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Dark Matter
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  • Published: 10 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241544006
  • Imprint: Penguin Life
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.99
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Dark Matter

The New Science of the Microbiome

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10 Sept 2024
Audiobook
4 May 2023
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From a world-leading microbiome scientist and surgeon with over two decades of experience comes Dark Matter, a pioneering guide to hacking your microbiome for a healthier life.

Our microbiome – the complex ecosystem of bacteria, viruses and other microbes inside us – is critically important to our health and wellbeing. It is given to us by our mothers at birth, adapts with us as we age, influences our mood and appetites, determines how fast we run and even affects who we choose as a partner.

In this ground-breaking book, 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 such as Alzheimer’s, cancer and autoimmune conditions. He highlights the disastrous consequences of our war on germs, the effects of globalisation and our addiction to antibiotics, showing how it is only now, as we are beginning to discover the microbiome’s enormous potential, that we are realising it is in grave danger.

Drawing on cutting-edge research and years of clinical experience, Kinross shows us how to protect this vital inner world before it’s too late – providing practical tips on how to optimise the microbiome to protect your health, boost your immunity and safeguard your mental wellbeing. His illuminating, urgent book shows that if we work with, not against our microbes, we can live better, healthier lives.
  • Published: 10 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241544006
  • Imprint: Penguin Life
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.99
Categories:

About the author

James Kinross

James Kinross is a Senior Lecturer in Colorectal Surgery and a Consultant Surgeon at Imperial College London. His clinical interest is in the treatment of colorectal cancer. He was an NIHR Clinical Lecturer and was awarded a Royal College of Surgeons of England training fellowship during his PhD on the gut microbiome. He is a visiting Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland.
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Praise for Dark Matter

Important and devastating

The Times

This book is really, really interesting ... Nothing more important in your life than your microbiome ... this will change your life

Chris Evans

I've long been interested in the microbiome, and have been eagerly awaiting a book that might uncover some of its mysteries. This is that book

Heston Blumenthal

A totally addictive and illuminating read. Compelling from beginning to end

Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed, gastroenterologist and bestselling author of The Kitchen Prescription

A fountain of knowledge and sense in an overwhelming world of science

Rhiannon Lambert, Registered Nutritionist and Sunday Times Bestselling Author

Engaging ... [Dark Matter] stands out in revealing the microbiome through the eyes of a clinician who sees each patient not just as a human, but as a human entwined with a complex, dynamic ecosystem

New Scientist

A spellbinding explanation of microbiology that will help you get to the bottom of health and happiness

John Vincent, Co-Founder of Leon