A really engaging overview of our little microbial friends; what they do for us and, importantly, what we need to do for them. Whether you're a health professional, a young parent, or simply someone interested in the future of healthcare, this book is a must-read.

This book goes into the history of microbiome and the study of it up to today plus how it can be applied to everyday life. 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.Now, I am a huge proponent of human progress, civilization, and modernity; however, all this progress has not come without its costs.

In the developing world, millions of women still don’t have access to basic health services and modern contraceptives. From a world-leading microbiome scientist and surgeon with over two decades of experience comes Dark Matter - the definitive book on the science of the microbiome and how unlocking its potential can protect our health, our immunity and our planet.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. Fortunately, despite my complaints above, the book did actually contain quite a lot of interesting writing.

A large proportion of our immune system is located within the gut because it has to process a huge number of environmental antigens. For girls aged fifteen to nineteen, self-harm is the second leading cause of death, globally, after pregnancy.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

As a result, they have a much more diverse and resilient population of gut micro-organisms than we do. 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. So, for example, our planet has a microbiome and we have microbiomes on our skin, in our lungs and in our gut. I thoroughly recommend this well-written book to anyone not afraid of something moderately academic.Despite the complexity of the subject matter, the book is extremely well-written and easy to understand. The book makes a compelling case for why this subject should be taught in schools, given its far-reaching implications for public health. The author even managed to shoe-horn in some bit of low-resolution garbage about trans people (somehow); in a book about microbes, no less. 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. We have to come together and reject farming practices and healthcare policies that ultimately lead to the destruction of our human microbiome.