Missing Microbes, Martin J. Blaser
Missing Microbes, Martin J. Blaser
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Missing Microbes
How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues

Author: Martin J. Blaser

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/30/2014


Synopsis

Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take listeners to the forefront of trail-blazing research while revealing the damage that overuse of antibiotics is doing to our health: contributing to the rise of obesity, asthma, diabetes, and certain forms of cancer.

In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin J. Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the health and equilibrium of our body. Now this invisible eden is being irrevocably damaged by some of our most revered medical advances—antibiotics—threatening the extinction of our irreplaceable microbes with terrible health consequences.

Taking us into both the lab and deep into the fields where these troubling effects can be witnessed firsthand, Blaser not only provides cutting-edge evidence for the adverse effects of antibiotics, he tells us what we can do to avoid even more catastrophic health problems in the future.

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Reviews

Goodreads review by Audrey

This book should be required reading for anyone in the medical profession, parents, and policy makers (especially in agriculture and drug regulation). In a clear and non-technical way, Blaser--an MD and former head of the Infectious Diseases Society of America--lays out the chilling story of how the......more

Goodreads review by David

An intriguing book. The author gives a broad overview of the microbes that live with all people and the effects of antibiotics on the the human microbiome. The author explains overuse of antibiotics--particularly in children and farm animals. Milk we buy in the grocery story can have measurable leve......more

Goodreads review by Jenn

WOW. This book was SO right up my alley but is not for every reader (I got a lot of "you're reading what??" Personal stories interwoven with sound science - absolutely fascinating and gives sound hypotheses for why we're seeing the modern plagues in today's society. If you've ever wondered why diabe......more