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An evolutionary biologist and science writer explores the widely-ignored role our gut microbes play in our health and well-being. 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…mehr

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An evolutionary biologist and science writer explores the widely-ignored role our gut microbes play in our health and well-being. 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; remaining a healthy human is impossible without them. In this riveting, shocking, and beautifully written book, biologist Alanna Collen draws on the latest scientific research to show how our personal colony of microbes influences our weight, immune system, mental health, and even our choice of partner. She argues that so many of our modern diseases-obesity, autism, mental illness, digestive disorders, allergies, autoimmune afflictions, and even cancer-have their root in our failure to cherish our most fundamental and enduring relationship: that with our individual colony of microbes. The good news is that unlike our human cells, we can change our microbes for the better. Life-and your body-will never seem the same again.

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Autorenporträt
Dr. Alanna Collen studierte Evolutionsbiologie und Zoologie und arbeitet heute als Wissenschaftsautorin. Sie schreibt u. a. für das Sunday Times Magazine und für die Artenschutzinitiative ARKive und tritt regelmäßig in Radiosendungen und Wissenschaftsmagazinen der BBC auf. Mit dem Thema Mikroben beschäftigte sie sich nicht nur im Rahmen ihrer Doktorarbeit, sondern sie war auch persönlich damit konfrontiert, als sie sich wegen einer Tropenkrankheit einer Langzeit-Antibiotika-Behandlung unterziehen musste. Die Autorin lebt mit ihrem Mann in Bedfordhire/England.
Rezensionen
'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 your health with probiotics" books and articles posing as science (but serving mostly commerce), Collen dares to tell the messy truth about what science knows - and doesn't know - about the microbes that live in us, live with us, and in some ways even become us ... [Collen] is clearly an expert in the field ... fascinating ... Everything you wanted to know about microbes but were afraid to ask' Kirkus, _Starred_ Review