Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

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Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

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It is gifted to us by our mothers at birth, adapts with us as we age, influences our moods and appetites, determines how fast we run and even affects who we choose as a partner. I knew the gut microbiome was important to our health and I wanted to focus my future career on understanding how. One of the ways to do this is for women to breastfeed if they can and for children to have all their vaccinations – that way, they’re much less likely to need antibiotics. That has happened over a very short timeframe and the reason for that is not just about diet and food.

Mass health conditions now making optimal health care unaffordable even in the richest societies are preventable, mostly at vastly lower cost. 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. Author 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. We have to come together and reject farming practices and healthcare policies that ultimately lead to the destruction of our human microbiome. I don't know WTF climate change has to do with our microbiome, or even why the author seems to think that climate "change" is the biggest threat facing humanity today.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. I’ve got a great PhD student looking at how bacteria might reduce the adverse side effects of chemotherapy. I’m saying that we are currently experiencing an internal climate crisis and we’ve got to change society. That’s why at a population level we’re seeing alarming increases in the risk of colorectal cancer, asthma, allergies, rheumatoid arthritis and other chronic conditions. A fascinating and nicely written account of our hard working microbiome; out of sight but never out of mind; literally!

There are many irrelevant rants about climate change and other assorted leftist rhetoric liberally peppering this book. If your basic unit of value is human flourishing and betterment, then having these countries employ more fossil fuels to power their escape from entropy is the best way to support that goal. Kinross has a knack for breaking down complicated scientific concepts into digestible information, making it accessible to readers of all backgrounds. A large proportion of our immune system is located within the gut because it has to process a huge number of environmental antigens.Kinross makes it clear that the composition of the microbiome has been implicated in many conditions, but the truth is that this is really nothing new. I thoroughly recommend this well-written book to anyone not afraid of something moderately academic.

Our gut microbiome is responsible for educating our immune systems as we grow and for controlling how those immune systems function later in life, as we age. Despite the complexity of the subject matter, the book is extremely well-written and easy to understand. This book is my way of sharing my own journey to these conclusions, and my hope is that this will start a conversation about how we can provide a different type of medicine. They can make us depressed, make us crave certain foods, and can cause or prevent many chronic diseases and other health conditions. Having been nurtured with the idea that microbes are bad, keeping bleach, antibacterial sprays and handwash around and washing hands after handling soil or pets, this book comes as a shock.

Just like an evangelical Christian who never shuts up about Jesus, these people just can't help themselves. 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.



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