Follow Your Gut
eBook - ePub

Follow Your Gut

The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Follow Your Gut

The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes

About this book

Allergies, asthma, obesity, acne: these are just a few of the conditions that may be caused—and someday cured—by the microscopic life inside us. The key is to understand how this groundbreaking science influences your health, mood, and more.

In just the last few years, scientists have shown how the microscopic life within our bodies— particularly within our intestines—has an astonishing impact on our lives. Your health, mood, sleep patterns, eating preferences—even your likelihood of getting bitten by mosquitoes—can be traced in part to the tiny creatures that live on and inside of us.

In Follow Your Gut, pioneering scientist Rob Knight pairs with award-winning science journalist Brendan Buhler to explain—with good humor and easy-to-grasp examples—why these new findings matter to everyone. They lead a detailed tour of the previously unseen world inside our bodies, calling out the diseases and conditions believed to be most directly impacted by them.

With a practical eye toward deeper knowledge and better decisions, they also explore the known effects of antibiotics, probiotics, diet choice and even birth method on our children’s lifelong health. Ultimately, this pioneering book explains how to learn about your own microbiome and take steps toward understanding and improving your health, using the latest research as a guide.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: The Body Microbial
  5. Chapter 2: How We Get Our Microbiome
  6. Chapter 3: In Sickness and in Health
  7. Chapter 4: The Gut-Brain Axis
  8. Sidebar: A Brief History of Bugs
  9. Chapter 5: Hacking Your Microbiome
  10. Chapter 6: Antibiotics
  11. Chapter 7: The Future
  12. Addendum: The American Gut
  13. Sidebar: The Science (and Art) of Microbiome Mapping
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Watch Rob Knight’s TED Talk
  16. About TED Books
  17. Also From TED Books
  18. About TED
  19. About Rob Knight and Brendan Buhler
  20. Notes
  21. Copyright