10% Human by Alanna Collen
Obesity, autism, mental health problems, IBS, allergies, auto-immunity, cancer. Does the answer to the modern epidemic of Western diseases lie in our gut?‘A fascinating study of the intertwined lives of microbes and humans, ‘10% Human’, is a manual for the new,
healthy way of being dirty … Read it, and you will learn to love your microbiota’ Newsweek
‘A welcome antidote to the simplistic "boost your health with probiotics" books and articles posing as science (but serving mostly commerce), Collen dares to tell the messy truth about what science knows – and doesn't know – about the microbes that live in us, live with us, and in some ways even become us … [Collen] is clearly an expert in the field … fascinating … Everything you wanted to know about microbes but were afraid to ask’ Kirkus, *Starred* Review
Alanna Collen is a science writer, with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology from Imperial College London, and a PhD in evolutionary biology from University College London and the Zoological Society of London. She is a well-travelled zoologist, an expert in bat echolocation, and an accidental collector of tropical diseases.
During her scientific career, Alanna has written for the Sunday Times Magazine, as well as about wildlife for ARKive.org. She has appeared on numerous radio and television programmes, including BBC Radio 4’s Tribes of Science and Saturday Live, and BBC One’s adventure-wildlife show Lost Land of the Volcano. She lives in Bedfordshire with her husband.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007584055 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007584059 |
| Title | 10% Human |
| Author | Alanna Collen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2016-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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