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10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
- Narrated by: Robyn Addison
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary
In this groundbreaking book, Alanna Collen explores the extraordinary world of the powerful microbes that make up 90 percent of the human body.
You are just 10 percent human. For every one of the cells that make your body, there are nine impostor cells. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but bacteria and fungi. You are not an individual but a colony of microbes. Far from being passive, the trillions of microbes that live on and in you are intimately involved in running your body. Even aspects that you think of entirely as ‘you' turn out to be run by ‘them' - like your immune system.
In this riveting, shocking, and beautifully written book, Alanna Collen explores the modern epidemics of ‘Western' diseases - obesity, autism, mental health problems, gut disorders, allergies, autoimmunity, and even cancer - and argues that most have their roots in our failure to cherish our most fundamental and enduring relationship: that with our personal colony of microbes. Antibiotics, antibacterial cleaners, rapidly changing diets, and our obsession with hygiene alter the microbe community we carry. Unlike our human cells, though, we can change our microbes for the better.
10% Human provides a revelatory guide to the role of your body's microbes in health and happiness. This is popular science at its most relevant: life - and your body - will never seem the same again.
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- Veronica
- 28-03-16
Fascinating
This book was very interesting, and informative and not in the slightest boring. I enjoyed listening to it and will defo use it for my future choices.
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- J L Ferguson
- 08-02-21
Educational
A fascinating insight into the microbiome and its importance to health and well-being. A must read for anyone interested in improving their health and that of any future offspring. I look forward to the next scientific advancements in this field.
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- Mr. Nirmaleshwar Nikhar
- 10-09-22
Health and Microbes
Excellent and eye opening. This was a difficult book but definitely worth persevering. Forced to look at myself in a different light.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-03-21
fantastic book
it is very sciencey and technical but a great source of knowledge if you're suffering from long term gut health issues.
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- Ree
- 11-05-19
Awesome!
Lived this book!
So much fascinating scientifically backed knowledge about the Microbiome and how it impacts our lives...ranging from weight, autoimmune diseases and even mental illness!
Everyone, including medical professionals, needs to read this.
Also written in a great highly entertaining and descriptive manner.
Can't wait for Alanna's next book!
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- Mr. Frank R. Triggs
- 06-10-21
Brilliant! - Heavy with detail - Epilogue first??
There is so much to absorb in this book which when listening can wash over you. Not because it's boring, because it's intense.
I think starting with the 9 minute "Epilogue" will intrigue enough to keep you listening when it gets heavy then start from the begining.
It was a revelation to me and will be to any enquiring mind and if you want to study it more a book will be easier. I was happy to let the detail wash over me as I listened and absorbed what I could, which was a lot, and would like to have known years ago.
A must read.
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- Mr Reviewer
- 02-05-24
very informative
narrator mispronounces some of the more technical words and acronyms. content is well structured and informative.
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- Z
- 06-10-18
Everyone should read or listen to this book!!
Fascinating, enlightening and potentially life changing!
Read, think and enjoy!
Thanks to Alanna for such a well written, scientific and eye opening insight into the human condition. Z
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- naydine
- 03-08-19
thought-provoking
will make you re-examine your relstionship with microbes. this book could radically improve the health of you and your family.
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- Cigdem
- 16-11-15
life changing
it will change your way of seeing the world, your health and will change forever your perception of our interaction with the microbial world.
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