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10% Human

by Alanna Collen
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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Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781541441170
  • File size: 367439 KB
  • Release date: February 25, 2020
  • Duration: 12:45:29

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  • ISBN: 9781541441170
  • File size: 367492 KB
  • Release date: February 25, 2020
  • Duration: 12:55:29
  • Number of parts: 15

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Medical Science Nonfiction

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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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Medical Science Nonfiction
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    Publisher:
    Tantor Media, Inc.
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781541441170
    File size: 367439 KB
    Release date: February 25, 2020
    Duration: 12:45:29

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781541441170
    File size: 367492 KB
    Release date: February 25, 2020
    Duration: 12:55:29
    Number of parts: 15

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    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
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