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CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1    The Body MicrobialCHAPTER 2    How We Get Our MicrobiomeCHAPTER 3    In Sickness and in HealthCHAPTER 4    The Gut-Brain AxisSIDEBAR         A Brief History of BugsCHAPTER 5    Hacking Your MicrobiomeCHAPTER 6    AntibioticsCHAPTER 7    The FutureADDENDUM   The American GutSIDEBAR      The Science (and Art) of Microbiome MappingACKNOWLEDGMENTSWATCH ROB KNIGHT’S TED TALKABOUT TED BOOKSALSO FROM TED BOOKSABOUT TEDABOUT ROB KNIGHT AND BRENDAN BUHLERNOTES
To my parents, Allison and John, for their genes, ideas, and microbes.
INTRODUCTIONYou, we know: human, bipedal, noble in reason, infinite in faculties, heir to all creation, has never read a single end-user license agreement—just checks the box. Now meet the rest of you: the trillions of tiny creatures living in your eyes, your ears, and inside the magnificent mansion that is your gut. This microscopic world within our bodies holds the potential to redefine how we understand disease, our health, and ourselves.Thanks to new technologies, many of them developed only within the past few years, scientists today know more about the microscopic life-forms inside us than ever before. And what we’re learning astonishes. These single-celled organisms—microbes—are not only more numerous than we thought, inhabiting in enormous numbers almost every nook and cranny of the body, but they’re also more important than we ever imagined, playing a role in nearly all aspects of our health, even in our personality.The collection of microscopic critters that make their home in and on us is called the human microbiota, and their genes are called the human microbiome. And like many scientific breakthroughs, the emerging facts about this tiny world serve as a rebuke to our egos. Astronomy has told us that our planet was not the center of the universe, and evolution says humans are merely one animal among many. The charting of the human microbiome teaches us that even within our own bodies, we’re drowned out by a chorus of independent (and interdependent) life-forms with their own goals and agendas.
Just how many microbes are there within us? You are made up of about ten trillion human cells—but there are about a hundred trillion microbial c ............

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