Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

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Clearly, diet is a major driver too and in America and Europe, we now eat a kind of globalised, processed, white, gloopy diet which is very low in plant-based fibres and very high in animal fats and refined sugars. A large chunk of the countries on Earth (with a majority of the global population) could be accurately described as having "developing" economies. See Alex Epstein's The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels for a deep dive, and Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress; as well.

Twenty-first-century living is causing our airways to close, our skin to flake, our joints to swell, our guts to bleed, our arteries to clot and our brains to seize up. it not only helps us digest and absorb our food and metabolise vitamins, minerals and medicines, but it also has a key role to play in our immune system. My general hypothesis is that we are experiencing a fundamental change in the type, number and function of micro-organisms that live within us in the developed world. He first talks about how men suffer from certain diseases at much higher rates than women, but then goes on to tell the reader about how women are the real victims, because of "socioeconomic and gender-based social inequalities.And that, in our quest to cure the world of infectious diseases, we’ve inadvertently created a new pandemic of non-infectious ones. Whether you're a health professional, a young parent, or simply someone interested in the future of healthcare, this book is a must-read. The microscopic life forms that preside over our health and wellness are increasingly frustrated with the mistreatment inflicted upon them by hyperglobalization – and they have a formidable molecular arsenal with which they are demonstrating their displeasure. I’d rather have it as a physical book than the e-book I got as I think it is a book worth checking again in the future.

He is also a practicing colorectal surgeon in the NHS with a clinical interest in the prevention and treatment of colon cancer. Dr James Kinross is a senior lecturer in colorectal surgery and consultant surgeon at Imperial College London and a visiting professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. I thoroughly recommend this well-written book to anyone not afraid of something moderately academic. As someone with a PhD in Biotechnology, I can confidently say that "Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome" by James Kinross is a fantastic read that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in health and well-being. Just like an evangelical Christian who never shuts up about Jesus, these people just can't help themselves.

Fascinating throughout, on occasions a little complex to get your head around but a comprehensive wealth of well explained info around the importance of and interactions between the trillions of microbiota in the gut. Despite the complexity of the subject matter, the book is extremely well-written and easy to understand.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We are going to need to understand more of the importance of microbiome to our health as the looming future of antibiotics becoming redundant is fast approaching. Microbes have been used as therapy and cancer treatment for hundreds of years – but they’ve been ignored by mainstream science. I've long been interested in the microbiome, and have been eagerly awaiting a book that might uncover some of its mysteries. These changes cause and drive inflammation and we think this increases the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases.Mass health conditions now making optimal health care unaffordable even in the richest societies are preventable, mostly at vastly lower cost.