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Exploring The Human Microbiome: Diet, Microbes and Western Diseases
The human microbiome is the combination of all the microorganisms which, in a physiological or sometimes pathological manner, live symbiotically with the human body, with all the genes which they are able to express.
The discovery of the human microbiome represents a new frontier of medicine, because it has made clear to us that we don’t live alone and that each of us shares their body with a multitude of microscopic tenants who have colonized us since we were born.
Some people call them microbes, others bacteria, but they are just single-celled organisms which inhabit our body and share its destiny. They are neither serial killers nor illegal immigrants – they are not those things at all. On the contrary, they make their own resources available to us and offer us their genome free of charge. The genetic component that these tiny housemates add to our body affects its state of health in a critical way, and vice versa.
They can make us happy or sad, slim or fat, powerful or weak, and they are able to protect us from the main Western diseases. Their presence makes the human body a super-organism with so far unassuming characteristics.
This book, written by the founder of the Italian Microbiome Project, explains in a simple and practical way how to become acquainted with our symbionts in order to get the best from their potential. It is intended to change your ways of thinking on the ideas of health and disease forever. It shows you what tests to do in order to inspect the characteristics of your microbiome and also what diet you should follow so as to favor the formation of a healthy bacterial flora which is able to strengthen the immune system and prevent more and more widespread diseases, like immune, metabolic or cardiovascular diseases, and even, in some cases, cancer.
This book will illustrate how the abuse of antibiotics can cause (especially in children) pathologies far more serious than the ones they are trying to combat. Finally, there will be depictions of the possible applications of microbial transplants, which represent the future of medicine.
Every theoretical explanation is supported by practical instructions that show you what to do and when to do them. If what you are searching for is the handbook of your “metabolic operating system”, your search is over.
The discovery of the human microbiome represents a new frontier of medicine, because it has made clear to us that we don’t live alone and that each of us shares their body with a multitude of microscopic tenants who have colonized us since we were born.
Some people call them microbes, others bacteria, but they are just single-celled organisms which inhabit our body and share its destiny. They are neither serial killers nor illegal immigrants – they are not those things at all. On the contrary, they make their own resources available to us and offer us their genome free of charge. The genetic component that these tiny housemates add to our body affects its state of health in a critical way, and vice versa.
They can make us happy or sad, slim or fat, powerful or weak, and they are able to protect us from the main Western diseases. Their presence makes the human body a super-organism with so far unassuming characteristics.
This book, written by the founder of the Italian Microbiome Project, explains in a simple and practical way how to become acquainted with our symbionts in order to get the best from their potential. It is intended to change your ways of thinking on the ideas of health and disease forever. It shows you what tests to do in order to inspect the characteristics of your microbiome and also what diet you should follow so as to favor the formation of a healthy bacterial flora which is able to strengthen the immune system and prevent more and more widespread diseases, like immune, metabolic or cardiovascular diseases, and even, in some cases, cancer.
This book will illustrate how the abuse of antibiotics can cause (especially in children) pathologies far more serious than the ones they are trying to combat. Finally, there will be depictions of the possible applications of microbial transplants, which represent the future of medicine.
Every theoretical explanation is supported by practical instructions that show you what to do and when to do them. If what you are searching for is the handbook of your “metabolic operating system”, your search is over.
81 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 11, 2015
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