Our microbiome – the complex ecosystem of bacteria, viruses and other microbes inside us – is critically important to our health and wellbeing. It is gifted to us by our mothers at birth, adapts with us as we age, influences our moods and appetites, determines how fast we run and even affects who we choose as a partner. It also determines how we recover from surgery.
This book takes you 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 of progress such as Alzheimer’s, allergies, autoimmune conditions and cancer. It describes hows how to optimise the microbiome to protect your health, boost your immunity and safeguard your mental wellbeing.