Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

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Whether you're a health professional, a young parent, or simply someone interested in the future of healthcare, this book is a must-read. And an antibiotic drip was cleansing me of my foes, bacteria – after all, they had inflamed my appendix. Which brings us around to the larger question here: What the fuck does any of this stuff have to do with microbiomes and literal bacteria?

And that, in our quest to cure the world of infectious diseases, we’ve inadvertently created a new pandemic of non-infectious ones.I’ve got a great PhD student looking at how bacteria might reduce the adverse side effects of chemotherapy. We are now experiencing an internal climate crisis - Dark Matter reveals that if we work with, not against, our microbes, we can live better, healthier lives. A really engaging overview of our little microbial friends; what they do for us and, importantly, what we need to do for them.

Dr James Kinross is a senior lecturer in colorectal surgery and consultant surgeon at Imperial College London and a visiting professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. They can make us depressed, make us crave certain foods, and can cause or prevent many chronic diseases and other health conditions. He highlights how hyperglobalization and our addiction to antibiotics has transformed our internal ecosystems and why this matters so much to our future health and happiness. I’d rather have it as a physical book than the e-book I got as I think it is a book worth checking again in the future.He oscillates between over simplified (and occasionally unsuitable) analogies and paragraphs that probably need first year undergraduate knowledge to understand fully on the first read. If we are to meaningfully understand how and why we’ve reached this crisis – and how to solve it – we urgently need to reappraise our relationship with our microbes. See Alex Epstein's The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels for a deep dive, and Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress; as well. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Author James Kinross is a senior lecturer in colorectal surgery and consultant surgeon at Imperial College London and a visiting professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland.

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. In the developing world, millions of women still don’t have access to basic health services and modern contraceptives. 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.

That has happened over a very short timeframe and the reason for that is not just about diet and food. 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.