10% human : how your body's microbes hold the key to health and happiness / Alanna Collen.

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...

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Main Author: Collen, Alanna
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, [2015]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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520 |a 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. 
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505 0 |a Being cured -- The other 90% -- Twenty-first-century sickness -- All diseases begin in the gut -- Mind control -- The selfish microbe -- Germ warfare -- You are what they eat -- From the very first breath -- Microbial restoration -- Twenty-first-century health -- 100% human. 
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650 0 |a Microorganisms  |x Therapeutic use. 
650 0 |a Microbial metabolism. 
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