10% HUMAN- PB Paperback – January 1, 2016

Took this book to read and understand how gut bacteria can help heal my son. Started reading and feel good about the starting few pages. Very detailed and scientific.

I am presently at my ideal body weight for my height for the first time in 30 years. I still eat all I want. It's just that what I now eat is different from what I ate before. Just as the Talmud requires a person to feed his or her domesticated animals before him or herself, now, I feed my microbiome first and it does the rest. I wish I had read this book 3 decades ago but, of course, that would have been impossible as the research underlying it didn't exist then. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

Haven't finished reading the book but from the material I HAVE read, it's well written and speaks to the subject I'm interested in.

This writer provides a very readable book after researching the PEER REVIEW JOURNALS that contain the research she refers to in the book. She does not serve up her opinions very often and simply presents the research in an accessible style that most adults could read and understand. Other books about gut microbes are not as firmly based on peer review articles as this book is.Collen is an evolutionary PhD biologist which is essential in understanding this particular topic. Very briefly, bacteria were the only organisms on the planet for about 3 BILLION years. All other organisms that have arisen on Earth were born into a sea, an ocean of bacteria. And all of those organisms have had to deal with that bacterial ocean... or die. It's really no wonder the bacteria are the ones that are really controlling things.I am in my 30th year of teaching community college biology courses for nursing students and my degrees are both in microbiology. There's a lot of junk pseudoscience out there... but this book is not one of those. Here in my last year of teaching, we are reading this book as a supplement to our regular text, and going through each chapter as a class.If you don't read this book, you are missing out on a lot of answers to yours and our chronic health problems... from autism, obesity/overweight, allergies, diabetes, autoimmunity, antibiotic overuse, and diet. How we cultivate our microbiome is the key to understanding health in the 21st century.Without any reservations, I recommend this read.

The human microbiome is a research field evolving so quickly that most of the scientific papers ever written were written in the last 5 years. The interaction between the microbiome and the immune system is emerging as the key to many disorders historically classified as "auto-immune", from MS to Inflammatory Bowel Disease to Arthritis. Alanna Collen gives a engaging explanation of this field and what it means to the average person. It will certainly make you more careful about using antibiotics for yourself or your children. 10 years ago this kind of discussion might have been viewed as pseudo science, but today drug companies and top research labs are investing millions in chasing cures based on some of the principles described in this book. If you like to keep informed about the latest health research, you need to read this book.

I had already been doing research about the microbiome when I came across this book and it is so informative. The author covers the importance of the microbes as part of our bodies and our health. As a person struggling with a chronic illness this book completely changed my view on how I view modern medicine, diet, and microbes.

10% Human introduces one to, and brings one up to date on the revolutionary research on the biological landscape of the body and the impact one's partnership with the micro-biology within. If one does not gain an understanding of this relationship then one will go through life only partially grasping life and quality of life.

Factual part of the book is a bit???? Some of it is very good!