A clarion call to save humanity's most essential fellow creatures
- & our health Far beneath our skin exists an unfathomable ancient universe
- an internal ecosystem that is critical to our health Dr Martin Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome' unfurling its inner workings & evolution For thousands of years bacteria & human cells have co-existed in a relationship that has ensured the health & equilibrium of our body But now much like the natural world outside of us our internal environment is being irrevocably destroyed The culprit some of our most revered medical advances
- antibiotics
- which appear to be linked to the epidemics of asthma eczema obesity certain forms of cancer & other diseases plaguing modern society In a book that stands as the Silent Spring of its day Blaser sounds a provocative alarm that we ignore at our peril