10% Human
how your body’s microbes hold the key to health and happiness
$32.76
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
22 May 2016
Summary
10% Human: How Your Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
Obesity, autism, mental health problems, IBS, allergies, auto-immunity, cancer. Does the answer to the modern epidemic of ‘Western’ diseases lie in our gut?
You are 10% human. For every one of your cells, there are nine impostors hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and bone, but also bacteria and fungi. And you are more ‘them’ than you are ‘you’.
Your gut alone hosts 100 trillion of them and until …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780007584055 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0007584059 |
| Author: | Alanna Collen |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | William Collins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 22 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 22mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘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
About The Author
Alanna Collen
Alanna Collen is a science writer with degrees in biology from Imperial College London, and a PhD in evolutionary biology from University College London and the Zoological Society of London. She is a zoologist, an expert in bat echolocation, and a collector of tropical diseases.
During her scientific career, Alanna has written for the Sunday Times Magazine. She has appeared on numerous radio and television programmes, including BBC Radio 4’s Tribes of Science and Saturday Live, and BBC One’s adventure-wildlife show Lost Land of the Volcano. She lives in Bedfordshire with her husband.
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