10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

Your microbiome is a health defense made up of 39 trillion bacteria, along with viruses and fungi.

We need a little help from our friends. You can give the exact same food to two different people and the differences in their microbiota will determine what they ultimately get out of that food. Mind blowing, isn’t it?

The idea that modern people lack bacterial species that show up as one or another health condition has led to the concept of replacing lost or deficient species.

But not every microbe eats the same food. Each dietary choice you make will empower a specific group of microbes, while others will languish.