Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

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We compared these diets to those in Sub-Saharan Africa where rural communities have very high-fibre, plant-based diets. We are going to need to understand more of the importance of microbiome to our health as the looming future of antibiotics becoming redundant is fast approaching. They are more preoccupied with things like how to feed their children, how to not die of malaria, or even how to manage day-to-day, and where their next meal will come from.

We can’t solve our problems through dietary changes alone: we’ve got to address some fundamental underlying challenges to our human and planetary microbiome. Twenty-first-century living is causing our airways to close, our skin to flake, our joints to swell, our guts to bleed, our arteries to clot and our brains to seize up. Yet it is only now, as we are beginning to discover the microbiome's enormous potential, that we are realising it is in grave danger, being irrevocably destroyed through the globalisation of our diets, the war on bugs and the industrialised world.A fascinating and nicely written account of our hard working microbiome; out of sight but never out of mind; literally! He is also a practicing colorectal surgeon in the NHS with a clinical interest in the prevention and treatment of colon cancer. To get the balance right between being entertained and learning complex information about the gut microbiome concurrently is quite some skill and J Kinross has got this balance just right. We are just now starting to understand the role our gut microbiome plays in defining our risk of chronic or non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, arthritis, allergies and cancer. Just like an evangelical Christian who never shuts up about Jesus, these people just can't help themselves.

I've long been interested in the microbiome, and have been eagerly awaiting a book that might uncover some of its mysteries. I will admit that I occasionally found it a little hard to understand, which is why I only read it in small amounts at a time.There are many irrelevant rants about climate change and other assorted leftist rhetoric liberally peppering this book. My general hypothesis is that we are experiencing a fundamental change in the type, number and function of micro-organisms that live within us in the developed world. From a world-leading microbiome scientist and surgeon with over two decades of experience comes Dark Matter - the definitive book on the science of the microbiome and how unlocking its potential can protect our health, our immunity and our planet. This not only promotes inflammation and sensitises us to a poor diet, but our microbiomes are less resilient and diverse. 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.

For girls aged fifteen to nineteen, self-harm is the second leading cause of death, globally, after pregnancy. It is given to us by our mothers at birth, adapts with us as we age, influences our moods, determines how fast we run and even who we choose as a partner. Kinross, a world-leading microbiome scientist and surgeon, offers a wealth of relevant insights drawn from his personal experience and over two decades in the field. Fortunately, despite my complaints above, the book did actually contain quite a lot of interesting writing.There is also lots of talk here about the ever-elusive "systemic" racism in the West, "marginalization," and other assorted tidbits of leftist jargon that are somehow never defined, or directly identified. Now, I am a huge proponent of human progress, civilization, and modernity; however, all this progress has not come without its costs.

A really engaging overview of our little microbial friends; what they do for us and, importantly, what we need to do for them. In this ground-breaking book, surgeon and expert on the microbiome, James Kinross, takes us on a guided tour of our extraordinary inner universe, showing how our relationship with microbes may hold the key to why we are increasingly succumbing to diseases and conditions such as cancer, Alzheimer's, autoimmune conditions and allergies. If your basic unit of value is human flourishing and betterment, then having these countries employ more fossil fuels to power their escape from entropy is the best way to support that goal. That has happened over a very short timeframe and the reason for that is not just about diet and food.Transgender people also face a disproportionate risk of death – double that of cisgender people – in large part because of a lack of access to adequate healthcare and high rates of violence and discrimination. Clearly, diet is a major driver too and in America and Europe, we now eat a kind of globalised, processed, white, gloopy diet which is very low in plant-based fibres and very high in animal fats and refined sugars. To better themselves; individually and collectively - these people need access to more (and not less) energy that is 1) cheap, 2) reliable, and 3) scaleable. We also need our children to play outside with other children and to have a diverse diet that is high in fibre and low in saturated fats.