Reading Matter

Here are 3 books that present much of the current practical understanding:

Sonnenburg J, Sonnenburg E. The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health. New York, NY: Penguin Press; 2015.

⇑ This book introduces “MACs,” or Microbiota-Accessible-Carbohydrates — pre-biotics that gut microbes can ferment, and make useful SCFAs(Short chain fatty acids). See also Ref 1, here.

Blaser, MJ. Missing Microbes: how the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company; 2014

⇑ After reading this book, you WILL be more careful about taking antibiotics!

Knight, R. Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster/TED; 2014

And for more background:

Enders, G. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ.Vancouver, CA: Greystone Books; 2015.

Angier, N. The Canon : a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Co.; 2007

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Reading Matter

Here are 3 books that present much of the current practical understanding:

⇑ This book introduces “MACs,” or Microbiota-Accessible-Carbohydrates — pre-biotics that gut microbes can ferment, and make useful SCFAs(Short chain fatty acids). See also Ref 1, here.

⇑ After reading this book, you WILL be more careful about taking antibiotics!

And for more background:

⇑ Chapter 7: Molecular biology: Cells and whistles

Here are 3 books that present much of the current practical understanding:

⇑ This book introduces “MACs,” or Microbiota-Accessible-Carbohydrates — pre-biotics that gut microbes can ferment, and make useful SCFAs(Short chain fatty acids). See also Ref 1, here.

⇑ After reading this book, you WILL be more careful about taking antibiotics!

And for more background:

⇑ Chapter 7: Molecular biology: Cells and whistles

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