Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

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Things that the average person (like the actually privileged author) living in a WEIRD country has little to no experience with. I've long been interested in the microbiome, and have been eagerly awaiting a book that might uncover some of its mysteries. I really hate when authors of science books cram in their own shit-tier political takes into books where they have absolutely no business being, and my ratings will always reflect this.

More and more we are learning about the importance of our gut, Kinross takes the even more complex science of microbiome and explains in a way that is easy to understand. 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.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. Just like an evangelical Christian who never shuts up about Jesus, these people just can't help themselves. For the best part of two decades I have sampled the microbiomes of generous patients undergoing surgery in theatre number three, in my quest to find answers to these questions.

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. 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. A really engaging overview of our little microbial friends; what they do for us and, importantly, what we need to do for them. 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.I knew the gut microbiome was important to our health and I wanted to focus my future career on understanding how. 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.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Information about gut health is decent but it leans too heavily about climate change, Covid and other political views of which i think are biased (in my opinion) and feel as though the book fits a certain narrative that I respectfully disagree with completely.Could our microbes be in conversation with our immune system – and explain why diseases related to it are increasingly common? 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. A microbiome refers to all the microscopic organisms within a particular environment and all of the things that they need to sustain themselves. For girls aged fifteen to nineteen, self-harm is the second leading cause of death, globally, after pregnancy. This involves following two cohorts of children from birth and studying how their gut microbiome evolves as they grow up in varying circumstances.