Publisher Description
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.
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Publishers Weekly Starred Review
About Martin J. Blaser
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 NYU. He founded the Bellevue
Literary Review and has been written about in newspapers including Nature, the New Yorker, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. His more than one
hundred media appearances include The
Today Show, GMA, NPR, the BBC, The
O’Reilly Factor, and CNN. He lives in New York City.
About Patrick Lawlor
Patrick Lawlor, an award-winning narrator, is also an accomplished stage actor, director, and combat choreographer. He has worked extensively off Broadway and has been an actor and stuntman in both film and television. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many starred audio reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.