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10% Human

How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

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10% Human

Written by: Alanna Collen
Narrated by: Cat Gould
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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 and becoming 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, our immune system, our mental health, and even our choice of partner. She argues that so many of our modern diseases - obesity, autism, mental illness, digestive disorders, allergies, autoimmunity afflictions, and even cancer - have their root in our failure to cherish our most fundamental and enduring relationship: that with our personal colony of microbes.

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Loved it. I would never have known how big a role my microbes have on my health.

very informative and transformative

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I loved listening to this book. Having dedicated myself to helping others find their best selves through healthy dietary and fitness choices, this book has filled so many gaps. I believe that a healthy gut microbiome is essential, and to avoid antibiotics unless absolutely necessary. I believe the dietary relation to health outcomes is intimately connected. From this book I learned that there is no perfect dietary choice but you can feed your gut aligned to the dietary paradigm you wish, supporting a microbial community that aligns to those choices. I am not sure that was an intent of the author but it created light bulb moments for me. Whether you are a carnivore, omnivore, vegetarian or vegan, always support your gut biome aligned to the food that serves you.

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