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10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen (Paperback, 2016)

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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 ÔthemÕ than you are ÔyouÕ.Your gut alone hosts 100 trillion of them and until recently we thought that our microbes didnÕt matter. This is all set to change as the latest scientific research tells a very different story, one where microbes run our bodies and becoming healthy is impossible without them. In this ground-breaking book, biologist Alanna Collen reveals how our personal colony of microbes influence our weight, immune system, mental health and even our choice of partner. This is a new way of understanding modern diseases Ð obesity, autism, mental health problems, gut disorders, allergies, auto-immunity and even.