

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
Categories: Nonfiction, Health & Fitness, Science, Life Sciences
Synopsis
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.