a little complex to get your head around but a comprehensive wealth of well explained info around the importance of and interactions between the trillions of microbiota in the gut. Just like an evangelical Christian who never shuts up about Jesus, these people just can't help themselves.There are many irrelevant rants about climate change and other assorted leftist rhetoric liberally peppering this book. It is given to us by our mothers at birth, adapts with us as we age, influences our moods, determines how fast we run and even who we choose as a partner. Despite the complexity of the subject matter, the book is extremely well-written and easy to understand. I’m saying that we are currently experiencing an internal climate crisis and we’ve got to change society. I don't know WTF climate change has to do with our microbiome, or even why the author seems to think that climate "change" is the biggest threat facing humanity today.