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  • 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

  • By: Alanna Collen
  • Narrated by: Robyn Addison
  • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (132 ratings)

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10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

By: Alanna Collen
Narrated by: Robyn Addison
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In this groundbreaking book, Alanna Collen explores the extraordinary world of the powerful microbes that make up 90 percent of the human body.

You are just 10 percent human. For every one of the cells that make your body, there are nine impostor cells. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but bacteria and fungi. You are not an individual but a colony of microbes. Far from being passive, the trillions of microbes that live on and in you are intimately involved in running your body. Even aspects that you think of entirely as ‘you' turn out to be run by ‘them' - like your immune system.

In this riveting, shocking, and beautifully written book, Alanna Collen explores the modern epidemics of ‘Western' diseases - obesity, autism, mental health problems, gut disorders, allergies, autoimmunity, and even cancer - and argues that most have their roots in our failure to cherish our most fundamental and enduring relationship: that with our personal colony of microbes. Antibiotics, antibacterial cleaners, rapidly changing diets, and our obsession with hygiene alter the microbe community we carry. Unlike our human cells, though, we can change our microbes for the better.

10% Human provides a revelatory guide to the role of your body's microbes in health and happiness. This is popular science at its most relevant: life - and your body - will never seem the same again.

©2015 Alanna Collen (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

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Very informative and a great read

This book was truely fascinating. Full of amazing studies and facts that makes logical sense, easy to understand. Highly recommend for anyone looking to understand how our bowels work and the connection with moods and thoughts.

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Enjoyable. I agreed with most of the content.

Where does 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Apart from a couple of points which I think the author needs to update her research, overall the book was interesting, well read and enjoyable. Gives people a starting point to understanding chronic ill health.

What was one of the most memorable moments of 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness?

The information about the difference in gut bacteria between skinny and fat people.

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Easy to listen too. Speaks clearly

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insightful

The book is very enlightening, it contains invaluable information about symbiotic relationship between us and microorganisms.

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Really informative

Makes you think twice about whether or not you need that course of antibiotics. The other key take away was the lack of fibre in our western diet.

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What an insightful read!

This book was so informative. It was presented in easy to understand terms. The narrator was pleasant and almost soothing to listen to. If you have any interest in your health, I highly recommend this book. Brilliant.

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This book is a life changer.

The subjects in this book will lay the foundations to a revolution in eating, cleaning and health. Forget the Palio diet, live the Palio lifestyle for a longer healthier life.
Every single paragraph not only makes perfect sense , but it is backed up by sound science and research.

I'm telling everyone to read it.

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Great

Great content, but the narrator reads too fast for me to absorb all the information.

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Excellent

This book is a must read to whoever is into health and nutrition. Amazing book.

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Excellent and informative

Really enjoyed this book. Information everyone needs to hear. Valuable and hope it creates change.

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Wonderful

Enjoyed going through. Very original ideas. Exercise of revelation. At some points she seems to have gone too far, but that's not affecting the wonders of this book.

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