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How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Henry Holt and Company
April 2014
On Sale: April 1, 2014
288 pages
ISBN: 0805098100
EAN: 9780805098105
Kindle: B00G1H3QG6
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Non-Fiction
A critically important and startling look at the harmful
effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading
expert Tracing one scientist’s journey toward understanding the
crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary
book will take readers 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 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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