Overview
Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take listeners to the forefront of trail-blazing research while revealing the damage that overuse of antibiotics is doing to our health: contributing to the rise of obesity, asthma, diabetes, and certain forms of cancer. 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Martin J Blaser ,
Patrick Girard Lawlor
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9798200032020
Publication Date: 30 September 2014
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"An engrossing examination of the relatively unheralded yet dominant form of life on Earth.-- ""Publishers Weekly Starred Review"""
Author Information
Dr. Martin J. Blaser has studied the role of bacteria in human disease for over thirty years. He is the director of the Human Microbiome Program at New York University. He founded the Bellevue Literary Review and has been featured in numerous publications, including the New Yorker, Nature, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. His more than one hundred media appearances include The Today Show, Good Morning America, NPR, The O'Reilly Factor, and CNN. Martin lives in New York City. Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award finalist several times and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards. He has won a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, numerous Library Journal and Kirkus starred audio reviews, and multiple Editors' Picks, Top 10, and Year's Best lists. He is the only male audiobook narrator in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To relax in his spare time, Patrick runs marathons.
