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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.

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"An engrossing examination of the relatively unheralded yet dominant form of life on Earth.-- ""Publishers Weekly Starred Review"""

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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, an actor, director, and combat choreographer, is an Earphones Award-winning narrator.

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