B. Brett Finlay, Jessica M. Finlay

The Microbiome Master Key (eBook, ePUB)

Harness Your Microbes to Unlock Whole-Body Health and Lifelong Vitality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Learn the secret to whole-body, lifelong health: the teeming world of microbes inside and all around you.

Hand sanitizer. Social distancing. Antibiotics. Fending off germs has long been considered one of the cornerstones of good health. But what if better health and more graceful aging actually went hand-in-hand with embracing microbes?

Your body is teeming with microbesnot just in the gut, but also on your skin, in your lungs, and beyond. And they impact everything from your sleep, cognition, mood, heart health, and energy to your likelihood of developing many diseases. As groundbreaking new studies are showing, taking care of your microbiomeinside and outcan help you improve your day-to-day health and even help prevent or reverse some of the most common age-related diseases.

This eye-opening book breaks down what the latest research says about how the microbiome affects all aspects of physical and mental healthand what you can do about it.

• Potentially change the trajectory of 9 out of 10 leading causes of death, including heart disease, cancer, lung disease, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and diabetes
• Increase your resistance to pathogens like the flu and COVID-19
• Keep your skin soft, healthy, supple, and less wrinkled
• Stabilize your weight and control blood sugar
• Improve your physical fitness and strength
• Fight inflammaginglow-grade inflammation that hastens the aging process
• Get a more restful and rejuvenating night's sleep
• Reduce stress and improve mental healthand your long-term quality of life

The Microbiome Master Key is an updated and expanded new edition of The Whole-Body Microbiome.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Experiment
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798893030402
• Artikelnr.: 72251234

Autorenporträt

B. Brett Finlay, PhD, studies how microbes cause disease in people and how we can fight infections, as well as the role the microbiota plays in human health and disease, including asthma, Parkinson's, and malnutrition. He is the coauthor of the book Let Them Eat Dirt and the author of over 600 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is also an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a jazz sax player, skier, and beekeeper in his spare time.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
* Chapter 1: The Fountain of Youth Is Full of . . . Microbes?
* Chapter 2: Your Microbes Are Glowing: The Skin Microbiome
* Chapter 3: Mind Your Microbes: Microbes and the Brain
* Chapter 4: Healthy Smile, Healthy You: The Oral Microbiome
* Chapter 5: Take a Deep Breath: The Lung Microbiome
* Chapter 6: Belly Bugs: The Stomach Microbiome
* Chapter 7: Microbe Mecca: The Gut Microbiome
* Chapter 8: Love Bugs: The Heart and the Microbiome
* Chapter 9: Females Are Not Small Males: Menopause and the Vaginal
Microbiome
* Chapter 10: Microbes Meet Cancer
* Chapter 11: Microbe Tug-of-War: The Immune System
* Chapter 12: Flex Your Microbes: The Musculoskeletal System
* Chapter 13: Sleep and the Microbiome
* Chapter 14: Too Clean, or Not Too Clean: Environmental Microbes
* Chapter 15: COVID-19 and the Social Microbiome
* Chapter 16: The Fountain of Youth Is Full of Microbes: The Future of
the Whole-Body Microbiome
Selected References
Index