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This writer provides a very readable book after researching the PEER REVIEW JOURNALS that contain the research she refers to in the book. She does not serve up her opinions very often and simply presents the research in an accessible style that most adults could read and understand. Other books about gut microbes are not as firmly based on peer review articles as this book is.Collen is an evolutionary PhD biologist which is essential in understanding this particular topic. Very briefly, bacteria were the only organisms on the planet for about 3 BILLION years. All other organisms that have arisen on Earth were born into a sea, an ocean of bacteria. And all of those organisms have had to deal with that bacterial ocean... or die. It's really no wonder the bacteria are the ones that are really controlling things.I am in my 30th year of teaching community college biology courses for nursing students and my degrees are both in microbiology. There's a lot of junk pseudoscience out there... but this book is not one of those. Here in my last year of teaching, we are reading this book as a supplement to our regular text, and going through each chapter as a class.If you don't read this book, you are missing out on a lot of answers to yours and our chronic health problems... from autism, obesity/overweight, allergies, diabetes, autoimmunity, antibiotic overuse, and diet. How we cultivate our microbiome is the key to understanding health in the 21st century.Without any reservations, I recommend this read.

I had already been doing research about the microbiome when I came across this book and it is so informative. The author covers the importance of the microbes as part of our bodies and our health. As a person struggling with a chronic illness this book completely changed my view on how I view modern medicine, diet, and microbes.

Haven't finished reading the book but from the material I HAVE read, it's well written and speaks to the subject I'm interested in.

Read this book - it will change the way you look at your body and the food you eat and the actions you take. Mind-blowing. The future of so much medicine and science! I completely totally recommend it, AND it is easy to read, without coming across as being dumbed-down.

Loved it... extremely insightful and full of knowledge. Anyone and everyone should read this. It's full of fun facts that will blow you away.

VG

Good book to give you perspective that you do not hear about from most doctors. We all need to understand better to stay healthy.

I'm half-way through this book - it is very hard to put down. It is well researched, and the writer is excellent.

I don't like Page s Quality But it is Brand new Book.

Very interesting book. Very detailed.

The book is excellent, but it arrived a bit damaged. Nothing that compromises the reading tho.

The current pandemic reminds us that, despite our illusions of scientific and medical progress, we are still at the mercy of the simplest of organisms. Government advice is to sterilise everything and lock ourselves away from these microbes. But we have in fact co-existed with microbes since we evolved from single cellular organisms ourselves, and in fact play host to over TRILLION of them inside our bodies, outnumbering ‘our own cells’ 10 to 1. In fact, without them, we would die. They form an integral part of our immune system, benign forms cover our skin and protect us from infection, they digest fibre in our large intestine to produce a range of essential vitamins, short chain fatty acids like butyrate to protect us from leaky gut, allergies and infections, and produce many biologically active molecules, including most of our serotonin.But, probably due to massive over-use of antibiotics which randomly exterminate our protective guardians and leave us open to pathogenic varieties, and poor diet lacking in fibre to feed the essential ones, our immune systems are compromised. As a consequence, we have replaced the fatal diseases of the 19th century with an epidemic of auto-immune illnesses, and suffer from a variety of inflammatory conditions. (in fact, it is an over-active inflammatory response which kills us in the current pandemic rather than any toxins from the invading virus).This very readable and thoroughly researched and argued book gives us sage advice on how to take simple steps to minimise risk to ourselves and our children from the modern plethora of auto-immune illnesses, from obesity to Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

ヒトは膨大な微生物の海の中に形成された生き物だという。　日本語訳も出ている。