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10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. Over your lifetime, you will carry the equivalent weight of five African elephants in microbes. You are not an individual but a colony.
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Revised Edition)
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Discover the secrets of your digestive system—and how to hone a healthy gut—plus new research on the mind-gut connection.
Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes
In Follow Your Gut, pioneering scientist Rob Knight pairs with award-winning science journalist Brendan Buhler to explain—with good humor and easy-to-grasp examples—why these new findings matter to everyone. They lead a detailed tour of the previously unseen world inside our bodies, calling out the diseases and conditions believed to be most directly impacted by them.
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
New York Times Bestseller
NPR Great Read of 2016
The microbes in our bodies are part of our immune systems and protect us from disease. In the deep oceans, mysterious creatures without mouths or guts depend on microbes for all their energy. Bacteria provide squid with invisibility cloaks, help beetles to bring down forests, and allow worms to cause diseases that afflict millions of people.
How Not To Die: Discover the foods scientifically proven to prevent and reverse disease
#1 Amazon bestseller in Medical Nutrition
From the physician behind the wildly popular website Nutrition Facts, How Not to Die reveals the groundbreaking scientific evidence behind the only diet that can prevent and reverse many of the causes of disease-related death.
The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health
Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with the latest discoveries on the human microbiome, a practical guide in the tradition of The Second Brain, and The Good Gut that conclusively demonstrates the inextricable, biological link between mind and the digestive system.
Basic Squatty Potty
The Squatty Potty Toilet stool puts your body in the natural position for optimal elimination. This doctor recommended stool helps you poop better with a more complete elimination.
Bamboo Squatty Potty
To simulate a squatting position, all you have to do is take a seat, put your feet on the toilet stool, and get comfortable. The flip stool offers the best of both worlds. 7″ Height is the most comfortable for most people. Children also do better with the 9″ Height. This Squatty Potty adjusts between both heights with just a flip.