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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Table of Contents:
  • 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.