Morteza Karami

“But in the years that followed, science journalists the world over began expressing their disappointment in the contribution that knowledge of our complete DNA sequence had made to medicine. Although decoding our own instruction book is an irrefutable achievement that has made a difference to treatments for several important illnesses, it has not revealed as much as we expected about the causes of many common diseases. Searching for genetic differences in common to people with a particular disease did not throw up straightforward links for as many conditions as had been expected. Often, conditions were weakly linked to tens or hundreds of gene variants, but rarely was it the case that possessing a given gene variant would lead directly to a given disease.”
― Alanna Collen, 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

“Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“In fact, gastrointestinal symptoms are surprisingly common in people with mental health and neurological conditions, though they are usually seen as unimportant compared with the altered behaviour.”
― Alanna Collen, 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

“When they stressed the mice by placing them in a tube, both groups produced stress hormones, but in the germ-free mice the hormone concentrations were twice as high. Without their microbiota, the mice had found the situation much more stressful.”
― Alanna Collen, 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness