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Author
Publisher
Corgi Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
From your weight, to how you age, to allergies and diseases - your gut controls it all. In 'Gut Reactions', leading scientists Justin and Erica Sonnenberg explain how we've neglected this vital organ for far too long. As well as the consequences you might expect - a dramatic rise in food intolerances and inflammatory bowel diseases - are a whole host of other concerns, such as an increase in cancer, asthma, autism and diabetes. We now have only 1,200...
Author
Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Gina McKee stars in this chilling apocalyptic radio drama by award-winning writer Val McDermid. It?s the Summer Solstice weekend, and 150,000 people have descended on a farm in the North East of England for an open-air music festival. Reporting on the event is journalist Zoe Meadows, who files her copy from a food van run by her friends Sam and Lisa. When some of Sam?s customers get sick, it looks like food poisoning, and it?s exacerbated by the mud,...
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Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Ronald White-Cooper may have worked as a doctor in London's slums and tended to badly wounded men on the Western Front, but when he arrived in Dartmouth in 1920 to set up as a GP he found himself facing some unique challenges. From the normally reliable midwife convinced she was being haunted to the retired colonel suffering mysterious fits, from the farmer who insisted rubbing in Bovril had cured his bad back to the young girl dying of tuberculosis,...
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Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Genetics and lifestyle are thought to be the two most important determinants of good health. But that is not the whole story. We have a second genome, our gut bacteria, that sets the dial on our bodies. Unlike our DNA, we can influence the gut bacteria, or microbiota, to optimize all aspects of our health. In this book, Justin and Erica Sonnenburg investigate how the trillions of microbes that reside in our gastrointestinal tract help define us, affecting...
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