Logan Alan C. - The secret life of your microbiome: why nature and biodiversity are essential to health and happiness

Praise for The Secret Life of Your Microbiome

Secret Life is a deep dive in the relationships between human health and disease, the unseen microbial world and biodiversity the essential determinants of all life. Although thoroughly scientific and easy to read, this book is one of its kind and a revelation for many. It will guide us to understand the health risks of cultural evolution, changes that may affect our survival and options for good life. Highly recommended!

Tari Haahtela, professor of medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland

Brilliant read, a fascinating understanding of dysbiosis and encouraging all of us to look after our microbiome.

Professor Desiree Silva, pediatrician

The Secret Life of your Microbiome skillfully repackages the intense science validating the fundamental role that our gut organisms play in virtually every aspect of our health. Not only do Drs. Prescott and Logan make this foundational information available to everyone, but in addition, Secret Life enables the reader to leverage these empowering discoveries and implement truly life-changing lifestyle modifications that will undoubtedly change their health destiny.

David Perlmutter, MD, author, #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain and Brain Maker

In our age of information overload, reading and reflection are rare. With over 30,000 books published on related topics in the past ten years, I recommend strongly that you first read The Secret Life of your Microbiome. This book interprets our survival in the world, the immune system as our ambassador and negotiator in embracing the world (which we are not doing very well), and how we should engage holistically in attitude and action to thrive in our world.

Professor John Hearn, Executive Director, The Worldwide Universities Network

Drs Prescott and Logan provide an alternative approach as they highlight the relationships between all life and human lifestyle in the biosphere....written for the interested lay reader but an excellent starter for those of us in the health professions that realise there is a growing need to explore alternative visions and approaches to health and wellbeing. I really enjoyed this book!

Julian Crane, MD, Research Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand

Drs. Prescott and Logan sketch an intriguing, optimistic narrative of microbes, the microbiome they constitute and the emerging microbiome revolution as driving forces in creating, sustaining and reclaiming health wellness and wellbeing. They provide evidence-based and inspiring insight on how to survive the dysbiosphere, while savoring the biosphere. As such, The Secret Life is a must read for health professionals and laypersons alike.

Dr. Michael Garko, Ph.D., nationally syndicated host/producer, Lets Talk Nutrition

This delightful book makes very complicated subjects digestible for the lay reader, but is also a good read for the scientist. It beautifully ties every level of biological organization together, from the earth as a whole to the tiniest of organisms, and shows how they are all inter-related and even more importantly, interdependent. Written with humor and compassion, this work demonstrates how humanity has done a very poor job of stewardship of Planet Earth, especially over the last 100+ years, but provides many suggestions for reversing that direction.

Christine Cole Johnson, PhD, MPH, Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences, Annetta R. Kelly Endowed Chair, Henry Ford Hospital and Health System

Drs. Prescott and Logan and have encapsulated an answer that allows us to understand why we live as we do, how our lifestyle choices connect with our immune system and neurobiology. By explaining how we got here, they also provide an answer as to how we can change the ways we engage with the hustle and bustle in order to thrive. This book is a must read for anyone hoping to live in an authentic, and grounded life.

Martin Katzman (waiting for cretdit line)

Sprinkled throughout The Secret Life of Your Microbiome are delightful historical quotes from medical and science scholars that make the book a joy to read. This book paves the way to better understanding the connection between our internal and external environment through understanding the necessity of promoting diversity of the microbiome from inside to out from our gut, to our skin and the environment that we live in. An excellent read!

Alison C. Bested MD FRCPC, Director, Student Research Development, Chair, Integrative Medicine, Associate Professor, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine

This beautifully written and important book needs to be widely read and studied. The Secret Life of Your Microbiome is ultimately giving us the key to achieving health and longevity. I am really excited about this book. A must read!

Eva Selhub, MD, Tufts University, Department of Nutrition

The recipes Marlies contributed are essential in any gut-health journey. Shes distilled down the most important foods to feed not only the organs and cells of the digestive tract, but also the symbiotic bacterial inhabitants that most people are missing. Probiotics are a requirement for great health, but its even better to get them through your food, as Marlies teaches in her delicious concoctions.

Summer Bock, Herbalist & Fermentationist, summerbock.com

Copyright 2017 by Alan Logan and Susan Prescott. All rights reserved.

Cover design by Diane McIntosh.

Cover images: background iStock; central iStock.

Printed in Canada. First printing September, 2017.

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Prescott, Susan L., author

The secret life of your microbiome : why nature and biodiversity are essential to health and happiness / Susan L. Prescott, MD, PhD, Alan C. Logan, ND.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-0-86571-851-7 (softcover). ISBN 978-1-55092-646-0 (PDF). ISBN 978-1-77142-241-3 (EPUB)

1. Environmental health. 2. Biodiversity. I. Logan, Alan C., 1967, author II. Title.

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