10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness (Hardcover)

by Alanna Collen

"粪便移植"有助于身体修复？ 过敏是因为免疫系统太尽责？ 母乳会根据婴儿的发育需求变化？ 看似无用的阑尾,是为微生物而存在？ 为什么每日摄入的卡路里,以肠道吸收为准？ …… 身体的多数问题,都与占据人体90%的微生物有关。那么人类和微生物,谁才是身体的主人？ 我们的身体不仅由肌肉和骨头构成,还有细菌及真菌等。这些微生物不仅影响我们的体重、免疫系统、精神健康、对伴侣的选择,还会导致焦虑、抑郁、强迫症、孤独症等精神健康问题。 伦敦大学学院博士以演化生物学为基础,从"精神控制"--大脑与感觉,到"身体修复"--益生菌,讲述了自古以来微生物是如何"主宰"人体的。 看完这本书,你会了解如何培养、改善我们体内的微生物,并开始爱护住在你体内的微生物--那另外90%的你。

331 pages, Hardcover

Published July 1, 2023

About the author

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.